MANDEL CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

JOHN A. YANKEY STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

2009

The John A. Yankey Student Community Service Award will be presented to a Mandel Center student who has been actively engaged as a volunteer in one or more successful community services activities or projects while a student at the Center. The spirit of the award is to recognize a student who exemplifies Emeritus Professor John A. Yankey's dedication to community service and his desire to strengthen the nonprofit sector. The award will also include a prize in the amount of $1,000.  

Dr. Yankey has been a leader in building the scope and reputation of the Mandel Center since its inception. From 1996 - 2001, Dr. Yankey served as the Mandel Center Director of Community Service. In 2000 - 2001, he was the interim Executive Director of the Mandel Center Beginning 1992, Dr. Yankey was the Leonard W. Mayo Professor of Family and Child Welfare at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences before retiring in 2005. The recipient of numerous outstanding teaching awards, he continues teaching strategic planning courses at the Mandel Center and a course on strategic alliances at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

SELECTION CRITERIA

The award will be based on the community service activities or projects that are determined to have had a significant impact on the organization and community in which they occurred, as well as how such activities advanced the mission of the organization. The activities or projects should reflect consistent, continued engagement by the student over a defined period of time. The community services activities or projects must be not be those for which class credit was received and must not be activities for which the student was paid any form of compensation while enrolled in the Mandel Center program. There are no geographical limitations regarding where the activities or projects took place.

SELECTION PROCESS

Nominations of potential recipients of the award can be made by:

• Mandel Center Students
• Mandel Center Faculty
• Mandel Center Staff
• Mandel Center Alumni
• Community Leaders (who have a direct relationship with the community services activities or projects of the nominee)

The selection of the recipient will be made by a selection committee comprised of: John A. Yankey or his designee, Mandel Center Executive Director or her/his designee, the previous year's award recipient, Mandel Center student, Mandel Center alumnus, and a community leader.

Nominations Due by February 25, 2009

Please download the Nomination Form

For more information, please contact Maria Sharron at 216.368.0266.