COOP • Community Outreach
and Opportunity Project

COOP Service Internship (CSI) Program

The COOP Service Internship Program is designed for those students who have work study as part of their financial aid package. Instead of working a campus job, you will be set up with a paid internship in a nonprofit office over your first four semesters.

WHAT WILL I DO IN A CSI?

As a CSI, you'll begin service at the beginning of the academic year. You'll have a significant service experience with one of our key community partner nonprofits. By your fourth semester, you'll be contributing in a major way to your community partner agency.

CSI interns work with an administrator in a local non-profit organization who will orient you to the agency and supervise your work, and will also mentor you in non-profit administration and direct service. You'll also be assigned a campus mentor from the COOP to meet in one-on-one sessions to help guide your internship experience.

You'll become part of a tight-knit student CSI group. Part of your internship stipend covers time spent in reflection sessions with your CSI cohort. Plus, you'll become a leader in various service initiatives of the COOP.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

Eight first-year students will be accepted, with preference given to students who have work-study as part of their financial aid package. Preference will also be given to students who have demonstrated some commitment to community service during high school.

HOW DO I APPLY?

Email a brief letter of interest to Amy James, Director of Outreach & Orientation, at ajames@hamilton.edu or call the COOP at 315-859-4016. You will receive an application to fill out and return, and will be notified by mid-July if you have been selected to interview.   Interviews with COOP staff will take place once classes begin, and selection will be complete by August 29th.  Work at the site will begin the second full week of September.