Grantee Name
Health Career Connection, Inc.
Funding Area
Other
Publication Date
August 2016
Grant Amount
$32,500
Grant Date:
June 2015 – November 2015
In New York City, challenging and prestigious health care internships are often unpaid—hindering students who cannot afford to take unpaid opportunities from shaping their future educational and career trajectories and building meaningful professional networks.
Health Career Connection (HCC) is a national nonprofit organization that provides undergraduate students from under-represented or disadvantaged backgrounds with paid internship placements in health care and public health organizations. The majority of students recruited by HCC are first-generation college students who come from low-income families and communities with limited resources to help them thrive in the workforce. Ultimately, HCC seeks to improve the health of populations by motivating and developing value-driven, capable, and diverse health care and public health leaders and professionals.
In 2014, NYHealth awarded HCC a grant to support five 10-week summer internship placements, including at the Foundation. The experience was exceptional for both the students and hosting organizations, which led NYHealth to award HCC a second grant in 2015 to continue support for this initiative. Under this grant, HCC matched five students to organizations suited to their career interests: two internships at NYHealth and three internships at Healthy Neighborhoods Fund grantee organizations.