The Hollings Scholarship Program provides successful undergraduate applicants with awards that include academic assistance (up to $9,500 per year) for two years of full-time study and a 10-week, full-time paid ($700/week) internship at a NOAA facility during the summer.
The Future for Nature Award is a funding option for young conversationists between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five with an emphasis on species conservation, or specifically focusing on saving one specific species in the world. Examples that past winners have focused on include the giant armadillo, the Campbell’s alligator lizard, the jaguar, and the blue-throated macaw. To apply, the applicants must not only fit the age requirement, but must demonstrate a passion for conservation work and show their current efforts in species conservation that will continue long after this award. To present their efforts over a year with the award, awardees will attend the Future For Nature Award event at Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands and will be able to effectively network in order to help them in continuing their conservation efforts through connections and further funding opportunities.
CAPAL seeks to empower Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) young professionals by increasing access to public service opportunities and building a strong AANHPI public service pipeline. CAPAL’s Public Service Internship Program places undergraduate and graduate students within the public sector in the Washington, DC area and throughout the United States.
The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) is a fellowship funded by the German Bundestag and State Department. It annually provides 75 American and 75 German young professionals between the ages of 18½–24 the opportunity to spend one year in each other’s countries studying, interning, and living with hosts.
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for one academic year of full-time, intensive language study of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, or Khmer at the advanced level in approved language programs in East or Southeast Asia. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
ASG seek highly-qualified interns with knowledge, experience and language skills relevant to: Africa; China; Europe; South Asia; the Americas; Middle East & North Africa; East Asia & Pacific; Global Innovation & Growth; global health and life sciences; financial services; technology; corporate sustainability; business development, communication, and marketing; and operations, among other areas.
The Careers in Government job board is an opportunity to not only search for federal and state employment, but also post a resume in order for it to be seen by those in those employers looking to fill positions. This search engine can sort employment opportunities by location, category of jobs (e.g. corrections, legal services, parks and recreation), and job type (e.g. full time, part time, intern). These positions are entirely varied and therefore the amount of experience that is necessary for each is equally varied as well. The employers are not only government organizations, but community colleges, public schools, universities, and more.
If selected, scholarship winners will receive a full tuition and fee waiver for any two-year master’s program that is offered at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Applicants must be U.S. citizens of Portuguese decent and must have graduated college with at least a 3.0 GPA and must maintain that GPA for the program in order to have their scholarship renewed for the second year. If the program selected by the student is fully taught in Portuguese, proof of Portuguese fluency must be sent in with the application. Further, based on the program selected, applicants may also be required to pass interviews or write specific essays as part of their application.
The Fulbright-Anne Wexler Scholarships enables Australian and U.S. postgraduate students with strong academic credentials and leadership potential to undertake a two year Master’s degree in Australia or the U.S. focusing in public policy.
The Women Divers Hall of Fame is a nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring and raising awareness of the contributions of outstanding women divers.