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Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
$30,000 awards for graduating college seniors to pursue public service
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides $30,000 stipends for graduating college seniors to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career. Projects that have the potential to be sustainable are favored, and therefore many of the projects initiated by past award recipients continue to benefit people today.
First presented in 1989, the award has provided 91 outstanding young people the opportunity to bring their extraordinary spirit of public service to reality. Recipients of the award include McArthur "Geniuses", the U.S. Surgeon General, Forbes 30 Under 30 Honorees, Queen of England's Young Leaders and BBC's 100 Most Influential Women of 2018.
Listen to some of our recipients and what the award meant to them.
"Without question, the SH award changed my life. It tells a young person who wants to change the world: 'Yes, you can do it! And we've got your back! Go!"
Angela Duckworth, 1992 Awardee
Founder, Breakthrough Greater Boston
“You know the quote: ‘I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about
that until I realized I am somebody’. The SH award allows you to be that somebody.”Alex Freid, 2013 Awardee
Founder, PLAN: The Post-Landfill Action Network
"Receiving the award was a life-changing moment and opportunity for me. Knowing that I had become a part of such a prestigious honor and network of social change agents empowered me to pursue my passion in public service."
Yasmine Arrington, 2015 Awardee
Founder & Executive Director, ScholarCHIPS
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