Summer Work 2: idealist.org

If you have not used this site before, we highly recommend idealist.org (@idealist). They are in the business of connecting people who want to help with organizations and groups who are tying to help. It is free to use once you sign up. Their site provides listings for organizations, people and events, as well as, opportunities for volunteering locally, nationally and internationally. For career advice, they offer a non-profit career center and a graduate school resource center (@gradresources). To compliment these resources they host "Graduate Degree Fairs" in various cities. Last but not least, you can also look into working for Idealist itself.

Idealist's Mission and Vision

Our Vision
We would like to live in a world where:

• All people can lead free and dignified lives.
• Every person who wants to help another has the ability to do so.
• No opportunities for action or collaboration are missed or wasted.

Our Mission
Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

Idealist is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.

Looking for Summer Work Helping Others?

Working professionally with non-profit and charitable organizations is a rewarding and life-changing endeavor. As the needs around the world grow and organizations rise up to help meet them, the need to hire and train qualified staff increases in tandem. Who knows? You could change your career goals simply by spending a summer as an intern. Here at TAT, we will seek to provide you with the opportunity to find out. Over the next few weeks, we will be posting job opportunities with socially aware/conscious organizations, non-profits, and other charitable entities.

Our first look today is at charity: water. Clean water is a luxury for billions of people in developing nations. These people struggle daily for a bucket of dirty water. This they use to wash, cook and drink. charity: water is committed to bringing clean and safe water to these souls.

charity: water is offering internships in four different areas of their organization.

1. Digital Community Intern: "As the Digital Community Intern, you'll help us manage our ever-expanding community of fundraisers on mycharity: water. You'll also get to research, analyze and help us recognize successful campaign ideas. As a main point of contact for our fundraisers', your suggestions and feedback will be valued and use by our Community Manager and Director of Digital."

Please send a cover letter and resume to merry.mccarron@charitywater.org. 

2.  Design Intern: As a Design Intern, you'll jump on with our small but fast-moving Creative Team to help us keep our brand bold and consistent. You'll channel all the artistic energy you can muster into brainstorming, designing and assembling print materials. You’ll own a lot of immediate, day-to-day design projects, working right alongside our designers"

Please send a cover letter, resume and link to your gorgeous portfolio to greg.yagoda@charitywater.org.

3. Water Programs Intern: As one of our Water Programs interns, you'll help us manage water projects data, report to donors and publish the GPS and photos of our completed projects online. You'll work closely with our Water Programs team to help us connect our donors to their water projects."

If this describes you, send your resume and cover letter to interns@charitywater.org by Friday, April 15.

4. Communications Intern: As a Communications Intern, you'll help keep our brand bold and consistent through answering all incoming media requests and also pitching our story to interested outlets. You’ll maintain our media reporting process and also have the chance to help us run our fundraising events in New York City."

Please send a cover letter and resume to sarah.cohen@charitywater.org by Monday, May 2.