Hi Prof. O'Neil,
Thanks for forwarding our internship information to students and people in your department. To give you the quick update, so far this fall 70 students have gone through our training program. Interns across the country have organized events on their campuses from canned food drives to support local food banks to collecting hundreds of petitions to get National Geographic to clean up its paper mill to participating in a health care panel with the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services.
We're doing one more session of our fall civic engagement internships where students go through a 5-week training program to learn how to organize a campaign on campus and engage their peers on issues that matter to them. The deadline to apply is Friday, Oct. 28.
We're also doing interviews for spring internships to begin in January. The deadline for early spring applications is Nov. 18.
Could you make a quick announcement to your students again about our program? Feel free to forward the info below.
Thanks again,
Marites Velasquez
Field Organizer
WashPIRG
WashPIRG Activism Internships
If you want to make a difference and learn valuable skills, join our team of interns and volunteers. We've got plans to take on the problems our country faces - and with your help, we can win.
2011-2012 Campaigns:
Energy Service Corps
Defend the Environment
Save Student Aid
New Voters Project
No Hunger, No Homelessness
Find out more and apply for a WashPIRG internship at http://www.washpirgstudents.org/internships
Deadline for fall internship applications: Oct. 28; Deadline for early spring applications: Nov. 18
