Fall/Spring Internships

Applications are accepted and reviewed during the Fall and Spring on a rolling basis. Fall internships will typically start in September and last through December or January. Spring internships typically begin in January and will last through May. However, this may vary according to the internship you apply for. If you see an internship posted, it is open!

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The following jobs are available:

 

Fundraising Intern

Join Global Exchange's development team to learn the 'ins and outs' of fundraising and help build the progressive movement from the ground up. Work in a friendly office setting with our committed and experienced staff. The development department partners with all areas of the organization to raise the funds necessary to carry out the critical work of Global Exchange. Fundraising is widely considered the most marketable skill you can bring to a career in the non-profit sector. 

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 
  • Develop promotional materials to build interest around the work of GX 
  • Have the opportunity to attend events in the community to engage new members 
  • Keep our existing members and donors informed on GX's work 
  • Research and evaluate prospective foundation and individual donors 
  • Learn the basics of donor relationship maintenance and correspondence, developing project budgets, and reporting deliverables 
  • Edit/Proof and edit donor proposals, reports and appeals 
  • Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations 
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Exchange's mission and campaigns 
Who we are looking for: 
  • 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 
Students may have the option of earning academic credits for their time. Please indicate which of the two development internships (grants internship or fundraising internship) you are interested in on your application. If you are interested in either position simply write development department as your choice, and we will place you where you best fit within the department.


Cuba Reality Tours

REALITY TOURS takes you to places in the news. The idea that travel can be educational and positively influence international affairs motivated the first Global Exchange Reality Tour in 1989. For over 15 years we have promoted alternative, educational travel as a way to replace feelings of apathy and helplessness with a deeper understanding and sense of empowerment. 

 
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.
 
WORK DESCRIPTION FOR INTERNS: 
  • Assist in the coordination of tours 
  • Compile orientation and welcome back materials for tour participants 
  • Update tour descriptions, itineraries, country profiles and news updates on the RT website 
  • Update collateral material including flyers and background readers for each destination 
  • Help research and conduct outreach for upcoming tours, including identifying markets and opportunities 
  • Perform administrative duties as needed, including documenting trip information in computer database, translating information from in-country trip leaders, inputting registration information, checking flight information, copying, faxing, mailing, answering emails, etc. 
INTERNS WILL LEARN: 
  • Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment 
  • How to coordinate projects with a broad range of partners 
  • Marketing and outreach skills 
  • What socially-responsible travel looks like 
  • A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the assigned destinations 
REQUIREMENTS & EXPECTATIONS: 
  • Ability to commit to 8-16 hours per week, for 3 months minimum 
  • An interest to learn, and to work with dedicated team of individuals 
  • An interest in international affairs, US foreign policy, travel 
  • Some language skills in assigned area are preferred 
  • Do not have to be a student 
  • These are UNPAID internships. 


Latin America Reality Tours

Latin America Reality Tours Global Exchange's Latin America Reality Tours Program seeks to educate citizens of the Global North about the dynamic changes occurring within Latin America by shifting knowledge beyond the headlines and creating people-to-people ties with communities, organizations and individuals. Aiming to mobilize citizens in changing US foreign policy towards the region, the program foregrounds human rights within a framework of sustainable development and environmental justice. The delegations endeavor to foment lasting solidarity between Global North and South citizens and to increase participation in movements against corporate globalization and toward the creation of a more economically just hemisphere.

 
Responsibilities: 
  • manage day-to-day operations:
    • process applications 
    • transact payments 
    • handle incoming and outgoing mail 
    • data entry 
    • research and writing: update GX human rights literature for Latin America Reality Tours destinations and research and document recent human rights developments in various countries 

 

 

 
Placing the rights of Communities and Nature Above Corporations From water withdrawel to mining, GMOs and refineries, the corporate few weild the law against our communities, endangering our heath, safety and the environment.
 
WE CAN CHANGE THAT!
 
A new framework is emerging: Rights-based organizing! Confronted by corporate harms, more than 120 communities have decided to do something different, enacting cutting edge laws that place the rights of communities and nature above the claimed "rights" of corporations. This organizing stems from a new understanding about the origins of corporate power, learned in Democracy School. Now taught in 23 states, this empowering weekend-long training teaches dramatic new ways of confronting the power and rights used by corporations to deny the rights of people and nature.
 
Communities across the US have utilized these lessons to stop working defensively against the corporate harms and take courageous action to assert their rights to make governing decisions where they live! Global Exchange is bringing this organizing to communities around California and beyond.
 
Help Global Exchange make history! Please check out the website for more information on this work.
 
The community justice intern will engage in the following activities: 
  • Assist in empowering communities to challenge corporate power and establish community self-rule 
  • Help manage, prepare and participate in upcoming San Francisco-based (and potentially other CA) Democracy Schools 
  • Research CA community struggles against unwanted corporate projects and assaults as well as research around laws, and the rights of nature 
  • Outreach: Be a point of entry and ongoing contact to local communities to inform them of our unique approach and establish connections for possible organizing state wide, and work with GX staff to help organize communities throughout the state 
  • organize and schedule speaking and media opportunities 
  • manage rights-based website and develop and manage a growing listserv and databse of contacts research for publication in journals and media placement, with the potential for some writing including the GX newsletter, conducting interviews and other opportunities 
  • design flyers and outreach materials 
  • Otherwise support this cutting edge work with other duties as assigned based on skill set, and your goals! 
The community justice intern will learn/hone the following skills: 
  • essential community organizing skills including identifying and breaking ground with potential new community activist partners, and actual on the ground organizing 
  • through participation in weekend-long training, "democracy school" and via other avenues, learn about the basis of rights-based organizing including learning the history of corporate power, about people's movements for RIGHTS; and the cutting edge work started through rights-based organizing to recognize the rights of nature (which has now become the basis for Ecuador's constitutional rights of nature provision) 
  • research and writing, learn to design outreach materials 
  • learn about local, state and federal law in the process of developing cutting edge ordinances that deny corporations' constitutional "rights" learn (or broaden) your skills at developing and managing web and list serv content much much more! 

Economic Activism for Palestine

Help support existing campaigns! train as a corporate researchers and learn how to take on global corporations!

The Palestine program seeks a research interns to work with BaySearchers - the Bay Area corporate research group  - to help support economic accountability campaigns with information about corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The intern will help lead independent research projects, and will be responsible for publishing the research results on our website.

We are looking for a highly independent worker with excellent writing skills, research experience, a fast learner with healthy curiosity. Strong preference to activists and to people with prior knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Mexico Human Rights Program Research and Organizing

The Mexico Human Rights Program seeks an intern to support staff who are working with like-minded Mexican and U.S. organizations to challenge the assumptions and policies that support the deepening militarization of public --counternarcotics --- policy. Our work involves support to human rights and democracy advocates and organizations; building US coalitions that support ending prohibition, cracking down on those selling guns to the criminal cartels, as well as opposing "Plan Merida" and DOD efforts to "assist" Mexico's army and police. 

An ideal candidate for this internship will have strong speaking and writing skills in both English and Spanish, knowledge of Mexican current affairs, as well as strong research and organizing skills.

CODEPINK Women for Peace – Campaigns Support (SF, LA and DC offices)

CODEPINK is seeking interns who are enthusiastic and passionate about ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine and lifting the siege of Gaza, and creating a world of peace, compassion and equality.  

By interning in our office, you'll learn the basics of grassroots organizing from outreach to publicity to fundraising.

Working in close collaboration with the CODEPINK national staff, your tasks may include: phonebanking, data entry, creating posters, fliers, research, updating the website; attending and organizing meetings, rallies, demonstrations, press conferences; participating in national staff conference calls.  

This is an internship for someone who likes being in the streets, getting behind the scenes, taking on leadership, and being self-reliant and independently responsible.  

Skills needed: Knowledge of how to use an Apple computer (or bring your own laptop), Microsoft Office, social media (twitter/facebook/etc.), decent writing and editing, comfort talking with new people, passion for ending war.

For more info about CODEPINK and to find out about our current campaigns, visit us at www.codepink.org.