2010 National Honorees

Each year we select a group of young Americans to the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program for national recognition based on their outstanding achievements in community service.

Year

Amy Carlton

Oregon

Amy Carlton, 17, of Lake Oswego, Ore., a senior at Lake Oswego High School, has raised more than $56,000 over the past two years to combat childhood hunger by recruiting teenagers to help her make and sell jewelry and other crafts. While working on a freshman history...

Alie B. Gorrie

Alabama

Alison Gorrie, 17, of Birmingham, Ala., a junior at Mountain Brook High School in Mountain Brook, organized a benefit concert last May that raised more than $420,000 to support low-vision research and rehabilitation services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham...

Shannon McNamara

New Jersey

Shannon McNamara, 16, of Basking Ridge, N.J., a junior at Ridge High School, founded a nonprofit organization that has created libraries with a total of 21,000 books for three schools in rural Tanzania, and introduced an after-school reading program for Tanzanian girls who...

Benjamin Sater

Texas

Benjamin Sater, 18, of Plano, Texas, a senior at Plano West Senior High School, has raised more than $800,000 for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children over the past seven years by hosting an annual children's golf tournament called "KidSwing." Benjamin visited the...

Charlton Boyd

Louisiana

Charlton Boyd, 14, of Shreveport, La., an eighth-grader at Caddo Middle Magnet School, has collected thousands of books over the past four years for hospitalized and underprivileged children, and reads regularly to children at a local YMCA. He also sends books to U.S...

Brianna Cart

New York

Brianna Cart, 14, of Owego, N.Y., a member of the Tioga County 4-H and an eighth-grade home-schooled student, started a volunteer effort four years ago that has shipped 270 boxes of snacks, toiletries, and other items, worth more than $20,000, to 345 American soldiers...

Taylor Graham

Oregon

Taylor Graham, 12, of Florence, Ore., a seventh-grader at Siuslaw Middle School, initiated an annual used book sale and "shopping-cart derby" that have generated more than $50,000 worth of food over the past four years to feed hungry families in his town, and made thousands...

Kylie Kuhns

Pennsylvania

Kylie Kuhns, 12, of Mifflinburg, Pa., a seventh-grader at Mifflinburg Area Middle School, established a foundation called "Kelsey's Dream" that has rallied her community to support a variety of original programs benefiting children with cancer, in memory of her older sister...

Austen Pearce

Arizona

Austen Pearce, 12, of Maricopa, Ariz., a seventh-grader at Desert Wind Middle School, initiated a community garden that yielded more than 7,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and fruit last spring and summer for 85 needy families in his community, which was hit hard by home...

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2010 National Honorees