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Funding for Unpaid Internships

• Eligibility
• Financing Your Internship
• Deadlines
• Other Opportunities
• Dartmouth College Travel Risk Policy

Eligibility

Criteria for eligibility vary from program to program. Typically, recipients must be returning to campus for at least one term after completion of their projects. Check the details with the office associated with the grant in which you are interested.

Financing Your Internship

Dartmouth encourages you to spend one or more of your Leave Terms doing work which will enhance your personal and academic goals. Grant ceilings vary but may be up to $2500 for international placements/projects and $2000 for domestic. Students on Dartmouth financial aid may be eligible for additional funding based on current need. If your proposal is accepted by more than one department or program, you will be required to choose only one grant..

Every student's financial situation is unique. We encourage all financial aid recipients considering an internship to talk with the program coordinators and his/her financial aid officer. Your financial aid officer can help you to explore alternative ways of covering your leave term earnings expectation. We'll explore every possibility to help make your plan a reality.

Rockefeller Center

203 Rocky, 646-2229

Rockefeller Public Affairs and Public Policy

• For internships in non-profit and public sectors, with emphasis on policy issues.
• Special grants for work in the State of New Hampshire.  Civic Skills Training offered throughout the year.

Tucker Foundation

S. Fairbanks, 646-2558

Tucker Fellowship

• For community service experiences within the U.S. and abroad, structured around intentional moral or spiritual development.  Fellowships should focus on direct community service, but may also include research, activism, policy development, and administrative support to a Community Service Organization.

Dartmouth Partners in Community Service

• For direct community service work within the U.S., carried out in partnership with a Dartmouth alumni mentor.

Bildner Urban Summer Program

• For interns working as full-time summer teachers through the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, NJ.

Dickey Center

141 Haldeman, 646-1040

Dickey International

• For internships in government, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), research organizations, and humanitarian service agencies in countries other than intern's home country.  Applicants should demonstrate how the internship will enhance the international dimensions of their academic work.

Career Services

63 South Main Street, 2nd Floor, 646-2215

The forms in this section, which can also be picked up in the Career Services Office, are provided here for downloading in Adobe's PDF format, for which you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader program to read and print. If you don't have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, you can download it here, free of charge.

M.R. Robinson

• For work in educational media or children's media or work that directly benefits at-risk or inner-city children.  The Robinson Fund only supports US domestic internships.
• Robinson Application Form (144K PDF File)

E.H. Fisher

• For work in advertising, public relations or publishing.
• Fisher Application Form (137K PDF File)

Deadlines

Winter 2010	Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Spring 2010	Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Summer 2010	Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Fall 2010	Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Other Opportunities

Additional internships and research funding, for resident-term, leave-term, and post-graduation opportunities, are available through the following campus departments:

• Undergraduate Research and Advising Office
• Scholarship Advising
• Academic Departments - Some academic departments have funding for student projects.  Contact individual departments for further information.
• Dartmouth Outing Club
• Educational Enrichment Fund (PDF File) - These funds provide grants to students to allow them to pursue educational opportunities that would be otherwise unavailable.
• Ethics Institute
• First Year Office
• Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) and the Neukom Institute Internship Program
• Institutional Diversity and Equity
• Leslie Center for Humanities
• MacLean Grants for Summer Research - Summer research funding for professional responsibility, global industrialization & human rights.  Contact Professor Daniel Lynch for further information.
• Office of Residential Life
• Student Activities - Pick up a booklet in 303 Collis called "Sources of Funding" which describes a large variety of campus sources of funding, requirements and contact people.
• Student Employment Office (SEO) - On-campus and local community employment listings are maintained by the SEO.