• Provide a valuable internship experience that, when coupled with sequential training, can contribute to the educational experience of students and encourage them to make connections between their academic work and their career aspirations.
• Create a learning community of students engaged in thinking about the nature of nonprofit work, the dynamics of community change, connections and overlaps between academic and community work, and active citizenship.
• Enhance the capacity of nonprofit community organizations to utilize student interns effectively.
• Strengthen partnerships between the Swearer Center and community organizations and expand Brown’s support of community organizations and the City of Providence. 

The iProv Fellowship may satisfy the practicum requirement for students participating in the Engaged Scholarship Certificate.

• The iProv Summer Fellowship offers students the opportunity to engage in 8-10-week internships with nonprofit organizations based in Rhode Island. Students selected for the summer fellowship must live in Rhode Island for the duration of the program. 
• The summer fellowship is a cohort-based program that incorporates a bi-weekly seminar meeting throughout the summer internship. These seminar sessions offer fellows an opportunity to build community, reflect on impact, and develop foundational community-engaged knowledge and practice.

The iProv Semester Fellowship offers students the opportunity to engage in internships with nonprofit organizations based in Rhode Island during the fall or spring semester. Fellows are expected to engage in 10 hours a week with their host organization for the duration of the program.