What is the most effective way for America to confront the challenges facing school communities today? In our quest to find answers have we overlooked our most rich and vital resource? Could
it be that the remedy for these problems lies within American students themselves?
The American Students' Fund (ASF) believes in the potential of young Americans to lead our nation to rebirth and renewal. It was founded to inspire and empower our students to become architects of solution and change. A student-led community-based character education program, the ASF challenges students in individual American high schools to:
- Define themselves as Americans through participating in a school-wide election of 13 character/citizenship traits that students will adopt, foster and promote as their school's unique hallmark.
- Envision their greater school community and - while spotlighting their elected hallmark traits as guiding watchwords - lead in seeking new and creative solutions to the challenges their unique American community faces.
- Raise funds to build an endowment that will annually award thousands of dollars in scholarship money to students from each school who most reflect the spirit of that school's elected character/citizenship traits regardless of grade point average.
- Unite with all American high school students in the historic endeavor of collectively establishing a historic national citizenship endowment that will reward all current and future generations of American high school students for stellar citizenship as defined by each unique and diverse American high school community.
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