Apply to make an IMPACT for our environment, our democracy and our future

 Impact is a non-profit project of leading advocacy organizations, including Environment America and U.S. PIRG, that creates the grassroots action and power it takes to make an impact on issues that matter. We’re hiring a team of organizers for a two-year program.

Organizers currently work in 25 states. We’re working with national campaigns to get our country to 100 percent renewable energy, reduce corporate agriculture’s pollution of our water, and end the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IMPACT
What will you do with Impact? First, you’ll come together with other new and experienced staff from across the country to learn how to make your impact in classroom trainings on the issues, our campaigns, our strategies and the tactics you’ll be using throughout the year. Then, you’ll put those skills to use in the field.

Your campaign assignment will depend in part on where you applied to work and where you can make the biggest difference. For example, you might build the coalition that convinces a major restaurant to stop serving meat raised on antibiotics. Or you could organize the news event that convinces the governor in your state that switching to more renewable energy is an opportunity to be a hero with the public.

Even when there’s not a vote coming up, organizing helps build long-term power to secure victories in the future. By first educating people on an issue and then winning them over to our point of view, we lay the groundwork for political change. It’s challenging, fun and incredibly meaningful. We’re taking on big issues and we’re up against big adversaries. We run campaigns with concrete goals, detailed plans, rigorous training, and above all, a laser- like focus on results.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT
Every day with Impact is different. You could be connecting with new health or consumer groups to build a coalition to stop antibiotic overuse, speaking in a church basement or at a town hall meeting on 100 percent renewable energy, organizing a news event on water pollution from factory farms, or meeting with an editorial board about any of these issues.

During the summer, you’ll run a citizen outreach canvass—and have the power of a paid staff of college students and others ready to help you build support for an issue, recruit new members, and raise funds for the campaign. And you’ll recruit the next wave of Impact organizers and interns so we can continue to work on more campaigns. So if what you want to do after college is to join a team of people who bring their passion to work every day to make an impact on issues that matter, then we’re the group for you.

PAY & BENEFITS
The target annual compensation for this position is $26,000 in the first year. Impact offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.
 

TO LEARN MORE AND APPLY: WeAreImpact.org 

Deadline: November 13, 2016

2017 Critical Language Scholarship Program Application Is Open

The competition for the U.S. Department of State 2017 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is now open!

The CLS Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is a fully-funded overseas intensive language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students. With the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering critical languages and to build relationships between the people of the United States and other countries, CLS provides opportunities to a diverse range of students from across the United States at every level of language learning.

The fourteen CLS languages are: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.

Please note that participants in the CLS Program are not required to have any experience studying critical languages for most of the fourteen languages. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can be found on the CLS website

The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, from a wide variety of fields of study, backgrounds and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States. Thus, students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.

There is no service requirement for CLS Alumni after the program. However, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.

Please note that CLS is an intensive group-based language program.

Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website

The application is now live and available online

Applications will be due November 16, 2016 by 8:00 pm EST.

Fall Campaign Internship with Congressman Denny Heck

McCain 2016 Student Virtual Internship

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Become a valued team member of the John McCain Campaign!

With the ability to work from home, you can help support Senator McCain for his 2016 re-election. As a virtual intern, you can expect to partake in research projects, digital campaign work, and voter outreach, as well as specialized projects that would be tailored to your interests and skill sets.

Becoming an intern for Senator McCain’s campaign will give you the opportunity to engage in the political process and gain valuable experience working on a campaign. Our internship is the perfect way to build your work or college resume and network with fellow interns, volunteers, and members of our staff. Furthermore, course credit is available based on university requirements.

If you are interested in becoming a valued team member of the John McCain for U.S. Senate Campaign please Email Jarred Whicker, our Field Representative (jarred@johnmccain.com) with your resume and availability.

For more information please visit: http://virtualintern.weebly.com/

Puget Sound Volunteers Needed for Tacoma Voter Mobilization!

My name is Dimitri Groce, and I am organizer for the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance.

This election cycle, we are hosting volunteer voter mobilization opportunities to door-knock and phone-bank to turn-out voters in affordable housing who are traditionally excluded and untapped during elections. This would be an important opportunity not only to engage communities in the Tacoma area, but provide students some background on the electoral/legislative process, exposure to how housing policy is experienced by folks in affordable housing, and fun, valuable GOTV experience.

Interested students should contact our organizer director's email teresac@housingactionfund.org, and she can coordinate scheduling different voter engagement opportunities with them.

Nancy Cohen Lecture: The Year Feminism Won? - 10/25

Southeast Asia Symposium - FRI,SAT 10/28,29

Detailed Schedule is available here

The Project Vote Smart National Internship Program

"The Project Vote Smart National Internship Program provides a unique lesson in the study of American politics. Students from across the nation and around the world come to our high tech research center in the Montana Rockies for ten weeks to help American citizens educate themselves about elected officials and candidates. By providing this information in an easy and accessible manner, Project Vote Smart believes that citizens can better defend themselves from the political hype and misrepresentation characteristic of present day political campaigns.

Interns play a crucial role at Project Vote Smart and make up the vast majority of our staff. The individual talents, ideas and hard work of our interns have been instrumental in the success of many of our most important programs.

Since the Project researches thousands of elected officials and candidates' backgrounds, the work is often tedious. However, if you are interested in making a genuine contribution to your Nation, in an idealistic and positive environment -- located in the middle of a natural wonderland -- we would love to have you join our team. There is plenty of room to learn and grow with the organization. Interns often return as staff members after they have finished their college careers.

College students and recent graduates typically participate in our National Internship Program. Interns must commit to ten consecutive weeks, but may intern anytime during the year. We accept applications on a rolling basis and have no deadline, but interns are encouraged to submit their applications early because space does fill up quickly. Interns live on-site at the Project's Great Divide Ranch and scholarships pay for all living costs, including room and board."

For more information and the application click here

Job Opportunity in Vietnam for Puget Sound Students

The Lab is looking for someone who can commit to one year and will provide a living stipend and free housing. It's a rolling deadline so they are interviewing people as applications come in. 

Anyone with questions, feel free to contact Selina Tran <selina.tran0@gmail.com> .

Internships available with Jay Inslee for Washington

Are you interested in working in politics? Jay Inslee for Washington is looking for hardworking and talented individuals to join the finance, field, policy, compliance, and outreach teams in our Seattle office. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in campaign work - particularly in the fields of research, finance, community organizing, voter contact, volunteer recruitment, and more. Field internships also available in Bellevue, Everett, Federal, Olympia, Spokane, Tacoma and Vancouver.

INTERN ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Conduct research, help with database management, and provide support in fundraising by contacting donors and assisting staff at events

·         Work with staff to carry out administrative duties, including data entry, mass mailings, filings, answering the phone, and other office related tasks

·         Assist with special event coordination, planning, recruiting attendees, and day-of-event operations

·         Assist with media monitoring, communication, and research projects

·         Help recruit volunteers, organize and run statewide phone banks, and participate in voter contact

·         Other responsibilities as they develop, based on intern interest areas and campaign needs

COMMITMENT:  

We have multiple unpaid positions the Fall (ending in mid-November). Candidates must be available to commit to consistent hours at one of our offices, with evening and weekend opportunities available. Internship duration can accommodate semesters/quarters and is flexible around class schedule. 15 hours per week minimum commitment required.

Positions open immediately.  Class credit is available depending on your school requirements.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are interested and ready to gain some on the ground experience in the world of politics, please send your resume, cover letter, and three references to Info@JayInslee.com with “Inslee Internship” as the subject line.

NOTE FROM RENNIE MARSHALL:

Anyone interested in applying for a field position in Tacoma needs to "cc" Diane Bedwell <diane@jayinslee.com> and myself (Rennie Marshall <rennie@jayinslee.com>) so we can flag it.

2nd Presidential Debate Viewing - SUN 10/9

Third Presidential Debate Viewing - WED 10/19

Lecture of Interest on Technology use in Syrian Refugee Camps

Creating Futures through Magical Devices and Library Caravans: Participatory Design with Syrian Youth at Za’atari Refugee Camp by Professor Karen E. Fisher

When: Monday, October 10th at 3:00 – 4:00 with a Q&A session at 4 p.m.
Where: Library Room 020

In 2016 the world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII: over 65M people are forcibly displaced, and half of them are youth. Drawing on previous work with U.S. teens from East Africa, Myanmar and Latin America, we explore how technology and libraries can help young Syrian refugees build their futures. We report on recent fieldwork from Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp in Jordan, highlighting youth creativity, desire to help others via ICT wayfaring and crisis response, and universal design archetypes. We share sample design specs for glasses that detect disease and other magical devices, storytelling sessions, a YouTube community memory project, and interviews with refugee volunteers at caravan libraries. The United Nations Refugee Agency gave us a mission to help build capacity through innovation at Zaatari. In this talk, we pause, to debrief and brainstorm with audiences on how libraries and technology can help refugee youth and families re imagine their lives in the Middle East and world at-large. Shukran.

Karen E. Fisher, Professor, information school, University of Washington. An advocate of humanitarian research, her passion is how libraries and information technology can create futures. Fisher is working with Arab refugees in the Middle East and Europe, understanding their information behavior, and building capacity through education, livelihoods, and social engagement.