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The Olga Gruss Lewin Post-Graduate Fellowship was established in 2000 with
an endowment from Andrew '81 and Marina Lewin, in honor of Andrew's mother.
While at Dartmouth, Lewin earned Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Pray Modern
Language Prize, majored in French, and wrote for The Dartmouth. He was also
distinguished among his peers as a Senior Fellow. Andrew went on to earn a law
degree from Columbia. He is now a venture capitalist in New York City.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to support graduates within the year
immediately following graduation who have proven leadership in the Dartmouth
community and who are pursuing significant acts of citizenship and service to
others after graduation.
One Fellowship supports an eight-month to one-year project affiliated with a
non-profit organization immediately following graduation. Up to $14,000 in
funding is available for project expenses; deadline April 2nd. The second
Fellowship supports a full-time, nine-month salaried position (approximately
$18,000 in wages) at the Tucker Foundation, in addition to $7,500 in funding
for a three to four-month project affiliated with a non-profit organization;
deadline April 7th or until position is filled-- blitz G. Andrew Mackin for
details. Fellows may serve in the United States or abroad.
Applications will be assessed by the Lewin Fellowship Selection Committee,
which is composed of Tucker Foundation administration and staff, as well as
Dartmouth faculty members.
The Fellows will be selected based on the merit of their proposals and
consideration of their acts of citizenship/service while undergraduates.
Applications will be available from the Tucker Foundation Service &
Education Team, 2nd floor S. Fairbanks Hall.
Download Application Materials
Application Criteria, Instructions, and Guidelines
For more information, please contact
G. Andrew Mackin
Lewin Post-Graduate Fellow
Tucker Foundation
646-2558
g.andrew.mackin@dartmouth.edu
APPLICATION CRITERIA
- The Olga Gruss Lewin post-graduate fellowship is available to graduating
seniors, with a fellowship starting within 3 months immediately following their
graduation from Dartmouth College.
- The fellowship placement with a non-profit organization should involve at a
minimum thirty-five to forty hours of work per week.
- The service project must have clearly written goals and outcomes--the
service project goals are realistic, measurable and can be reached in the
amount of time allotted for the project.
- The service project should involve community service as the primary focus
of the post-graduate fellowship and can additionally include aspects of
micro-finance, research, public policy development and administrative
functions.
- The graduate must demonstrate how the service project will foster in them
significant new learning.
- The service project has proven added value to the organization; the
applicant must demonstrate that he/she will be fully engaged in meaningful work
for the organization.
- The service project is innovative, timely or unique in its focus. The
applicant must demonstrate how they can add value to the service project with
applied skills and perspectives that are needed by the organization.
- The applicant must express a clear appreciation for diverse points of view
and can articulate a contemporary community service philosophy.
- The applicant's prior academic focus, future goals, and personal goals
should connect to this intended service project in an intentional way.
- The applicant's communicated goals and values should be congruent with the
mission and focus of the Community Services Organization/Non-profit
Organization.
- The service project and applicant's motivation should help the applicant
gain field experience with an under-resourced community, providing an
opportunity that would be hard to acquire without support of this
fellowship.
- The awardee agrees to supply a 10-15 page reflection report, engage in a
telephone debriefing with at Tucker Foundation staff member and attend a
periodic "reunion" of Olga Gruss Lewin Fellows at Dartmouth (most expenses
paid).
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Complete applications are to be submitted to G. Andrew Mackin, 2nd floor
Tucker Foundation by the due date. Information submitted is treated with full
confidentiality and shared only with members of the selection committee.
A completed application includes:
- Application sheet
- Budget Sheet
- Resume
- Proposal - 3 to 5 pages in length. (See proposal guidelines below.)
- Supervisor's Statement form completed by the agency where you plan to work,
confirming your position and stating your duties.
- Two letters of recommendation - one should be from a Dartmouth
administrator or faculty member, and neither letter can be from a Tucker staff
member.
Lewin Committee Office
Lewin Post-Graduate Fellowship Committee
C/O G. Andrew Mackin
Service & Education Team
Tucker Foundation
6154 South Fairbanks Hall
Hanover, NH 03753
Dartmouth College
603-646-2558
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
The proposal should state in detail:
- A description of the mission of the agency where you will do your
internship.
- A description of your role in the agency's work.
- Your qualifications (work, courses, previous volunteer work) to fulfill the
responsibilities and requirements of your work.
- Your academic, civic, career, and/or personal goals and how you hope the
internship will relate to them.
NOTE: All awards may be considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue
Service.
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