The following is just some of the organizations and
opportunities you can do in the summer, along with some tips!
Farmers Market Nutrition Program through WIC - Hennepin County WIC clinics offer this as a volunteer position.
Some rural clinics may as well. If you would like to know more information about
volunteering at WIC in Hennepin County this summer, please contact Rolf at rolf.anderson@hennepin.us
Gopher Football Team– The RD is looking for interns this
summer, fall and next spring. This is a really fun and engaging internship. If interested,
you can contact Brittany at franc221@umn.edu
Wisconsin AHEC which is a public health internship throughout
Wisconsin and there are a lot of nutrition experiences through this depending
on where you get placed for a site.
Second Harvest Heartland – variety of volunteer positions and
internships are available. One is a SNAP Resource Intern in which you visit sites
(a food shelf/church) and provide families information about
food assistance programs and screened them for SNAP eligibility . They are
accepting applications now. Visit www.2harvest.org/careers,
and if you have any questions, contact Jess Swanson at jswanson@2harvest.org
Nutrition Aide/associate
at Fairview: Assist patients with meal ordering, deliver food to patients’
rooms, calculate calorie counts for patients, and more. This is a paid position.
Hennepin County Medical Center also hires nutrition aides.
Again, this is a paid position.
Mill city farmers market meet your vegetables intern program
runs June through October.
Try contacting nursing homes in the area for extra projects
the RD may have. They may also be hiring, or volunteering could lead to a paid
position in the future! Students who have worked at nursing homes have worked
closely with the RD and helped meal plan, order and have worked with special
diets and feeding techniques.
Cooking Matters has intern positions where you coordinate and
teach healthy cooking classes for lower income kids, teens and families. It’s a
way to network with other food and health activists in the community as well as
getting experience with more diverse communities.
Healthy Foods Healthy Lives Institute on campus is always
looking for more student involvement. This is the institute that started Food
Day. They are always looking for volunteers to work on Food Day activities and
possibly coordinate the event. Working with them can lead to many advanced
opportunities such as a Teaching Assistant in the cooking classes on campus as
well as research. (Paid/unpaid)
University Dining Services: Intern – creating nutrition
station signs for the dining halls, meal plan office duties, and orientation
information booths each day for incoming students. This was a paid internship.
University of Wisconsin – Extension Waukesha, WI: Help
prepare curriculum for 10 different units each summer, which included
evaluation questions, a lesson, activities and games, and food samples. Also,
you can co-instruct classes (about 100) during the summer to culturally diverse
children from Milwaukee at Camp Whitcomb Mason about proper nutrition. Contact Jan at janis.skell@ces.uwex.edu
And the list goes on!
Personal Care Assistant
Youth Farm
Urban Roots
Open Arms
Let's Move
Twin Cities Mobile Market,
Finnegan’s has some nutrition opportunities,
International
Association of Culinary Professionals
Minneapolis health department sometimes has projects/unpaid internships
Tips to remember from current seniors!
**There are so many opportunities it's impossible to get to
them all. If you have an area you are interested in (clinical, community,
etc.) focus their skills in that area!
**Don’t do it all! Its not always how many organizations you’ve
worked with, but how long you have been there and what you did there.
Interviewers like to know details about what your role was and what you learned
from participating in that organization. You won’t have much to discuss if you
do everything.
**Students have applied for unpaid internship grants through the U and have received credits.
