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Spannocchia Farm Internship Program Application 2016

Please fill out this application and return it to us via email and in Microsoft Word
format to internships@spannocchia.org. Please alter the spacing to provide room for
your responses, including the essays. Please remember that your application is not
complete until we have received your three letters of reference via email directly from
your references.
Name:

Todays Date:

Date of Birth:

Sex:
Telephone:
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Mailing Address:

E-Mail:
Permanent Address:
1. I would like to apply for the following session(s). If more than one, list order of
preference:
Spring 2016
Friday 4th March to Monday 30th May 2016, 88 days
Application deadline: Friday 20th November 2015
Notification: Wednesday 9th December 2015
Summer 2016
Friday 3rd June to Monday 29th August 2016, 88 days
Application deadline: Friday 19th February 2016
Notification: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Fall 2016
Friday 2nd September to Monday 28th November 2016, 88 days
Application deadline: Friday 6th May 2016
Notification: Monday 23rd May 2016

2. I heard about the Spannocchia Internship Program from the following source (if
source is a person, please list his/her name and relation to you):
3. Please list your work experience, beginning with the most recent (please do not attach
a resume):
4. Please list your education, beginning with the most recent:
5. Please list your native language and any foreign language skills you have:
Short Answer Section 7 questions
Please answer the following questions in a simple, but thoughtful, paragraph or two.

6. Please describe your experience with manual labor and/or farming (type of work,
hours, duration). What is the hardest physical labor youve ever done?
7. What does sustainability mean to you? What sustains you?
8. What experience have you had that will help to prepare you for being in an isolated,
close-knit community, where everyone is expected to practice active tolerance and
pull his or her own weight both during the work day and beyond?
9. Please state three interesting things about yourself:
10. Please describe other important details about yourself (include goals, aspirations,
hobbies, personal activities, medical information, ideological views, etc.):
11. Please list, in order of preference, the top three areas of the farm that you are
interested in working in. The areas are: A. Vegetable Garden B. Animals (pigs,
donkeys and cows), and C. Vineyard/Olive Orchard/ Tuttofare (handyperson)
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Essay Component 2 essays
12. Please write a very brief essay (250 words or less) that discusses one thing youve
learned in the last year and how you came to learn it.
13. Please write a brief essay (500 words or less) that addresses the following questions:
What are your reasons for applying to the Spannocchia Internship Program and what
do you hope to gain from this experience? What do you envision will be the most
exciting aspect for you? What might be a difficult challenge for you?
Reference 3 references
14. In addition to your application, you are required to submit three letters of reference.
Two should be professional references (work or study related), and the third should be
a personal reference who has known you for more than two years. You, or your
referee, can download the reference form (Microsoft Word document) directly from
our website. Your referee must then fill out the form completely and he/she must
submit it directly to us via email to internships@spannocchia.org by the application
deadline.
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this application. If you have any questions
please contact Education Director Sara Silvestri at the Spannocchia Foundation
Field Headquarters at Tenuta di Spannocchia via email at
internships@spannocchia.org.
If you are unable to send your application via email, you may send it via regular
mail.
Application Mailing Address:
Farm Internship Program
Tenuta di Spannocchia, 53012 Chiusdino, Siena, ITALY
Phone: +39-0577-75261

E-Mail: internships@spannocchia.org