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Internships, Fellowships, and Jobs for the Socially-ConsciousInternships, Jobs, and Volunteer CorpsIdealist: Provides links to websites of over 10,000 non-profit organizations. Includes a searchable database of job, volunteer, and internship opportunities and search tools for finding non-profits in other countries. Americorps: "The domestic Peace Corps." You do service for your community. You earn $ for school. You get experience for life. Careers in the Common Good: Nationwide and regional non-profit job listings. Resources posted by the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Center for Campus Organizing: Internships are available with this non-profit clearinghouse founded in 1995 to support progressive activism and investigative journalism on campuses nationwide. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador: Cross-border labor rights organizing in San Francisco, L.A., Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Boston, etc... Good Works: A listing of jobs with social change organizations (organized by state). Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First): Member supported, non-profit research and education-for-action center highlighting root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world with a commitment to food as a human right. Interns work in the research and analysis, outreach and education, and publications departments. Institute for Global Communications: Provides links to thousands of social change organizations through PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, and WomensNet. International Development Exchange: Internships and volunteer opportunities available in San Francisco. IDEX builds partnerships to overcome economic and social injustice, working toward people's greater control over the resources, political structures, and economic processes that affect their lives. They support community based development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America via development assistance abroad and education at home. Transforming
Communities: A 16 week academic/service program in Washington, DC
at American University. The Everett Public Service Internship Program: The Everett Program serves two goals. First, it encourages students' future involvement in public service by acquainting them with the challenges and rewards of public interest work. Second, it provides the public interest community, which too often functions on limited resources, with the dedication, energy, and idealism that interns bring to their work. Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs: Community Internships in Latin America. Summerbridge: Summerbridge is a national collaborative of 38 tuition-free programs providing two to four years of academic enrichment, mentoring, counseling, leadership, and advocacy for motivated elementary and middle school-aged children. Teach
for America Texas Lutheran University: The Texas Lutheran University International Studies Program (ISP) has two objectives: to heighten international and global understanding of all students, and to provide a collateral major to equip students for international careers. The Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program: Begun in partnership with VISTA in 1994, the Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program is a project of the Congressional Hunger Center, founded by Congressman Tony P. Hall after the demise of Congress' Select Committee on Hunger. The School of Field Studies: Our goal is to enable you to come away from your SFS experience with an understanding of the complexity and interrelatedness of environmental issues, as well as an increased commitment and new skills to help improve the environment and the lives people dependent on that environment. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG): Focused on consumer advocacy, environmental protection, campaign finance reform, and student activism. U.S. PIRG is a non-profit, non-partisan organization serving as a watchdog for the nation's citizens and environment. Both the national PIRG and individual state PIRGs offer internships and career positions. Student Conservation Association: SCA volunteers work in the nation's public lands doing a wide variety of conservation work. They offer environmental service positions through Americorp, a conservation career development program, a wilderness work skills program, and the conservation associates program. Teach for America: A national teacher corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors and cultural backgrounds who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. Fellowships, Awards, and GrantsDo Something: Grants of up to $500 to people under the age of 30 who want to build their community by designing and implementing a specific project or by contributing to an existing program. CORO Fellows
Program in Public Affairs: CORO's mission is to strengthen communities
and the democratic process by preparing individuals for effective and
ethical leadership in the public affairs arena. Echoing Green: This foundation, based in New York, provides seed money and technical support to social entrepreneurs who want to start new public service ventures. The Foundation takes risks on young ideas that will catalyze positive social change. The El Pomar Foundation: The El Pomar Foundation's Fellowship in Community Service Program is a two year, full-time, post-graduate program in Colorado Springs, CO. Fellowship positions are paid. Public Service Scholarships: Washington University's listing of public service scholarships. 
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