Write Your Own Press Release

This is your own customizable news story to send to your local newspapers. (just copy and paste into your word processor, fill in the blanks and send it to your local paper.)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CONTACT: [YOUR NAME]
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Local Volunteer Completes Tour of Duty as Everett Public Service Intern

[Your name], [your title], returned from [your internship city] this week with new memories and new friends. But this was no typical summer vacation. [Your name] completed a challenging internship with [your organization] through the highly selective Everett Public Service Internship Program and gained valuable hands-on experience in the non-profit sector.

Since 1989, nearly two thousand students from communities across the country have spent their summers discovering the immense satisfaction of contributing to society, while acquiring significant knowledge, experience, and career development opportunities through the Everett Program. Established by philanthropists Henry and Edith Everett, the public service internship program is in one of few in the nation that provides college and graduate school students with a living stipend while they serve ten week internships with one of fifty-eight participating non-profit organizations in four U.S. cities.

[Your name] spent his/her summer at [your intern organization]. INCLUDE A PARAGRAPH ABOUT YOUR INTERN ORGANIZATION AND YOUR SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS.

For young people like [your name] and organizations like [your intern organization], the Everett Program carries a lasting impact. Firstly, the internship encourages interns' future involvement in public service by acquainting them with the challenges and rewards of public interest work. Second, it provides the public interest community, which too often operates on limited resources, with the dedication, energy, and idealism that interns bring to their work.

[Your name] leaves the Everett program with a renewed dedication to making a difference. This year's interns were a diverse group of students who reside in all parts of the country, major in a wide variety of academic fields, and span the ethnic, racial and political spectrum. What binds them together, however, is their personal commitment to "the repair of the world." As Henry Everett says, "Everett interns exemplify the creed articulated by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 'Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.'"

For more information about the Everett Public Service Internship Program and its participating non-profit organizations, visit www.everettinternships.org.