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Money, Power & the Public Interest: Cultivating Civic & Environmental Stewardship

Internship Purpose & Priorities

This year’s Wood Student Internship in Public & Urban Affairs award will focus on the civic moral obligations of wealth, especially corporations and capital markets. It takes place under the supervision of longtime civic leader , a co-founder of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), and one of this year’s Wood Visiting Professorship recipients. The work of the Wood Student Intern is expected to augment the efforts of GBIO, an organization that works for the public good by coalescing, training, and organizing people across religious, racial, ethnic, class, and neighborhood lines. Among GBIO’s in the Commonwealth: passage of the ; securing $2.2 billion for public housing (2024); and passage of criminal justice reform (2018 and 2019). GBIO’s current campaign to has received , most recently on the of The Rachel Maddow Show.

Big Picture

Through their work, the Wood Intern helps establish the foundation for a nationwide demonstration project, a “Civic Stewardship Lab” that initially is planted in the cities of Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts. The Lab will prototype a national model of how multi-capital assets within communities can be leveraged in furtherance of broadly held civic moral ideals and locally determined public priorities, at a time when tax revenues aren’t proving to be enough.

Key Responsibilities

The Wood Student Intern will carry out these four overlapping tasks and will receive on-the-internship training and coaching on how to do each:

1. Conduct public records research assistance in the compilation of a database that maps the financial assets managed by local wealthy “tax-exempt” (e.g., nonprofit) institutions—e.g., those with assets greater than $200 million;
2. Help develop profiles of related nonprofit investment policies (including whether they exist);
3. Help prepare profiles of institutional board and executive management, as well as key donors, stakeholders, and partners affiliated with these wealthy institutions; and
4. Participate in stakeholder meetings and related activities that inform the data collection and review process.

Location & Supervision 

The selected intern will carry out a hybrid work plan developed by Rev. Dr. Hammond. Both in-person and virtual meetings will be held throughout the internship assignment. Because the operating environment is complex and dynamic, a collaborative process will be used, such that specific tasks, timeframes, and outcomes are subject to some
shifting.

Hours

The assignment is expected to involve an average of 10 hours a week over a 14-week summer period (June through August 2026). Specifics are negotiable with the successful candidate.

Key Performance Outcome

The Wood Intern will produce a final product, suitable for public presentation, summarizing key insights, questions, and opportunities for further development.