Cowlitz and Clark County nonprofits and businesses can apply for a grant to help pay for a summer intern.
Workforce Southwest Washington is taking the applications as part of the Future Leaders Project, a partnership with Columbia River Economic Development Council and Washington State University Vancouver that aims to help cultivate diverse leaders, according to the organization.
A Glassdoor study reports that internship programs at companies like Roblox, Uber, and Salesforce offered the highest compensation levels in 2020 — nearly $10,000 a month. Daniel Zhao, a senior economist at Glassdoor, joined Cheddar News to talk about why big tech companies are paying top dollar for their interns.
The project places WSU Vancouver students from historically underrepresented communities and first-generation college students into employer-sponsored summer internships to provide growth and professional development opportunities, according to a Workforce press release.
The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington awarded a grant to WSU Vancouver to subsidize intern pay for a limited number of organizations without resources to host a student intern otherwise, the press release states.
