We ask our educational institutions to buy the most fuel-efficient vehicles available on the market. This means purchasing alternatively fueled cars and trucks such as Plug-in Electric Vehicles (EV's) and hybrids. It also means calling on fleet buyers to set a floor standard for the fuel economy of their vehicles of 40 miles per gallon, place "soft-orders" and write to major auto manufacturers about providing these choices.

This is part of the Campus Climate Challenge, which is coordinated out of the Energy Action Coalition. The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada uniting young people to organize to win climate policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming and lead our society to a just, clean energy future.

Interns will:

• Outreach and follow-up with California campuses
• Help recruit and coordinate for a national youth climate conference and actions
• Research campus transportation programs and administration
• Update Greenfleets policy template with current information
• Update the webpage
• Administrative duties as needed: database entries, spreadsheets, copies, etc.

Interns will learn:

• How to run a campus campaign
• How to coordinate multiple campuses and campaigns
• Tactical investigation methods and power-mapping
• How to participate in media
• The inner workings of a non-profit work environment

The program focuses on creating sustainable educational/political travel to Afghanistan, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine & Israel. The delegations aim to create lasting ties of solidarity between citizens of the Global North and communities in the Middle East in order to increase participation in movements advocating for balanced and just policy towards the region.

Interns will:

• Recruit and outreach for upcoming delegations via internet, phone calls and mailings
• Create an educational presentation about social and political realities in Iran, Afghanistan or Palestine & Israel, and the importance of building people-to-people ties
• Assist in the coordination of Reality Tours to the Middle East and Afghanistan
• Update and create Reality Tours web pages, country profiles, and Background Readers
• Design flyers and other outreach pieces for delegations
• Plan and execute a local event to promote Global Exchange and social justice in Middle East
• Help organize a fundraising event for the Reality Tours scholarship fund
• Administrative duties as needed: database, spreadsheets, copies, faxes, etc

Interns will learn:

• Marketing and outreach skills, including handling the media
• How to coordinate long term projects with a broad range of partners
• Why create socially-responsible travel and what it looks like
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in the Middle East

**Farsi or Arabic skills preferred, but not required.

We are looking for talented, detail-oriented individuals who can commit to a minimum of 20 hours a week to bolster our fundraising efforts through event planning, research of prospective funders, editing and submission of grant proposals and database management.

As a Fundraising Intern you will:

• Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations
• Learn event planning, database management and outreach skills
• Research and evaluate prospective individual donors
• Develop promotional materials to build interest around the work of GX
• Attend events in the community to engage new members
• Keep our existing members and donors informed on GX's work
• Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Exchange's mission and campaigns

As a Grants Intern you will:

• Become familiar with the inner workings of non-profit organizations
• Research and evaluate prospective foundation funders
• Learn how to develop an annual foundation fundraising strategy
• Learn the basics of the grants process -- grant writing, developing project budgets, foundation correspondence, and reporting
• Help maintain our relationships with Foundations
• Edit and submit grant proposals
• Learn basic database management skills
• Gain an in-depth understanding of Global Exchange's mission and campaigns

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented individuals
• Some office experience and familiarity with Microsoft Office
• Passionate about human rights and social justice
• Interested in learning more about the non-profit sector

The program focuses on creating sustainable educational/political travel to Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The delegations aim to create lasting ties of solidarity between citizens of the Global North and communities in Latin America in order to increase participation in movements advocating for balanced and just policy towards the region.

Interns will:

• Recruit and outreach for upcoming delegations via internet,
• phone calls and mailings
• Create an educational presentation about social and politicalrealities in Latin America and the importance of building people-to-people ties
• Assist in the coordination of Reality Tours to the Latin America
• Update and create Reality Tours web pages, country profiles, and Background Readers
• Design flyers and other outreach pieces for delegations
• Plan and execute a local event to promote Global Exchange and social justice in Latin America
• Administrative duties as needed: database, spreadsheets, copies, faxes, etc

• Marketing and outreach skills, including handling the media;
• How to coordinate long term projects with a broad range of partners;
• Why create socially-responsible travel and what it looks like
• Professional skills in a fast-paced, non-profit work environment
• A deeper understanding of social justice issues in Latin America

• conduct research
• outreach by phone, email and in-person to engage activists in GX economic justice campaigns
• outreach to journalists to inform them about important developments on GX economic justice campaigns
• create materials on economic justice issues such as fact sheets, campaign postcards, teaching materials, flyers, press releases and web pages
• update and maintain sections of the GX website, such as the sweatshops, corporate accountability, and Fair Trade sections (no knowledge of HTML required)
• participate in campaign planning and brainstorming meetings
• other administrative duties, as needed Interns will learn skills such as:
• basics of conducting economic justice and corporate campaigns
• campaign planning
• outreach techniques
• how to get the media's attention
• basics of website development and maintenance
• writing and researching skills
• how to work with grassroots activists

  Fall, 2008 internships are likely to be project oriented. Interns will be responsible for managing Global Exchange's Reverse Trick-or-Treating and Christmas Caroling initiatives. Through Reverse Trick-or-Treating, thousands of children nationwide go door to door on their normal trick-or-treating neighborhood rounds, but also hand chocolate back to adults....Fair Trade chocolate attached to an informational piece about problems in the conventional cocoa industry. Christmas caroling is a similar initiative, in which community groups Christmas Carol for Fair Trade in their communities. Fall interns will also help forward-promote our Valentine's Day, Easter, and Passover initiatives.

  Fall interns may also help with our Sweet Smarts initiative, to build a national network of children and parents who advocate for Fair Trade in their communities.

  In your cover letter, please describe any experience you may have in areas directly related to our campaign projects, such as Fair Trade, Africa, outreach to faith groups, work in the "foodie"/coffee/chocolate or education communities, and grassroots organizing. Please include a brief writing sample in your application, preferably something you have prepared for a grassroots advocacy campaign and contact information for several references.

• About the emerging green economy and get an insider perspective on the major ideas, projects, and players within the movement;
• How to organize green education and job training projects;
• How to organize a major event and coordinate a volunteer program involving thousands of participants;
• What is involved in the management of a large real estate project.

Green Workforce Development Our Green Workforce Development program has three stages: (1) our Green Guardians program trains inner city high school youth in green neighborhood development skills; (2) our Green Careers courses at San Francisco City College take students the next step to prepare them to be CEOs (Chief Environmental Officers) for the green companies we know through our production of the Green Festivals, and (3) our Green Apprenticeships and job placement with these same companies help youth find secure careers in the green economy.

Green Festivals Green Festivals are large green economy events that take place in Seattle, April 12-13, 2008; Chicago, May 17-18, 2008; Washington, D.C., November 8-9, 2008; San Francisco, November 14-16, 2008. These weekend events bring together 350 green companies, dozens of activist organizations, more than 100 speakers, 12 organic vegetarian food vendors, diverse live music, and tens of thousands of attendees. By exposing the general public to the entire green economy in one place, and providing hands-on education about the necessary changes we need to make in our economy and lifestyles, we help accelerate the transition to the nature-friendly economy of the future. Interns help with recruiting more than 900 volunteers who work the event, outreach and promotion of the event, management of speakers, and other administrative tasks associated with organizing a large event.

Global Citizen Center We are developing a building in downtown San Francisco that will have these main components:

• A retail/wholesale ecomall (GreenMart) that will be a hybrid of a green everything store (based on our experience with GreenFestivals.org) and an Exploratorium style learning center on the green economy (complete with food court—café/restaurant/organic brewpub);
• Offices rented or owned by nonprofit environmental and social justice groups and foundations that will help market the GreenMart, and share infrastructure (photocopying, cooperative purchasing of supplies, exercise room with stationary bikes and rowing machines that generate electricity, etc.). We have recruited 90,000 sq.ft. of office tenants so far (Mother Jones, Global Exchange, SF Dept. of the Environment, TransFairUSA, New Leaf Paper, Blue Water Network, Vanguard Foundation, and many more).
• Activity space for conferences, and special events, with a state-of-the-art recording booth for radio stations to broadcast live cultural performances and promote the address. The groups renting offices will promote the ground-floor GreenMart in their extensive outreach materials because:
• Affordable housing for teachers and other city workers (first responders, mass transit workers, and city health service workers). These workers have trouble affording the expensive housing in San Francisco and providing affordable housing, especially for teachers working in nearby schools, will help San Francisco strengthen its educational system.