The Skirball Public Service Internship Program is designed to give undergraduate JEP students a deeper understanding of the community-based organizations they worked with through their service-learning courses at USC. It provides funding for students to build on their service-learning experiences by becoming 25%- or 50%-time interns at their JEP sites. The internships will vary, depending on the needs of the organization, but most will involve helping the organizations with fund-raising, grant-writing, program development, or other activities that are core to the agency’s operations.

Students are eligible to apply if they participated in a JEP-sponsored service-learning course or other community-based project at a non-profit agency during the academic year. (School-based JEP assignments, such as mini-courses, are not eligible.) Internships must be approved by the sponsoring site.

The Public Service Internship Program is funded in part by a generous grant from the Skirball Foundation. Grant funds will be used to pay interns an hourly wage and to provide the hosting agencies with a small stipend to cover the costs of supervising the student(s). The internship program runs for 10 weeks during the summer.

For other information about the program, please contact Susan Harris (email; 213-740-1830)

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