The Center for Public Interest Careers at Harvard College (CPIC)

Amanda Sonis Glynn, Coordinator
asglynn@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-8622
cpic@fas.harvard.edu
www.cpic.fas.harvard.edu

Established in 2001, the Center for Public Interest Careers (CPIC) engages and supports Harvard undergraduates and recent graduates in expanding awareness of and exploring careers in the public interest. Working closely with university, alumni/ae, and community partners, CPIC develops fellowships, internships, networks, and opportunities for personal and professional development. Through CPIC’s flagship program the CPIC Fellowship and Internship Program, CPIC staff work closely with alumni/ae volunteers to match undergraduates and recent graduates with paid summer and post-graduate year-long positions in non-profit organizations and government agencies in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and San Francisco; the program also provides various supports to students throughout the course of their fellowships and internships. The CPIC Fund for Service Internship (FSI) Program, funded by the Heckscher Foundation for Children, matches students with summer internship opportunities in child advocacy organizations in New York and provides a stipend and housing. FSI interns participate in intensive programming designed to enhance their learning experiences before, during, and after their summer internships. CPIC also administers four additional grant opportunities for undergraduates:

The Harvard Clubs Summer Community Service Fellowship Program, offered by Harvard Clubs and Shared Interest Groups around the US, provides funding for students to work in non-profit organizations over the summer. CPIC works closely with the Harvard Alumni Association to administer this program; applications are due in mid-March.
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship, run in conjunction with Yale Law School, provides funding for Harvard undergraduates doing unpaid summer internships in public interest law.
The Steamboat Scholar Program is a program of the Steamboat Foundation that provides one Harvard junior with a generous stipend to work at Facing History and Ourselves over the summer; the Steamboat Summer Scholar also participates in extensive leadership development programming.
The Summer Work-Study Awards for Public Service, a partnership with the Student Employment Office, allow students who are work-study eligible to receive work-study funding to work at non-profit organizations of their choice. Applications are available in April and due on a rolling basis throughout May on a first-come first-served basis until the funding is depleted.