YEAR LONG INTERNSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZING Final chance to apply-deadline is May 16!
Green Corps is the non-profit Field School for Environmental Organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to train environmental organizers. Our program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running urgent environmental campaigns, and placement in permanent positions with leading environmental and social change groups.
Classroom Training. Our intensive classroom training combines issue briefings, workshops and skills trainings to prepare you to run a grassroots campaign. Issue briefings include Clean Cars, Renewable Energy, Forests and Endangered Species. Strategy workshops include The Legislative Process, Social Change Methodology and Effective Media: Messaging and Framing.
Finally, hands-on skills trainings include Leadership Development, Training Volunteers and Running Effective Meetings. Training is run by the Green Corps Central Staff, as well as environmental and social change experts such as John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, Bill McKibben, author and climate change expert, and Wendy Wendlandt, Political Director, U.S. PIRG.
Field Training. Our field training puts you on the front lines of today's most urgent environmental campaigns. With Green Corps, you will work in multiple cities nationwide, chosen for their ability to make an impact on critical environmental problems. Potential locations include, but are not limited to, San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC and Boston, MA.
You must be willing to relocate during your year with Green Corps.
Dates. The program begins in August 2008 and concludes with graduation in August 2009.
Responsibilities. Plan and implement a series of critical environmental campaigns with groups like Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and Greenpeace. You will secure media coverage, recruit and manage volunteers, train new leaders, and mobilize grassroots activists.
Career Development. Upon completion of the training program, Green Corps will connect you to organizations that are seeking full-time professional staff. Green Corps graduates hold positions with MoveOn.org, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Global Exchange, Endangered Species Coalition, Global Trade Watch, Corporate Accountability International, ForestEthics, and many other environmental and progressive groups.
Qualifications. Each year we select 35 recent college graduates to join Green Corps. We are looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, have demonstrated leadership experience, and want to work for change over the long haul at the grassroots level.
Salary & Benefits. Salary of $23,750. Optional group health care coverage, paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation, and a student loan repayment program for qualifying staff.
To Apply. To apply to Green Corps, fill out our online application.
Deadlines, 2nd round interview locations and our online application are at http://www.greencorps.org.
Contact. Jesse Littlewood, Recruitment Director, at jobs@greencorps.org.
The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center is offering internship opportunities for KU students with at least 21 credit hours in sociology and a 3.0 GPA or higher. Interns can receive up to 3 credit hours and gain experience in:
· Personnel Management in Nonprofits
· Grassroots Community Organization
· Grant Writing & Development
The DART Center has built community organizations throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues
including:
· Education reform in low-performing public schools,
· Fair immigration policies
· Access to quality healthcare for all
· Living wage campaigns & job training
· Affordable housing, etc.
Responsibilities:
CORE Interns will work alongside DART’s Recruitment Director in Lawrence, Kansas to plan and execute a recruitment search for the best potential community organizers in the country. This will include identifying and potentially screening student activists and leaders from Historically Black and Hispanic Colleges and Universities (HBCU/HHCU), seminaries, and other schools for this elite, paid training program.
Also, CORE interns may also be exposed to grant writing and development and grassroots organizing training models.
Qualifications:
CORE Interns must have 21 credits in the sociology major and a 3.0 minimum GPA. Also, s/he must be adept at computers and the internet, be able to pay close attention to detail, have a commitment to social and economic justice, act professionally, respect cultural and ethnic diversity, be willing to be held accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting.
Benefits:
The primary benefit to the CORE internship will be to make a tremendous impact toward social and economic justice by identifying a new generation of community leaders who will go on to win numerous issue campaigns over their careers. Also, CORE Interns will be able to network with student leaders from up-to 150 different campuses, and have an insiders look at managing a grassroots, community organization.
To Receive College Credit:
Interns may receive up to 3 credit hours for successfully fulfilling the internship requirements. To apply, contact Ben MacConnell, the DART Center Recruitment Director at: (785) 841-2680 or Tricia Zerger, Advising Specialist at (785) 864-3500. The DART Center will work with CORE interns to submit a basic internship proposal before the end of fall semester to Professor David Smith or Professor Joey Sprague.
Jobs
Check to see what's up at the Career Center
Teach for America is looking for highly motivated, organized leaders who are excited about impacting educational inequity now by driving an ambitious awareness and networking campaign at KU. The Campus Campaign Manager, in collaboration with Teach For America recruitment staff, will develop and execute a detailed strategic plan aimed at inspiring top students to apply for the 2008 corps. The average time commitment is approximately 7 - 10 hours per week but may vary throughout the recruitment season. If you would like to know more about this position, contact LesLee Bickford, National Recruitment Director, Email: leslee.bickford@teachforamerica.org, Teach For America, Work phone: (267) 234-0251, Voicemail: 1-800-832-1230 x 263, www.teachforamerica.org.
Volunteer
Watkins Community Museum of History in downtown Lawrence, 1047 Massachusetts, is currently recruiting volunteers to assist with cataloging and data entry of their collections. There are opportunities in both the archival and 3-D departments of the museum as well as exhibit installations. Please contact them at (785) 841-4109 and fill out a volunteer form found on their website: http://www.watkinsmuseum.org/ under the Become a Volunteer tab.
Plan Now for Summer
The 7th annual NSRC Summer Institute on Politics, Sexuality and Education is a three-week intensive interdisciplanary education program in San Franscisco, a city with a unique and influential sexual history. For more information, please contact Christopher White, Ph.D., Director of Education and Training at: nsrc_si@sfsu.edu or call at 415/817-4513. To apply online, please visit: http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/summerinstitute
The American Sociological Association (ASA) seeks a Program Assistant, an entry level position for a BA-level sociologist, to work on projects to support and grow the discipline and profession. The Program Assistant will work with the Academic and Professional Affairs Program (APAP) in a small team environment with many independent responsibilities. Whether providing reference materials and consultants to sociology departments that are being evaluated, or compiling innovative class exercises to inspire new sociologists in their work, APAP is a driving force in the ASA's tripartite mission to serve sociologists in their work, advance sociology as a science and discipline, and promote the contributions and use of sociology to society.
Duties:
* Support and advance the goals of ASA and of APAP, including responding to inquiries from members and aligned organizations
* Assist with the maintenance of paper-based Teaching Resources Center volumes: produce catalogs, advertisements, and uniform style format for publications, coordinate printing and inventory maintenance
* Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of the new digital library portion of the Teaching Resources Center
* Help produce and edit brochures and other materials for career resources and contribute to forthcoming careers DVD project
* Coordinate new and renewing memberships for the Department Affiliates program including processing forms and preparing packets
* Work with the APAP Director to manage the Departmental Resources Group consultant services
* Handle customer-service issues associated with Department Affiliates, Chairlink, Teaching, and Career publications
* Assist in the coordination and production of APAP Annual Meeting events including the Graduate Program Poster Session, Film Screenings, and both the Chairs' and Directors' of Graduate Studies Conferences
* Attend the Annual Meeting and assist with programming and support
* Manage the Teaching Enhancement Fund small grants competition
* Edit, proofread, research, and write for Footnotes on an occasional basis
* Assist the APAP director with logistical arrangements for workshops and conferences
* Help work with APAP-related committees, task forces, and Department Resources Group to improve and implement the program
* Maintain APAP related topics on the homepage
* Assist with Secondary School issues including the High School Affiliate program
* Develop weekly list of tasks for the APAP Intern in consultation with the APAP Director
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology; familiarity with Windows and the Microsoft Office Suite; knowledge of, and experience with, content management systems and website development and maintenance is a plus; excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills; strong organizational and logistical skills; ability to take initiative, but also to work as a team member; interest in sociology as a discipline and a profession/career path. The position requires a minimum two-year commitment.
Process:
Review of application materials will begin immediately. The goal is to hire someone by May 15 with a start date in June. Please send a resume, cover letter, and names of at least 3 references to: apap@asanet.org. No telephone inquiries, please.
About APAP: See APAP's description page on the ASA's website (www.asanet.org).
The Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware is again offering a Summer Research Institute for undergraduate students to provide hands-on research training and mentoring on the social science aspects of disasters. Each summer, ten students from a wide variety of social science disciplines are selected to participate in the nine-week Summer Institute. All transportation and lodging expenses are covered for the student participants, who also receive a generous stipend for the summer. All students who will be entering their junior or senior year in the Fall, 2008, are invited to apply. Students who are underrepresented in graduate schools–minority students, women, students from poorer regions of the country, and students from institutions with limited graduate programs–are especially encouraged to apply. The application deadline is February 1 and students will be notified of their acceptance into the program by March 1. Program details, guidelines, and application materials can be found online at: http://www.udel.edu/DRC/REU. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and the US Department of Defense.
Scholarships and Competitions
No information right now, please check back in late November.Alternative Spring Break
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