Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program

To: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System Corporation vice presidents, administrators, directors, managers and supervisors

Dear Colleagues,

A year ago, in response to the unrest in Baltimore, we engaged in critical conversations to determine how Johns Hopkins could build our support for this city and its residents. Again and again, we heard the same reply: jobs. It was a call to open new career possibilities to city youth and to develop meaningful employment opportunities for our neighbors.

We are writing to urge you once again to answer that call and identify opportunities within your department to give a young person workplace experience, job skills, mentorship and a jump-start on his or her resume.

Last year, within a few weeks of the unrest, we responded by increasing the size of our Summer Jobs Program by 50 percent, offering paid internships to more than 300 Baltimore youths. A few months later, we launched HopkinsLocal, an economic inclusion effort that will, among other aims, increase the percentage of new hires from distressed city neighborhoods over the next two years.

We are exceedingly proud of these efforts and of your work to help meet our ambitious goals. But we cannot lose sight of the needs—or the urgency—we all felt last year. Lasting change will depend on our persistent, unshakable commitment, year after year.

In a few weeks, we will welcome our next cohort to the Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program. We hope to match last year's response and place 300 students in summer jobs. To date, however, we only have half the placements needed to meet that goal.

Our success will depend on broad participation from across our institution. More than 100 sites throughout Johns Hopkins hosted an intern last summer; this year, we hope to recruit more. To increase the opportunities available to Baltimore students, Johns Hopkins institutions will again fund the positions and process the program's payroll. More information is available on the Summer Jobs Program website or by calling 443-997-4585.

We remain inspired by the countless ways that members of our community have chosen to engage with this city, working tirelessly on behalf of our neighbors. This is another way we can, as individuals, as departments and as an institution, support the future of Baltimore.

Thank you for helping us by offering a job to an intern this summer.

Sincerely,

Ronald J. Daniels
President
The Johns Hopkins University

Ronald R. Peterson
President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine