Cardinal Quarter Programs
Choose from 500+ opportunities to pursue a full-time, summer or quarter-long public service experience with Stanford support. Cardinal Quarter programs are offered through almost 30 campus partners at Stanford, offering a wide range of service experiences in everything from the arts to technology, philanthropy to international service. Fellowship stipends are provided to cover living and transportation expenses and are intended to ensure accessibility for all undergraduate students.
Cardinal Quarter offers opportunities that are prearranged (an internship at a community partner identified by the Stanford sponsoring unit) or self-designed (an unpaid public service internship identified by the applicant). The placement types are indicated below and on this flyer. Take a look at our Finding a Community Partner tipsheet if you are interested in identifying a host organization for a self-designed experience.
It’s important to plan ahead for summer 2024! Many application deadlines are early February for the summer programs.
Advancing Gender Equity Fellowships
Learn about gender, diversity, and social justice through a practicum with a nonprofit organization or government agency addressing social, political, or economic issues affecting women.
Sponsoring Units: Women's Community Center and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Alicia Lewis
Advancing Muslim Communities Fellowship
Dedicate your summer working with a Muslim-led organization or addressing an issue that pertains to Muslim communities
Sponsoring Unit: The Markaz Resource Center and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Abiya Ahmed
African Service Fellowships
Learn about and help alleviate social and economic problems in Africa.
Sponsoring Units: Center for African Studies and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Ahonen-Jover Cardinal Quarter Fellowship for Innovation in Technology and Human Rights
Design and propose an innovative project for advancing human rights in the United States or abroad. Priority will be given to projects aimed at achieving equal rights for LGBTQ people and related sexual minorities, however, innovation in human rights is the first priority.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Alex Tung Memorial Fellowships
Explore the use of science and technology for the benefit of society. Project-based fellowship.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Andrea Naomi Leiderman Fellowships
Contribute to ongoing research projects led by Stanford faculty as part of the research-practice partnership between the Graduate School of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Paitra Houts
Bay Area Climate Justice Fellowships with PCJ in the Bay
Work with a partner in the Partnership for Climate Justice in the Bay Area initiative to help build climate resilience and an equitable transition to clean energy in the Bay Area, with an environmental justice lens.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Alex Wheeler
Bill Lane Internships
Work with organizations throughout the West tackling environmental, economic, and social challenges facing the region.
Sponsoring Unit: The Bill Lane Center for the American West
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Corinne Thomas
Bing Stanford in Washington Program Internships
Intern for government agencies and NGOs, take classes taught by Stanford faculty and national policy experts, and participate in cultural events and activities.
Sponsoring Unit: Bing Stanford in Washington
Placement Type: Participants are placed in an internship through the combined efforts of the student and SIW staff
Contact: Jill Vizas
Offered in Fall, Winter, and Spring
Black Diaspora Fellowship
Participate in a practicum working with a nonprofit organization or government agency on social, political, and/or economic issues affecting Black American communities.
Sponsoring Units: Black Community Services Center and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Dr. Maya Iverson-Davis
BOSP Program in Kyoto - Summer Internships
Pursue a 10-week, full-time, paid summer internship in an organization or company in Japan. Internships are sourced based on each student's particular field of interest.
Sponsoring Unit: BOSP Kyoto
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Mike Hugh and Naoko Sakata
CareerEd Fellows
Apply what you are learning in class to real-world environments while exploring different industries and roles, learning new skills, and making professional connections.
Sponsoring Unit: Stanford CareerEd
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: CareerEd Fellows
Offered in Winter, Spring, and Summer
Center for Latin American Studies Internship Grants
Complete an independent internship in Latin America.
Sponsoring Units: Center for Latin American Studies
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Elizabeth Saenz-Ackermann
CCSRE Undergraduate Fellowships
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity offers full summer quarter funding for Community-Based Research Fellowships and Praxis Fellowships. CCSRE's CBR Fellowships pair students with faculty-led research projects; Praxis Fellowships pair students with community organizations. Both programs support students interested in social justice, community organizing, and race studies by developing their analytical and practical skills as scholar-activists. Preference is given to current and potential CCSRE majors/minors, but all students are encouraged to apply.
Sponsoring Unit: Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Annie Atura
Chicanx/Latinx Communities Fellowships
Engage with Chicanx/Latinx communities to address issues of race, social justice, equity, inclusion, and artistic expressive history in movements for social change centered on the Chicanx/Latinx experience.
Sponsoring Units: El Centro Chicano Y Latino and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Citizenship Fellowship
Students completing COLLEGE 102: Citizenship in the 21st Century can apply the ideas from the course to a public issue through a full-time fellowship with a community organization or public agency during the summer.
Sponsoring Units: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Luke Terra
Community-Based Research Fellowship Program, Haas Center
Work with faculty to conduct research that addresses community-identified needs.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Clayton Hurd
Community Service Work-Study Program
Participate in a significant service experience while earning a portion of your financial aid award.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cswsprogram@stanford.edu
CS+Social Good Fellowship
Work with an organization using technology to address social issues.
Sponsoring Unit: CS+Social Good
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Sherry Xie '25
Earth Systems Public Service Fellowships
Apply what you have learned through interdisciplinary environmental studies with an internship at a nonprofit organization or government agency.
Sponsoring Units: Earth Systems Program and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Education Achievement Fellowships
Engage in a summer practicum experience at an education-focused nonprofit organization, foundation, or government agency as part of a cohort in Boulder, Colorado.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Meghann Tovar
Education and Youth Development Fellowships
Work with community partner placements within the U.S. to support youth programs and/or address youth and education-related issues.
Sponsoring Units: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Alondra Quiles
Empowering Asian/Asian American Communities Fellowships
Engage with Asian/Asian American communities to apply what you have learned in and out of the classroom about race, diversity, equity, social justice, and the Asian/Asian American experience.
Sponsoring Units: Asian American Activities Center and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Jerald Adamos
Environment and Policy Internships in California (EPIC)
Pursue environmental policy internships with California state and San Francisco city agencies.
Sponsoring Units: Woods Institute for the Environment and Stanford in Government
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Jen Chiu
Freeman Spogli Institute Global Policy Internships
Pursue research and internships related to international policy and international affairs (available to both undergraduates and graduate students)
Sponsoring Unit: Freeman Spogli Institute
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Patrick Laboon
Global Studies Internship Program
Program-identified internships cover a wide range of fields, including arts, business, education, engineering, environment, government, medicine, human rights, law, media, and technology. We also support self-arranged positions.
Sponsoring Unit: Stanford Global Studies
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Globalinternships@stanford.edu
Haas Center Cardinal Quarter Fellowship
Design and implement a full-time service experience within the United States during the summer quarter.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Hillel Cardinal Quarter
Spend your summer working in a public service internship with a Jewish lens
Sponsoring Unit: Hillel at Stanford
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Kate Frimet
Human Rights Summer Fellowships
Make a valuable contribution to human rights or international justice either in partnership with a relevant organization or through community-based research.
Sponsoring Units: Center for Human Rights and International Justice and Haas Center
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Denise Fernandez
Indigenous Communities Fellowships
Participate in an internship with a nonprofit, government, or tribal organization on social, political, and/or economic issues impacting American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Indigenous Pacific Islander communities.
Sponsoring Units: Native American Cultural Center and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Matthew Yellowtail
International Public Service Fellowships
Pursue international public service opportunities with community organizations around the world.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Meghann Tovar
Jane Stanford Fellowship
Design and implement a service initiative during the academic year.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Valerie Chow
Offered in Fall, Winter, and Spring
King Center Summer Undergraduate Full-Time Research Assistant Program
Get fieldwork experience in global development across disciplines. Spend up to 12 weeks in a low- or middle-income country conducting research for a Stanford faculty member or affiliate in collaboration with a community partner.
Sponsoring Unit: King Center on Global Development
Placement Type: Prearranged
Krupp Internship Program
Intern with a German institution, organization, or company in a field related to your studies (e.g. research and development for sustainable production and consumption, public policy, international relations and development, social services, civil rights, urban development, all forms of engineering).
Sponsoring Unit: BOSP Berlin Center
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns
Offered in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer
Lyric McHenry Community Arts Fellowship
Work in the areas of curation, presentation, outreach, and arts education.
Sponsoring Unit: Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: A-lan Holt
Philanthropy Fellowships (including Sand Hill Fellowships)
Learn about and participate in the grantmaking process at a San Francisco Bay Area foundation. Placements arranged by the Haas Center.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Valerie Chow
Public Interest Law Fellowships
Work to advance the public good and achieve social justice through the law.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Valerie Chow
Public Policy Summer Internships
Complete an internship with a public agency or nonprofit related to your program of study or career plans.
Sponsoring Unit: Public Policy Program
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Sahar Hashemian
Public Service Projects Fellowship
Design and implement a summer service project with measurable outcomes that helps communities take a creative approach to addressing their needs.
Sponsoring Units: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Reflective Practice and Social Change Fellowship
Work with an organization of your choice and explore personal values, beliefs, purpose and meaning in one’s life to better understand motivations to commit to service and social change.
Sponsoring Units: Office of Religious Life and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper
Roland Longevity Fellowship
Conduct research on issues of aging or provide service to long-lived adults.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Alondra Quiles
Schneider Fellows
Work at leading U.S. NGOs in the sustainable energy field. Spend a quarter tackling the global challenges of harnessing energy resources to deliver energy services. Available to undergraduates and graduate students.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Valerie Chow
Shultz Energy Fellowships
Pursue an energy-related public service internship within governmental organizations in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, or Utah. Available to undergraduate and graduate students.
Sponsoring Units: Precourt Institute for Energy, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford in Government, and Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Katie Taflan Cerneka
Social E Fellowship
Spend a summer working full-time in the social entrepreneurship arena with an established social entrepreneur as a mentor.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: cardinalquarter@stanford.edu
Stanford in Government Fellowships and Stipends
Gain meaningful public policy experience at government and nonprofit organizations through fellowship placements arranged by SIG, or pursue a self-designed policy internship through the SIG Stipends Program.
Sponsoring Unit: Stanford in Government
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Enrique Flores '24 and Karsen Wahal '25
Stanford in New York
Engage with one of the world’s most dynamic cities, through a quarter-long, four-day/week internship in an area of your interest and classes led by leading Stanford and local faculty
Sponsoring Unit: Stanford in New York
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Mika Bouvard
Offered in Fall, Winter, and Spring
Stanford Internship Program in Arts Administration (SIPA)
Explore the field of arts administration through a variety of roles that support and facilitate artistic and cultural expression.
Sponsoring Unit: Office of the Vice President of the Arts
Placement Type: Prearranged and Self-Designed
Contact: Sabrina Wilensky
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (Seed) Internships
Work closely with talented entrepreneurs in Africa and South Asia. Gain high-level work experience while making a social impact in emerging markets. Experience all that and more through a funded, Stanford Seed internship.
Sponsoring Unit: Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Dan Zussman
Stanford Nurse Alumnae Fellowship
Students interested in exploring nursing as a career can choose a summer healthcare experience and organization that best fits their interests and needs, in a hospital, community-based clinic or other public health organization.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Alondra Quiles
Stanford Pride Fellowships
Address LGBT+ issues with an organization actively engaged in this work.
Sponsoring Unit: Haas Center for Public Service
Placement Type: Self-Designed
Contact: Meghann Tovar
Tech Ethics & Policy Summer Fellowships
Work with California public interest technology organizations and learn how to develop, implement, and regulate technology for the public interest. Placements are arranged by the Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub.
Sponsoring Units: Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub and Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Ashlyn Jaeger
TomKat Center Fellowships and Internships
energyStartup Internships: Actively contribute to the development and deployment of innovations to tackle the energy, food, water, and environmental challenges facing society. (Undergrads and masters)
Energy Impact Fellowship: As a team, work at Stanford to undertake an innovative project that quantifies economic opportunities and develops actionable solutions that will help communities benefit from transitioning to sustainable energy, food, water, and transportation systems. (Undergrads only)
Sponsoring Unit: TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Placement Type: Prearranged
Contact: Elizabeth Irino