The Do Something Award

The Do Something Awards
...celebrating and empowering the most outstanding young world-changers...
Athletes have the Olympics. Singers have the Grammy’s. World-changers have the Do Something Award.
Since 1996, Do Something has honored the nation’s finest young world-changers. Do Something Award Winners represent the pivotal "do-ers" in their field, cause, or issue and are rewarded with a huge community grant, participation in a special award ceremony, media coverage, and continued support from Do Something.

Five winners will receive a minimum of $10,000 in community grants and scholarships (if applicable). Of those five winners, 1 will be selected as the grand prize Do Something Award winner. That grand prize Do Something Award winner receives a total of $100,000 in community grants. The Do Something Award community grant money is paid directly to the not-for-profit of the winner’s choice.

The SELECTION PROCESS
Do Something Award applications go through two stages. First, the Do Something Award Academy (comprised of former winners) reads through all of the applications and selects the finalists. The Do Something Award finalists are flown to New York City, where representatives from the Do Something Award Selection Committee interview the finalists face-to-face. The 5 Do Something Award winners are announced shortly thereafter in Spring 2010. The grand prize winner will be announced in Summer 2010.

I'M GOING FOR IT AND CAN USE YOUR SUPPORT! The only difficult part is deciding what to include in the application. There isn't enough room to talk about all 14 of the public health programs I'm running so I'm considering doing it on my public health education program that I've been using to train Haitian youth to become community health workers. What do you think? It's a big award and there are incredible people applying for it every year but I think this year might be it for Haiti. You can learn more about the award at http://www.dosomething.org/awards/judging-criteria

I'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks,
Will