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Your partnership will provide funding for our Dream Dollars program. This program aims to assist students by financing career exploration in the non-profit and government fields. 

This summer, the Career Planning & Placement Center offered a unique Dream Dollars scholarship for 18 undergraduate students. Here’s what they had to say about the experience:

Aloha Harvest is a non-profit organization that connects the Hawaii ohana (family) by operating a food rescue service. Over the course of the summer, I fully applied my USC education by writing a full business plan that is now being used to strategically develop this very important entity to further fulfill its mission of ending hunger in Hawaii. The Dream Dollars Program played a key role in initiating and guiding my internship search, and I am very grateful for my invaluable experience with Aloha Harvest that it has afforded me this summer.  
— Bronson Chang, Business Administration, May 2010

I pursued an internship in music therapy research on a project that analyzed and assessed the quality of life and the heart rate variability of participants before and after music therapy sessions. The Dream Dollars Program greatly helped me in this endeavor by providing me with funds to help purchase electrodes, headphones, music CDs, and other important materials in order to conduct this research under the guidance of doctors associated with the non-profit organization, DYC-USA.
— Kavita Renduchintala, Biological Sciences, May 2010

This summer, I traveled to Washington D.C. and interned at the American Institute for Cancer Research. At this organization, I worked within the development department and coordinated campus events, managed marathon recruitment, and used online donating as a means to increase funds. The Dream Dollars program has impacted my experience because it allowed me to attend a program affiliated with my internship. Through this program, I took three classes at Georgetown University that directly relate to the non-profit and public policy sector. Without the Dream Dollars program, I would have never had such an insightful and educational experience.
— Nicole Sharma, Political Science and Policy, Planning & Development, May 2010

My internship at World Vision this summer has been amazing so far. I could not have asked for a better internship — I’ve felt like I learned so much and I’m so grateful for the Dream Dollars scholarship for allowing me to be here in Seattle for the summer. I’ve gotten to work with World Vision’s media relations disaster response team in helping get information out to the public, especially when the tragedies in Myanmar and China happened.
— Elly Wong, International Relations and Public Relations, May 2010