Idea spins cycle of service: Angela Perkey's nonprofit organization finances students' pursuit of community service based on their studies.

Byline: Carol Scott

Nov. 25--WILLIAMSBURG -- Angela Perkey was making her high school friends jealous.

Back home in Nashville, Tenn., after her freshman year at the College of William and Mary, Perkey was spending her summer with the city's planning department, designing a plan to cut obesity in the city's low-income areas.

She'd studied the correlation between obesity and low incomes in a class and wanted to put her ideas into action. A $2,500 grant from William and Mary allowed her to live at home and work with Nashville's planning department.

Her friends from other colleges wanted to do service work, as well, but they needed summer jobs …