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Job: Director of Organizing and Advocacy, Teach for America

Teach For America

Deadline: Until filled

The Deal: Teach for America is an organization determined to eliminate education inequity by enlisting outstanding recent graduates to teach in schools across the country. If you are graduating soon and are interested in their program you can apply here. They are also currently hiring for a Director position which is full time, with a flexible location, and who will be responsible for supporting alumni in developing their own initiatives.

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Jobs: Multiple Positions Available at the Moore Foundation

Moore Foundation
 
Deadline: until positions are filled

The Deal:  The Moore Foundation is a grant-making organization dedicated to environmental conservation and advances in science around the world. They are based out of Palo Alto, CA and currently have a variety of positions available including Chief Administrative Officer, Director, and Program Associates. Positions are available at all experience levels. 

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Job: Administrative Coordinator for Resource Generation

Resource Generation and Third Wave Foundation

Deadline: Until filled

The Deal: Resource Generation is an organization that helps young people with financial wealth leverage their privilege for social change. They play an active role in helping young foundation leaders direct their assets to social justice philanthropy and mission related investing. They position they are offering is a full time role based in Manhattan and is an administrative position which will be split between Resource Generation and the Third Wave Foundation. 

+ DreamNow: DreamNow has close ties to Resource Generation having just attended their Creating Change through Family Philanthropy Retreat in Upper New York State and having our executive director have a seat on the organizations board. 

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Job: Manager for Center for Effective Philanthropy

Center for Effective Philanthropy
 
Deadline: until filled

The Deal: The Center for Effective Philanthropy asseses foundations to provide comparative and insightful information, so that donors can invest wisely. They are currently seeking a manager to start immediately in their Cambridge, MA office to deal with both clients and assessments. This is a great opportunity to learn what exactly makes a successful foundation.

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Internship: Ford Foundation Summer Internship

Ford Foundation

Deadline: Until Filled

The Deal: The Ford Foundation is one of the large players in the philanthropy space and they are looking for interns across all of their programs. The internships are paid, based in New York and is for students who have a GPA of at least 2.5. This is the perfect starter job for those interested in getting into the philanthropic space. 

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Job: Editorial Manager for Dowser.org

Dowser
Deadline: May 25^th 2010

The Deal: Dowser.org is a brand new platform which showcases achievement in social innovation and change. The Editorial Manager is a full time position that will source, edit and write articles that embrace a solution-oriented approach to journalism. Based in New York City, this full-time position offers wide-ranging opportunities to apply your creativity, entrepreneurial skills and bold instincts to build a new media organization. If you are interested in dowser.org, they are also looking for internships, multimedia and freelance contributers.

 + DreamNow: Dowser was started by the author David Bornstein who we first met through StartingBloc in 2006 and who just recently spoke in Toronto at the YSEC Re:Vision Conference. 

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Conference: Girls 20 Summit

Girls and Women 
Deadline: May 7^th 2010

The Deal: Passionate about international development and women's rights? The G20 summit is holding a separate summit for women between the ages of 18-20. From June 16th-18th, twenty girls from the G20 countries will come together in Toronto to promote tangible and innovative solutions of their own to accompany those of the traditional G20 summit. The summit is looking for dynamic and confident change-makers.

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Internship: Ashoka Foundation

Ashoka Foundation

Deadline: ASAP

The Deal: Ashoka is looking for a global marketing and communications intern. The intern will help create and implement Ashoka's marketing strategy. The intern should have experience working in communications, new media, marketing, or graphic design. Ashoka supports individual social entrepreneurs over a three year period to carry on and dedicate themselves to their work. They also have a program for younger people called changemakers which is worth checking out.

+ DreamNow: A number of DreamNow's friends have recently won the Ashoka fellowship including Ilona Dougherty from Apathy is Boring and Tonya Surman from the Center for Social Innovation. 

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Internship: Ohio Environment Coalition

Ohio Student Environmental Coalition

Deadline: March 22nd  (1st round) April 19^th (2nd round)

The Deal: This is an environmental internship opportunity with OSEC and is part of the Summer of Solutions program run by Grand Aspirations that allows someone to get hands on experience in downtown Cleveland’s west side working in the emerging green economy. Learn first hand how to weatherize homes, create new urban agriculture project and build urban planning initiatives from the ground up. The internship pays two thousand dollars over the course of the summer.

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Fellowship: Blue Engine Education Fellows

Blue Engine

Deadline: March 10^th (1^st round)  April 28^th (2^nd round)

The Deal: We wrote about Blue Engine once before. They are an educational nonprofit start up that grew out of past alumni of the Teach for America program. Read more about them here. They have recently announced they are accepting application for their fellows programs which includes a stipend to do some high impact tutoring.

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