Interns, who are paid for their work-study program, can study subjects that are of interest to them. Most interns are graduate students in the social sciences. The foundation supports a Research Fellowship Program, a Research Award for Senior American Scientists, a Bundeskanzler Scholarship Program and a Transatlantic Cooperation Program. Quaker U.N. Office in New York is offering opportunities for two interns from September 1993 to August 1994. They conduct research, write articles and briefing papers, arrange and attend briefings and assist with office administration.
Interns receive a subsistence grant to cover accommodations, food and expenses.
Candidates must have a college degree or equivalent, be in their 20s and have writing and computer skills. Deadline is March 20. It offers fellowships to examine the efforts of rural and urban poor people to improve their lives, their methods of organization and production and policies and programs designed to alleviate poverty. IAF disseminates the research findings of its fellows to persons and institutions concerned with development. Four fellowship programs with annual deadlines are available.