President Richard C. Levin hosts the 2006 Yale University
President's Public Service Fellows at his annual breakfast.

Student applications and placement sites are now available. Deadline is January 18, 2008.

President Richard C. Levin established the President's Public Service Fellowship in 1994 to provide expanded opportunities for Yale students to work on behalf of economic development, human development, and neighborhod revitalization with public sector and nonprofit organizations in the City of New Haven.

Since 1994, the Fellowship has grown from 20 Yale students working full-time for eight weeks during the summer to 36 Fellows in the summer of 2007 working for up to eleven weeks at 34 different organizations. The placement possibilities for the summer of 2008 will feature exciting new projects.

The President's Public Service Fellowship has built a strong reputation with organizations in New Haven, and has created a legacy of current Yale students and recent graduates who have a sophisticated view of community development and remain active in community building in New Haven and in other cities.

More than 400 Yale University undergraduate, graduate and professional students have contributed close to 200,000 hours of community service to New Haven nonprofit and public sector agencies as President's Public Service Fellows since 1994.

Fellowship Selection and Application

In the past, Fellows have been selected from a competitive applicant pool of more than 150 students, and in 2008 the Fellowship expects to offer placements to 35 to 40 qualified applicants. Students may apply for placements proposed by New Haven agencies. Applications can be found at the end of the Undergraduate and Grad/Professional instruction pages.

Length of Placement, Fellowship Requirements and Stipend

For the summer of 2008, placements can be for any consecutive period of eight to eleven weeks between June 2 and August 15, 2008. Yale will pay a taxable stipend directly to students, ranging from $3,600 to $6,000, based on experience, degree pending, and weeks worked. In addition to their daily work, supervised by the agency, Fellows have a comprehensive orientation program at the beginning of the summer, meet together weekly, and must complete a final report describing their summer work.

Over the years, Fellows have worked with many diverse agencies with projects spanning the areas of Community Services, Business, and Youth Development. Previous Fellowship sites number over 50 organizations and city departments. A few of those sites include:

• Arts Council of Greater New Haven
• Casa Otoñal
• Beulah Land Development
• Christian Community Action
• City of New Haven, Chief Administrator's Office
• City of New Haven, City Plan Department
• City of New Haven, Development Administration
• City of New Haven, Mayor's Office
• City of New Haven, Parks and Recreation
• City of New Haven, Police
• Eli Whitney Museum
• Fair Haven Community Health Center
• Footebridge
• Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce
• Hill Development Corporation
• Hill Health Center
• National Youth Sports Program
• Neighborhood Housing Services
• Newhallville Restoration Corporation
• New Haven Ecology Project
• New Haven Reads
• Urban Resources Initiative