Summer Programs

Summer Service Project Internship
The SSPI is an eight-week service-learning experience at roughly 200 agencies and organizations throughout the Unites States. Students are provided the opportunity to witness underserved populations first hand by working for and with the clients and staff at each site. The program is sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Alumni Clubs and the James F. Andrews Scholarship Fund, administered through the Center for Social Concerns in an effort to graduate students with a "disciplined sensibility to the poverty and oppression that burden the lives of so many." (from the UND mission statement) The SSPI is an academic, three credit course.

International Summer Service Program
Despite dramatic changes throughout the world, we continue to see a widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The lack of basic resources, access to health, education, and employment remains the challenge for developing and non-industrialized nations. In nations marred by political conflict and violence, efforts of peace, reconciliation, and democratization are slow and its affects are seen most clearly in the lives of the poor. As we continue to face these and other global concerns, the need to educate students about their responsibility in our global community becomes ever apparent. The International Summer Service- Learning Program (ISSLP) provides a chance to examine causes of poverty and to create links of solidarity across borders. This program is built on the marvelous tradition of domestic and international summer service projects developed by the Community of International Lay Apostolate (CILA) and the Center for Social Concerns.

National Youth Service Program
NYSP is a sports and enrichment day camp serving youth ages 10-16 from economically disadvantaged areas. The camp is held on the Notre Dame Campus and is administered by the Center for Social Concerns. Over a period of five weeks more than 250 kids from the local community have the opportunity to experience the rich Notre Dame tradition while learning the fundamentals of basketball, golf, swimming, soccer, football and softball. Each year NYSP hires undergraduate and graduate students to serve as team leaders and swim instructors.

Hispanic Leadership Intern Program
The purpose of this internship is to provides ND students exposure and experience in Latino communities in metropolitan Chicago where they serve as leader and student of the community in which they are working. Students have the opportunity to witness and contribute to the strengths, issues and needs of the Latino community in our country. Leadership is emphasized. Student interns will live in a Latino community for 8 weeks during the summer. The HLIP is an academic, three credit course that includes a scholarship and living stipend.

ACCION
The ACCION Internship is a 10-week internship for Junior business students with ACCION domestic offices. ACCION is a non-profit micro-lending organization with about 40 years experience reducing poverty and creating employment in the Americas. ACCION's network in 14 Latin American countries and seven U.S. cities has loaned over $1.7 billion to more than one million clients in the last six years. The interns provide business and technical knowledge to the organizations and are provided the opportunity of bringing business concepts learned in the classroom to life experience and people. The interns provide classroom knowledge and technical experience to the ACCION offices while they are given the opportunity to use the classroom concepts by working directly with the clients and staff. They receive hands on experience in a micro-lending organization. One credit THEO and 2 credits in BA.