Internships

Interested in hands-on, real-world career experience?  Well, the CPP has compiled some information on political internships and other opportunities just for you!  If you'd like to gain valuable career-related experience while helping to meet the needs of a political organization or office, please take a moment to review the following information You'll never know where it might lead! Remember, some of these opportunities are time-sensitive.  So, don't miss your chance by waiting too long!

• The Washington Center's Inside Washington '07: The New Congress/Politics and the Media academic seminar
  Application deadline: December 8, 2006
• The Hansard Scholars Programme: Internship in Parliament
  
• League of Conservation Voters Internship
• Project Vote Smart - National Internship Program
• Intern with U.S. Senator Arlen Specter or Congressman Phil English
• Intern with a State Legislator
• Other Internship Opportunities

Through a database provided by the Allegheny College Experiential Learning Database, students have access to a wide variety of opportunities. Internships currently available to students include:

• Public Relations Intern at Government Accountability Project in Washington, D.C.
• Policy Intern at The Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.
• Summer Intern at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.
• Intern at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry in Harrisburg, PA
• Grassroots Organizing Intern at the National Environment Trust in Washington, D.C.
• Intern at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
• Public Policy Internship at The Population Institute in Washington, D.C.
• Intern at the Presidential Classroom in Alexandria, VA

To access the ACCEL Experiential Learning Database, please click here.