[email protected] operates the Community Work-Study Program (CWSP) where undergraduate students can earn their awarded work-study funds and gain experience by working with local community-focused government agencies or charitable non-profit organizations.

There are a number of positions available in a variety of areas, including volunteer recruitment, social media management and tutoring. The organization provides regular, weekly working schedules to students. All positions pay $10 an hour. The average work study award would allow students to work approximately 10 hours a week.

If you're an undergraduate student with a work-study award and are interested in the program, please complete this form. 

For community organizations interested in hosting EMU students, please complete this form.

• Current Placements

   For the Winter 2019 semester, our partners are as follows:

  • Digital Inclusion
  • Ann Arbor YMCA
  • Upward Bound
  • Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels
  • SPARK East
  • Revalue
  • Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber
  • The American Society of Adaptation Professionals
  • Family Empowerment Program
  • The Collaborative: Ypsilanti YMCA Child Development Center
  • Mentor2youth
  • Ozone House, Inc.
  • Educate Youth
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washtenaw County
  • Bright Futures
  • City of Ann Arbor, Natural Area Preservation
  • Community Action Network
  • Growing Hope
  • Riverside Arts Center
  • Ypsilanti District Library
  • Ypsilanti Performance Space
  • Ypsilanti Senior Center

• Current Data

  For the 2017-2018 academic year, 85 students worked for 38 local nonprofit and government organizations as part of the program. EMU students worked 7,350 hours, which is estimated at value of $185,101 to our community partners. Overall, students collected $75,378 in work study funding to support themselves through college.