Intern Program
Rush Creek’s staff includes a group of high-potential young adults from urban backgrounds who work as paid seasonal interns. They leave the city and their normal lives behind and come to live and work in the mountains. Not only do they learn a specific trade, they are also able to live in a supportive community and enjoy outdoor experiences that challenge, motivate and inspire them.
Our commitment to our youth program stems from two central beliefs:
- Supportive employment can help young people build momentum in their lives and realize their fullest potential
- The outdoors in general, and places like Yosemite in particular, should be accessible to everyone
Our Youth Program is central to what we do at Rush Creek, and we’re proud to have a “double-bottom line” enterprise with both a business and a social mission.
The Youth Program at Rush Creek is modeled after the many years of success we’ve had with the Youth Program at our sister property, the Evergreen Lodge. For potential youth interns and others who may be interested, this Evergreen Lodge video provides more information from the Evergreen’s perspective.
You can also learn more by reading the following articles written in the New York Times and Fortune Small Business.
In designing and running our program, we’ve partnered with Juma Ventures, an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organization. Juma is a nationwide leader in combining employment and programmatic support to help young people. Juma provides invaluable expertise in helping us to deliver the highest impact program possible.
As a result of our social mission, Rush Creek joins the Evergreen as a certified B Corporation, a group of companies, including Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s, and over 1,600 others worldwide, that “use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems”.
If you'd like to apply now, please use our online application site which contains job listings and applications for both Rush Creek and the Evergreen Lodge.
Great resources to learn about if the intern program would be a great fit is from these two testimonials of past interns that have gone through the whole program: