**EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE**
Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service
June 10 – August 4
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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 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 has been extended to March 23, 2012 with 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
To
take advantage of the extended application and scholarship deadline,
please contact Kristen Wright, Program Manager for the Institute on
Philanthropy and Voluntary
Service at kwright@tfas.org or 202.986.0384. We will work with
you to help you complete your application and ensure that it qualifies for the extended deadline.
For more information or to start an application, please visit our website at
www.DCinternships.org/IPVS.
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!
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