Nationwide Cleanup Initiative Offers Participating Students The Chance To Earn Scholarships While Cleaning Up Their Communities

DoSomething, the leading digital hub for youth-centered impact and service, has launched its new ‘Street Sweeps’ program, a nationwide initiative to mobilize young people across the U.S. to get out into their communities with their friends and neighbors and friends to clean up their streets, parks, beaches, and rivers—and keep pollution and litter out of communities.

With cleanup events hosted from New York to California, Street Sweeps aims to equip youth—regardless of where they live—to take action to protect our planet from urgent environmental issues, such as pollution. According to recent studies, plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, but less than 10% of it is recycled, and around 8,000 megatons now pollute the planet. This pollution and trash cumulates on our streets and sidewalks in our communities before making their way to major bodies of water.

DoSomething provides participants with a step-by-step toolkit to help them organize or join a cleanup. Their impact is visualized on an interactive national map hosted on DoSomething’s website – and will be offered the chance to win one of two $500 scholarships and learn volunteer credits.

So far Street Sweeps have been hosted in Oakland, Brooklyn, the Bronx, San Diego, Manhattan, Dallas, Houston,  and more.

FIND OR HOST A DOSOMETHING ‘STREET SWEEP’ HERE: https://dosomething.org/event/street-sweep

Young people across the U.S. are also invited to join Ripple Effect, a campaign by DoSomething that encourages teens and young adults to craft and share a public-service announcement (PSA) promoting proper trash disposal and protecting local waterways. Participants who submit their PSA by November 30, 2025 will not only raise vital awareness of how litter flows from neighborhood storm drains into rivers and oceans but also become eligible for a $250 scholarship.

Street Sweeps is part of DoSomething’s No Planet B campaign, an initiative that educates and equips young people to do their part to protect our planet and create meaningful global impact through accessible and tangible actions, including local environmental actions such as recycling and protecting waterways and watersheds. The program empowers participants to lead and contribute to sustainability efforts in their own neighborhoods.

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DoSomething.org is the leading digital hub for youth-centered impact and service with over 1 million active members and a 32-year legacy of activating over 8 million young people in every U.S. area code and 189 countries to take action. We fuel young people to change the world. We specialize in transforming civically curious young people into civically committed leaders. Our actions and programs educate and equip young people, ages 13 to 25, to build solutions to the issues that matter most to them. DoSomething has registered 425,000 young people to vote since 2018 and awarded nearly $2 million in scholarships to young people committed to doing good in their communities since 2010.\

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Michael Martin, associate professor of English, modern languages, and cultural studies at Nicholls State University, has been selected by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi—the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines—as the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Mary Todd Sabbatical Award.

The $50,000 Sabbatical Award, named for former Society Executive Director, Dr. Mary Todd, honors one faculty member to support a sabbatical year or similar reassignments of duties. Martin plans to use the award funds as a reassignment of duties, providing release time from his teaching responsibilities so he can complete his book on Cherokee culture and beliefs.

“This Sabbatical has granted me the change to revise what I hope is a groundbreaking monograph on Cherokee oral literature, place, and cultural memory,” said Martin.

The selection process for the Mary Todd Sabbatical Award is based on an applicant letter addressing the significance of the proposed research or other scholarly project and the relevance of the proposed activity in contributing to Phi Kappa Phi’s mission to cultivate a community that celebrates and advances the love of learning. The awardee is selected by a juried competition.

“We are honored to present Dr. Martin with this year’s Sabbatical Award,” said Society Executive Director and CEO Dr. Bradley R. Newcomer. “His unwavering commitment to scholarship and service reflects the heart of Phi Kappa Phi’s mission. We commend his perseverance and look forward to the meaningful impact of his research.”

The Sabbatical Award is one of the newest additions to the Society’s robust portfolio of award and grant programs, which gives more than $1 million each year to outstanding students and members through graduate and dissertation fellowships, funding for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate development, and grants for local, national and international literacy initiatives.

To learn more about the Society’s award programs, visit www.phikappaphi.org/awards. The application process for the 2026 Sabbatical Award will open in August 2026.

About Phi Kappa Phi
Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Phi Kappa Phi inducts approximately 20,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni annually. The Society has chapters on more than 300 select colleges and universities in the United States, its territories and the Philippines. Membership is by invitation only to the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students and 7.5 percent of juniors. Faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction also qualify. The Society’s mission is to “cultivate a community that celebrates and advances the love of learning.”  For more information, visit www.PhiKappaPhi.org.

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WHO: Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, invites students from colleges and universities across North America to join EnlightenED, the Ellucian Student Ambassador Community, now 700+ members strong.

WHAT:  Be part of a growing student ambassador network that gives you a direct voice in shaping campus technology while helping you build career-ready skills through:

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Join EnlightenED to help colleges and universities create better student experiences — and gain valuable professional experience in the process. In addition, engagement with EnlightenED provides opportunities to earn rewards and recognition.

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Program will recognize promising Architecture, Engineering, Construction, AI and Software Engineering students with scholarships to cover tuition, books and other essential academic resources

MIAMI, FL (November 4, 2025) – Global capital management and advisory firm Consertus today announced the launch of the Consertus Scholarship Program—a new initiative to support underrepresented individuals and nurture a pipeline of talent that reflects the communities they serve.

For its inaugural year, Consertus will award up to $50,000 in scholarships to students who demonstrate leadership, academic excellence and a dedication to advancing diversity within the building industry.

“We’re proud to launch this program as part of our commitment to developing future leaders and expanding access to opportunity,” said Kevin Brown, Chief Human Resources Officer at Consertus. “It’s an important step toward shaping the workforce of tomorrow, and we’re excited to see how it grows and empowers the next generation of innovators.”

To be eligible, an applicant must:

• Plan to enroll as a junior, senior or first-year graduate student at an accredited college/university for the Fall 2026 semester
• Be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree or a 5-year combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree program in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Artificial Intelligence or Software Engineering
• Have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher

The Consertus Scholarship Program application deadline is February 3, 2026. For more information and to begin the online application process, interested students should visit https://www.consertus.com/about/students-internships/.

This program is administered by International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc., an independent company that specializes in scholarship management for companies, non-profit organizations and other educational assistance sponsors.

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Consertus delivers innovative digital, advisory, and delivery solutions that power successful capital programs worldwide. With more than 1,000 professionals across the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.K., Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and India, Consertus serves clients in transportation, healthcare, energy, utilities, government, and manufacturing, helping them achieve their most critical strategic goals. Learn more at www.consertus.com and follow Consertus on LinkedIn.

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