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Awards Luncheon

Little Lights Urban Ministries receives a $1,125 grant from the 2008 IPVS student organization, STILT (Students Today Inspire Leaders Tomorrow)

As the end of the Institute, students award a grant to a worthy community program with the money raised through fundraising projects over the course of the summer. Institute participants attend an awards luncheon where a check is presented to the grant recipient(s).


Past IPVS Grant Recipients:

2008: Little Lights Urban Ministries & Everybody Wins! DC
2007: Community Family Life Services & Hoop Dreams
2006: Student Conservation Association, Beacon House & Youth Service America
2005: Horton's Kids & Little Lights Urban Ministry
2004: Shaw EcoVillage Youth Program & Higher Achievement Program
2003: YMCA Urban Mission Branch

“I have forever been changed by attending the Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service. I have discovered a passion much deeper than even I understood before I began this program. And I have been inspired to dig deeper into this field full of service, compassion and action.”
Alyssa Christenson
Cottey College
Intern, Second Genesis

TFAS also honors individuals with the David R. Jones Leadership in Philanthropy and Voluntary Service awards. In 1998, The Fund for American Studies established the David R. Jones Center for Leadership in Philanthropy to conduct programs to prepare people for roles in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. 

These awards recognize outstanding individuals who promote the American traditions of philanthropy, free-enterprise and individual responsibility. Each year a recipient is honored for his or her philanthropic spirit and service.  

Past Recipients:

Leadership in Voluntary Service Award winner, Robert Egger talks with IPVS students at the annual Awards Luncheon
  • 2008: Robert Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen
  • 2007: Robert L. Woodson, Sr. , Founder and President of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE) and Frank Hanna, CEO of Hanna Capital LLC
  • 2006: Bonnie McElveen-Hunter , Chairman of American Red Cross
  • 2005: James V. Kimsey , Founding CEO of America Online, Inc.
  • 2004:  Eugene Lang, Founder, I have a Dream Foundation and  Blanka S. Rosenstiel, American Institute of Polish Culture
  • 2003: Thomas L. Phillips, Chairman, Phillips Publishing International
  • 2002: Foster Friess, Chairman, Brandywine Funds
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