Students organize a project that benefits and serves their local community and that of their partner classroom(s). Examples of community service projects include food drives, book drives, community clean up or beautification, and volunteering at hospitals, parks, schools, day-care centers and homeless or pet shelters. Partner classrooms offer advice and updates to one another other regarding the progress of their community service. Projects can stimulate classroom discussion or essays about the importance of serving others and one's community. Partner classrooms exchange photographs and/or news clippings of students performing community service and a summary of who and what was involved, accomplished, and benefited.

AWARD:
A School and Classroom Community Service Project Award is presented to classroom partnerships that have excelled in the organization and implementation of a community service project. An acrylic trophy will be awarded to each classroom of the selected classroom partnerships. No more than one (1) classroom partnership will receive the award in any one (1) school year (August through June). Note: A classroom partnership may involve two (2) or three (3) classrooms.

CRITERIA:
The award may be presented to classroom partnerships of the School and Classroom Program that have excelled in the organization and implementation of a community service project that benefited and served the classrooms' local communities during the school year (August through June).

NOMINATION:
Written nominations for the award may be submitted by any current dues paying member of People to People International or any teacher/supervisor registered with the School and Classroom Program during the school year (August through June). Nominations must include a description of how the nominee meets the criteria for this award.

SELECTION:
The Awards Committee will determine the recipients of the award among those nominated. The Committee will present them to the Board of Directors for approval during the June meeting of the Board of Directors. The teachers/supervisors of an awarded classroom partnership must wait one (1) school year before they may receive another award.

PRESENTATION:
The awards will be presented at the most appropriate time and place following the selection of the recipients. The presentation should reflect the dignity of the award. The Global Youth Forum or the Board of Trustees Meeting are the customary affairs for the presentation. The CEO and/or President of People to People International should make the presentation.

ADMINISTRATION:
Written nominations for the award must be received at People to People International Headquarters by April 1. If the school year is not yet completed by April 1, and community service activities are planned following that date, the nomination can include information about activities planned for the remainder of the year. Nominations should always be for a classroom partnership that has met the award criteria in the academic school year. Nominations should include a detailed description of the classroom partnership's community service project and who benefited from it in addition to any other information that may assist the Awards Committee with selection.

School and Classroom Community Service Project Award Recipients List
Click here for the Online Awards Nomination Form