The Center for Social Concern is the student life
office dedicated to community service and civic
engagement and is under the umbrella of Johns
Hopkins University’s Homewood Student Affairs
(HSA).
Our Mission: The Center for Social Concern fos-
ters a lifelong commitment to active citizenship
by integrating education, action, and reflection.
CIIP Director Contact:
Eli Lopatin, Assistant Director, Civic Leadership
JHU Center for Social Concern
3103 N Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218
P: 410.516.4777 E: [email protected]
https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/socialconcern/
programs/ciip/
The Community Impact Internships Program (CIIP) is a competitive, paid summer internship that pairs JHU
undergraduate students with nonprofit organizations and government agencies and offers an intensive, cohort-based
learning environment. It is housed within the Center for Social Concern at Johns Hopkins University. The internships
focus on community-identified projects in Baltimore City and run for eight weeks from June-August.
The goal of this program is two-fold: to give JHU undergraduates an opportunity to be directly involved in a community
in Baltimore City, and to support the important work being done by our partners.
The 2019 CIIP cohort worked throughout Baltimore City in a variety of organizations focusing on ten interest areas:
Community Arts Programs, Education/Youth Programming and Advocacy, Environment and Sustainability/
Food Access, Healthcare/Health Policy, Homelessness/Poverty, Immigration/Refugee Services, Women/Family
Wellness, Neighborhood Improvement/Community Organizing, Nonprofit Management and Development, and
Policy/Law/Government. After this ninth year of CIIP, 424 undergraduates and over 100 community partners have
been able to participate in this program, contributing to over 100,000 hours of work through Baltimore’s communities.
This program is made possible thanks to generous gifts totaling over $3 million from a private donor.
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