Job o’ the Day: Paid Internship with Yale Law School’s Community & Economic Development Clinic
The Ludwig Center for Community and Economic Development at Yale Law School is an interdisciplinary law clinic that works at the intersection of law, policy, entrepreneurship, economics, and social innovation to “research and design creative, testable, and scalable solutions to community development challenges at the local, national, and global levels,” according to their site.
The clinic is currently accepting applications for paid interns. From the PSJD job listing:
The Eugene and Carol Ludwig Community and Economic Development Clinic (CED) at Yale Law School is an interdisciplinary law clinic drawing students from law, management, public health, and forestry and environmental sciences disciplines. The Clinic serves the legal and policy-related needs of local, state, and national clients. This is a business/transactional clinic, in which we work on loans, leases, investments, and housing development contracts for our local, nonprofit clients.
This summer, the Clinic will have an intern program for approximately 3-5 part- and full-time students from Yale and other law schools. The program officially runs from the day after Yale Commencement (the Monday before Memorial Day) until the Friday before Labor Day. It is possible to start prior to Commencement. Most students work full time (40 hours per week) for twelve weeks.
The three CED clinic projects continuing during the 2013 summer are as follows:
1. Community Development Financial Institutions: CED represents First City Fund Corporation (FCFC), a non-profit foundation formed to support community development activities in the City of New Haven, with a primary purpose of organizing New Haven’s first community development bank: Start Community Bank. Start Bank is also a Clinic client.
2. Community Development Organizations: The Clinic represents several area nonprofits that are seeking to improve the economic well-being of New Haven residents through residential and commercial redevelopment projects, including the Greater Dwight Development Corporation, the Dixwell Plaza Merchants Association, and St. Luke’s Development Corporation; and
3. Social Innovation: The Social Innovation Group assists clients working to bring new strategies to address complex social problems facing low- and moderate-income communities, including: community child care, urban agriculture for local food production, and strategic philanthropic investments in non-profits serving the New Haven community.
See our website at http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/Ludwig.htm for more information on the CED Clinic and the three projects that will be ongoing throughout the coming summer.
Interns will be paid $14.00 an hour. For more information, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required).