Fall interns should expect a total time commitment of 15 hours per week. Interns spend 12 hours per week at their placement site and Friday afternoons 12pm-3pm each week in meaningful seminars and workshops led by leaders in the NYC Jewish community, connecting with other interns in a cohort of 20 students with diverse Jewish backgrounds and identities. CLIP provides interns with mentorship, opportunities to develop competitive professional skills, and a cohort of talented and driven peers with whom to think and grow.

CLIP sees every experience as a learning opportunity. Interns will learn about themselves. Interns in the past have learned skills from communication, time management, marketing and storytelling skills, data analysis, how to use a CRM, behind the scenes of fundraising, logistics and event planning, program design, teen engagement, political organizing, and more.

Most internships are hybrid, while some are fully in-person or fully remote. Friday seminars are fully in-person.

CLIP is open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors from anywhere, at any school, with US citizenship. International students from NYU only may apply.

The ideal CLIP candidate is communicative, open minded, with a learner's mindset, adaptive, resilient, curious, and a relationship builder. CLIP interns must take their commitment seriously while remaining organized to balance multiple responsibilities, especially during the semester when interning alongside academic commitments.

Applicants must commit to living within a commutable distance from New York City for the course of the program. We cannot assist students in finding housing.

CLIP invites applicants from a range of Jewish identities, including students exploring their Judaism for the first time, thinking about, or in the process of conversion. Interns should be open to conversation around and exploration of their own Jewish identity and express an interest in engaging with a range of other Jewish expressions and identities.

There is no fee to apply.

After applicants submit their application, the CLIP team reviews applications and reaches out about next steps. Selected applicants will have a first-round interview. Internship matches are based on the candidate’s interests and skills and the needs of partner organizations. If a candidate is a potential match for an available internship, they will be connected to the site supervisor for a second-round interview unique to that placement. Once the site supervisor and candidate mutually confirm the match, the intern signs a participation contract and receives information about next steps to get ready for the best few months of their lives!

Students from any academic background or major are encouraged to apply. We cannot guarantee placement within a specific field of interest, but we set interns up to learn transferrable skills, and you may be surprised by the way your interests intersect with Jewish nonprofit work. For students interested in a Jewish nonprofit career, CLIP is the perfect place to try it out, learn on the ground, build your network, and jumpstart your future.

Placement sites vary from cohort to cohort, so we cannot predict or guarantee which sites will be available in any given season. To get a sense of what kind of organizations we have worked with in the past, check out examples of past placements.

On Fridays, the CLIP cohort meets to dive into topics of professional development, leadership development, and Jewish identity exploration. Sessions vary from cohort to cohort. Past topics have included: 

• Personality and communication styles in the workplace

• Mission, vision, values

• Giving an elevator pitch and crafting a personal narrative

• Intersections of identity in the Jewish community

• Pluralism, inclusivity, belonging, and community building

• Design thinking and innovative problem solving

• Managing up and navigating supervision and hard conversations

• An improv class where interns learn skills for leadership and work

• How to write a resume, cover letter, and network

• Financial education and making your money work at work 

• How nonprofit grant-making and funding allocation works

• Interns are encouraged to take an active role in co-leading and co-facilitating a number of these sessions throughout the program.

CLIP is not a formal Jewish learning program: Friday seminars contain a limited amount of Jewish learning but are not focused on learning Jewish traditions or studying Jewish texts. Rather, Jewish values and Jewish community themes are woven throughout seminars and the spirit of the program. Each internship placement varies in terms of traditional Jewish educational content.

The CLIP Shabbaton is our cohort retreat weekend. The cohort will spend Friday through Sunday at a retreat center outside of the city connecting with nature, strengthening friendships and community, and exploring Shabbat practices and Jewish thought about rest. It’s a weekend packed with fun, social and reflective programming with some built-in free time for downtime and personal exploration.

The Shabbaton is a leadership opportunity, as interns will be part of program-planning committees and will use a design-thinking process in advance to create and facilitate pluralistic Shabbat programming for their fellow cohort members during the retreat.

Transportation by coach bus, retreat center lodging, and all meals are covered by CLIP. Participants will stay in basic cabin bunkbed rooms with 2-3 interns per room. We will depart from the Bronfman Center on Friday morning be dropped off at the Bronfman Center on Sunday in early afternoon. 

Participants are encouraged to practice their own preferred Shabbat observance while exploring new practices in a pluralistic environment. Shabbat programming will be Shomer Shabbat friendly. All meals will be Kosher. Dietary needs can be accommodated. All participants are expected to attend.

CLIP strives to cultivate a cohort of talented individuals representative of the diversity and intersectionality of the Jewish community and invites applicants from all Jewish identities and backgrounds.

At the end of the program, semester interns receiving full participation credit are paid a $3,000 stipend for their work through direct deposit or check. This stipend is dependent on interns meeting all of the goals set in their signed contract.