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Jefferson Awards for Public Service
American Institute for Public Service
In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard founded the American Institute for Public Service, a 501c3 public foundation, to establish a Nobel Prize for public and community service - The Jefferson Awards.
The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. National award recipients represent a "Who's Who" of outstanding Americans. On the local level, Jefferson Awards recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward.
Campuses may partner with the American Institute to award 5 of our best volunteers with a Jefferson Awards Certificate of Excellence and the Jefferson Awards pin, a replica of the Seal of the United States.
Click here to visit the official Jefferson Awards website.