Ellen Schall Experience Fund

Each summer NYU Wagner awards a select group of students $7,500 stipends to take on unpaid, full-time, public service summer internships. This allows students to explore professional opportunities to achieve their career goals, regardless of compensation or financial need. In addition, awardees participate in professional development events throughout the summer.

Past ESEF recipients have interned at public, nonprofit, and private organizations all over the world, working in many different fields and industries. Through these positions, more than 95% were able to clarify their career goals, expand their professional networks, gain important skills, and apply classroom learnings to the real world. What might ESEF help you accomplish?

The Summer 2023 ESEF application cycle is closed. Congratulations to all of the awardees! 

Please check back in fall 2023 for updates on next year's Summer 2024 application cycle. 

 

Important Notes

TAX INFORMATION: An ESEF stipend is considered an award/prize for tax purposes. Payments of this kind, which are issued for something other than an educational budget (tuition and fees), are taxable. US students do not pay taxes on the stipend when it is issued, but will owe taxes on the amount at the end of the year. US students will receive a 1098 for the taxable amount since the ESEF stipends are not tied to tuition and fees. International students will pay taxes on the stipend when it is issued and should not owe additional tax on the amount at year end. To learn more, visit http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf.

STUDENTS CONSIDERING NON-US INTERNSHIPS: All students traveling outside of the United States for their internship need to complete the Wagner Travel Form for the dates of their travel associated with their internship. If you are not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, then you must make sure you have reviewed the travel information for students leaving the U.S. 

ESEF AWARDS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE: If you apply and are selected for an award, you cannot change internships and still retain your award.  Award decisions are based on funding students for specific opportunities and cannot be transferred to new positions.

View Past Internships

  • Action Against Hunger
  • Akilah Institute
  • Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
  • Asian Development Bank
  • Beijing Forever Henghuaï Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Cause Strategy Partners, LLC
  • Center for an Urban Future
  • China Center for Urban Development
  • China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) Foundation
  • Citizens Union
  • EcoPeace Middle East
  • Educational Alliance
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Fight for a Better America
  • Foodhini
  • Grow3
  • Harboring Hearts
  • High NY
  • Institute for Child Success
  • International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect
  • International Republican Institute - Uganda
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  • Kinvolved
  • Kipsongo Project
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
  • Madre
  • Make the Road New York
  • Mount Sinai Health System
  • Mura no Mirai
  • National Organization for Women - New York City
  • NYC Administration of Children's Services
  • NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development
  • NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery & Resiliency
  • NYU College of Dentistry
  • Office of the New York City Public Advocate
  • Ology Research Group
  • ParentJobNet
  • Philadelphia Reentry Coalition
  • Research Center for Climate and Energy Finance
  • UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  • UN Women
  • United Family Hospital
  • United Nations
  • United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs
  • United Nations Dept. of Field Support
  • United Nations Development Programme
  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
  • Urban Arts Partnership
  • US Dept. of State, Office of Global Partnerships
  • World Research Institute WRI - Mexico
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