1. Political Economy Research Center - 1 Week summer conference addressing environmental issues
    This annual, week-long conference for undergraduates focuses on market approaches to natural resource and environmental issues. National experts on environmental issues will teach the course.
    The conference is located in beautiful Bozeman, MT. Accepted students will receive a full scholarship, which covers seminar tuition, meals, lodging and materials. PERC also contributes a $500 stipend for each student's travel expenses.
    Each student is responsible for preparing a proposal for environmental policy reform and presenting it to the group. The last day of the seminar is set aside for student presentations.
    The next conference will be June 23-28, 2008, and is limited to 25 students. The application deadline is March 26, 2008.
    For more information, call Colleen Lane at PERC, (888)406-9532, follow the above link to PERC's homepage, or talk to me.

2. The White House Internship Program--semester long interships in the fall and spring.
    All applicants must be 18 or older and U.S. citizens.
    Approximately 100 students are selected for each program. Applications for the fall intership (about Sep 6 - Dec. 9) typically must be received in late June and applications for the spring (about Jan. 10-May 5) must be received by Oct. 15.
    Fax application materials to Ann Gray, the White House Intern Coordinator at 202-456-7966.
    Applications and instructions.

3. The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)
    IHS has 3 excellent opportunities for summer jobs for students interested in public policy:
    a) Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program.
    If you’re thinking about a career in public policy, strongly consider this summer program that is an intensive program of public policy analysis and professional development located in Washington, D.C. As one of 32 Koch Summer Fellows, you will work with top policy experts, journalists, academics, and your peers studying critical issues of public policy. The summer includes:
    * An eight-week internship at one of Washington DC's many research organizations developing market solutions to today’s policy problems.
    * Policy analysis and career development seminars.
    * Weekly speakers on a variety of topics.
    * A $1,500 stipend, furnished housing, and travel expenses.
Applications are available online at: http://www.theihs.org/intern

    b) The IHS Journalism Internships at Freedom Communications, Inc. are a great opportunity to gain superior reporting skills at a daily newspaper. They include:
    * A nine-week internship in a Freedom Communications newsroom.
    * Career development workshops.
    * A $1,500 stipend, housing allowance, and travel expenses.
Applications are available online at: http://www.theihs.org/journalism/

    c) IHS Summer Seminars --  IHS Summer Seminars generally range from about 3 days to a week, and provide many opportunities to examine specific political and social issues in detail. Examples of seminars that are typcially offered include: environment, globalization & human rights, globalization & poverty, liberty, and arts and culture. If accepted, there is no charge for the seminars.

4. DC Internships--lists summer internships in Washington, DC that are sponsored by The Fund for American Studies. The internships are held in conjunction with Georgetown University.

5. Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program -  This seven-week program is held on the Carnegie Mellon campus and provides intensive training in policy, quantitative, communication, and leadership areas.
    Application deadline is typically March 1.

6. The Witherspoon Fellowship sponsors interdisciplinary internships in Washington, DC
    The Witherspoon Fellowship is a civic and cultural leadership development program for college juniors, seniors, or recent graduates. Our educational philosophy and pedagogy are modeled after the traditional academic fraternity. By coupling personally directed interdisciplinary studies with hands-on professional experience in public policy research and advocacy, the Fellowship offers a dynamic Washington, D.C. learning environment to qualified students.
    Students selected for the program participate in seminars covering a range of disciplines related to public life including theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, history, art, and architecture. The rigorous program demands about 300 pages of reading per week. During the course of the semester each student writes twenty-four papers (four for presentation and defense). Additionally a project designed to integrate the program academics and public policy internship is required.
    All students admitted to the program receive free housing and a generous stipend to offset living expenses.

7. The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) at Georgia State University is seeking applicants for its annual 7-week undergraduate Summer Policy Internship Program. The program is targeted towards rising seniors with interest in policy questions.
    Application packages are typically due about March 10. Further information, an application form, and contact numbers see:
   http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwsps/intern/

8. The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas.
Social insurance encompasses broad-based systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by loss of income from work and the cost of health care. NASI's scope covers social insurance such as Social Security, Medicare, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, related public assistance, and private employee benefits.

10. American Bar Foundation Summer Research Fellowship for Minority Undergraduate Students Pursuing a Career in Law and Social Science.
Typical Deadline: February 25
    The American Bar Foundation sponsors a program of summer research fellowships to interest minority undergraduate students in pursuing graduate study in the social sciences. The summer program is designed to introduce students to the rewards and demands of a research-oriented career in the field of law and social science.   
    The Foundation conducts empirically-based research on a broad range of civil and criminal justice issues. Current research areas include: patterns of civil litigation and their causes, professionalism and the transformation of the legal profession in the U.S. and abroad, the impact of civil rights law on the economic progress of minorities, the influence of family and environmental factors on juvenile delinquency, jury decision-making, hate speech and its regulation, public interest lawyering and social reform, historical analyses of labor and regulatory law, and the role of law in struggles around racial relations and colonialism. The Foundation's research is conducted by a multidisciplinary resident staff of Research Fellows with academic training in law, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and anthropology.
    Applicants must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, sophomores or juniors, must have a G.P.A. of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale), and must be moving toward an academic major in the social sciences or humanities.
    Four summer research fellowships will be awarded each year. Each student will be assigned to an American Bar Foundation Research Fellow who will involve the student in the design and conduct of the Fellow's research project and who will act as mentor during the student's tenure. The students also will participate in a series of brown bag lunch seminars and field visits to acquaint them with the many facets of sociolegal research. The students will work at the American Bar Foundation's offices in Chicago, IL for 35 hours a week for a period of 10 weeks. Each student will receive a stipend of $3,600.
    Contact: Summer Research Fellowships for Minority Undergraduates, American Bar Foundation, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 988-6580, Email: fellowships@abfn.org

11. Acton Institute Conference - "Toward a Free and Virtuous Society"
    Intensive three-day seminars that offer an introduction to the principles of liberty-both personal and economic. These conferences focus on the role of religion in laying the moral foundation for a just society and the corresponding role of freedom in securing the conditions under which religious conscience can be free. They explore the nature of the human person and the created order from the perspectives of Scripture and natural law, examining concepts such as justice, equality, stewardship, and virtue. Furthermore, they examine the concept that a free society is one that offers the possibility of maximizing human productivity and the opportunity for virtuous choice.

12. The Center for Public Justice--summer institute only for doctoral students.

13. The Roosevelt Institution is the first national student think tank. It was created to connect students' ideas to public policy. It publishes an online journal of public policy and has a UGA Chapter.

16. Center for Global Development. Frequently hires spring and summer interns who will gain exposure to many leading experts in a range of development policy areas, such as economic growth, foreign aid, international health, and climate change. The center is both an academically rigorous environment for those considering doctoral-level studies in economics and policitical science and a dynamic collegial organization well suited for those considering a career change in nonprofit or political work related to development. The CGD also hires graduates for a number of junior staff positions (research assistants and program coordinator positions).

17. UGA Washington Semester Program.
    Each fall and spring up to 20 UGA students have the opportunity to work, live, and study in Washington, DC. You will earn at least 12 hours of credit and work approximately 30 hours per week in an internship.

18. The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
    This annual summer undergraduate intenship program takes place from about June 8 to Aug. 14 and is designed for students who are interested in empirical research. Students must have completed their sophomore year of college, have strong written and verbal communication skills, and experience working with a statistical package like Stata or SASS.

19. Foundation for Economic Education
    Hosts many 5-day summer seminars. Fee has many full scholarships available. 

20. Institute d'Economica de Barcelona (IEB) Summer Institutes. 
    Hosts summer programs (usually two weeks long) for students interested in graduate work in economics.