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The following internships participate in the Everett Public Service Internship Program. The Everett Program encourages students to participate in the challenges and rewards of public interest work while providing the public interest community with the dedication, energy and idealism that interns bring to their work. Since 1989, more than two thousand students from communities across the country have discovered the immense satisfaction of contributing to society through public service. Everett interns are exposed to a broad range of issues during their tenure at public service organizations. During ten weeks, Everett interns will work diligently with skilled and dedicated mentors to gain first-hand experience on the front lines of public service. The Everett Program ... encourages students' future involvement in public service by acquainting them with the challenges and rewards of public interest work.... Henry and Edith Everett established their Everett Public Service Internship Program in 1989. Since then, two thousand students from communities across the country have discovered the immense satisfaction of contributing to society, while acquiring significant knowledge, experience, and career development opportunities. A sense of community and camaraderie is fostered among the Interns in our Program. Each internship lasts ten weeks and provides $230 weekly for expenses. Everett Interns work on substantive projects, develop professional skills, and gain knowledge about the enormous societal impact of public service. Internships start no earlier than May 23rd and no later than June 13th.
- Accion New York
ACCION New York is committed to working with self-employed individuals who do not have access to traditional forms of business credit. By providing credit and support services to microentrepreneurs, the program seeks to increase business and family incomes, create jobs, and revitalize economically disenfranchised neighborhoods throughout New York City. Interns will help with providing training and business advisory services to small business owners who in most cases are recent immigrants. Spanish fluency is required. Please apply by April 15. Contact: Diana Dezso, ACCION New York, 115 East 23rd Street 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010; tel. (212)387-0377 ext.309; fax (212)387-0277; ddezso@accionnewyork.org; http://www.accion.org. - Center for Community Change
For more than thirty years, the Center for Community Change has developed powerful grassroots organizations. CCC has played a critical and unique role in federal policy by helping to effectively engage low-income and minority people in the policy debates that affect them. Interns will conduct research, develop materials, and support grassroots and national campaign activity on issues of importance to low-income and minority communities. Please apply by March 18. Contact: Hurbert Dixon III, Intern Coordinator, 1000 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007; tel. (202)339-9342; fax (202)342-1132; hdixon@communitychange.org. - Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation has been building decent, affordable housing here for over 15 years. We build supportive housing for seniors, the mentally ill, and people living with HIV/AIDS; we renovate crumbling apartments into quality homes for individuals and families; we turn abandoned houses into the dream of nearly every American family: a home they own themselves. Working with a network of more than 85 community-based organizations and entrepreneurs, we have partnered to creation and preservation over 17,000 units of decent, affordable housing. In neighborhoods as diverse as Chinatown, Harlem, the South Bronx, and the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn - to name only a few - we're providing individuals and families with the kinds of homes that help them turn their own plans and dreams into reality. Interns have the opportunity to assist our local office with a variety of projects housing development, resident services projects, information management, marketing, fundraising, and capacity building for nonprofit organizations. Please indicate area of interest and relevant experience in your cover letter and submit with your application by April 4th. Contact: Victoria Shire, Program Officer, The Enterprise Foundation, 80 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011; fax (212)262-9635; vshire@enterprisefoundation.org. - Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
ICCR is an association of 275 Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faith-based institutional investors and includes denominations, religious orders, foundations, health systems, and pension funds. Best known for advocacy, ICCR members are serious, long-term investors who link financial performance with social and environmental performance. Areas of focus include environment, global corporate accountability, international health and pharmaceuticals, militarism, and equality. Interns will assist with research on one or more areas of focus. They will report jointly to the Program Director heading the relevant focus area and to the Intern Coordinator. Interns must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. They will be expected to audit meetings with corporate representatives, to confer with supervisors on research goals, and to produce an article for publication in ICCR’s newsletter, The Corporate Examiner. Interns will also provide general office assistance to their Program Director and other staff as needed (not to exceed 15% of the intern’s time). Applu by April 8, 2005. Contact: Maura McCarthy, ICCR, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115; tel. (212)870-2599; mmccarthy@iccr.org. - National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
The mission of the Committee is to make philanthropy more responsive to people with the least wealth and opportunity, more relevant to critical public needs, and more open and accountable to all. Our aim is to create a more just and democratic society. This goal is achieved by advancing a new vision of philanthropy, critiquing and reforming philanthropy, developing and shaping new philanthropic resources and institutions, promoting policy and advocacy by nonprofits and foundations, and building a movement for a "new philanthropy." Please apply by April 1. Contact: Jeff Krehely, NCRP, 2001 S Street NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20009; tel. (202)387-9177; fax (202)332-5084; jeff@ncrp.org.
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