Community Service Fellowships at the GSD
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There are currently two community service fellowship programs open to students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. They are:
CSFP - SUMMER INTERNSHIP (10 weeks, paid)
CSFP - Summer Internship is a competitive summer program. Each year, six Harvard GSD students are selected to work in community and nonprofit organizations, federal and state agencies. The student work must be design or planning oriented. Preference is given to projects that are based in the greater Boston area.
Fellows are awarded a stipend of up to seven thousand dollars. Students submit proposals for a community service project by the first week in March. A Faculty Committee selects Fellows and makes awards to fund summer employment.
Recent CSFP - Summer Internship sponsoring organizations include:
Asian Community Development Corp. (ACDC), Boston, MA
A Better City (ABC), Boston, MA
Beverly School for the Deaf, Beverly, MA
Community Design Resource Center of Boston, MA
Just-a-Start, Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), Division of Planning and Engineering, Boston, MA
Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, MA
Town of Barnstable, Growth Management Department, Barnstable, MA
United Teen Equality Center, Lowell, MA
CSFP - INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL (travel grants to go overseas to do community service)
CSFP - International Travel grants were created in 2007 to support GSD student interest in volunteer work throughout the world. The request for funding must be related to applying skills acquired through training at the GSD in community service.
The application deadline is the first week in April. Check the events calendar in eRecruiting to learn about the deadline for the next application cycle.
Some recent successful applications included:
♦ Funding for airfare to Nairobi, to spend the summer as a United Nations Intern in the Urban Economy Branch in the Human Settlements Internship Programme.
♦ Funding for airfare to Nairobi, to work as a United Nations Intern for the Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch of the Human Settlements Financing Division.
♦ Funding for airfare to South Africa, to work as a volunteer designing and assisting in construction of a new multipurpose community center in Khayelitsha, the second largest township in the country, home to over 500,000 people.
♦ Funding for airfare to Nicaragua, to work as a volunteer designing and assisting in construction of composting toilets and housing for residents living in an informal settlement.
Learn more about past Community Service Fellows:
Past Winners
Project_Khayelitsha Blog
BSD Blog
Harvard Gazette Feature ArticleA complete list of previous CSFP fellowship sites can be found in eRecruiting.
Eligibility for Community Service Fellowship Programs
All GSD students with appropriate work experience, who will be returning to the GSD in the fall following the Fellowship, are eligible to apply for funding.
Contact Meryl Golden, Director of Career Services, for more information on the two Community Service Fellowship Programs.