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Cardinal Commitment supports and honors students’ individual sustained public service.
"Making a Cardinal Commitment" means engaging with a community to address a problem or need for at least three quarters while you’re at Stanford. You’ll develop a personal mission statement describing your commitment, receive advice and guidance from a mentor or supervisor, and spend some time documenting and reflecting on your service experience.
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Through the Jane Stanford Fellowship, continuing undergraduate students design and implement a service experience during the fall, winter or spring quarter. Students are encouraged to think about how their academic background and prior experiences might be useful to organizations and communities trying to develop better ways of addressing challenges they face. This fellowship provides an opportunity for students to expand on work started through a Cardinal Course, study abroad experience, student organization, or other campus program.
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Cardinal Commitment supports and honors students’ individual sustained public service.
"Making a Cardinal Commitment" means engaging with a community to address a problem or need for at least three quarters while you’re at Stanford. You’ll develop a personal mission statement describing your commitment, receive advice and guidance from a mentor or supervisor, and spend some time documenting and reflecting on your service experience.
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Get to know other students, learn more about Stanford’s neighboring communities, and better understand how you can do community service in your time at Stanford.
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Over 500 opportunities are offered each year through more than 30 campus partners involved in the Cardinal Quarter initiative--and this is Hillel's FIRST TIME being an official Cardinal Quarter partner! If selected for this program, you will be an Inaugural Hillel Cardinal Quarter Fellow. Combine your interests in service and Judaism through this sponsored summer opportunity.
The goal of the stipend is to make it as easy as possible for you to serve. As a baseline, Hillel is able to generously subsidize living costs--whether this opportunity is near or far.
Please note: we are hoping to be able to offer in-person service opportunities by this summer, but will be strictly following COVID-19 guidelines as they continue to change.
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Through the Education and Youth Development Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, students spend the summer working with community partners prearranged by the Haas Center to support youth programs and/or address youth and education-related issues.
Students who have self-identified educational service opportunities within the United States should apply for funding through the Haas Center Cardinal Quarter Fellowship.
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Through the Cardinal Careers Community Impact Fellowship, graduating seniors and coterms work in full-time, 10- to 12-month paid positions in nonprofit organizations and government agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area, with occasional placements in other cities throughout the United States. Fellows are paid a stipend plus health insurance coverage as needed.
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This opportunity and application encompass the following Haas Center-sponsored and co-sponsored fellowships in the domestic U.S., including: Black Diaspora Fellowship, Public Service Projects Fellowship, Roland Longevity Fellowship, and ">
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Conduct research on issues of aging or provide service to long-lived adults.
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Work with a community partner to design and implement service projects resulting in tangible deliverables used to sustain service to a community.
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This opportunity and application encompass all self-designed Haas Center-sponsored and co-sponsored fellowships in the domestic U.S., including: Advancing Gender Equity Fellowship, Alex Tung Memorial Fellowship, Black Diaspora Fellowship, ">
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Lyric McHenry fellows work with an arts organization or a community-based organization using the arts to further racial/social justice. With the help of staff from the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), CAF Fellows will determine a course of research and preparation for their summer learning experience.
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The Public Service Scholars Program (PSSP) supports students toward completing a senior honors thesis, MA thesis, or capstone project. Join a community of scholars as you pursue rigorous research that is informed by and useful to specific community organizations or public interest constituencies.
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Through the Cardinal Careers Community Impact Fellowship, graduating seniors and coterms work in full-time, 10- to 12-month paid positions in nonprofit organizations and government agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area, with occasional placements in other cities throughout the United States. Fellows are paid a stipend plus health insurance coverage as needed.
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The Strauss Scholarship pays tribute to the vision, ideals, and leadership of Donald A. Strauss, and to his life-long commitment to public service and to education.The Scholarship promotes the value of public service in the education and preparation of our future leaders. In financing innovative student-generated projects which foster leadership skills, the Donald A. Strauss Foundation encourages optimism and an enduring interest in public service. The Foundation annually awards $15,000 to no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 California college sophomores and/or juniors.
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Through the Education and Youth Development Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, students spend the summer working with community partners prearranged by the Haas Center to support youth programs and/or address youth and education-related issues.
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For Academic Year 2021-22 (inclusive of summer 2022), proof of vaccination will be required for all undergraduate travel, with no exceptions. The final decision to proceed with international learning opportunities is dependent upon factors such as a continued decline in case numbers and increase in vaccinations in specific locations.
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The John Gardner Public Service Fellowship provides opportunities for graduating seniors to invest their talent, energy and training in public service. Six fellows, three from Stanford and three from UC Berkeley, are selected each spring. Fellows work full-time for ten months with a government or nonprofit agency of their choice in the continental United States.
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Through Philanthropy Fellowships, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, Stanford undergraduate students can spend the summer working in full time positions with Bay Area grantmaking foundations that are prearranged by the Haas Center.
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The Steinbeck / Gentlemen of the Road Service Fellowship brings together students from Stanford and San José State. In the spirit of John Steinbeck, the students will complete a summer of service in California’s Salinas Valley or Central Valley. The overall mission is to respect Steinbeck’s legacy by combining public service and creative writing, and to encourage engaged collaboration between students from the two great universities of “Steinbeck Country”.
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The Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy was created in 2001 to provide young professionals with intensive, mentored experiences in domestic foundations in order to educate Stanford graduates about the role of philanthropy in society and encourage them to enter the field. The fellowship is made possible by the generous support of Susan Ford Dorsey's Sand Hill Foundation and Philanthropic Ventures Foundation.
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MELODY strives to bring the world of music to underprivileged elementary school students in the local community.
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Explore personal values, beliefs, and meaning in one’s life to better understand motivations to commit to service and social change.
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ASB aims to expose Stanford students to complex social and cultural issues.
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