About The Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation is one of the top 20 private philanthropic foundations in the United States and the only one focused exclusively on expanding opportunities for people with low income in American Cities. With a $4.2 billion endowment and a staff of over 100 employees, the foundation deploys grants and social investments across arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development. The foundation’s state-of-the-art headquarters maintains an array of energy-efficient, water-conserving and health-promoting systems. The foundation also operates an office in Detroit’s Midtown district.

About the Human Services Team

The Human Services team is an exciting and enthusiastic team committed to advancing social and economic mobility from generation to the next using a 2Generation approach with an applied racial equity lens. As a team, we operate as learners within a team culture of ease which enables us to better execute on strategy. With a racial equity lens, we are laser focused on achieving person-centered systems change that accelerates social and economic mobility for children and families. To accomplish this we work with local, state, and national partners who are reimagining support systems and co-creating solutions with children, families and community partners.

To learn more about our strategy to advance social and economic mobility and how we think about person-centered care, please watch our video at www.kresge.org/programs/human-services.

We invest and partner in the following focus areas:

FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HUMAN SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS: Utilizing a cohort-based learning model, we support high-performing organizations characterized as: person-centered; outcomes-based; data-driven; applying a racial equity lens; and focused on greater sector impact and systems-wide change. Working as individual organizations and as a group, these nonprofit and public human services organizations adhere to innovative best practices revolutionizing the human services sector such as brain-science informed and whole-family approaches.

BUILDING PLACE-BASED OPPORTUNITY ECOSYSTEMS: We focus efforts in select cities to create sustainable, integrated and person-centered systems of supports and services anchored by nonprofit and public human services organizations.

We also support cross cutting investments and activities: Building on the needs and lessons of our provider and place-based work, we make investments, support learning networks and opportunities, and act as a convener. This work is multi-level, cross sector and includes the areas:

DEVELOPING SUPPORTIVE, ALIGNED PUBLIC POLICY : We support efforts that advance public policy at multiple levels that help people achieve well-being and social and economic mobility (SEM).

BUILDING A MORE ROBUST HUMAN SERVICES FIELD: We support a range of activities to advance the field toward social and economic mobility.

About the Position

The Human Services Summer Intern will be tasked with conducting various reviews and analysis to inform current and future efforts and complete a landscape analysis of the men’s racial wealth gap and support a peer exchange learning session with human services partners.

Primary Responsibilities Include:

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  Conduct a review of selected grants focused on the women’s racial wealth gap
• Conduct a review of the literature and partner resources regarding the men’s racial wealth gap
• Identify potential future partners based on a review of the research
• Assist with the update and revisions of the 2023 grant making guidance
• Assist with lunch and learn session focused on men’s racial wealth gaps
• Assist with the development and further refinement of racial equity and racial justice resources & materials to inform partnership with the field.

Qualifications

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  Current Graduate student majoring in one of the following fields: Public Administration, Social Work, Sociology, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Political Science
• Graduate students who are in any year of grad school, including those graduating this year.

What we offer our Interns

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  A pay rate of $25/hour
• Housing stipend of $350 per month
• Volunteer Opportunity
• Teambuilding experience
• Breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily for a minimal charge from our cafeteria (assuming we are back in the office and have made arrangements with our food service company). .

Application deadline is midnight EST January 7th, 2022

Please note: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many Kresge staff are working remotely, and our Troy and Detroit offices are not fully open. We hope to host out internship program in person, but this decision will be dependent on the pandemic and external factors. Thank you for your understanding.

Kresge is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ applicants. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.