In an effort to applaud the community service completed by the young people in the area and to inspire more young people to follow suit, Hands & Feet Movement has committed to offer a $500 scholarship to one Northridge graduate and one Johnstown graduate each year.

Our scholarship winner completed 170 hours of community service during high school. These hours were spent doing a variety of activities: helping with the Oak Creek Bible Worship Team, helping with children’s events at church, feeding people and sharing her faith with homeless via Heaven Train, helping with Big Red Band fundraisers, helping children with disabilities play baseball via Miracle League Network, helping with softball youth camp, shopping for a family in need at Christmas, helping to clean up after the Hartford Fair, and packing Thanksgiving boxes at the food pantry. 

When asked to come up with a creative, impactful idea for community service in our area, this student had an awesome one! In her words, “I think that a fun project that would benefit the Johnstown/Northridge communities could be a celebration of music through community collaboration. This project would aim to revitalize the musical landscape of Johnstown and Northridge through a series of community-driven music events. This would have an impact by strengthening community bonds, showcasing local talent, and revitalizing the cultural scene”. We love this idea, and hope to implement it someday!

We are positive this young lady has made our community a better place through her service and we wish her the best in her next steps. She plans to study music and science education at Ohio Wesleyan University.

 Our scholarship winner completed 617 hours of community service during high school. These hours were spent doing a variety of activities: volunteering in an elementary classroom, visiting residents at our nearby nursing home, serving food via the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington DC, acting as a summer camp counselor, and acting as the community service chair for the Modern 4H club. This student was on the Ohio 4H Teen Leadership Council and the Hartford Junior Fair Board. He served as the Ohio State Fair Event Youth Assistant and as the Hartford Fair King.

When asked to come up with a creative, impactful idea for community service in our area, this student had an awesome one! In his words, “Through my work at Johnstown Pointe Nursing Home, I realized that there is a big problem with senior citizen loneliness. I believe that we, as a community, could come together to help combat this problem. My idea is a sort of "adopt-a-grandparent" program where the young people (could be any age really) are assigned a senior citizen and do specific activities with them and for them”. We love this idea and plan to implement it in the near future!

We are positive this young man has made our community a better place through his service and we wish him the best in his next steps. He plans to major in business administration at Otterbein University.

Our winner will be pursuing a career of nursing at Capital University, which shows her desire to serve others. She has spent 184 hours serving her community through a special needs dance camp for kids, choreographing another local high school’s musical, volunteering at Angels Persist, and labeling chromebooks for her school. We are positive this young lady has made our community a better place through her service and we wish her the best in her next steps. 

Our winner will be pursuing a career of aviation and aviation management at Ohio University. She has spent countless hours serving her community through volunteering at Johnstown Pointe and at her church's children's ministry. She has packed meals for Haiti, worked with the Licking County Land Trust, the student council's adopt-a-family program, and the Mid- Ohio Valley Work Camp. She has organized food drives and even started her own non- profit organization "Knot Alone". She has found meaning in all this service, and even plans to use her career to complete charitable tasks. Her ideas are creative and inspiring, and we plan to use some of them for future Hands and Feet projects. We are positive this young lady has made our community a better place through her service and we wish her the best in her next steps.