NYLC President and CEO Receives Founder’s Award

At Learn and Serve America's 15th Anniversary Symposium, held December
1, 2005, in Washington, D.C., NYLC President and CEO Jim Kielsmeier
received a Founder’s Award for his early and formative contributions to
the service-learning movement.

"Jim worked to encourage educators, youth leadership
professionals, nonprofit leaders, and businesses to work with Congress
and both President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton to
create and pass the legislation that led to key federal investment in
service-learning," said Learn and Serve Director Amy Cohen. He has
"continued his leadership in the field, supporting innovation,
excellence, and dissemination of service-learning across the nation."

Other Founder's Award recipients included researcher Alan Melchior
of Brandeis University, children’s policy expert Shirley Sagawa of
Sagawa Jospin, and founding Learn and Serve Director Susan Stroud of
Innovations in Civic Participation. Former Sen. David Durenberger and
Sen. Edward Kennedy received Congressional Founder’s Awards.

Education is "the unlocking of the human imagination," and
service-learning is the tool to achieve that goal, Kennedy told those
in attendance.

The celebration gathered several hundred educators and community
representatives to mark the anniversary and celebrate the growth of
service-learning as an educational strategy that is transforming
schools and communities nationwide.