Scott Beale / 2010 National Awards Honoree
Scott Beale
Founder & CEO of Atlas Service Corps. Inc.
"I am proud to be honored as a Citizen Diplomat and hope this award will put a spotlight on the Atlas Corps Fellowship that I am honored to run and highlight how important it is that we serve side by side with people from around the world to address critical social issues. Everyone, in the U.S. and around the world, has the capacity and the opportunity to make the world a better place by building bridges across cultures and countries and pursuing our common aspiration to create a world with a cleaner environment, more social justice, less hunger and poverty and free from disease and war."
Scott Beale is the founder of Atlas Service Corps and an experienced social entrepreneur who has started three citizen sector organizations and helped thousands of people in his generation become agents for social change. He has worked with citizen, government and business leaders from around the world and through Atlas Corps, has pioneered an innovative, sustainable and scalable way for revolutionizing international volunteerism.
Atlas Corps facilitates international fellowships for the world's rising leaders. Fellows not only volunteer at non-profit organizations in the U.S. addressing social issues, but are also enrolled in an ongoing training program. After 12 or 18 months, the fellows return to their countries to work for at least one year (and usually their entire career) back in the nonprofit sector, sharing new skills, best practices, valuable experiences and a global network of change-makers.
For ten years, Mr. Beale was a recognized leader of the Millennial Generation as the author of "Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook" and the founder of Millennial Politics.com. He has published many articles and delivered over 300 speeches on his "10 Steps To Change the World."
In addition to his political activism, Mr. Beale is an experienced social entrepreneur. As the Mid Atlantic Director of Youth Venture (a sister organization of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public), he helped over 1,000 young people start citizen sector organizations. While at Youth Venture, he helped expand the organization from approximately three to twenty-five, in large part due to a partnership with AmeriCorps VISTA and the Corporation for National Service.
His activism began while an undergraduate at Georgetown University, where he organized political rallies at the U.S. Capitol and registered youth voters for Rock the Vote. Since college, his activism has extended beyond the United States, three times taking him to Bosnia, once as the youngest member of an advance U.S. State Department group. While there, he became the youngest Core Supervisor from any country for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an intergovernmental organization responsible for supervising elections in war-recovering Bosnia. His management of a forty-five person international team resulted in the successful registration of over 30,000 Bosnian voters.
Mr. Beale returned overseas in 2004 to coordinate the U.S. Government's efforts to fight human trafficking in India. He helped coordinate $9 million of resources to citizen organization and international organizations in India who were fighting modern day slavery. In March 2006, Mr. Beale left India to start Atlas Service Corps.