2025 Summer Internships

We need your support to make this summer a success! Individuals and organizations in Dane County can support in the following ways:

  • Host an intern: We work with a variety of organizations in Dane County to place highly qualified interns in paid positions. Our typical internship period is 8 weeks, from June 23rd to August 15th.  Student applications are due no later than April 18th, and Employer Applications are due by March 25th.
  • Volunteer to host a professional development workshop: Throughout the summer, our interns will participate in Friday workshops led by employer partners and community members to build career readiness skills and become more prepared for their future careers. Some of last year’s workshops included: 

Employee Rights (Foley & Lardner LLP)

Financial Literacy: Budgeting & Credit (Summit Credit Union)

Workplace Resource Groups (Thermo Fisher Scientific)

  • Sponsor an internship: Unpaid internship experiences perpetuate inequality, and create barriers for access to opportunities. We pay all of our interns a minimum of $15/hour, and the support of our donors helps to maximize the number of students we can connect to these opportunities!

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Testimonials

“Our intern is really efficient and detail oriented! She’s been an awesome, positive addition to our team and is helping our summer production season run smoothly.” – Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (2023)

“Getting the chance to work alongside architect professionals was a dream come true. They introduced the daily life and workload of an architect while reminding me that having fun makes a huge difference.” – J.A., Erdman Intern (2023)

“This was a really valuable experience. Having a younger person in the office brings a different perspective that we don’t typically have in our staff. This also gives us a chance to build our pipeline of potential candidates and general connectedness in the Madison community. Lastly but not least, our intern brought great energy and was ultimately a fun and positive person to join our office this summer. He will be missed!” –National Council on Crime & Delinquency

“I enjoyed my internship this summer because of all the experiences I had with my coworkers and supervisor. They were extremely welcoming, and the time I had with them felt very nice. I’ve learned a lot of personal things along this way and one of my highlights was when we all ate Indian food in the small room and just had a good laugh”. -T.T., Curate Intern, Class of 2019

“Our intern brought joy to the job. He knew how to connect with every staff member. He showed enthusiasm with each task. His attitude is always so bright and pleasant.” – Urban Triage (2023)

Thank you to our past Career Partners! 

Access Community Health

Alliant Energy

BMO Harris Bank

Boardman & Clark, LLP

BOSS: Building Opportunities for Student Success

BWBR

Clean Wisconsin 

Community Justice, Inc.

Curate Solutions / FiscalNote

Dane County

Dreambikes

Epic

ERDMAN

Evident Change

Fitchrona Fire & EMS

Foley & Lardner, LLP

Frank Beverage Group

FPC Frank Productions Live

General Beverage Sales, Co.

Girls on the Run

Jewish Federation of Madison

Jewish Social Services

Madison Area Technical College

Madison Gas & Electric

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

Madison Youth Arts

Millennium Geospatial

Millipore Sigma

Naviant

QBE Insurance Group

Quartz Health Solutions

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren

SmithGroup

Spherion Staffing

SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital

Summit Credit Union

Temple Beth El

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Urban Triage

UW Health

UW Madison – Communication Sciences & Disorders

UW Madison – DDEEA

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra

Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice

Wisconsin Insurance Security Fund