Summer 2012 Internships
Global Exchange operates a structured internship program during the summers. Interns work closely with program staff on campaigns and programs and are expected to bring some knowledge and experience to the organization. Interns should be able to offer 20-40 hours per week from June-August.
Our summer interns work closely with program staff on campaigns and programs and are expected to bring some knowledge and experience to the organization. Interns should be able to offer at least 20 hours per week for 3 months, and be eager to participate in all aspects of their department.
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:
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.
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
- Carry out clerical tasks in support of members of the development department
- 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.
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 foundation fundraising efforts through research of prospective funders, editing and submission of grant proposals and database management.
As a Grants Intern you will:
- Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations
- Learn how to develop an annual foundation fundraising strategy
- Research and evaluate prospective foundation and individual donors
- Update existing records and files for current foundation funders and prospects
- Learn the basics of donor relationship maintenance and correspondence, developing project budgets, and reporting deliverables
- Edit/proof and edit donor proposals, reports and appeals as needed
- 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
Community Rights Organizing Intern
Community Rights Organizing: Placing the rights of Communities and Nature Above Corporations. From water withdrawal to mining, GMOs and refineries, the corporate few wield 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 and our current structures of law, 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. We are also working with our allies and communities internationally to introduce Rights of Nature at the UN level. Help Global Exchange make history! Please check out the website for more information on this work: http://www.globalexchange.org/programs/communityrights
The community rights intern will engage in the following activities:
- Assist the program assistant and director in empowering communities to challenge corporate power and establish community self-rule
- 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 list-serve and database 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
- Help with the distribution of our new book, The Rights of Nature, by managing and responding to book requests and being in contact with individuals and media interests.
- Otherwise support this cutting edge work with other duties as assigned based on skill set, and your goals!
The community rights 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 community rights trainings 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, verbal and written communication skills
- Learn to design outreach and campaign materials
- Develop skills in event planning including potential conferences and strategy summits for activists engaged in work to advance community and nature’s rights.
- 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 serve content much much more!
Global Exchange Fair Trade Store - San Francisco Intern
In the San Francisco Fair Trade Store we work to support Fair Trade, the equitable and fair partnership between global marketers and producers around the world, through: (1) the purchase of Fair Trade goods produced by low-income artisans and farmers; (2) the promotion of this product through strong merchandizing, sales and marketing; and (3) the education of consumers on their buying power and the importance of economic accountability in the system of world trade.
Our summer internship program will focus on:
- Learning the basics of Fair Trade production and distribution
- Campaigning for the importance of Fair Trade in the context of world trade systems
- Familiarity with Fair Trade product, vendors and producer groups
- Outreach to Fair Trade vendors and customers in the planning of in-store events
- Coordination with Global Exchange main office and a wide network of bay area non-profits in the promotion of these events.
- Management of in-store events
- Supporting store staff in the daily tasks of running a retail outlet
Skills developed through program:
- Research skills
- Inside knowledge of Fair Trade product, vendors, producer groups and systems of operation.
- Networking and communication skills developed through outreach to customers, vendors, and the bay area non-profit community
- Marketing and Event planning
It’s a Great Time to Intern at CODEPINK LA! Earn a Stipend!
CODEPINK’s Women Occupy project is up and running and you could be a part of this incredible time in history! And there is so much more! We welcome those who are passionate about ending wars, occupations and injustice.
In Los Angeles you are uniquely positioned to be a part of the administration of the national CODEPINK team; that includes running on our online store, helping with donor management and the daily tasks that keep a peace and justice organization afloat. You will also be a part of the vibrant LA group in helping plan and promote protests, gatherings and exciting events around town.
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: phone banking, data entry, creating posters, fliers, research, updating the website; attending 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 Microsoft Office, decent writing and editing, comfort talking with new people, passion for ending war.
Send us your resume and be ready to wear your PINK!
We will provide up to a 500 dollar per month stipend commensurate with experience. Let’s talk!
Organizing and Research internship with Mexico Human Rights Program
The Mexico Human Rights Program seeks an intern to work in close collaboration with full time staff who are working to support Mexico's
Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD)
The prime focus of this work during the summer of 2012 will involve organizing public forums and high profile events for movement leaders in cities and towns across the United States.
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.
FOR INTERNS:
- Assist director with the coordination of delegations
- Communicate with participants
- Compile and send Welcome materials, orientation packets and welcome back materials for tour participants
- Post and update tour descriptions, sample itineraries, photos, and news updates on the RT website
- Assist with marketing and outreach of Cuba delegations which could include identifying opportunities, the creation of flyers, email blasts, and tabling at events
- Assist with updating of country reader if necessary
- Provide administrative support by working directly with Sales Force Database, creating flight requests, copying, faxing, mailing, answering emails, etc.
INTERNS WILL LEARN:
- Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
- Use of Sales Force Database in the non-profit sector
- How to coordinate and manage projects with a broad range of partners
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