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Summer Service Learning Program The Summer Service Learning Program (SSLP) is an eight-week service-learning course for approximately 225 students each year. The participating students work with agencies across the United States, reaching out in multiple ways to people in need. Notre Dame Alumni Clubs, the James F. Andrews Scholarship Fund, and other donors award a $2500 tuition scholarship to students at the completion of the course requirements. SSLP students earn three credits in theology for the classroom sessions in the spring semester, reading and writing assignments during the summer, and the follow-up classes when they return to campus. The application process begins on November 15 and remains open until February 15.
The Center for Social Concerns' signature International Summer Service-Learning Program, the ISSLP, is both a 4.0 credit course and an eight-week summer service-learning program in Catholic social tradition and social analysis which together provide a critical lens through which students are invited to interpret an array of global issues. In the face of pressing global concerns, the need to educate students about their responsibility in our global community becomes ever apparent. It becomes increasingly important to educate students willing to examine causes of poverty and to create link of solidarity across borders. In collaboration with global partners, the ISSLP seeks to fulfill this educational objective for our students and to meet local needs of communities across the world. The ISSLP provides airfare, room and board, and $1,000 travel award for the students selected to participate.
Social Venturing and Microfinance InternshipsSpend eight weeks this summer with micro-lending or social venturing organizations in the United States. Microfinance interns will learn about and apply skills in marketing, reconciling accounts, meeting with clients, and visiting client's places of business. Social venturing interns will work with for-profit or not-for-profit social enterprise organizations that promote double- or triple-bottom-line strategies (financial, social and/or environmental bottom lines). Interns will use their business skills to promote economic development initiatives, assist with feasibility or business planning for a new social enterprise, or guide future growth of an ongoing initiative through capacity building and other strategic activities.
Cross-Cultural Leadership Internship ProgramThe purpose of this internship is to provide ND students exposure and experience in Latino communities in metropolitan Chicago where they serve as leaders and students of the community in which they are working. Participants have the opportunity to witness and contribute to the strengths, issues and needs of the Latino community. Four students are selected as interns in community-based organizations in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods of Chicago, Cicero and Berwyn. The Center for Social Concerns and the Institute for Latino Studies collaborate to offer this 3-credit course, which is cross-listed in Theology. Catholic Social Tradition, or Latino Studies ILS 35801, CST 33933, or THEO 33933. More information can be found on the Intstitute for Latino Studies website.
The Center for Social Concerns will sponsor two students in the Interfaith Worker Justice Summer Internship. This is a 10-week program for undergraduate students who want to be active in the worker justice movement. Interns are placed at interfaith committees or workers' centers across the country, where their responsibilities can include outreach to the religious community on labor issues, interviewing workers' and business leaders, participating in local and national campaigns, and working on public policy.
