What is the process for getting a placement organization approved?
The Chayes program maintains a list of pre-approved placement organizations. Students who are interested in working with organizations that are not on the roster of authorized placements may seek to have a placement organization approved. To do so, the student must first provide the proposed organization with the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship Information Sheet for Placement Organizations to ensure that the organization understands and is prepared to meet its responsibilities.Second, the student should ask his/her contact at the placement organization to fully complete the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship Placement Form. While we recognize that projects evolve over time and it can be difficult to specify early on exactly what a Fellow will work on during the summer, it is important that this form contain as much detail as possible. In particular, the Fellow must have one or more designated projects; a description along the lines of “assisting with the gene
