Celebrating the 2020 People’s Choice award winners After more than 75,000 votes, the results of the 2020 Service to America Medals People’s Choice award are in. This year’s winners are recognized for their work launching the Treasury Department’s Mentor-Protégé Program. Read More
Meet the top five finalists for the Sammies People’s Choice award Learn more about the five finalists still in the running for the 2020 Service to America Medals People’s Choice award and vote for your favorite. Read More
Looking back at five years of Sammies People’s Choice award winners With the deadline to vote for the 2020 People’s Choice award approaching, take a look back at the past five winners. Read More
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and bestselling author Michael Lewis, celebrate public servants The Partnership teamed up with Axios, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and bestselling author Michael Lewis for a virtual event celebrating the 27 finalists for the 2020 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals. Learn more about this year’s finalists and watch a recording of the event. Read More
Announcing the 2020 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals finalists Meet the 27 finalists of this year’s Service to America Medals, and learn how you can vote for the People’s Choice Award. Read More
The Sammies effect Victoria Brahm writes about her experience as the 2019 Service to America Medals Federal Employee of the Year winner. Read More
What I didn’t expect to take away from a trip to NASA Nola Tolsma, an events associate at the Partnership, was invited to visit the Kennedy Space Center by Director Robert Cabana, a 2019 Sammies winner. Learn about her trip and the surprising discoveries she made. Read More
Pull accomplished government employees onto the red carpet, and watch the fun begin Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” on TBS captured the incredible accomplishments of federal employees with waggish good humor Wednesday night, highlighting honorees who attended the 2019 Service to America Medals Awards gala October 16. Read More
Recognizing the people who do the work: Michael Bloomberg and Penny Pritzker praise public servants at 18th annual Service to America Medals gala In a conversation at the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals gala, Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, and Penny Pritzker, former secretary of the Department of Commerce, discuss keys to successful leadership and management. Read More
#StoriesOfService: Kristen Finne Each week leading up to the eighteenth annual Service to America Medals gala on October 16, we will share a new track featuring a 2019 finalist’s powerful story of service. Each of these outstanding honorees reflected on their federal journey in conversations facilitated by StoryCorps®, a nonprofit organization with a mission to “preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.” Read More