Prudential Spirit of Community Award Background

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor young people in middle level and high school grades for outstanding volunteer service to their communities. Created in 1995 by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), the awards constitute the United States' largest youth recognition program based solely on volunteering. Over the past 11 years, the program has honored more than 70,000 young volunteers at the local, state and national level.

A student can go to www.prudential.com/spirit or www.principals.org/prudential to fill out an online application form. Then, they must print out the completed application, sign it, have a parent or guardian sign it, and submit it by the last weekday of October to your middle or high school principal; or to the head of one of these officially designated local organizations: a Girl Scout council, county 4-H organization, American Red Cross chapter, YMCA or a member Volunteer Center of the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network. The school or local organization will then certify and nominate one (or more) applicant(s) to advance to state-level judging as its Local Honoree(s). Applicants must be certified and nominated by a principal or the head of an officially designated local organization to be eligible for state-level awards.


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