21st Century Leaders is honored by the Metro Atlanta Corporate Volunteer Council for Outstanding Program.
21st Century Leaders is the proud recipient of the 2006 IMPACT award! Given annually by the Metro Atlanta Corporate Volunteer Council (MACVC), the IMPACT Award (Involvement Means People Acting Together) recognizes local non-profit organizations for their work using corporate volunteers to further their programs and missions. At 21st Century Leaders, volunteers create the programs, deliver the workshops, and support the organization personally and professionally. The award comes with a $20,000 grant, which will permit 21st Century Leaders to establish two additional Youth Action Centers, our youth-run volunteer centers that research, design and promote local service learning initiatives.
21st Century Leaders was honored on September 21, 2006, at the ninth annual IMPACT luncheon held at Omni Hotel in Downtown Atlanta. It was a great day! Executive Director, Bob Watson received the award, a video was shown featuring our students, volunteers and board members, AND six students from the Youth Action Center at Henry W. Grady were recognized for their involvement with 21st Century Leaders!
The Metro Atlanta Corporate Volunteer Council is a professional association of businesses that promotes employee volunteerism in the corporate sector and provides advice to companies interested in developing their own volunteer programs. The Metro Atlanta CVC has been designated 2006 CVC of the Year by the Points of Light Foundation, a national non-profit, non-partisan organization. The Metro Atlanta CVC includes more than 80 Atlanta corporations with employee populations from 10 to 32,000 employees.
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