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Weekly Do-Gooder Jobs and Events
RESOURCES
Extra resources for the new year!
JOBS
- Development Manager at Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Bard College) (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
- Editors at Flavorpill (Music, TV, Non-Fiction, Web Culture) (NYC)
- PAID Pinterest and Instagram Interns at Fast Company (NYC)
- Experienced editors for copy desks at NY Times (NYC) yes, the Grey Lady advertises exclusively on Twitter these days
- Director of Digital at WonderWork (NYC)
- Strategic Partnership Director at Green Ivy Schools (NYC)
- Program Associate at Fractured Atlas (NYC)
- PT Opening at Brooklyn Brainery (Brooklyn) If I wasn’t working FT right now, I would take this job, just because it seems like fun
- Executive Director at Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning (Queens)
- Director, Foundation Relations at Smithsonian Institution (DC) Work with my friends!
- Manager of Corporate Partnerships at Equal Rights Center (DC)
- Executive Director at Multicultural Community Service (DC)
- Correspondent-Global Health & Development at NPR (DC)
- Digital Editor/Blogger-Global Health & Development at NPR (DC)
- Lead Digital Editor/Blogger-Global Health & Development at NPR (DC)
- Deputy Executive Director for External Affairs at Foundation for the National Archives (DC)
- Midwest Regional Organizer at UAW Local 2320/Legal Service Workers (Chicago)
- Development Director at CASA Latina (Seattle)
- Technical Director/Lead Engineer at NaNoWriMo (Berkeley) I didn’t even know that National Novel Writing Month was an organization…
- Organizing Director at SIREN (San Jose)
- Video Curator at BuzzFeed (LA)
OPPORTUNITIES
- Applications are open for Media Ideation Fellows
- Applications are open for the Catapult Film Fund
- Entries accepted for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting ($5,000)
- Call for proposals for the Digital Edutainment conference
- Spring 2014 Young Writers Program at RH Reality Check (for writers 15-20 years old)
- The 6th Annual Youth Voices Network Writing Contest (for writers 10-24 years old)
- Writers, get a house in Detroit
EVENTS
- January 10: Next One’s On Me!: A Reading Celebrating the Paperback Launch of DRINKING WITH MEN (NYC) I really enjoyed this book about being a woman who drinks in public
- January 13: January Change Makers Happy Hour w/ Be Social Change (NYC)
- January 15: Be a better feminist with YWTF-NYC (NYC)
- February 6-9: Athena Film Festival (NYC) tickets are on sale now
- Now to March 23: The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (NYC) Went to this over the Thanksgiving weekend and it was really great! A lot more global than I expected.
Please send tips to rebeccaand [at] gmail [dot] com
Weekly Do-Gooder Jobs and Events
Hey, what are your biggest challenges in your non-profit job search? Tell me about it and I can try to address (possibly even feature you!) in my next column in The Daily Muse.
RESOURCES
Black feminism reading lists from Buzzfeed and the Melissa Harris-Perry show
JOBS
- Young Feminist Activism – Program Coordinator (Flexible) The title makes it seem like this is entry level, but it would actually mean you are running the world. Must be trilingual.
- Research Manager at The Center for Effective Philanthropy (Cambridge, MA)
- Executive Assistant to the CEO at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (Rhinebeck, NY) The Omega campus is really gorgeous and you’d probably get free yoga….
- Bike Ambassador, Leads at Transportation Alternatives (NYC)
- Gallery Assistant (search done by Thomas & Associates) (NYC)
- Assistant Editor, Time Out New York Kids (NYC)
- School Violence Prevention Program Coordinator at Girls Inc. of NYC (NYC)
- Education Manager, Apollo Theater Academy at the Apollo Theater (NYC)
- Program Assistant, Peacebuilding and Western Balkans a the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (NYC)
- Program Officer/Safe Abortion & Advocacy at International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (NYC)
- Director of Public Programs at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan (NYC)
- New York City Program Manager at Girls Who Code (NYC) I love this organization
- Executive Director at Tenants & Neighbors (NYC)
- Instructor at Prospect Park Zoo (Brooklyn) YOU COULD WORK WITH MONKEYS
- Director, Explore Brooklyn at Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn)
- Senior Gift Officer, Institutional Relations at the Smithsonian Institution (DC)
- Director, Energy & Women’s Health at United Nations Foundation (DC)
- Development Coordinator at Girls on the Run (DC)
- Director of Development at Critical Exposure (DC)
- Data Scientist at NPR (DC)
- Development Officer at Greater New Orleans Foundation (NO)
- Director of Fund Development at NO/AIDS Task Force (NO)
- Development Officer at The Texas Tribune (Austin)
- Executive Director at 270 Strategies (Chicago)
- Membership Coordinator at National Cannabis Industry Association (Denver)
- Assistant Librarian at San Francisco Botanical Garden Society (SF)
- Director of Research and Evaluation at Youth Policy Institute (LA)
- Deputy Director of Programs at International Rescue Committee (Jordan)
OPPORTUNITIES
EVENTS
- December 18: Comedy, Coats, and Cakes for the Brooklyn Women’s Collective (Brooklyn)
- December 27: Chicago’s Orphan’s Christmas (Turducken Salon) (Chicago)
- Now to January 4: A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (NYC)
- Now to March 23: The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (NYC) Went to this over the Thanksgiving weekend and it was really great! A lot more global than I expected.
Please send tips to rebeccaand [at] gmail [dot] com
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