Overview
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The Manzi Fellowship is a paid summer internship program for Colgate first-years, sophomores, and juniors; the fellowship enables students to work in non-profit organizations in the Boston area.
Established in 1995 by Jim Manzi ’73, students are selected on a competitive basis. Significant criteria for selection are a demonstrated commitment to community service and the potential to pursue such work after college.
Those awarded a fellowship receive a stipend of $4,200 and are assigned to a project or agency sanctioned by Colgate University, working 40 hours per week for 10 weeks.
Preference will be given to sophomores and juniors.
2009 Applications available: December 7, 2009
Application deadline: 4:00 pm, February 2, 2010
Sponsoring organizations include:
Julie’s Family Learning Program
The Drama-Play Connection
Facing History and Ourselves
McLean Hospital (Acute Inpatient Unit)
Boston Medical Center (Emerging Leaders in Healthcare Program)
Heading Home
Objectives
- To offer summer-long community service internship opportunities with a Colgate-approved organization in Cambridge, Boston and the greater Boston area for Colgate students completing their first, sophomore or junior years.
- To develop expertise and hands-on involvement in activities fundamental to a well-run not-for-profit organization, such as administrative work, projects, direct service to individuals or groups, fundraising, research, public relations.
- To foster a good match between a fellowship opportunity and a Colgate student who has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to community service.
- To offer diverse internships with organizations involved with community-based health, mental health, human rights, cultural and historical education, homelessness and at-risk-children.
- To foster dialogue between Manzi Fellows, community service organizations and Colgate alumni in the Boston area regarding issues affecting community service as well as career paths in the field.
Components
Performing work for the sponsoring organization
- Review, attach, and then draft in your own words the mission and goals of the organization.
- The job description forms part of this contract of employment. Before starting your internship you will work with your supervisor to define the job description, which will include:
- Identifying specific areas where you wish to gain some exposure or hands-on experience
- Identifying the employer’s needs and expectations for your internship, both on a typical day and in terms of the larger mission of the organization
- Stating the goals and objectives of the position and/or project to be undertaken
- Stating duties and responsibilities, and defining the time frame in which each is to be completed
- Stating your reporting line as an internship employee within the organization
Literature review, group discussion, site visits
- Perform a literature review (8 sources) prior to the start of your internship. Resources will include your internship supervisor and Colgate professors as well as your own research. Attach a list of the literature for review, which may include:
- Narrative work
- Scholarly work
- Copies of current local, state and/or national legislation and reports affecting the organization’s work
- Documentary film or radio programs
- Newspaper and journal articles
- Coordinate and lead a discussion session with the other Manzi Fellows. A possible format could be summarizing your background research, the organization’s history and mission, your specific work and thoughts about a possible career in the field. Four discussion groups will be held during the summer, one for each of the following areas:
- Child and adolescent mental health: McLean Hospital, The Drama-Play Connection
- International human rights/history/culture: Facing History and Ourselves
- Community-based health: Boston Medical Center
- Homelessness and at-risk children and families: Julie’s Family Learning Program, Shelter, Inc.
- Participate in a group dinner with Jim Manzi
Documenting the experience
- Maintain a daily journal of experiences.
- Obtain (with permission) any work product you helped to generate, for your portfolio. This could include reports, surveys, photographs, videos, press releases.
- Submit a mid-summer written status report to the Center for Career Services.
- Submit a final status report to the Center for Career Services. The final report will help you reflect on what you have learned (specific job related skills and wider issues). It can lay the groundwork for a research project or honors thesis when you return to campus. It can serve as a writing sample for use in future job, fellowship or graduate applications. Ideas to consider may include:
- Incorporating stories about clients with whom you have worked (while respecting issues of confidentiality)
- Informational interviews with organization employees about their careers
- A description of a new initiative at the organization and how it came into fruition
- An analysis of a pressing political or social issue affecting the organization
- Your vision of how a project or specific aspect of the organization could be strengthened.