The PLSS Summer Grant Program provides current students with modest grants to help cover their expenses while they volunteer as unpaid summer interns at public interest agencies or firms.
Although the grant is not guaranteed, last year PLSS provided $83,000 in grants to thirty-two of the forty-four students who applied. Grants range from $750 to $3,500 and are calculated according to (1) the number of hours the applicant plans to work and (2) the duties that the applicant is to fulfill at his or her internship. Last summer, grant recipients interned at offices such as the Sacramento County District Attorney, the Solano County Public Defender, the California Attorney General’s Office, and Sacramento Child Advocates.
Students are responsible for securing their own internship placements by the application due date. To learn more about securing an internship, visit “How to Find a Qualifying Internship.”