External Internship Funding

Have you ever wanted to serve as an intern but you didn’t have the financial means to pursue it? At PLU, we believe all students should have a chance for any internship with the sky as the limit. In addition to the PLU Internship Fund, there are many other scholarship opportunities facilitated by organizations outside of PLU. These scholarships are not awarded by PLU, and eligibility and application requirements may vary. Explore the list of scholarships below and use the links to navigate to the organizations’ websites.

Questions regarding internships?

For additional information or assistance with internships:

Alumni & Student Connections
253-535-7415
intern@plu.edu
Nesvig Alumni Center

  • Eligibility: Studio Institute’s ARTS Intern Program places undergraduates from diverse cultural backgrounds in paid summer internships at museums and cultural institutions. Applicants must be a resident of New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, or Providence and Student Aid Report (SAR) must indicate an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) of less than $5,000.
  • Deadline: Open until filled

  • Eligibility: The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) seeks students that are interested in a summer internship in the corporate sector. The applicant must be eligible to work in the United States by law and have completed their freshman year of college.
  • Deadline: TBD

  • Eligibility: The Hollings Scholarship Program provides successful undergraduate applicants with awards that include academic assistance (up to $9,500 per year) for two years of full-time study and a 10-week, full-time paid ($700/week) internship at a NOAA facility during the summer.
  • Deadline: Application available in September

  • Eligibility: For 50 years, the American Society of Magazine Editors has sponsored the Magazine Internship Program—a ten-week program for rising college seniors at magazines in New York and Washington. ASME interns report, edit, fact-check, and copy-edit for print and online publications. They may sometimes interview celebrities, attend press conferences and work the red carpet—but most of the summer they do the un-glam but essential work of magazine journalism.
  • Deadline: Early December

  • Eligibility: Howard Foundation chooses a pool of the brightest college sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students to recommend for internships across business functions with some of the largest media companies in the world. Minority students are recruited from colleges and universities nationwide for media internship placements in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Charlotte. In these internships, students are prepared for entry-level employment in the industry by developing tangible and marketable skills.
  • Deadline: Applications are closed for 2022 and will reopen in the fall of 2023.

  • Eligibility: This highly selective program teaches a talented group of up-and-coming communicators the realities of the business world through an all-expense-paid internship in New York City, which includes practical experience and career-planning advice.
  • Deadline: Early December

  • Eligibility: The Google News Lab Fellowship offers students interested in journalism and technology the opportunity to spend the summer working at relevant organizations across the US to gain valuable experience and make lifelong contacts and friends. While the work of each host organization is unique, Fellows have opportunities to research and write stories, contribute to open source data programs, and create timely data to accurately frame public debates about issues in the US and the world.
  • Deadline: Early January

  • Eligibility: For more than 20 years, the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program has provided students with fellowship opportunities to gain hands-on research experience with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy. The MLEF program was created in 1995 with the goal of improving opportunities for under-represented students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields; however, all eligible candidates are encouraged to apply.
  • Deadline: Early January

  • Eligibility: For more than 20 years, the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program has provided students with fellowship opportunities to gain hands-on research experience with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy. The MLEF program was created in 1995 with the goal of improving opportunities for under-represented students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields; however, all eligible candidates are encouraged to apply.
  • Deadline: Jan. 30, 2023

  • Eligibility: The Collegiate Leadership Internship Program (CLIP) is a paid summer internship experience in New York City that seeks to foster and develop professional and lay leadership in the Jewish community. CLIP matches undergraduate students who have an interest in pluralistic Jewish life and culture with engaging, substantive internships at a variety of for-profit, non-profit, and Jewish communal organizations, where they are provided with mentorship and guided development of new skills.
  • Deadline: Early February

  • Eligibility: CAPAL’s Public Service Scholarship Program awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who will be serving in unpaid public service internships in the Washington, DC area. These scholarships are intended to enable outstanding students with leadership potential to work full-time and learn ways to influence their local communities and the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community. Recipients of the scholarships are responsible for securing their own internship opportunity.
  • Deadline: Applicants can apply for scholarships for Summer 2023 only. Applicants can apply for internships for Spring 2023, Summer 2023, and Fall 2023.

  • Eligibility: The Emma Bowen Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is building a more diverse media and tech industry by recruiting promising students of color and placing them in multi-year paid internships at some of the nation’s leading companies in the media industry.
  • Deadline: Mid-March

  • Eligibility: The Christianson Grant is awarded to young Americans who have arranged their own service projects abroad. Proposed programs must be at least six months in length and emphasize a work component. The grant does not support independent research projects or academic study abroad programs.
  • Deadline: Mid-March

  • Eligibility: The LCIF internships are full-time and run from the first week of June to August with starting and end dates depending on school opening dates. Interns are placed in prominent advertising, marketing, sales, public relations, media and other industry-related businesses in Chicago, Detroit, New York and Washington, DC. Students chosen are full-time minority undergraduate student in good academic standing and are majoring or minoring in communications, marketing, advertising or public relations.
  • Deadline: Late March

  • Eligibility: As an INROADS intern, you’re connected with some of the world’s leading industry innovators for paid – yes, paid– internships. You’ll be challenged academically and professionally, and we’ll give you the tools to rise to the occasion. Applicants must be majoring in or have a career interest in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering (STEM), Supply Chain Management, Computer Science/MIS, Healthcare, Retail Management or Liberal Arts.
  • Deadline: Late March

  • Eligibility: Each summer, the Education Department invites a number of college students to help facilitate its summer education program, Camp Shakespeare. Ideal for candidates interested in exploring careers in theatre education. Exceptional candidates will have prior experience working with youth, preferably in the arts. These summer education internships are full-time, short-term engagements that span from late-June to mid-August. Summer interns receive a weekly stipend, but are not provided with housing.
  • Deadline: Early April