Weekly Do-Gooder Jobs and Events

RESOURCES

In honor of Labor Day, here are Women in Labor History

 

JOBS

Digital Director, Equality & Culture Project at UltraViolet (virtual)

Executive Director at National Network of Abortion Funds (DC/Boston)

Entertainment Reporter at BuzzFeed (NYC/LA)

PAID Intern at WNYC (NYC)

Operations Manager at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NYC)

News App Editorial Lead at Buzzfeed (NYC)

Director of Development at Youth Communication New York (NYC)

Communications Officer at IPPF/WHR (NYC)

Communications Director at The New York Working Families Party (Brooklyn)

Deputy Director of Resources and Strategy at North Star Fund (Brooklyn)

Director of Education and Regional Programs at Scenarios USA (Brooklyn)

Editor at Mother Jones (DC)

Senior Digital Editor, Identity & Culture Unit at NPR (DC)

Social and Digital Media Manager at RH Reality Check (Silver Spring) I think they have a virtual office, but that’s not mentioned on this listing

Access Network Organizer at National Network of Abortion Funds (Texas)

Campus Organizer at NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado (Denver)

Senior Program Associate, Levi Strauss Foundation (SF)

Events Coordinator at The San Francisco LGBT Community Center (SF)

Communications Assistant Professor at University of Washington (Seattle)

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Unpaid intern at POV (Brooklyn)

Unpaid Social Media Intern at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)

How To Pitch Personal Essays To BuzzFeed Ideas

Speaking Race to Power Fellowship

Slow Food Denver Offers Microgrants to Local Food Organizations

Submit your nipples!

 

EVENTS

September 10, 2014–February 15, 2015: Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe (Brooklyn)

September 12: Culture Shift Regional Academy (Oakland)

September 13: Feminism for What? Equality in the Workplace after Lean In (NYC)

September 14: No Selves To Defend, No Rights To Respect – A Conversation (Chicago)

September 15: Jacqueline Novogratz – Investing in Impact-Driven Leadership (NYC)

September 18: Backline’s 10th Anniversary Party (NYC)

September 22: William D. Cohan “The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal” (NYC)

September 23: Women and Climate Justice – A Panel Discussion (NYC)

September 25: Through Trying Times: Stories of Loss and Redemption in the American South (LA)

September 27: Colorado Gay-Straight Alliance Leadership Summit (Denver)

October 6: The Founding Moms Conference (Chicago)

October 10-18: Litquake (SF)

October 15: The Engagement Party at Idealist Consulting (SF)

October 16: NYAAF’s 3rd Annual Celebrate Access Awards (NYC)

October 17: Best Practices with LGBTQI Youth and Families in a Changing Landscape (Hyde Park, NY)

October 23: REVIVE! Third Wave Re-Launch Party (NYC)

Until October 26: Free movies at Habana Outpost (Brooklyn)

Until November 1: Frida Kahlo’s Garden (NYC)

November 13-15: Facing Race Conference 2014 (Dallas)

 

Don’t forget! Please let me know if you’ve had any success in your job search thanks to these listings.

Weekly Do-Gooder Jobs and Events

I am moving cross-country soon, so I’m going to be taking off the last few weeks of summer, like a Manhattan doctor. Check out @ReproJobs while I’m gone—I steal all their listings anyway.

 

RESOURCES

Jelani Cobb on Ferguson: “The ironies of race and policing were readily apparent: law enforcement using force to suppress outrage at law enforcement’s indiscriminate use of force.”

 

JOBS

Editorial Assistant at RH Reality Check (remote)

Feminist Resource Mobilization – Program Coordinator at AWID (flexible)

Executive Director of Women Action Media (flexible) If I didn’t already have an awesome new job, I would be lobbying HARD to get this one.

Senior Editor at Slate (NYC/DC)

Director of Resource Development at Schott Foundation for Public Education (NYC/Cambridge)

News Director, UK at Buzzfeed (assuming it’s based in London)

Health Library Program Associate at The AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (Boston)

Emerging Voices Fellow at Demos (NYC)

Outreach Coordinator at Athena Film Festival (NYC) November-February/stipend

Story Editor at First Look Media (NYC)

National Field Coordinator at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NYC) This looks amazing

PAID Reproductive Freedom Project Intern at ACLU-Virginia (Richmond)

Executive Director at Maker Education Initiative (Oakland) I mean, you’re basically helping kids build robots all day long…

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Exhale After-Abortion Talkline Counselor volunteer applications are being accepted

Abortion Storyteller Experience Survey

North Star Fund is accepting grant proposals until September 15

Net Artist in Residence program at NY Public Library

McSweeney’s Student Short Story Contest (submissions due August 31)

Facing Race: A National Conference is looking for visual art

 

EVENTS

August 14: Trans* and LGBQ Peer Mentoring Mixer (SF) (second Thursday of every month)

August 14-17: Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit 2014 (Alexandria)

August 15-17: Codeathon for Women’s Health (NYC)

August 15-17: Weapons of Mass Creation Conference (Cleveland)

August 28: WAM!Bay August Happy Hour (SF)

September 5: BAM 24-hour Movie Marathon for charity (Brooklyn)

September 15: Jacqueline Novogratz – Investing in Impact-Driven Leadership (NYC)

September 18: Backline’s 10th Anniversary Party (NYC)

October 6: The Founding Moms Conference (Chicago)

October 10-18: Litquake (SF)

October 15: The Engagement Party at Idealist Consulting (SF)

October 17: Best Practices with LGBTQI Youth and Families in a Changing Landscape (Hyde Park, NY)

Until October 26: Free movies at Habana Outpost (Brooklyn)

Until November 1: Frida Kahlo’s Garden (NYC)

November 13-15: Facing Race Conference 2014 (Dallas)

 

Don’t forget! Please let me know if you’ve had any success in your job search thanks to these listings.