ESS Community Service and Activism Award
Due: Nov 15, 2022

ESS Community Service and Activism Award

This award is presented annually to a community service and/or social justice organization working in the city in which the ESS meets during the particular year each award is given. The 2024 ESS meeting will be held in Washington, DC. To be eligible for consideration, the organization must be working to address a significant social problem, empower marginalized communities, advance community involvement and social-political participation in underrepresented communities, and/or effect positive change in the neighborhood/city/state in which they conduct their work. The organization should be located in the Greater DC area. This award comes with a $750 stipend and the possibility to engage in a conversation with scholars on a panel during the ESS annual meeting at which the award is given.
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To nominate an organization for this award, please send a letter (or letters) of nomination detailing how the group fulfills the above qualifications to the Committee Chair (see below). Please include examples of the nominated organization’s work, copies of (or references to) any relevant published materials and/or press coverage, and contact information for both nominator and the organization.
DEADLINE November 1, 2023
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The 2023 award went to B360 in Baltimore, MD. B-360 has been on a mission to utilize dirt bike culture to end the cycle of poverty, disrupt the prison pipeline, and build bridges in communities.
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Committee Members
Chair: Hilary Silver, hilarysilver@email.gwu.edu, Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and Public Policy & Public Administration at George Washington University
Dana R. Fisher, Professor, School of International Service, American University
Derek Hyra, Dept. of Public Administration & Policy
American University
Past Recipients
2022
Association of Haitian Women in Boston (AFAB); Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston
Boston, MA
2021
Brooklyn Movement Center
New York, NY
2020
Puentes de Salud
Philadelphia, PA
2019
Deeper Than Water
​Boston, MA
2018
Thread
Baltimore, MD
2018
The United Workers
Baltimore, MD