Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH) Internship: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) are offering a paid 10-week summer internship program for students who are passionate about the environment, interested in human health, and curious about how they are linked. During…
Jewett Center for Community Partnerships
City Year Information Session
Reblog: Making Mosaics and Building Community – The Greening Green Street Mosaic Project
We’re spreading the word for the Green Street Arts Center and PIMMS: The Greening Green Street Mosaic Project started last year as a collaboration between the Green Street Arts Center AfterSchool Program, teaching artist and nationally known mosaicist Debora Aldo, and members of the Middletown community. Watch the project video from last semester. The goal is…
Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund
First and second year students from New York City should look into the Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund for an opportunity to get your summer internship funded. From MyCC: What is the Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund? Spearheaded by Hope’s family and friends, the Hope Reichbach Fund provides vital learning experiences and career development for students, inviting…
For One World Travel Grant to Work in Ghana
Interested in global education? Get a travel grant to help finance working in Ghana with the Ayi Owen International School! 2014 For One World Travel Grant Program 2014 Travel Grant Details and Dates: Up to two travel grants are being offered for a 11-24 week duration departing for Ghana in May 2014. Each candidate’s arrival…
Upcoming Deadlines at the Career Center: Lawyers for Children, Bronx Defenders, and Brighter Dawns
Forensic Social Work Intern, Lawyers for Children: Lawyers For Children (LFC) is one of the leading, not-for-profit organizations in New York City dedicated to protecting the legal rights of children whose parents or guardians have placed them into foster care, and who are the subjects of abuse, neglect, termination of parental rights, adoption, paternity, family…
The Social Entrepreneurship Corps
In browsing the Ashoka U newsletter, we came across some fantastic opportunities for students, including the Social Entrepreneurship Corps. While this program is fee-based, remember that the PCSE offers grant opportunities to subsidize such opportunities. Check out the Patricelli Enrichment Grant and the Wesleyan Summer Experience Grant‘ to help finance what may prove to be…
Upcoming Wesleyan Career Center Deadlines
Use this last week of winter break to finish some applications! Here is a sampling of some of the opportunities with upcoming deadlines from the Wesleyan Career Center: Policy Fellow, Connecticut Voices for Children: Connecticut Voices for Children is seeking a well-qualified and enthusiastic person to fill a full-time two-year policy fellowship. This is a policy position…
Become a Member of FoodCorps! (3/30)
Are you a leader passionate about healthy food, farms and kids? Then we want you to be a FoodCorps Service Member! FoodCorps recruits talented leaders for a year of paid public service building healthy school food environments in limited-resource communities. WHAT YOU’LL DO FoodCorps service members implement a three-ingredient recipe for healthy kids: TEACH children about what…
The Latest from WesCeleb Kennedy Odede ’12
Have you heard the news? This week, Kennedy Odede ’12 — SHOFCO co-founder, 2009 Davis Projects for Peace grant recipient, 2010 Echoing Green Fellow, 2010 Dell Social Innovation Competition winner, Clinton Global Initiative partner, 2012 Wesleyan Commencement speaker, Patricelli Center Advisory Board member, and (perhaps most importantly!) one half of the Jessica-Kennedy dream team — was named a 2014…