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Become a Grant Partner

If you are an organization or company interested in becoming a Grant Partner and hosting a Steamboat Scholar, please note that we are currently exploring new partnerships for Summer 2010. We invite you to review Steamboat’s Criteria for Grant Partner Selection below and email Program Director, Emily Ryan, with interest.

Criteria for Grant Partner Selection

Steamboat is always eager to talk to prospective Grant Partners who may wish to join the Steamboat community by hosting a Scholar for ten weeks each summer. The following is a summary of guidelines Steamboat Foundation uses to select Grant Partners:

• The host organization and Senior Mentor(s) are pioneers or leaders in their fields and are able to offer the Steamboat Scholar a unique summer work opportunity.
• Grant Partner organization provides Steamboat with a detailed outline of the selected Scholar’s ten-week summer internship within the organization and assigns a Senior Mentor who will monitor the Scholar’s program and communicate directly with Steamboat during the summer.
• Each Scholar is assigned a “special project” to research and complete over the summer with an opportunity to present the project results to Senior Mentors at the conclusion of the internship.
• Senior Mentors directly involved in the Summer Scholar Program are also invited as guests to attend leadership events throughout the summer.
  
• Formal review of the job and the Scholar's performance is conducted at the completion of the summer.

Benefits to Steamboat Grant Partners:

Exceptional talent at no cost: Steamboat gives each Scholar a leadership award of $12,000 for the ten-week fellowship, so the Grant Partner is provided access to an exceptionally talented intern, at no financial costs in terms of recruiting, hiring, or compensation.

Giving back: Steamboat gives new Grant Partners the benefit of identifying which college or university they would like their particular Steamboat Scholar to hail from. If the Grant Partner does not designate which school they want their Scholar to come from, Steamboat works to identify a University Partner that has demonstrated excellence in educating students in the relevant field, so Grant Partners can be sure that Steamboat finalists are among the top students in the country.

Scholar support: Because Steamboat Scholars go through an intensive orientation and receive access to peer support and a transformative leadership development program, Grant Partners can be confident that the Steamboat Scholar is prepared for the experience, has the necessary social supports to thrive during the summer, and will be supported after the internship has ended.

Access to a stellar pool of future employees: More and more, Steamboat Grant Partners are offering full-time positions to Scholars after they graduate. For examples, please read about NY Giants Scholar Emily Ryan ’04 and Bloomberg Scholar Rachel Edelsberg ’06. In 40% of the instances, Grant Partners offer internships to the other Finalists, in addition to the selected Steamboat Scholar, because the applicant pool is of such a high caliber.

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