2011 Southern Education Leadership Initiative Accepting Internship Applications

The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) is the South’s oldest education philanthropy, tracing its origins back to 1867. Its mission is to advance equity and excellence in education for low income students and communities in the South, the region that is home to 40 percent of the nation’s poor people. Education, the great equalizer, is the means to advance economic growth, strengthen democratic values and participation, and improve everyone’s quality of life.

Since 2004, 103 students have been placed at non profit organizations such as CARE USA, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, College of Charleston, Clark Atlanta University, Center for Women Policy Studies, Georgia Pacific Foundation, Jessie Ball DuPont Fund, Assisi Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Southern Regional Education Board, and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. SEF is exposing the next generation of leaders to opportunities to use their talents in service to the public interest.

For more information please contact Todd Suddeth at Suddeth.1@osu.edu.

All applications, available here, and nominations must be submitted by March 1, 2011.