The Virtual Student Federal Service Internship was created in order to provide federal service opportunities to those who were not able to participate in the traditional idea of a federal internship. This internship would require a student to commit to a federal internship of ten (10) hours per week while working completely remote for the duration of the school year from September to May.
The Foreign Affairs Information Technology (FAIT) Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is a path to a career in the Foreign Service as an Information Management Specialist (IMS).
The Public Policy and International Affairs Program is an organization dedicated to increasing diversity in public policy and international affairs graduate studies as well as careers in public policy. This is a fully funded seven-week public policy program for college juniors that is designed for those who have a dedicated interest in going to graduate school for public policy and then pursuing a career in that field.
Selected students for this program will study at one of the six participating universities for their summer program: Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, or University of Washington. The program will include classes related to public policy, statistics, international and domestic affairs, and leadership skills.
This scholarship will allow for funding to help with the cost of taking a summer class focused on the Arabic language for students who are committed to improving their fluency of the language. In order to be eligible for the scholarship, students must make an account on the Qatar Foundation International website and then sign up for the Arabic Honor Society. Signing up for the honor society is listed as being required to submit general personal information, several essays, and university records.
The Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship offers a unique and an exciting opportunity for young Indians to learn law-making and public policy.
Awardees begin their fellowship with a one-year AmeriCorps Service term and are matched with a local nonprofit or government in their community that is in conjunction with their own professional goals.
This is a nonpartisan fellowship and fellows are part of AmeriCorps, meaning that they are not permitted to engage or support specific political parties or religious beliefs and/or influence legislation with their actions throughout their time acting as a member of the program. Before starting their placement, all fellows attend a twelve-day Lead for America Summer Institute in Washington, DC to learn American history and the current challenges of the country today, including the difficulty communicating across party lines, as well as leadership training. Throughout the fellowship, fellows will also attend a retreat in Kansas and will complete a fellow-exchange when they will experience a fellow awardee’s hometown and see the work that they have been doing. In addition, the fellows will come together for a graduation summit in Washington, DC. All of the expenses for these retreats (travel, housing, meals, and miscellaneous costs) will be entirely covered by Lead for America.
Once fellows have been placed, they will work for thirty-five hours per week a paid position at their host organization (that they have worked to find based on their interests and focus)
This is an opportunity to volunteer with the Department of State initiative, MapGive. MapGive is an organization that provides the groundwork for individuals to contribute to the online mapping of locations around the world that do not have the quality of mapping that is offered in a variety of other places. This mapping can assist with everyday travel or even emergency situations, such as natural disasters. Volunteers are given access to training and then can begin remotely helping those in need.
The FAIT Fellowship is a program through the U.S. Foreign Service with an emphasis on information technology majors, including, but not limited to, cybersecurity and computer science, that is offering a two-year fellowship pathway program that includes funding for an academic degree for two years, summer internships, and ends with a job offer to join the foreign service for a minimum of five years. The program provides the funding for either the last two years of a student’s bachelor’s degree or for the two years of a master’s program. In between these years, it provides its fellows with internships. The first summer (either between the junior and senior year of undergraduate or after the first year of a master’s degree), the fellow will be able to experience a domestic internship for ten weeks with the Foreign Service. During the second summer (after the fellow’s senior year of undergraduate studies or after the second year of their master’s degree), they will be given the opportunity for an overseas internship with the Foreign Service for ten weeks. After the second summer internship, they will accept a position with the U.S. Foreign Service and will be obligated to serve for a minimum of five years.
This fellowship is focused on writing and understanding societies besides our own on a deeper level through research and reporting. In exchange for a letter of intent and a strong plan for research through a deeply immersive experience in another culture, the Institute of Current World Affairs can potentially fund an entire project for an individual and their immediate family, if they choose to move with the individual conducting research.
Individuals who study abroad are expected to have the necessary language skills to succeed in their research in that country in addition to strong English speaking and writing skills and strong ties to the United States if they are not a U.S. citizen. Candidates must also be under the age of thirty-six at the time of the letter of intent’s due date and must be finished with their current degree within six months of their selection, whether that is undergraduate, graduate, or other studies.
This is a collection of fellowships offered by the Council on Foreign Relations that support professionals in the field gain higher understandings of foreign policy, either domestically or abroad. There are fellowships for simply policy-related work, in addition to programs to Canada, India, and Japan, as well as those specifically for military personnel or international relations professors. These fellowships are incredibly diverse in what they offer to the individuals who are accepted, which also varies on the fellowship itself.