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Grant Agreement No. 4600011889 <br />Page 14 of 32 <br />Deliverables: <br />❑ Notice of training events <br />❑ Roster of participants <br />❑ Copies of event -specific materials <br />Activity 17 Community Engagement Interns Program <br />This.program will support water -related overburdened community engagement internships for students from the CSU, <br />UC and community college campuses of the watershed. The program, administered by the CSU DACC, will seek <br />applications from public agencies and environmental or social justice nongovernmental organizations for the services of <br />pairs of interns to assist with community engagement or public affairs work related to disadvantaged communities; <br />approximately 20 interns per year. <br />The application process will includes a detailed description from each applicant about the specific tasks they will assign to <br />the Interns. Each organization will request the services of two interns from CSU to assist with community engagement, <br />public affairs or community education activities. Public affairs may include marketing of community programs and events. <br />Community education activities may include preparing community members to participate effectively in water planning <br />to the benefit of their communities. <br />The intern program will model an existing program and capacity of CSU, funded, by the US Department of Agriculture. <br />Interns will be selected from the CSU campuses (San Bernardino and Fullerton), the UC campuses (Riverside and Irvine), <br />and the many community colleges in the Santa Ana River watershed. Efforts will be made to recruit interns who are <br />themselves from the watershed overburdened communities. <br />Upon selection and completion of an intern orientation, the internship provides for 300 graduate student internship hours <br />or 350 undergraduate student internship hours to support grant activities. Interns will be mentored by CivicSpark Water <br />Fellows, and supervised in their internship duties bytheir home institution. The intern human resources, payroll and other <br />administrative supervision are housed at the CSU. In addition to their paid hours, interns will each have a $500 <br />supply/travel budget. <br />Half -way through the internships, the intern will produce an interim activity report. Upon completion of the paid <br />internship, the student will develop a final activity report. The final reports are posted on-line as a part of the CSU Library <br />special collection. The cohort of interns will be mentored by CivicSpark Water Fellows, housed at SAW PA, fortrainings and <br />networking meetings, related to IRWM community engagement efforts. <br />This activity provides multiple types of capacity building in the watershed: by supporting students, supporting <br />organizations, and by creating new sustainable and contiguous networks of familiarity between organizations, and <br />between communities and the water organizations. <br />Deliverables: <br />❑ Copies of applications from selected agencies and NGOs that express interest in intern services to support <br />community members <br />❑ Roster of participating interns <br />❑ Logs of all intern hours served and activities <br />0 interim and final reports of interns <br />