The Jenzabar Foundation Announces 2009 Student Leadership Award Winners

Foundation to Grant A Total of $50,000 for Ten Student-Led Programs

Boston, MA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 29, 2009 -- The Jenzabar Foundation today appear the winners of its 2009 Student Leadership Awards, acquainted ten student-led campus groups and projects that accept fabricated a cogent addition to bigger the apple alfresco of their institutions of college education. The winners of the additional anniversary Student Leadership Awards accept approved a charge to authoritative a aberration through association service, and their campus groups will accept a $5,000 admission to abide their work.    

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We accustomed so abounding outstanding nominations this year that we absitively to accolade an added three student-led activities rather than the planned seven Honorees should be acutely appreciative of their accomplishments and the almsman outcomes they accept fabricated accessible through their efforts. We are acquisitive to advice these individuals advance as apprentice leaders and abide to accomplish a absolute appulse on society. Nearly 150 Student Leadership Award submissions were accustomed from students, non-profit organizations, and institutions above the globe, apery advancing activities or projects completed during the 2008-2009 bookish year. The nominations were evaluated according to the association account or altruistic endeavors' almsman impact, campus influence, model, outcome, and presentation. The 2009 accolade winners are as follows:

 

Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California - SOURCE: SOURCE is a student-run alignment that consults with bounded nonprofits in adjustment to advance their operations and effectiveness. The alignment was created by Claremont McKenna College acceptance in 2005. The able casework that SOURCE offers to bounded nonprofits are absolutely chargeless of allegation and abetment the nonprofits in their accumulation of casework to their clients. During the 2008-2009 bookish year, SOURCE formed carefully with six bounded nonprofit organizations, confined a advanced ambit of clientele. During the abatement of 2008, SOURCE's accomplice organizations served added than 320 audience through the afterward nonprofit account providers.

 

Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin - M3C Fellows (AmeriCorps): An Edgewood College apprentice and AmeriCorps (M3C) volunteer, Stacie Pinzl, has provided analytical administration and allocation for a axial campus volunteers affairs that provides after-school abutment to accouchement in one of Madison's better abandoned shelters. Over the 2008-2009 bookish year, Stacie has alone organized and accommodating an advancing accomplishment to recruit Edgewood College apprentice volunteers, authoritative it achievable to accomplish the after-school recreational programming for accouchement in the Madison shelter.

 

Episcopal Ministry at MIT, Cambridge, MA - Lutheran Episcopal Ministry: Steven Peters, an MIT student, has helped churches in the Boston across clean their accessories and change their architecture acceptance habits to conserve activity and lower heating bills. Because of his work, several congregations in the Boston across are crumbling beneath activity and are able to alter funds to programs confined accouchement and others in charge in the bounded neighborhoods. Steve has helped these churches acquisition applied means to abide into their canon of caring for conception and has aggressive added acceptance at MIT to ability out to the association with their skills.

 

Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida - Flagler College Students in Free Enterprise: Flagler College Students in Free Enterprise prepares apprentice leaders to actualize a bigger apple for everyone. Their beat programs are advised to actualize bread-and-butter befalling for others by allowance them break absolute apple problems. 50 Flagler College Students in Free Enterprise from abounding altered bookish disciplines plan calm to actualize programs that absolutely appulse lives and advise adolescent alive adults about the appulse of artifice on businesses, humans and the economy. FCSIFE partnered with Winmark Corporation to actualize agent training videos ambidextrous with ethical behavior in a retail ambience to advance and animate anticipation and altercation on the ethical aspects of activity and how it relates to specific issues in the workplace.

 

Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, New Hampshire - Reality Check: Reality Check is a student-created and student-run association account accumulation at Franklin Pierce University. Through affecting skits at schools and added venues, the acceptance accompany difficult issues adolescence are adverse into the open, acclamation suicide, bashed driving, biologic use, cutting, calm violence, and advice them see there are means to accomplish advantageous choices. Reality Check was created by a green apprentice in 1997, and back has presented for abounding accessible and non-profit schools and organizations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. In the accomplished year, the accumulation has accomplished about 2,000 individuals.

 

Grove City College, Grove City, PA - The Student Philanthropy Project: The Student Philanthropy Project was launched at Grove City College to accommodate an befalling to advice accomplish The College's mission to animate acceptance the development of moral appearance shaped by Christian attempt who are able to serve as amenable citizens and leaders of society. By amalgam alms into the classroom, giving acceptance a appointment for hands-on acquaintance in researching and acknowledging non-profit account organizations, the Project helps acceptance apprentice how to be affianced citizens and to accept the important role alms plays in the bloom of bounded communities. In 2008 $4,000 dollars contributed to Grove City College for this purpose was awarded in three grants of $2,000, $1,000, and $1,000 respectively. Students planned and hosted an accolade celebration for the three finalists called through the chic project.

 

Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY - Up 'til Dawn Program: Up 'til Dawn is a apprentice led and run altruistic affairs in which academy acceptance civic accession funds for and acquaintance of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The apprentice administration board formed with the St. Jude's acreage administrator to set armamentarium adopting and acquaintance goals for the accepted academy year. Over 100 Keuka College acceptance teamed up to address added than 2,000 belletrist extensive all of Keuka's 963 on-campus acceptance with advice about St. Jude's, and aloft added than $9,000 for St. Jude's Research Hospital. The Keuka Up 'til Dawn affairs has, to date, aloft added money than the added aboriginal year programs and akin or exceeded funds aloft by added accustomed programs at beyond schools.

 

The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, - SENEA Project: The SENEA Project presents technologically adapted activity solutions to the millions of underprivileged boyhood association of northeastern Asia. SENEA aggregation associates architecture acceptable systems out of raw abstracts that are accessible in the arena and priced analytic for the ambition community. A primary aftereffect of the SENEA Project is the architecture of a archetypal home and greenhouse alleged the Sustainable Shepherd's Residence (SSR), which was advised to accumulate the plants and clay from freezing even in the acrid sub-Siberian winters of the region. The activity website has already been visited by the mayors of several bounded villages, bigoted action makers and assembly of abounding added adopted and calm NGOs alive in the region. The SENEA aggregation has been arrive to acknowledgment during the summer of 2009 and has requests from six altered sites for acceptable activity archetypal projects.

 

The University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Illinois - Web of Life Student Environmental Organization: Web of Life is a baton in ecology acquaintance and apprenticeship aural the Dubuque community. On campus, Web of Life consistently raises ecology acquaintance and promotes ecology administration through advisory campaigns and activities. University of Dubuque's Web of Life Student Environmental Organization has impacted apprentice captivation in ecology acquaintance and apprenticeship programming aural the Dubuque community, from the group's advancing accord in a artery clean-up affairs to their accomplishment to restore Osprey, a angle bistro bird of prey, aback into eastern Iowa.

 

University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana - One Block at a Time: One Block at a Time, in cooperation with the Haitian Health Foundation, is an alignment whose focus is to accommodate homes and added abetment for the bankrupt humans of Haiti. University of Saint Francis student, Cortney Shepard, has motivated altered campus clubs to actualize atypical agency of fund-raising for the acquirement of baby formula. Cortney provided the groups with appropriate fund-raiser ideas, but encouraged them to appear up with account that ill-fitted their specific areas. Each club that volunteered to advice was assigned a accurate ages to advance the blueprint activity and accession funds. The acknowledgment was so absolute that generally there were two groups alive accompanying to actualize acquaintance and aggregate money. As of March 2009, she has been active in accepting $3,300 for an baby blueprint activity and accession donations from apprentice fund-raising efforts and the accepted public.

"We accustomed so abounding outstanding nominations this year that we absitively to accolade an added three student-led activities rather than the planned seven," said Bob Maginn, Chairman of the Jenzabar Foundation and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Jenzabar, Inc. "Honorees should be acutely appreciative of their accomplishments and the almsman outcomes they accept fabricated accessible through their efforts. We are acquisitive to advice these individuals advance as apprentice leaders and abide to accomplish a absolute appulse on society."

About The Jenzabar Foundation:
The Jenzabar Foundation is the altruistic arm of Jenzabar, Inc. The Foundation issues grants to institutions of college apprenticeship and added non-profit organizations with analogously accumbent missions, and helps advance the activities of admission recipients aural their communities and on a all-around level. The Jenzabar Foundation is congenital as a "charitable," non-governmental, non-profit clandestine foundation that receives its allotment from the corporation--Jenzabar, Inc.--whose name it bears. Foundation grants are managed by the Foundation itself or through accomplice organizations. For added advice amuse appointment The Foundation Web website at www.thejenzabarfoundation.org.

Contact:
Carina Ganias
The Jenzabar Foundation
Carina.Ganias (at) jenzabar (dot) net
617-492-9099 ext. 365

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