TOOLKIT

Project: Internships
An internship is any carefully monitored work or service experience
in which a student has intentional learning goals and reflects
actively on what she or he is learning throughout the experience.
The goal of this project is to establish an active Black–Green
pipeline at your school.
Walk:
Schedule a meeting with your school’s internship coordinator, keep
in mind that there may be separate coordinators for different
departments. Meet with them and discuss the current internship
opportunities available in the green economy/green jobs.
Run:
Host a teach-in about the opportunities for green jobs and
internships currently available. Invite a relevant speaker.
Brainstorm at the meeting for additional businesses, companies, or
organizations who could be hosts for future internship
opportunities.
Sprint:
Choose 1-3 new businesses, companies, or organizations to recruit
to host internships for a semester during the current or next school
year.
Based on the selections above, write a plan describing the
internship program and goals. Keep in mind that managers,
mentors, interns and university career centers are all going to be
reading the description about the internship.
Draft a job description that clearly explains the job’s duties. Submit
to all parties involved in the decision making process. Some
examples of Green Internship descriptions:
www.ssbx.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Community-Greening-
Intern-description.pdf
www.bethesdagreen.org/Programs/FieldsofGreenInternshipFair/tab
id/339/Default.aspx
MILE MARKER 5:
EDUCATION
Resources
Designing an Effective Internship
Program:
www.internweb.com/design-aninternship-program/
Green Collar Blog:
www.greencollarblog.org/greeninternships/
Starting & Maintaining a Quality
Internship Program:
http://internships.washcoll.edu/pdf/acade
micinternships_startingprogram.pdf
Reporting
Remember that different forms of
movement are worth specific steps.
Walk = 50 steps
Run = 100 steps
Sprint = 150 steps
Hydration Stations = 25 steps
In order to receive credit for the 10,000
steps all activities must be documented.
To report projects, click on this
link
Fill out the form titled
REPORTING.
Please make sure all the text
boxes are filled out completely.
It is also recommended that activities are
uploaded to the official NAACP pages
listed below with a brief commentary
which includes:
Name of Youth Council/College
Chapter
Location
2-4 sentences describing the
activity.
When using social media, use the
hashtags: #10KSteps, #NAACPECJP or
tag NAACP, NAACPConnect,
NAACPECJP.
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