Kellogg Foundation commits $1.2M to internships in Michigan

Courtesy metromode - Job News  Wed, 09/09/2009 - 18:00

The Intern In Michigan program got a big bump this week when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation pledged $1.2 million to support it.

The funding will keep the program up and running through 2012.

The program intends to encourage more businesses, big and small, in the state to create and expand internship programs to help staunch Michigan's brain drain.

"Basically it adds up to about a third of our budget over three years," says Britany Affolter-Caine, director of Intern In Michigan...


 

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