We ask our educational institutions to buy the most fuel-efficient vehicles available on the market. This means purchasing alternatively fueled cars and trucks such as Plug-in Electric Vehicles (EV's) and hybrids. It also means calling on fleet buyers to set a floor standard for the fuel economy of their vehicles of 40 miles per gallon, place "soft-orders" and write to major auto manufacturers about providing these choices.

This is part of the Campus Climate Challenge, which is coordinated out of the Energy Action Coalition. The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada uniting young people to organize to win climate policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming and lead our society to a just, clean energy future.

Interns will:

• Outreach and follow-up with California campuses
• Help recruit and coordinate for a national youth climate conference and actions
• Research campus transportation programs and administration
• Update Greenfleets policy template with current information
• Update the webpage
• Administrative duties as needed: database entries, spreadsheets, copies, etc.

Interns will learn:

• How to run a campus campaign
• How to coordinate multiple campuses and campaigns
• Tactical investigation methods and power-mapping
• How to participate in media
• The inner workings of a non-profit work environment

The program focuses on creating sustainable educational/political travel to Afghanistan, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine & Israel. The delegations aim to create lasting ties of solidarity between citizens of the Global North and communities in the Middle East in order to increase participation in movements advocating for balanced and just policy towards the region.

Interns will:

• Recruit and outreach for upcoming delegations via internet, phone calls and mailings
• Create an educational presentation about social and political realities in Iran, Afghanistan or Palestine & Israel, and the importance of building people-to-people ties
• Assist in the coordination of Reality Tours to the Middle East and Afghanistan
• Update and create Reality Tours web pages, country profiles, and Background Readers
• Design flyers and other outreach pieces for delegations
• Plan and execute a local event to promote Global Exchange and social justice in Middle East
• Help organize a fundraising event for the Reality Tours scholarship fund
• Administrative duties as needed: database, spreadsheets, copies, faxes, etc

Interns will learn:

• Marketing and outreach skills, including handling the media
• How to coordinate long term projects with a broad range of partners
• Why create socially-responsible travel and what it looks like
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the Middle East

**Farsi or Arabic skills preferred, but not required.

We are looking for talented, detail-oriented individuals who can commit to a minimum of 20 hours a week to bolster our fundraising efforts through event planning, research of prospective funders, editing and submission of grant proposals and database management.

As a Fundraising Intern you will:

• Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations
• Learn event planning, database management and outreach skills
• Research and evaluate prospective individual donors
• Develop promotional materials to build interest around the work of GX
• Attend events in the community to engage new members
• Keep our existing members and donors informed on GX's work
• Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Exchange's mission and campaigns

As a Grants Intern you will:

• Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations
• Research and evaluate prospective foundation funders
• Learn how to develop an annual foundation fundraising strategy
• Learn the basics of the grants process -- grant writing, developing project budgets, foundation correspondence, and reporting
• Help maintain our relationships with Foundations
• Edit and submit grant proposals
• Learn basic database management skills
• Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Exchange's mission and campaigns

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented individuals
• Some office experience and familiarity with Microsoft Office
• Passionate about human rights and social justice
• Interested in learning more about the non-profit sector

The program focuses on creating sustainable educational/political travel to Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The delegations aim to create lasting ties of solidarity between citizens of the Global North and communities in Latin America in order to increase participation in movements advocating for balanced and just policy towards the region.

Interns will:

• Recruit and outreach for upcoming delegations via internet,
• phone calls and mailings
• Create an educational presentation about social and politicalrealities in Latin America and the importance of building people-to-people ties
• Assist in the coordination of Reality Tours to the Latin America
• Update and create Reality Tours web pages, country profiles, and Background Readers
• Design flyers and other outreach pieces for delegations
• Plan and execute a local event to promote Global Exchange and social justice in Latin America
• Administrative duties as needed: database, spreadsheets, copies, faxes, etc

• Marketing and outreach skills, including handling the media;
• How to coordinate long term projects with a broad range of partners;
• Why create socially-responsible travel and what it looks like
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in Latin America

Reality Tours now sends over 1,000 delegates each year to over 30 countries. Within a strong framework of socially responsible travel, our travel delegations inspire individuals to become advocates of social and environmental justice. We hope citizens of the Global North will recognize their own capacity and responsibility to impact US foreign policy and commit to social change.

Interns will:

• Assist the Reality Tours Coordinators with outreach that is specific to each country
• Build relationships with professors and universities to gain endorsements of our trips
• Follow up phone calls with past participants
• Help organize a fundraising event for the Reality Tours scholarship fund

The program currently focuses on sustainable travel and education within Mexico and Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala). We aim to create lasting ties of solidarity with local communities in order to strengthen and build participation in movements against corporate globalization and for the creation of a more economically just hemisphere.

Intern will:

• Recruit for upcoming delegations via Internet, phone calls and mailings
• Research marketing possibilities to build a strong outreach plan for each destination
• Develop new and existing materials dedicated to promoting travel and social justice in Latin America
• Update tour descriptions, itineraries, country profiles and news updates on the website
• Compile orientation and welcome back materials for tour participants and helping to coordinate all tours from start to finish
• Perform administrative duties as needed, including documenting trip information in a computer database and translating information from in-country trip leaders.
• Throughout the course of the internship, engage in the region of Mexico and Central America, strive to stay informed of its socio-political climate and current reality.

• Marketing and outreach skills
• How to coordinate long-term projects with a broad range of partners
• The importance and value of socially responsible travel and what it looks like in practice
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the Americas

**Spanish required.

• About the emerging green economy and get an insider perspective on the major ideas, projects, and players within the movement;
• How to organize green education and job training projects;
• How to organize a major event and coordinate a volunteer program involving thousands of participants;
• What is involved in the management of a large real estate project.

Green Workforce Development Our Green Workforce Development program has three stages: (1) our Green Guardians program trains inner city high school youth in green neighborhood development skills; (2) our Green Careers courses at San Francisco City College take students the next step to prepare them to be CEOs (Chief Environmental Officers) for the green companies we know through our production of the Green Festivals, and (3) our Green Apprenticeships and job placement with these same companies help youth find secure careers in the green economy.

Green Festivals Green Festivals are large green economy events that take place in Seattle, April 12-13, 2008; Chicago, May 17-18, 2008; Washington, D.C., November 8-9, 2008; San Francisco, November 14-16, 2008. These weekend events bring together 350 green companies, dozens of activist organizations, more than 100 speakers, 12 organic vegetarian food vendors, diverse live music, and tens of thousands of attendees. By exposing the general public to the entire green economy in one place, and providing hands-on education about the necessary changes we need to make in our economy and lifestyles, we help accelerate the transition to the nature-friendly economy of the future. Interns help with recruiting more than 900 volunteers who work the event, outreach and promotion of the event, management of speakers, and other administrative tasks associated with organizing a large event.

Global Citizen Center We are developing a building in downtown San Francisco that will have these main components:

• A retail/wholesale ecomall (GreenMart) that will be a hybrid of a green everything store (based on our experience with GreenFestivals.org) and an Exploratorium style learning center on the green economy (complete with food court—café/restaurant/organic brewpub);
• Offices rented or owned by nonprofit environmental and social justice groups and foundations that will help market the GreenMart, and share infrastructure (photocopying, cooperative purchasing of supplies, exercise room with stationary bikes and rowing machines that generate electricity, etc.). We have recruited 90,000 sq.ft. of office tenants so far (Mother Jones, Global Exchange, SF Dept. of the Environment, TransFairUSA, New Leaf Paper, Blue Water Network, Vanguard Foundation, and many more).
• Activity space for conferences, and special events, with a state-of-the-art recording booth for radio stations to broadcast live cultural performances and promote the address. The groups renting offices will promote the ground-floor GreenMart in their extensive outreach materials because:
• Affordable housing for teachers and other city workers (first responders, mass transit workers, and city health service workers). These workers have trouble affording the expensive housing in San Francisco and providing affordable housing, especially for teachers working in nearby schools, will help San Francisco strengthen its educational system.

• Creating press releases and public service announcements
• "Pitching" news stories and events to reporters
• Supporting and amplifying our online communications and digital organizing
• Designing web and print materials
• Writing articles and letters to the editor for our newsletter, website and viral publications

• Social Networking Outreach (experience with MySpace and Facebook)
• Experience and Knowledge in Digital Campaigning Strategy
• Experience in Blogging and Online Publishing
• Digital Video Production/Publishing (You Tube, Etc.)
• Democracy in Action or other CRM Management

Skills/Knowledge/Etc.

• HTML/CSS
• Strong Writing
• Strong Interpersonal Communication
• Hard Working
• Good Time Management

The program focuses on creating sustainable educational/political travel to Venezuela. The delegations aim to create lasting ties of solidarity between citizens in the north and south in order to increase participation in movements against corporate globalization and for the creation of a more economically just hemisphere.

Interns will:

• Recruit for upcoming delegations via internet, phone calls and mailings
• Create an educational presentation about social and political realities in Venezuela, and the importance of building people-to-people ties
• Assist in the coordination of Reality Tours to Venezuela
• Update Reality Tours web pages, Venezuela country profiles, and Background Readers
• Design flyers and other outreach pieces for delegations
• Pllan and execute a local event to promote Global Exchange and social justice in Venezuela
• Administrative duties as needed: copies, faxes, etc

Interns will learn:

• Marketing and outreach skills, including handling the media;
• How to coordinate long term projects with a broad range of partners;
• Why create socially-responsible travel and what it looks like
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the Americas

For more information about the Venezuela program please visit the Program page

The Fair Trade cocoa campaign will be continuing its work on three major initiatives over the winter: (1) implementation of a new nationwide network of Fair Trade coffee and chocolate tasting clubs (2) outreach to teachers, schools, unions, school districts, parents, etc to arrange for Global Exchange's Fair Trade cocoa curriculum to be taught in hundreds of schools nationwide and (3) a corporate campaign asking World's Finest Chocolate, Inc., to start selling a Fair Trade chocolate bar.

These Fair Trade internships give interns substantial responsibility for parts of our Fair Trade program. We are looking for self-starters with strong skills, to whom we can offer an exceptional internship opportunity with strong resume-building potential.

Interns will:

• conduct research
• outreach by phone, email and in-person to engage activists in GX economic justice campaigns
• outreach to journalists to inform them about important developments on GX economic justice campaigns
• create materials on economic justice issues such as fact sheets, campaign postcards, teaching materials, flyers, press releases and web pages
• update and maintain sections of the GX website, such as the sweatshops, corporate accountability, and Fair Trade sections (no knowledge of HTML required)
• participate in campaign planning and brainstorming meetings
• other administrative duties, as needed Interns will learn skills such as:
• basics of conducting economic justice and corporate campaigns
• campaign planning
• outreach techniques
• how to get the media's attention
• basics of website development and maintenance
• writing and researching skills
• how to work with grassroots activists

These three exciting volunteer posts are a unique opportunity to get involved with and support a cross border effort to stimulate thinking and discussion about the root causes of migration in the context of the larger immigration reform debate. This program works to encourage policymakers and social leaders in both the United States and Mexico to play a leadership role on this issue, and to nurture the best bi-national thinking on a possible new way forward.

San Francisco:

Project support and Speaking Tour Coordination (January -- April, 2008)

This San Francisco based position will be focused on supporting and coordinating a national speaking tour across the United States by experts representing Canadian, US, and Mexican organizations in late-winter and early spring of 2008.

The volunteer intern will work closely with both the program director and the program associate who will be supervising the speaking tour project. The work will involve direct support for organizing events across the US with labor, religious, immigrant rights, student, business, fair trade, environmental, and other community groups—especially those with an active stake in trade and immigration issues.

The tour will provide information and tools to address the indisputable links between deeply flawed continental trade and economic policies and accelerated Mexican migration to the US as well as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), or "NAFTA plus," being forged between the leading corporations and executive branches of Canada, the US, and Mexico without approval— or even genuine consultation— with the legislative branches or general public in any of the three countries.

Qualifications:

Working in collaboration with the editors, the intern will support key aspects of developing this book project. The location of the intern is not of major importance. The intern must simply have access to the internet.

Desired skills and experience:

• Strong writing skills
• Experience in doing research
• Spanish fluency, translation and transcription skills
• Deep knowledge of Venezuelan politics

Interns will:

• Work with the editors in molding the book proposal being provided to prospective publishers
• Transcribe and translate recorded interviews
• Fact check content of the book
• Do research for various aspects of the book and book proposal
• Provide edits and add content for the book proposal and chapter introductions
• Develop appendix and index

• How to create a book proposal
• Editing, writing, transcribing and translating skills
• A deeper understanding of Venezuelan politics and history