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Seventh Annual Search Under Way for Nation's Top Youth Volunteers
Program Honors Outstanding Youth at Local, State and National Levels
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2001 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of young people across America are working to make their communities better places to live -- by helping the less fortunate, promoting health and safety, protecting the environment, assisting senior citizens, and taking part in countless other volunteer activities. This week the search begins to identify those who have made the greatest commitment and impact over the past year, in the seventh annual Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.
These awards, sponsored by The Prudential Insurance Company of America in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, honor outstanding community service by young people in grades 5 through 12. Last year, the program drew nearly 23,000 applications.
Application forms for The 2002 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards will be available over the next two months in middle and high schools, Girl Scout councils and county 4-H offices throughout the U.S. They also may be obtained by visiting http://www.prudential.com/community/spirit or by calling (888) 450-9961.
Students must submit completed applications by Oct. 31, 2001. Then, participating middle level and high schools, Girl Scout councils and county 4-H organizations will select and honor their top youth volunteers, and submit them for statewide judging. The top two candidates in each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico -- one high school student and one middle level student -- will be named State Honorees next February, and will receive $1,000 awards, engraved silver medallions, and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., in May 2002 for four days of special recognition events. Runners-up at the state level will receive bronze medallions or Certificates of Excellence.
In Washington, a national selection committee co-chaired by two U.S. senators will name ten of the 104 State Honorees as America's top youth volunteers of the year. These National Honorees will receive additional awards of $5,000, gold medallions and crystal trophies for their schools or organizations. They also will have $25,000 worth of juvenile products and apparel donated in each of their names to needy children in their communities by Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc., the national charity of the children's apparel and products industry.
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, created in 1995, constitute the country's largest youth recognition program based solely on community service, and have honored more than 30,000 young volunteers at local, state and national levels over the past six years.
The program, which also is conducted in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, is part of a broad Prudential initiative to promote youth volunteerism. The initiative includes a youth leadership training program administered by the Points of Light Foundation, a free booklet of volunteer ideas for young people offered in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education, and educational materials for schools and students.
SOURCE Prudential Insurance Company of America
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