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7/05
News Release

For Immediate release
Contact: Bud Longo
Alternatives,Inc
757-838-2330

Youth Serving Agency Wins Prestigious National Award

Alternatives, Inc. Selected by Youth Service America

HAMPTON - Youth Service America will present Alternatives, Inc, with the 2005 Harris Wofford Award, named in honor of the founder of the Peace Corps and former U.S. Senator, from Pennsylvania.
Underwritten by the State Farm Companies Foundation, Youth Service America created the Harris Wofford Awards as a recognition program to honor the life work of former Sen. Wofford in making service and service-learning the common expectation and common experience of every young person in America.

Alternatives, Inc, a Hampton based youth development agency www.altinc.org was selected from a field of national nominees and cited for it leading edge work with young people in the areas of service and service learning. Alternatives was noted for the partnerships it has forged with civic and private organizations, “ in order to promote a strong youth service movement that will create healthy communities and foster citizenship, knowledge, and the personal development of young people.”

Setting an example through his work in the civil rights movement, helping to launch the Peace Corps, and making AmeriCorps a permanent part of the domestic landscape, Wofford is a pioneer of the modern service movement in the United States. The former senator, currently the co-chair of America's Promise, is a board member of Youth Service America www.YSA.org. and the Points of Light Foundation.

Award Finalists will be honored and presented with a commemorative award of recognition at the 15th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, March 17-19, 2005 in Long Beach, California during the State Farm Companies Foundation Awards Luncheon.

Click here to read the announcement from Youth Service America.

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