Community Summer Jobs Program

The ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs Program provides full-time college students with an eight-week paid internship that allows them to gain experience in a wide range of nonprofit community organizations. It supports selected agencies during peak summer months and encourages nonprofit service among students viewed as community leaders of future.

Each spring, students apply directly to the nonprofit organizations of their choice for the paid internships. Agencies interview and hire the interns. Throughout the eight-week program, interns assist with summer projects and participate in professional enhancement workshops.

To participate in the program, interns must be enrolled undergraduates who have completed their freshman year and will be returning to college full-time in the fall.

Since the program began in 1971 in New York City, ExxonMobil has provided over $8.4 million to support community summer jobs internships. Today the program is active in ten U.S. states, including Alabama, Alaska, California, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming. ExxonMobil also runs a similar program in Luanda, Angola.

In the U.S., ExxonMobil provided more than $860,000 in grants to fund interns’ salaries and administrative expenses in 2008. This supported more than 300 students interning with nonprofit organizations through the ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs Program.