Community-Based Learning Internships for Credit (CBL-IFC)

Community-based internships for credit can involve a wide-range of service-related internships around the world. Marshall Scholars can apply funds for CBL Marshall Scholarships toward the cost of some of these programs. 

For more information about Community-based Internships for Credit, please contact  Susan Dicklitch, Associate Dean of the College, Director of The Ware Institute for Civic Engagement.

Information on this page is subject to change.

ECUADOR
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Social Entrepreneurship in Ecuador

APPLICATION DATES: December 1-January 29, 2010
PROGRAM DATES: MAY 10-July 16, 2010
The Government Department and the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement are pleased to announce a new community-based learning internship for credit for current students. Eight  students will have the opportunity to enroll in a ten week for-credit summer internship course this summer. Students will spend two weeks at Franklin & Marshall College and eight weeks working with local NGOs in rural Ecuador. Click here for more program details.

NICARAGUA
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Social Entrepreneurship in Nicaragua

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APPLICATION DATES: December 1-January 29, 2010
PROGRAM DATES: MAY 17-July 16, 2010*
The Government Department and the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement are pleased to announce a new community-based learning internship for credit for current students. Eight  students will have the opportunity to enroll in a ten  week for-credit summer internship course this summer. Students will spend two weeks at Franklin & Marshall College and eight weeks working with local NGOs in rural Nicaragua. 
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SOUTH AFRICA
Global Public Health in South Africa

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APPLICATION DATES: December 1-January 29, 2010
PROGRAM DATES: June 14-August 15, 2010.
Global public health internships for credit in Cape Town and Khayelitsha, South Africa.

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* Information about these programs is subject to change. Contact the Ware Institute for more information about these internships.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR CORPS PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Through participation in innovative rural development work within a challenging cultural, language learning and grassroots environment, Social Entrepreneur Corps ensures that participants will:

➢    Gain insights into the opportunities, inherent risks and limitations involved in third world development
➢    Have ample opportunities to significantly increase language proficiency
➢    Observe, learn and live in a diversity of cultural settings
➢    Experience home stay living with local families
➢    Have the opportunity to visit an array of development and relief organizations
➢    Be offered the opportunity to make a significant contribution in a highly structured manner working side by side with field based social entrepreneurs
Through classes, case studies, discussions, analysis, living with the local population, as well as through visits and active participation with local NGO’s and social entrepreneurs, interns will make a profound community impact whilst gaining an in-depth knowledge of rural economic development. The desired outcomes for the program are that interns:

➢    Will have gained an understanding of the key differences, advantages and disadvantages of varied international relief and economic development models
➢    Will feel knowledgeable with regards to the challenges and opportunities inherent in the creation of successful social entrepreneurship models, implementation strategies and tactics.
➢    Will have learned and practiced effective strategies for training, mentoring and supporting local social entrepreneurs
➢    Will have contributed to the identification and design of new social entrepreneurship opportunities for local constituents
➢    Will have gained an understanding of the challenges confronting the rural population specifically
➢ Will feel comfortable interacting with the local population on a general, family and individual level
➢    Will have gained an understanding of the cultural and professional "do's" and "don'ts" of living and working in a rural development environment such as Guatemala and Ecuador
➢    Will understand how the rural population lives, works and what they aspire to achieve
➢    Will have significantly improved their conversational Spanish capabilities
➢    Will have gained an understanding of the nuance of language in developing country environments