'82 Upper Valley Community Impact Fellowship

Overview:

The '82 Upper Valley Community Impact Fellowship ('82 UVCIF) enables students to build a long-lasting impact in the place they call home for four years while studying at Dartmouth College. Fellows grow as leaders, develop professional and social impact skills, and learn about the local community. '82 UVCIF Fellows are paired with a local social impact organization and spend 2-3 on-terms working part-time with the organization and one term working full-time for the organization. This arrangement fosters deep and meaningful relationships between the Fellow and the local community, and also allows time for Fellows to accomplish large-scale change.

In the past Fellows have tackled projects on a variety of social impact issue areas from public health to local food systems, from education to civic engagement.

Fellowship Criteria:

  • Must be completed over 2-3 on-terms and one leave term
  • Fellow will work in-person part-time on the fellowship during on-terms and full-time during one leave term 
  • Fellow will receive up to $9,750 for the entire Fellowship ($1,625 for a part-time term, $6,500 for the full-time term)
  • Fellow must be a second-, third-, or fourth-year undergraduate student
  • Fellow will be mentored by DCSI staff and '82 UVCI Advisory Committee

2026 - 2027 Fellowship Opportunities:

An application for a UVCIF project with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission (UVLSRPC) is currently open. See the fellowship project description with UVLSRPC here.

Over the course of three to four terms (2 terms working part-time and 1 term working full-time, with the possibility of extending the fellowship through 1 additional part-time term) the fellow will implement the project under the direction of a designated supervisor at the organization and with the support of a DCSI staff member. 

Questions:

Students interested in the program can reach out to Anna Leversee.