BREAKING NEWS!  

SOFU Featured in Teaching Tolerance

Harwood's own Speak Out For Understanding documentary project has featured in Teaching Tolerance, a magazine dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable experiences in schools.  The story features in the 39th issue of Teaching Tolerance, and was written by Senior Editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, David Holthouse .   Click here to read the article and  to learn more about tolerance.

Harwood Students Receive National Award

               L to R: Emma Wade, Tanner Skilton, Trevor Cook, Grace Kirpan, Maureen Charron-Shea (Project Advisor), Tucker Sargent.

St. Paul, Minn. — Harwood Union High School’s Speak Out for Understanding has been selected by the National Youth Leadership Council and the State Farm ® Companies Foundation to receive the 2009 State Farm Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Award. This year’s award was presented to project advisor Maureen Charron-Shea and youth participants Emma Wade, Tanner Skilton, Tucker Sargent, Grace Kirpan, and Trevor Cook on Mar. 20 at the 20th Annual National Service-Learning Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

The group received $1,000 to support its future work.  

The award recognizes kindergarten through 12th-grade service-learning programs and projects that demonstrate outstanding youth leadership.  Projects that demonstrate a high level of youth initiative in all areas of planning, including identifying community needs, planning the service, and putting that plan into action are eligible.

State Farm and the National Youth Leadership Council support service-learning programs that provide opportunities for students to have a direct impact on their communities by applying their academic skills to real-world issues.

About NYLC

NYLC has been at the center of community service and service-leaning programs and policy development since 1983.  It annually convenes The National Service-Learning Conference, which included representatives from all 50 states and 41 countries in 2008.  NYLC also offers adult and youth trainings, runs model programs and develops service-learning curricula.

About State Farm

State Farm® insures more cars than any other insurer in North America and is the leading U.S. home insurer. State Farm’s 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees serve more than 74 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada. State Farm also offers financial services products through State Farm Bank®. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the parent of the State Farm family of companies. For more information, please visit statefarm.com® or in Canada statefarm.ca™.

SOFU received the Deborah Lisi-Baker Leaders of Tomorrow Award

July 26,2008

"in recognition of successful leadership and advocacy skills promoting the civil rights of people with disabilities"

(Left top- Grace, Emma, Abby, Tucker/Left Bottom- Deborah Lisi-Baker, Mo)

(Left- Grace, Emma, Tucker, Mo, Abby)