Koch Internship Program

The Koch Internship Program (KIP) is a paid semester long dynamic experiential internship program. It blends educational opportunities with real work experience. While participating in KIP, interns are placed at non-profit organizations and spend their week working on important issues that affect our world. Every week, interns attend professional development sessions that build the skills needed to contribute effectively in the workplace.

Through KIP, interns learn about impactful careers in social entrepreneurship, where leaders who come from all walks of life use their unique gifts to advance positive changes in society and help people improve their lives.

While in the program, interns work at one of our many participating organizations. Alongside their professional experience, interns focus on developing themselves as leaders, engaging with a curriculum guided by three pillars:

• Learn about CKI’s vision for social change and all the opportunities in our network of collaborators to make social entrepreneurship the centerpiece of their career.
• Discover and develop their aptitudes and strengths so interns can make a meaningful impact in the world while exploring roles and career fields that most interest them. They will do this through reflection on their work at their participating organization, considering what they’re learning about their passions and gifts, and through a capstone project of their choosing that they work on over the course of the program.
• Learn about Market-Based Management® (MBM®), Charles Koch’s management philosophy that has brought proven results to his private company and philanthropy. Our focus in KIP is on the guiding principles, which are methods interns can use to challenge themselves to be an innovator with the mindset to make a difference. Interns use their capstone project as a laboratory for applying what they learn in the classroom.