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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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Job: Framework Foundation, Resource Development

Framework Foundation

Deadline: July 1st, 2010

The Deal:  The Framework Foundation is an organization that is based in Toronto but that works nationally in order to connect people with meaningful volunteer placements and track the impact they have in their communities. Their two flagship programs are called the Timeraiser and Civic Footprint. They are looking for a part-time employee that can be both a Grant Developer and Sponsorship Coordinator to the organization.  

+DreamNow: We are big fans of the Timeraiser concept and it actually provided a great deal of inspiration to us for our BAR Philanthropy event. Check out the Timeraiser website and learn how you can volunteer and get an amazing piece of modern art in exchange.  

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Job: Director of International Outreach at Students Offering Support

Students Offering Support
 
Deadline: June 11th, 2010

The Deal: Students Offering Support is a national charity that works with various universities and high schools across Canada to hold exam preparation sessions. The money raised from these sessions are then used to fund their educational development projects in underdeveloped countries. The position is full time, based in Waterloo, and provides ample opportunity for travel and personal growth. If you have a passion for working abroad and community building then please

+ DreamNow: SOS was one of the first organizations to remix our BAR Philanthropy Event this last fall and hold their own version in Waterloo. It was a great success. They are also connected to the Millennium Network and have many great volunteers who have been through DreamNow programs. Check them out and apply. 

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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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Good Magazine Series

Dev Aujla, DreamNow's Executive Director, just got a new series on Good Magazine's website co-authored with Billy Parish entitled Making Money and Changing the World. Check out the first article they both wrote which features DreamNow's Occupation: Change the World project. 

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Excerpted from Good Magazine...
 
 A little under two years ago, we set out to interview more than 150 people in their twenties and thirties in order to find out how they were faring as they set out to get paid to do good. We found a foundation to support us, we hired staff, we held focus groups, and we read everything we could that was written on the simple question that seemed to be on everyone's mind: How do you make money and change the world?

The results came in and we put them into a free e-book that has been downloaded thousands of times. In doing all this, and in hearing the stories of people that read the e-book, we realized one thing—the e-book was only the beginning. Today we are writing a full-length book on the subject and we are uncovering even more stories, examples, and strategies that are actually helping people get jobs. Below are five trends from our research:

Read more: http://www.good.is/post/making-money-while-making-a-difference/

 

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: DreamNow Social Enterprise Intern

DreamNow

Deadline: July 13th 2009

The Deal: Come and work in our offices in Toronto for a few months and start building your network within the social enterprise space in Canada and the United States. We are working on some exciting projects including: making social enterprise accessible across race, class and privlege; scaling up our program which provides follow-up for conferences  and developing the next stage of Occupation: Change the World. 

Internships are unpaid but include travel to a number of social change conferences around North America. Come and work with us. It will be worth it. 

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Job: Causeway Social Finance

Social Innovation Generation @ MaRs

Deadline: June 1st '09

The Deal: This is a job that is placed at the heart of social entrepreneurship activity in Canada. The job entails being involved in a project called Causeway which is working to build a social finance infrastructure in Ontario and Canada. This simply means finding ways to fund and invest in things that do good. The job would be run and hosted out of MaRs in Toronto and pays between $41-51000/ year for a two year term. 

+ DreamNow: We have mentioned MaRs before as they helped support the launch of Occupation: Change the World and have played a pretty central role in the development of social enterprise here in Canada. They are a small but committed team that is doing great work. The job would put you in the center of it all in terms of social enterprise funding in Canada. Causeway is also a key component of socialfinance.ca which was started with the help of our friend Karim Harij. 

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Funding: S.E.VEN Mini Grant

Social Equity Venture Fund (S.E.VEN)

Deadline: Rolling

The Deal: S.E.VEN focuses on finding enterprise-based solutions to global poverty. If you have an idea for an enterprise-based solution and can get it going for $10,000 dollars or under it is worth a shot. They also are focused on funding research as it connects to the problem. Beyond their under $10,000 dollar mini-grant program they have an annual RFP process for larger asks. 

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Job: Social Innovation Generation, Communications Coordinator

Social Innovation Generation (SIG)

Deadline: April 29th 2009

The Deal:  SIG is a partnership between MaRs, The McConnell Foundation, The University of Waterloo and PLAN BC which has the purpose of building, scaling and researching social innovation growth in Canada. The position would be working under their Executive Director, Tim Draiman and with the team at MaRs in Toronto. This is a position with an organization that is a central hub of social entrepreneurship in Canada and an amazing opportunity. 

+DreamNow: DreamNow has worked on and off with MaRs over the past three years on our Occupation: Change the World project, and on some strategic thinking around our Continuum program. Tim is a member of our advisory board and we can vouch that he would be a great person to work for. 

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