Street Sweep

We offer the opportunity to earn scholarships by completing our volunteer, social change, and civic actions. You are eligible for our scholarships if you are between the ages of 13 and 25 years old and live in the U.S. (or are a U.S. citizen, but living abroad). We never require an essay, GPA, or recommendation to apply.

Visit Pays to Do Good, Take Action or DoSomething homepage to learn about the scholarship opportunities we currently offer. (You can also visit any of the action pages to learn the exact details for each opportunity.)

By completing all the action steps and verifying your participation in Street Sweep by November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET, you’ll be entered for the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship.

In order to verify your participation and impact, we’ll ask you to “report back” by taking and submitting a photo of you and your Sweep Squad, and the trash you collected as part of your cleanup.

The Street Sweep cleanup should be completed and submitted during this scholarship opportunity, from July 21, 2025 through November 30, 2025. Any submissions that were completed prior to that will not be eligible for this scholarship.

Please keep these guidelines in mind when you submit your reportbacks.

If you are between the ages of 13 and 25 years old and live in the U.S. (or are a U.S. citizen, but living abroad), you are eligible for the opportunity to earn any of our scholarships. We never require an essay, GPA, or recommendation to apply. Just be sure to complete your Street Sweep cleanup, and submit a photo of you and your Sweep Squad and trash collected by November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.

Be sure to review our Scholarship Contest Official Rules before entering for any scholarship opportunity.

DoSomething scholarship winners are selected using predetermined judging criteria for DS members who completed the action steps and verified their participation in the action.

Please keep these guidelines in mind when you submit your reportbacks.

Winners will be individually notified by email and will be required to respond to initial notification within 72 hours. Winners of each action will typically be announced to the public 3-4 weeks after the close of the campaign.

Be sure to review our Scholarship Contest Official Rules before entering any scholarship opportunity.

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, The Breakdown, to see each month’s scholarship and other awardees, and more opportunities to earn.

Check out your DoSomething profile to make sure we received your photo of your Sweep Squad and trash collected by November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET. A DoSomething staffer will review your submission soon, and we’ll contact you if your submission is not approved or if there is any kind of problem.

Once your submission is approved, you’re entered for the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship. (You can also subscribe to our monthly scholarship newsletter for more opportunities to earn scholarships.)

The certificate will include:

• Your name

• The name of the campaign you completed

• Details about the campaign

• Number of volunteer credit hours earned

• Date of completion

• A signature from a DoSomething staffer to verify your hours.

Here's an example of what the certificate will look like; the certificate you receive will reflect your volunteer participation with DoSomething.org:

Approving photos can take up to two weeks (though it's usually much faster!) Once your photo is approved, we will email you when your certificate is ready to download from your profile.

Yes! We ask that members fill out forms to the best of their ability, and prefer that they send them as PDFs for quicker signoff. If using online verification systems like Mobileserve, or HelperHelper please email us ahead of time (using the volunteer@dosomething.org email) or list the email associated with your DoSomething account in the description. At the moment, we cannot take X2Vol requests.

• Organizer: DeNora Getachew

• Email: volunteer@dosomething.org

• Address: 50 West 17th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10011

• Phone #: (212)-254-2390

All eligible and accepted Street Sweep submissions will automatically receive a certification for 10 volunteer credit hours!

While uploading your photo, you will be prompted to enter how long it took you to complete this action. The number of hours you report should reflect the time it took you to plan and complete the action. Please ensure that the number of hours you are reporting is accurate or your submission will be rejected.

Just estimate how many hours it took you to actually complete the action. Take the average amount of minutes you spent per day on the action and multiply it by how many days it took you to complete the action.

For example: if you worked on completing a Street Sweep cleanup, and spent 50 minutes a day picking up trash for 3 days, this would equal to 150 minutes, or 2 hours and 30 minutes total.