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Host Agency Observations: 

"Our Intern was highly coachable, skilled, and flexible. He met all of our objectives and exceeded our expectations"

-Homeless Shelter and Support Services

"Thank you for providing this opportunity to [us] and to [our intern]. We love to provide education to young adults like [her] who can share her new awareness and knowledge from her internship with her family and friends."

-A Community Service Agency

"[Our Intern] did an excellent job as a program speciality, making strong and meaningful relationships with our girls and with other staff members. She also helped the offices complete important tasks that we sometimes don't have time to handle."

-A Female Youth Empowerment Program

"[Our Intern] exceeded any expectations we had. She hit the ground running with this campaign , taking a lot of initiative to get things started and ensure that they were seen through. [She] was able to take basic guidance from staff, but did not need constant supervision."

-A Community Development Non Profit

"The Development Intern assisted the Development Department with activities that help to raise funds to meet agency revenue goals. This position reported to the VP or Development and Research Assistant when appropriate. When working with operations and grants department, the intern reported to the corresponding director...[She] was terrific. She successfully contributed and created presentations, found ways to make better use of our database, helped our marketing department, and helped in answering phones and greeting guests."

-A Foundation

"The intern assisted the staff in any way possible to expedite planning and management process related to ongoing stewardship projects, educational programs, and general administration. In the office, the intern performed tasks ranging from contacting performers and costing items for large-scale community and volunteer events to reconciling finances, documenting meetings, and doing other clerical work. Outside the office, the intern attended site meetings and at times co-lead our youth group during improvement projects at local farms and land preserves. The intern represented the organization at the Lawrence Farmer's Market...The intern was effective at receiving tasks and getting going. She was not afraid of asking questions (which is good!) and completing items in the best way."

-Environmental and Community Organizing Non Profit

"Our Intern was trained in a 36 hours rape crisis training program for advocates and counselors. This training enabled her to take hotline calls, perform client intakes, and help with teen prevention groups. During the internship, we also had her work with our Teen Counselor to do the prep work on our upcoming high school orientations programs and teen groups".

-Rape Crisis Center

"[Our Intern] was extremely effective in meeting the objectives of the internship. She was very responsible; always on time and in communication with all staff. She was eager and able to help where ever we needed her she possess a fantastic positive attitude and work ethic. It was a pleasure to work with her."

-Art Non Profit  

"Our intern was responsible for coordinating and managing our Farming for Our Neighbors program, including scheduling volunteers, coordinating food pick-ups and working closely with staff and farmers to increase the amount of fresh local produce distrubuted at our food pantries...He was very effective in meeting our goals. He worked extremely well with the farmers, local farm stands, our volunteers, and staff."

-Food Pantry

"[She] did an exceptional job in all areas. She was interested, diligent, innovative in her approach and a pleasure to work with. Her public policy interests and perspectives were very valuable. She greatly contributed to the productivity levels of our team and produced several manuals for use with our mentors."

-Educational Mentoring Program

"Our intern served as one of the case managers at our day shelter this summer. Her duties included meeting with clients, and assisting them with navigating the system, this includes applying for main stream benefits, trying to find housing, distributing clothing, helping serve meals, etc."

-Homeless Services Non Profit