After 5 Detroit launches new summer intern program

A start-up and a foundation walk into a bar full of corporations and walk away with a few hundred interns. That's not a joke. The latest initiative to keep young talent in Metro Detroit helps them take advantage of the region's lifestyle.

The Connect After 5 Summer Intern Program is being run by Detroit-based After 5 Detroit and is being funded by the Hudson-Webber Foundation. It's signed up 205 interns from DTE Energy and Digerati to take part in the program. It hopes to add a few hundred more from other area companies by the time the summer turns consistently warm.

"We are working with a number of other companies right now to get them and their interns on board," says Kerry Doman, CEO of After 5 Detroit, a website that highlights events, hot spots, and information targeted at young professionals who wish to fully experience the Detroit lifestyle. It's one of a number of programs that are being employed to help staunch the state's brain drain of young, educated, and entrepreneurial professionals.

"That's who we need to retain for a strong workforce and deeper workforce and overall stronger economy," Doman says.

For information on the program, click here.

Source: Kerry Doman, CEO of After 5 Detroit
Writer: Jon Zemke

After 5 Detroit launches new summer intern program

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