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2010 Student Leadership Awards

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Award Winners

 

The Jenzabar Foundation's 2010 Student Leadership Awards, recognize ten student-led campus groups and projects that have made a significant contribution to better the world outside of their institutions of higher education.

 

The Student Leadership Award recipients have exemplified a commitment to making a difference in the world either through ongoing activities or through the completion of a project during the 2009-2010 academic year. Award recipients will be honored at Jenzabar Foundation events taking place across the country, starting with a ceremony during Jenzabar’s Annual Meeting (JAM) on June 2, in Orlando, Florida. Each Student Leadership Award winner will receive a $5,000 grant to continue their work.

 

More than 350 individuals and/or student groups signed up for this year’s awards. The Foundation selected the winning student groups based on their impact and mission; involvement on campus and in the community; and the potential for other institutions to emulate their model of service. The 2010 Student Leadership Award winners and their affiliated institutions are as follows:

 

-          Berry College - Mount Berry, GA: The African SOUP (The Sponsorship of Orphans in Uganda Project) -- The African SOUP helps provide for the basic needs of orphans so that they may grow in a healthy, hopeful environment, and eventually lead Uganda into a stronger, more stable future. The African SOUP works in conjunction with ELI (Experiential Learning International), a 501 (c) (3) approved non-profit organization, to wire money directly to Uganda where it is exchanged for basic necessities such as healthcare and food that are then distributed among the children of a local orphanage.

 

-          Brigham Young University - Provo, UT: Grantwell -- Grantwell is an innovative student-led group made up of 40 MPA students in the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University. Grantwell serves as a laboratory where students can learn and experiment with meaningful projects that benefit the community and world around them. Grantwell aims to become the premier graduate-level experience for training future nonprofit leaders.

 

-          Central Methodist University - Fayette, MO: Central Methodist University Champions of Character -- The Central Methodist University Champions of Character Council promotes opportunity for all student-athletes; protect student-athlete welfare; and fosters a positive student-athlete image, while maintaining the core values of the NAIA Champions of Character program. Champions of Character Council membership includes 16 student representatives, one from each varsity sport and athletic training, who organize community service projects with their teams consistently over the years. 

 

-         Claremont McKenna College – Claremont, CA: Microfinance Task Force -- The goal of the Microfinance Task Force is to promote awareness of development initiatives and support economic solutions to poverty. They seek to not only to educate, but more importantly, actively engage students in initiatives and endeavors in the area of economic development so that they may become tomorrow’s responsible world leaders. 

 

-          Flagler College – St. Augustine, FL: Flagler College’s Students In Free Enterprise (Flagler SIFE) -- Flagler SIFE prepares student leaders to create a better world for everyone. Their outreach programs are designed to create economic opportunity for others by helping them solve real world problems. Flagler College SIFE has developed the Containers for a Cause program that will use old shipping containers to start a new life for the homeless. The mission of Containers for a Cause is to address the underlying causes of homelessness by creating a transitional housing center with treatment and training facilities.
 
-      Northampton Community College - Bethlehem, PA: New Orleans Spring Break Group --A group of NCC students spend their spring break visiting New Orleans, Louisiana, to volunteer their time helping to rebuild a community still in great need of repair after damage that still exists from Hurricane Katrina. Students provide hands-on assistance rebuilding and cleaning homes in New Orleans’ ninth ward. 
 
-          Palm Beach Atlantic University - West Palm Beach, FL: The Rosemary Village after school project -- Palm Beach Atlantic University students partnered with a local church to start an after school program in the inner city at a neighborhood community called Rosemary Village. The group’s goals are to promote staying in school, give the children a positive place to build relationships and to encourage them to make wise choices for their future. The youth pastor from the church and a group of Palm Beach Atlantic University students organize homework assistance, sports, board games, arts and crafts and other afterschool activities 

 

-          Springfield College - Springfield, MA: Springfield College Outreach Committee (SCOC), and College Sport Management Club -- The Springfield College Outreach Committee (SCOC) was created to offer opportunities for undergraduate students at the college to increase their awareness and direct experiences with peoples in other countries who are challenged by forms of social injustice, in particular, issues of poverty and oppression in the third world. Each year in March, the students in SCOC spend their "alternative spring break" in service where they travel to southern Mexico to serve a community of indigenous people. The Springfield College Sport Management Club is a student led organization open to all students on campus, but more specifically geared to the sport management and recreation management department. The club utilizes intra-organizational techniques to fully involve the student body, and with the involvement of club members, they have facilitated many campus events including: Haiti Relief Fund and Lose the Shoes.

 

-          Universidad Central del Caribe - Bayamón, Puerto Rico: Medicina Urbana -- The Medicina Urbana organization at the Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC) adopts a broad-based framework to meet the health and social needs of highly vulnerable populations. As an extension of UCC’s continuous commitment to its community, Medicina Urbana is an exemplary program serving marginalized populations both in Puerto Rico and abroad.

 

-         University of Southern California and Project Books and Blankies - Los Angeles, CA: Project Books and Blankies Student Group -- Project Books and Blankies is a literacy organization dedicated to making a difference in the lives of other children struggling to learn to read or lacking the resources and support to develop their reading skills. The Project Books and Blankies Student Group at USC is dedicated to getting more students involved in the helping the youth, including The International Reading Festival, which was developed through a partnership between Project Books and Blankies and the ReadersPlus program at the University of Southern California.



2009 Student Leadership Award Winners

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The Jenzabar Foundation congratulates the winners of its 2009 Student Leadership Awards, recognizing ten student-led campus groups and projects that have made a significant contribution to better the world outside of their institutions of higher education. The winners of the second annual Student Leadership Awards have demonstrated a commitment to making a difference through community service, and their campus groups received a $5,000 grant to continue their work.

Nearly 150 Student Leadership Award submissions were received from students, non-profit organizations, and institutions across the globe, representing ongoing activities or projects completed during the 2008-2009 academic year. The nominations were evaluated according to the community service or humanitarian endeavors' beneficiary impact, campus influence, model, outcome, and presentation. The 2009 award winners are as follows:


Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College   Grove City College Grove City College
Edgewood College Edgewood College   Keuka College Keuka College
Episcopal Ministry at MIT Episcopal Ministry at MIT   The University of Tulsa The University of Tulsa
Flagler College Flagler College   The University of Dubuque The University of Dubuque
Franklin Pierce University Franklin Pierce University   University of Saint Francis University of Saint Francis

2008 Student Leadership Award Winners

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We are proud to support the missions and projects of our seven winners with funding that will allow them to further their valuable work.

Digital Divide Team - Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire

The Digital Divide program was launched in the fall of 2000 in order to connect Saint Anselm students with senior citizens who lacked computers and the skills necessary to use them. The school has since provided the seniors with used computers and the seniors, with guidance and assistance from Saint Anselm students have learned to use the Internet in recent years. The program’s reach has now expanded to young students (grades K-3) and adult refugees and immigrants who previously had no computer skills. The Office of Information Technology at Saint Anselm has provided technical support and donated computers throughout the history of the Digital Divide program. In the 2007-2008 academic year, 78 service-learners taught computers at various sites organized by the group. Over the years, the Digital Divide program has strengthened the campus-community ties through the use of this computer communication.


Engineers for a Sustainable World & Mudders Organizing for Sustainable Solutions (EWS-MOSS) - Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California

Engineers for a Sustainable World and Mudders Organizing for Sustainability Solutions (ESW-MOSS) is a student-run organization at Harvey Mudd College dedicated to energy conservation and global sustainability. ESW is a national organization and the HMC chapter, founded in 2006, is currently working on two international projects. The projects focus on purifying the mineral-rich-well-water of Ngomano, Kenya and developing alternative agricultural practices in Koundara, Guinea. MOSS was founded in 2007 to help students become aware of and progress toward environmental sustainability on campus. This enthusiastic club has assisted in multiple initiatives within the campus own dorm rooms and also globally reaching Kenya, Guinea and beyond.


Feed My Starving Children - Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa

Feed My Starving Children is a project which was first undertaken in March of 2008. The Wartburg College Feed My Starving Children Pack Event resulted in packing 108,000 meals that were sent to more than 50 countries around the world. Funding for the project was done locally and the campus ministry group was responsible for facilitating and coordinating much of the effort to set up and organize the event. The students of Wartburg College are eager to host this event again, as the number of people that they reached with their meals made in a 3-day event is astounding.


Innocence Institute - Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Since 2001, the Innocence Institute of Point Park University has completed more than a dozen investigations into possible wrongful convictions. This group investigates claims of wrongful convictions, raises awareness of the frailties associated with the criminal justice system, acts as a resource to those working to reverse injustice and provides educational training in investigative reporting to college students and professionals. The hard work of the students and their mentor, a seasoned investigative journalist, has been recognized regionally and nationally. The group not only creates an enriched, engaged learning environment, but it changes the lives of those who have been wrongfully convicted.


New Friends - Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

New Friends is a student-run organization that serves adults in the community who have cognitive and physical disabilities. New Friends began at Wisconsin Lutheran College in 1999 and has continued to support the community by assisting individuals that are underserved through existing community resources. This year, New Friends seeks to expand their reach by going out into the community and meeting their clients at their homes.


SCOUT BANANA - Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

SCOUT BANANA (Serving Citizens of Uganda Today Because Africa Needs a New Ambulance) was created in 2001 by a high school senior with the goal of delivering an ambulance to the St. Ambrose Health Center in Uganda. When the founder of this group, Alex Hill, entered as a freshman at Michigan State University, the original project launched into an extremely successful organization that provided more medical supplies and healthcare resources to Uganda. By 2006, fifteen chapters at other universities in the US and Canada were created in order to support the mission. In the past school year, 2007-2008, SCOUT BANANA raised $11,000 to build two to three wells so that between 850 and 1250 people will soon be provided with clean water. The students in the chapters of SCOUT BANANA are fully committed to the public healthcare movement and have immensely improved many lives in Uganda.


Women Beyond Borders - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Women Beyond Borders (WBB) is a student-organized, women’s human rights advocacy group at Arizona State University. WBB works in solidarity with community-based women’s organizations worldwide to address issues of violence, poverty, education and health. The group, founded 3 years ago, has partnered with women’s groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico and the Navajo Nation and their primary projects have been to aid the women in these regions. Through selling handicrafts made by the women of Afghanistan, creating social awareness campaigns in Mexico, and installing resource libraries in the Navajo reservation, Women Beyond Borders has created a profound impact for the women and families in these regions.