Dartmouth alumni serve as mentors to the interns. Dartmouth Partners in Community Service received in January 2000 a Point of Light Award from the Points of Light Foundation which co-sponsors the President's Service Awards with the Corporation for National Service. The Awards were created to honor outstanding groups engaged in voluntary service to help solve serious social problems. PiAf is in the process of building, on the one hand, a network of organizations working in African countries that either already have or are willing to create internship and fellowship opportunities, and, on the other, a contingent of alumni and students eager to spend from two months to a year or more working in Africa. In addition, PiAf has provided 5 teachers for the Quantitative Literacy Project, a program created by a dean at the University of Cape Town for UCT students and corporate employees to fill in the serious quantitative gaps left by apartheid education.
Work is in progress on a number of other positions.
It serves today as a nonsectarian, non-profit organization that every year places 80 young U.S. college graduates from Princeton and other universities in internships in ten Asian countries. PiA has a long record of distinction in creating opportunities for students to live abroad and experience first-hand the languages, customs, and cultures of this vital region while giving their time and talents to help thousands of students, friends, and associates in the East. Many of the internships are teaching positions in schools located in countries such as China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Laos, Nepal, and Vietnam. To this end, PICS has adopted Theodore Roosevelt High School, a large ethnically-diverse public school located in Albany Park on Chicago's northwest side. PICS works to strengthen the partnership between Princeton alumni and the students, parents, faculty, administrators, and Albany Park community members to work together to enhance the quality of education at Theodore Roosevelt High School.