The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
Website: https://www.samuelhuntingtonaward.org/
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides $15,000 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.
First presented in 1989, the award has provided 80 outstanding young people the opportunity to bring their extraordinary spirit of public service to reality. Recipients of the award include McArthur “Geniuses”, a former U.S. Surgeon General, Forbes 30 Under 30 Honorees, Queen of England’s Young Leaders, and BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women of 2018.
Earlham College, an independent, residential college, aspires to provide the highest-quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
