The Community Impact Award recognizes student groups for their commitment to service and making an impact within the WashU and St. Louis communities.
Criteria for Community Impact Award
Groups receiving this award will demonstrate the following:
- Valuing Others:
- Group understands the value of having diverse perspectives within the community.
- Group seeks opportunities to develop cultural competency and understand themselves as a contributing to the improvement of global society.
- Group creates opportunities for the inclusion of multiple perspectives to develop synergistic results.
- Ethics and Integrity:
- Group understands their actions, both public and private, are reflective of their values.
- When faced with ethical issues, the group challenges themselves and others to act in ways congruent with their personal and shared values.
- Group demonstrates the highest level of integrity in all aspects of their lives.
- Connection and Collaboration:
- Group seeks out meaningful relationships to foster positive change.
- Group understands these relationships not simply as a means to an end but as an integral component of creating an effective community.
- Group finds ways to motivate, utilize and incorporate others to move their vision forward.
- Vision and Strategy:
- Group understands the importance of challenging the status quo and applying creative and innovative solutions to affect positive change.
- Group has developed a vision for change.
- Group has formulated goals and action steps necessary to bring their vision into reality.