Weekly Do-Gooder Jobs and Events

RESOURCES

This Hidden Jobs app would render this list obsolete, but all in the best of ways (only iPhone for now)

 

JOBS

Business Manager at Circus Smirkus (Greensboro, VT) Yup, circus in Vermont. You read that right.

Program Coordinator at Mass Farmers Markets (Waltham, MA)

Executive Director at Friends of John Jay Homestead (Katonah, NY)

Front/back house for Russ & Daughters restaurant (NYC)

PT Grant Writer Consultant at Appleseed (NYC)

Policy Analyst at Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (NYC)

Director of Development at Fractured Atlas (NYC)

Program Director, Immigrant Civic Leadership Program at Coro New York Leadership Center (NYC)

Technical Advisor, Women’s Protection and Empowerment at International Rescue Committee (NYC)

Grants Assistant at The JPB Foundation (NYC) A fairly new foundation that is attracting some serious philanthropic talent.

Health Center Director at Planned Parenthood of New York City (NYC)

Associate Director, Sexual Health and Rights at American Jewish World Service (NYC)

Advocacy Director at Open Society Foundations (NYC) A really fascinating job, and I need a person on the inside here J

Community Manager at Catapult (part of Women Deliver) (NYC) OMG, you would manage crowdfunding campaigns for women and girls…

NYS political reporter for WNYC (NYC)

Policy and Politics Reporter for Capital New York (NYC)

Program Associate at The Center for Reproductive Rights (NYC)

Staff Attorney at New York Civil Liberties Union (NYC)

Program Director at Safe Space NYC (Queens)

Fundraising Consultant at The Maple Street School (Brooklyn)

Quality Assurance Instructor at Year Up (Brooklyn) Instructor would teach young adults technical skills (MS Office Suite, software testing, JAVA, HTML, etc.)

Communications Director and Program Coordinator at North Star Fund (Brooklyn)

Program Director at GRIOT Circle (Brooklyn)

Executive Director at Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy (Brooklyn)

Program Coordinator / Instructor for Juvenile Gun Violence Intervention Program at Delaware Center for Justice (Wilmington)

Writer at Families Against Mandatory Minimums (DC)

Research Associate, Center on Social Dynamics and Policy at Brookings (DC)

Volunteer Coordinator at Food & Friends (DC) One the best AIDS service orgs in the country. For New Yorkers, it’s like God’s Love We Deliver.

Online Outreach Associate for Health and Reproductive Rights at National Women’s Law Center (DC)

Counsel, Fair Housing & Community Development Project at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (DC)

Culture Editor, ThinkProgress.org (DC) This was Alyssa Rosenberg’s position and despite my complete lack of qualifications for this job, I am so, so tempted…

Director of School Services at Metro TeenAIDS (DC)

Associate Director of Audience Development & Promotions at Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC)

 

Consultant Health Writer at Mental Health America (Alexandria)

Staff Attorney, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project at North Carolina Justice Center (Raleigh)

Staff Attorney, Farmworker Rights Project at Georgia Legal Services Program (Atlanta)

Executive Director at the National Black Arts Festival (Atlanta)

Staff Attorney at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (Granger, WA)

Marketing Coordinator, Social Media at Powell’s Books (Portland)

Executive Director at City Slicker Farms (Oakland)

Reading Women’s Lives Campaign Organizer at Sea Change (Oakland) This is newly established organization, so there could be a lot of promise for the right person.

Front-End Web Developer at Race Forward (Oakland)

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Become a skilled volunteer to help people still struggling with the after-effects of Sandy

Volunteer for the Trans 100 Event The event will be held in Chicago, but they need nationwide volunteers for outreach, etc.

Undergraduate Summer Internship Program at the Ford Foundation

Apply/nominate someone for the Peace First Prize

Call for Submissions: “Beyond Critique: Feminist Strategies in the 21st Century

Nominations are open for the Kenneth J. Ryan, MD, Physician Leadership Award 

 

EVENTS

February: Black Artstory Month (Brooklyn)

February 26: Book Launch: My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag… by Jolie Kerr  (Brooklyn) I love her

February 26: International & Intercultural Careers (NYC)

February 28: 2014 NYC Pipeline Fellowship Conference (NYC)

March 4: Paperback Launch: I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell, with Robert Christgau  (Brooklyn)

March 5: Focus on Women: What Has Changed and What Has Not (NYC)

March 5-19: YWCA Women’s History Month Panels (NYC)

March 6: Women’s Ink: Tattooing in the New Millennium (Brooklyn)

March 7: In Honor of Women in the Workforce and their in their Unions (NYC) Keynote by Letitia James

March 8: Small Works for Big Change: A Fundraiser for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (NYC)

March 8: YNPN-NYC’s Pool Party (NYC)

March 12: Jacobin Series Launch, with Melissa Gira Grant, Benjamin Kunkel, and Micah Uetricht (Brooklyn)

March 17: HBO Premiere of “Paycheck to Paycheck” produced in association with The Shriver Report

March 19: Ladies Pouring Beer for Ladies: Girls Pint Out NY at Brooklyn Brewery to Benefit Hollaback! (Brooklyn)

April 27: The Center for Anti-Violence’s Prom (NYC)