June 5 – July 30, 2011
Held at
Georgetown University in Washington, DC
www.DCinternships.org/IPVS
How will you choose to
spend your summer?
Join the millions of
volunteers, public servants and nonprofit professionals who heard the call to
serve in the nation’s capital.
The Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary
Service (IPVS )offers
you a chance to put your talents towards affecting change. Spend your summer in
service while getting a hands-on learning experience in Washington, DC.
This summer’s IPVS
application deadline is March 3, 2011. There is generous
scholarship funding available. You still have the opportunity to be placed in an
internship that puts you on the front-lines of our nation’s recovery and
renewal.
Spend your summer taking
action and making an impact in the community. With IPVS you can:
·
Provide families with
educational programs that combat childhood
obesity.
·
Help to advance public
health by conducting intake interviews.
·
Facilitate enrichment
opportunities for at-risk youth that encourage future
successes.
·
Translate legal service documents
and consultations for low-income immigrants.
·
Raise money and awareness
for diseases that affect
millions.
·
Provide direct emergency
services to clients at a homeless shelter.
·
Research nonprofit policy
and report on agency
benefits.
·
Engage
the local community in a
park clean-up that revitalizes urban green spaces.
Application
Instructions
For more information and to
being an application, please visit our website at www.DCinternships.org/IPVS. Please
keep in mind the application deadline of March 3. Honor students are given priority scholarship
consideration. Questions may be directed to Mary Connell, Recruitment and Admissions Director, at
mconnell@tfas.org or
202.986.0384.
About
the Program
Sponsored by The Fund for
American Studies and held at Georgetown
University, IPVS is an eight-week
academic internship program held in
Washington, D.C. for undergraduate students interested in
volunteerism and careers in the nonprofit sector. The Institute combines
substantive professional experience for 30 hours a week with a challenging
academic experience worth 6 credit hours from Georgetown University. All students are housed on
campus in apartment-style dorms.
Choose to spend your summer
in service with IPVS!