The Career Center doled out $50,000 in funding to about three dozen graduate and undergraduate students working for free this summer as part of the University’s first round of internship grants.

A total of 37 students were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 for their unpaid summer internships. Most of the students will work in jobs in public service fields.

The program saw more than 170 applicants this spring.

Students landed gigs around the world, ranging from the Syrian Emergency Task Force to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to the Ready for Hillary Political Action Committee.

Two-thirds of the recipients are graduate students, including four students in the GW Law School, which has already carved out nearly $3 million to pay graduates to work unpaid internships.

The office will continue to give out internship funding to unpaid jobs during the fall and spring, though this spring Assistant Provost Rachel Brown said the amount of grants given would depend on the stream of donations to the program. The Career Center won at least $5,000 in an online social media challenge this month, which will go toward the grants program.