One of the central goals of the MPP Program is to prepare students to be effective practitioners of policymaking, and to understand the problems of implementation common to working situations. To integrate the analytics and the substance, students participate in a series of skill building courses. All students are required to intern in a public or private agency for a minimum of 300 hours. The purpose of these internships is to give students real-world experience in the policy arena of their chosen area of concentration. Students work with faculty to develop a placement consistent with their own career objectives, and throughout the internships students remain in touch with their faculty advisers. A sample of Internships and placement sites in recent years include: - Baltimore City Health Department
- Congressional Budget Office
- Corporation for National Service
- Federal Highway Administration's Office of Policy Development
- Local Government Information Network (LOGIN)
- Maryland Governor's Office on Crime Control and Prevention
- National Park Service
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Education Branch
- U.S. Conference of Mayors
- U.S. Department of Commerce/Technology Administration
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Office of Policy Development and Research
- U.S. General Accounting Office
- U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
- Advocates for Children & Youth
- Americans for the Arts
- Association of Academic Health Centers
- Baltimore Community Foundation
- Baltimore Office of the Public Defender
- Center for Social Policy and Community Development
- Children's Defense Fund
- Community Action Development
- Families USA
- Greater Homewood Community Corporation
- House of Ruth
- Kellogg Foundation
- Maryland Association of Non-profit Organizations
- Mothers Against Violence in America
- National Council for Urban Economic Development
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
- Open Society Institute
- Teach for America
- Teach Baltimore
- The Freshwater Institute at the Conservation Fund
- Thistle Community Housing
- Workfare Watch
- Aguirre International
- Alex Brown & Sons
- Amtrak, High-Speed Rail Division
- Bruce Morgan and Associates
- Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Child Trends
- Congressional Research Consulting Firm
- Families USA
- InnoNet
- Inter-American Development Bank
- James Bell Associates
- Kennell and Associates
- Mathematica Policy Research
- NOVARTIS
- The Lewin Group
- The Synergos Institute
- WestED
- World Bank
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