Opportunities
In partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, the Haas Center offers the Graduate Public Service (GPS) Fellowship. The program awards fellowships to Stanford graduate students who want to explore and prepare for professorial or other careers in which they will engage in scholar-activism, community-based research or public scholarship.
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The Public Service Scholars Program (PSSP) supports students toward completing a senior honors thesis, MA thesis, or capstone project. Join a community of scholars as you pursue rigorous research that is informed by and useful to specific community organizations or public interest constituencies.
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Cardinal Commitment supports and honors students’ individual sustained public service.
"Making a Cardinal Commitment" means engaging with a community to address a problem or need for at least three quarters while you’re at Stanford. You’ll develop a personal mission statement describing your commitment, receive advice and guidance from a mentor or supervisor, and spend some time documenting and reflecting on your service experience.
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The Strauss Scholarship pays tribute to the vision, ideals, and leadership of Donald A. Strauss, and to his life-long commitment to public service and to education.The Scholarship promotes the value of public service in the education and preparation of our future leaders. In financing innovative student-generated projects which foster leadership skills, the Donald A. Strauss Foundation encourages optimism and an enduring interest in public service. The Foundation annually awards $15,000 to no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 California college sophomores and/or juniors.
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Through the Education and Youth Development Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, students spend a quarter working with community partners to support youth programs and/or address youth and education-related issues. Funding is also available for students to work with organizations serving people with disabilities that impair learning.
Applicants may choose a prearranged opportunity (listed below).
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Through the Haas Center Cardinal Quarter Fellowship opportunity, continuing undergraduate students design and implement a full-time, service experience during the spring quarter. Students are encouraged to think about how their academic background and prior experiences may be useful to organizations and communities trying to develop better ways of addressing challenges they face.
Haas Center Cardinal Quarter Fellows spend a quarter working full-time with a supervisor/mentor in a community organization of their choice.
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*Travel and in-person work are subject to university policy. Remote work may not be allowed across multiple time zones. Please contact cardinalquarter@stanford.edu for more information.
Through the International Public Service Fellowship, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, students engage in international service that connects academic learning with public service and helps them explore career interests abroad.
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The John Gardner Public Service Fellowship provides opportunities for graduating seniors to invest their talent, energy and training in public service. Six fellows, three from Stanford and three from UC Berkeley, are selected each spring. Fellows work full-time for ten months with a government or nonprofit agency of their choice in the continental United States.
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Through Philanthropy Fellowships, a Cardinal Quarter opportunity, Stanford undergraduate students can work full-time for Bay Area grantmaking foundations over the summer. Haas Center staff pair selected fellows with a placement organization through a facilitated spring quarter process, and Bruce Sievers, Haas Center visiting scholar, serves as academic mentor to fellows.
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The Steinbeck / Gentlemen of the Road Service Fellowship brings together students from Stanford and San José State. In the spirit of John Steinbeck, the students will complete a summer of service in California’s Salinas Valley or Central Valley. The overall mission is to respect Steinbeck’s legacy by combining public service and creative writing, and to encourage engaged collaboration between students from the two great universities of “Steinbeck Country”.
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The Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy was created in 2001 to provide young professionals with intensive, mentored experiences in domestic foundations in order to educate Stanford graduates about the role of philanthropy in society and encourage them to enter the field. The fellowship is made possible by the generous support of Susan Ford Dorsey's Sand Hill Foundation and Philanthropic Ventures Foundation.
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