• Service Benefits
• Service Opportunities
• Service Organizations on Campus
• Service Scholarships and Awards
• Students Perspectives

Service Benefits:

• breaks down cultural barriers as students learn to promote tolerance
   
• engages mind, body, spirit, experience, and knowledge to enrich lives
   
• gives students the chance to make a difference while showing others how to do the same
   
• helps with academic, career, and social development
   
• increases civic mindedness
   
• increases mental strength through hands-on experience, critical thinking, and reflection
   
• increases motivation and involvement in the classroom
   
• leads to personal growth
   
• offers a chance to give back
   
• opportunity to take what is learned inside the classroom and apply it to life outside
   
• prepares students for the responsibility of living in a democratic society
   
• provides a further understanding of course context and a broader appreciation of the discipline
   
• raises self-confidence
   
• teaches personal and social responsibility
   
• teaches the importance of community participation and democratic values

Service Scholarships and Awards:

• America Reads
  teach kids to read and get paid for your volunteer time through the federal work-study program
   

• Americorps
  work in your community and earn money toward your future college tuition or earn money to repay student loans
   

• Bonner Scholars Program
  the Bonner Foundation provides a four-year community service scholarship to 1,500 students in 25 participating colleges and universities
   

• George Adams Jr. Awards
  a project of Local Initiative Support Training and Education Network (LISTEN), the George Adams. Jr. awards recognizes the work of grassroots youth and young adult leaders and organizations that are focused on restoring hope and transforming some of the poorest, most marginalized communities in the nation
   

• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
  for undergraduate students in the junior year of study and interested in a career in government or public service
   

• Hasbro Teens With The Courage To Give Awards
  in partnership with Youth Service America, this scholarship recognizes two young people each year who have triumphed over tragedy and have volunteered to make a difference 
   

• Ladies Auxiliary VFW Volunteer Scholarship
  applicants must be involved in some type of volunteer work within their community
   

• Making A Difference-Scholarships-For A Better World
  guide for service scholarships
   

• Nike Youth Action Awards
  created to help young people see - and act on - the connection between their community service and the larger public policy implications and solutions, awards will be given to youth or youth organizations to implement continuing advocacy/action plans based on their National Youth Service Day
   

• Presidential Freedom Scholarships
  designed to highlight and promote service and citizenship by students and to recognize students for their leadership in those areas
   

• President’s Student Service Awards
  recognizes young Americans with awards for outstanding community service, while encouraging more young people
  to serve
   

• Youth Literacy for Leaders Awards
  a program of the National Education Association and Youth Service America, it is an initiative to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects, prizes will be awarded to Youth Leaders and groups who develop model literacy projects
   

• Youth Service Action Fund Awards
  a grant program administered by Youth Service America and funded by FAO Schwarz, helps underwrite youth service projects for National Youth Service Day and beyond, its purpose to encourage young people to become involved in their communities through active service, recruit more young volunteers, and promote the value of youth service to the American public
   

• Youth Service America
  awards and grants guide

Students Perspectives: