Internships
SHECP provides two internship opportunities to students at Member Schools. Through these programs, SHECP aims to develop student civic responsibility, promote respect for diverse communities, and facilitate poverty awareness that inspires students to intentionally integrate anti-poverty action in their post-graduate vocations and personal lives.
The SHECP Summer Internship matches students with an academic background in poverty studies with organizations engaged in hands-on, community-facing, anti-poverty work for a transformational internship experience. Students are selected by their schools and matched with an internship placement by SHECP.
Policy & Nonprofit Leadership Internships offer a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to gain experience in public policy and nonprofit leadership while addressing issues of poverty in communities. This program was specifically designed for students who have completed the SHECP Summer Internship Program.
All SHECP interns live in cohort-based housing, receive a modest living stipend, and participate in summer-long SHECP programming.
Interns will have a deeper and richer understanding of another person’s life experiences…It’s a successful internship if [interns] go out into the world with a more compassionate heart, a more tender approach to others, and to recognize that there is such great worth in everyone.
Kim Cosgrove
PACT World of Care, Director
SHECP Community Partner