Awards and Recognition
The Nashman Center recognizes students, faculty, staff, and community commitments to community engagement, scholarship, and social innovation each year. To record your community engagement impact visit our platform, Givepulse.
President's Volunteer Service Award
AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith presented President’s Volunteer Service Awards to five students from The George Washington University. These awards were presented while AmeriCorps, the agency for national service and volunteerism, celebrates National Volunteer Week.
Log at least 100 hours of community service between April 21, 2024 and April 20, 2025 and you will earn the President's Volunteer Service Award issued by the White House! All hours must be recorded in the GWServes platform by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, April 20, 2025 and all award winners will be notified by the end of April! Award recipients receive a lapel pin signifying the amount of service hours completed along with a silver service cord for graduating seniors.
- Bronze Level: 100 to 174 hours
- Silver Level: 175 to 249 hours
- Gold Level: 250 hours or more
Service hours can consist of hours completed through any of the six Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement: direct service, social innovation projects, community engaged learning/research, community organizing, policy and governance work, and philanthropy. Hours do not have to be completed through GW or in DC to count towards the PVSA. Students can record service hours completed as part of a course, student organization service, and internships with nonprofits or public agencies including government internships. If you are unsure whether your service hours count towards the PVSA, please email [email protected]. If you need support recording your hours in GWServes, check out our tutorials!
Commencement Cords
Nashman Center Students with Silver Service Cords at Civic Spotlights 2024
If you are graduating and were recognized with a President's Volunteer Service Award during at least one year at GW, we will recognize you for excellence in service at Commencement with a silver service cord. After you submit your service hours we'll notify you if you are eligible to receive a cord. You may not retroactively log hours from previous academic years.
Outstanding Student Service Awards (Individual and Group)
The Outstanding Student Service Award (Individual and Group) is awarded to an individual and a student group that has exhibited exceptional commitment to supporting the needs and interests of our community locally, nationally, and/or globally through direct community service, as well as, share their passion with the GW campus community. The Outstanding Student Service Awards (Individual and Group) is presented at the annual Excellence in Student Life Awards each Spring.
Julian Clement Chase Community Impact Award
This award is the leading prize to honor GW students for excellence in community service impact. It illuminates excellence and effective practice in student community engagement and provide exemplars to the DC, GW, and broader community of the impact that students can have when working with members of the community to enhance the quality of life in the DC community.