The Stewart Family Serviceship Fellowship and Stewart Family Service Stipend Awards are part of the Stewart Family Public Service Initiative housed within the School of Politics, Public Affairs & International Studies (SPPAIS). This initiative seeks to advance public service opportunities for UW students through its signature student fellowship that supports a service and/or applied research project of the awardee’s choice, the service stipend award and the Stewart Family Professorship in Public Service that was established in 2025. Fall 2026 marks the inaugural Stewart Family Distinguished Speaker in Public Service. More information is available here.
Each year, SPPAIS, in partnership with the Service, Leadership, and Community Engagement Office, seeks proposals from UW students for the fellowship award which provides a $5,000 stipend to complete an independent service-learning/service-research project, and for the service stipend award that provides a $1,000 stipend.
The serviceship awards are funded by the Stewart family in honor of their late parents Clyde E. and Jerrine N. Stewart, who served as daily examples of people immersed in family, community and work. As such, they were of consequence in helping address community needs and real-world challenges. They were enriched by simply doing what they could. Thus, their own family and community were also enriched.
The awards continue this legacy by supporting students working on their own applied community research or service project that addresses a real world need or challenge on a local, state, national or global level. The application deadline is the last Friday in October with awardees notified by late November.
The stipend will be awarded through a competitive process that is open to all UW students. Guidelines for proposals are broad as the specific needs being addressed should be community-defined. The selected student(s) must be involved in an applied community research or service project that addresses a real-world need or challenge on a local, state, national or global level. Students from all fields of study are encouraged to submit proposals.
Clyde and Jerrine Stewart Kendall (Stewart) and Joseph Hartman
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