Past Featured PROGRAM
Social Impact Internship
Build, apply and sharpen your professional skills in a social innovation start-up.
Social Impact Internship
The Social Impact Internship is an immersive internship program designed to prepare emerging changemakers with leadership skills, global perspective and a professional network in social innovation. Hosted in partnership with the Victor and William Fung Foundation, PIM matches participants into full-time internships at leading social enterprises, non-profits and/or foundations focused on advancing human potential, closing the education gap, tackling environmental pollution, and more. Through social innovation trainings and mentorship sessions, participants also join a professional community of peers and mentors to build the skills and clarity to pursue a meaningful career related to social innovation.
Student Leaders
Undergraduate or graduate students with a drive to tackle social or environmental issues, seeking to build international networks, and gain hands-on experience. Build professional career prospectives related to program management, entrepreneurship, CSR, social impact marketing, philanthropy and more.
Young Professionals
Young professionals looking for an opportunity to change careers paths, grow their networks, or deepen skillsets related to social innovation and entrepreneurship in an immersive setting.
PROGRAM’S HIGHLIGHTS
Build Skills & Network
In a unique opportunity to step outside your comfort zone, build and apply your skillset to benefit an innovative social organization. Learn the best practices by working closly with passionate founders of innovative social ventures.
Social Impact Bootcamp
Build advanced skills in social impact at PIM’s 3-day bootcamp. Hands-on workshops include impact measurement, storytelling and social media for impact, design your life, social enterprise business models and more.
Internship Placement
Apply your experience and sharpen your skills to make a difference in a full-time internship at a leading social venture in Beijing. Work closely with your team to drive high-impact projects while gaining first-hand exposure to social entrepreneurship and opportunities for scale, sustainability, impactful business models and much more.
Mentorship By Industry Leaders
Receive mentorship for developing a meaningful career from cross-sector professionals through biweekly community dinners. Our mentors are lawyers working at global firms, program officers at international foundation, entrepreneurs in fast-growing tech companies and more—all committed to making an impact through their work and daily lives.
Peer Support And Learning
Experience living and working in Beijing—a megacity spinning with entrepreneurship—while being be supported with a small cohort of fellow social impact interns.
PERKS
Social Investment Certificate
Earn a certificate recognizing your knowledge, skills and experience in social impact and innovation. Recommendation letters available for exceptional participants.
Make Real Impact
PIM’s partners are high-impact organizations and leaders recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, Echoing Green, World Economic Forum and more. Lead diverse projects and apply your skills to make an impact.
PIM Global Community
Join our global community of young leaders (including the United Nations, Forbes, World Economic Forum and other outstanding youth organizations) to find peers who share a mission for social impact.
Access To PIM Resources
Continue to access mentorship, professional development opportunities and networks for social impact through PIM’s global network. As a community, apply skills to lead mission-driven investments and social innovation in your career, communities and beyond.
2019 PARTNERS
Marketing & Social Media Intern
Mantra is China’s first socially-conscious light-luxury brand. Studies estimate that over 30 million students in rural China suffer from uncorrected vision problems. Being unable to see the blackboard can have tremendous negative effects on educational outcomes, even leading many students to leave school altogether. Mantra is a buy-one-give-one sunglass company. For every pair of sunglasses sold, Mantra donates vision correction to one student in rural Yunnan. Providing glasses to a student in need can increase educational outcomes by the equivalent of an entire year’s worth of extra schooling – an incredible impact from such low-cost and readily-available intervention.
Fundraising, Data Analyst And Communications And Media Intern
Pollution of drinking water is a serious issue in China, yet due to the lack of pollution visibility, it’s frequently neglected. With one of the first professional crowdsourcing networks on water quality, MyH2O aims to prompt water risk awareness, increase information transparency, and motivate citizen solutions through independent reports of water quality.
Program Assistant Intern
Easy Inclusion aims to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in mainstream society, particularly in business. A social enterprise, Easy Inclusion provides disability inclusion trainings and strategies to companies to practice and benefit from disability inclusion.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAID
PROGRAM FUNDER
Social Impact Internship for Fung Scholars is sponsored by the Victor and William Fung Foundation. Upon selection into the program, participants will be connected with select organizations for enterprise interviews and matched based on the participant’s interest, skill-set, previous experience and time commitment. Participants will receive a stipend to support accommodation & living costs for the duration of their internship in Beijing.
BRING PIM TO YOUR ORGANIZATION!
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