Nonprofit Impact Interns

A short, plain-language series for the three groups that make a student internship work: the nonprofit that hosts the intern, the student, and the school. Each guide stands on its own, and each comes with templates you can copy and use.

Hosting a Nonprofit Impact Intern

For nonprofit leaders. Scope a project a student can finish, decide paid or unpaid, recruit, supervise and hand off.

Your Nonprofit Internship

For students. Understand the organization, ask the right questions, know your pay and your rights, and show the work.

Running Nonprofit Impact Interns on Campus

For schools and campus partners. Credit, faculty sponsorship, vetting partners, minors and parent consent, and reporting outcomes.

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What is inside

Three guides, one for hosts, one for students and one for schools, each six or seven chapters of plain language with a short story to open every chapter.
Twenty templates: a position description, a project scope sheet, an internship agreement, a paid-or-unpaid worksheet, an onboarding checklist, a weekly check-in, an evaluation form and a closeout handoff for hosts; a learning goals plan, hours log, weekly reflection and resume worksheet for students; and a learning agreement, parent or guardian consent form, partner vetting form, rubric, faculty checklist and outcomes report for schools.
A current facts page for the rules that change, checked against the source pages, so the guides stay useful as rules move: https://www.allinonenonprofit.com/books/nonprofit-impact-interns/facts/

A note on pay

In this program the sponsoring organization pays the intern and builds the cost into its budget, and an individual or a foundation may sometimes fund a placement by giving to the organization. The guides explain the choices and the rules. They are general information, not legal, tax or accounting advice, and every agreement should be reviewed by your own attorney.

About the author

Steve Kennedy is the founder of All In One Nonprofit. He has served volunteer-run organizations for decades, as a director, as president and as the person everyone called when the tools were too technical. More about Steve