{"id":1141,"date":"2025-10-18T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:36:24","slug":"ncls-emerging-leader-service-award-elsa-application-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/2025\/10\/18\/ncls-emerging-leader-service-award-elsa-application-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"NCLS Emerging Leader Service Award (ELSA) Application Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As many of you already know, the President\u2019s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) was paused earlier this May. In response, Newton Chinese Language School is proud to introduce a new and prestigious award that recognizes and honors individuals who have demonstrated a strong commitment to volunteer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the largest nonprofit weekend language school in New England, NCLS has served as a certifying organization since 2015. Each year, we carefully review all applications and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The application for the 2025 ELSA is now officially open! Please see below for detailed guidelines: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Please click the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/handbook\/Emerging-Leader-Service-Award.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/handbook\/Emerging-Leader-Service-Award.pdf\">ELSA Guideline<\/a> for details.<\/li><li><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Submit your application materials to<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"ncls_elsa@newtonchineseschool.org\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"ncls_elsa@newtonchineseschool.org\">ncls_elsa@newtonchineseschool.org<\/a> by <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">10\/30\/2025<\/span><\/strong>.<\/li><li>When you send us the application materials:<br \/>1) Email subject line should be in this format: ELA + your name;<br \/>2) In the email body:<br \/>a) Write a short application statement summarizing what you did, why you did them, and what you learned.<br \/>b) Provide a list of all the attachments.<br \/>3) The attachment file name format: Your name + list index number + organization name + hours (Example: Victor Li &#8211; 1- NCLS TA\u201439hr).<\/li><li>Attach all the supporting documents including the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ABzDiNvSacs8O7eyzMF46To4Gfrw0go7\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ABzDiNvSacs8O7eyzMF46To4Gfrw0go7\/view?usp=sharing\">ELSA Activity Summary Sheet<\/a> to the email.<\/li><li>Fill out this google form <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/QtATuzic8V6DFn9e9\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/QtATuzic8V6DFn9e9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/QtATuzic8V6DFn9e9<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you already know, the President\u2019s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) was paused earlier this May. In response, Newton Chinese Language School is proud to introduce a new and prestigious award that recognizes and honors individuals who have demonstrated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/2025\/10\/18\/ncls-emerging-leader-service-award-elsa-application-now-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/supporteducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}