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Fall 2025 Internship Opportunity: Festival Beach Food Forest

Fall 2025 Internship Opportunity
Organization: Festival Beach Food Forest
Location: Hybrid (Austin, TX)
Hours: 10–12 hours/week
Compensation: Unpaid, with mentorship and leadership-building opportunities
Focus Areas: Grant Writing, Fundraising, or Communications
Application Deadline: Rolling until filled

About Festival Beach Food Forest

Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF) is a publicly accessible food forest and grassroots initiative located on city parkland in East Austin. We exist at the intersection of food justice, ecological restoration, and community power-building. We use Sociocracy, a non-hierarchical and consent-based governance model. This means interns will have access to all levels of our organizational systems and knowledge, significant autonomy, and participate in all team decisions relevant to their scope of work.

Interns will work closely with our team coordinators to build their own portfolio of projects and help shape the systems that will guide future volunteers and leaders. The tracks below are starting points, and we welcome collaboration on goals and deliverables based on individual strengths and interests.

Grant Writing Intern

As our Grant Writing Intern, you will actively research, lead, and draft grant proposals in support of our programs and operations. You’ll work closely with our  Grant Circle to prioritize funding needs, develop compelling language about our impact, and submit proposals to private and public funders. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone ready to take the lead on writing projects and improve their skills in strategic storytelling, budgeting, and navigating institutional funding processes. You will also contribute to building templates and internal documentation to support future grant seekers at FBFF.

Fundraising Intern

Our Fundraising Intern will help grow our Giving Guild and donor network through backend organization and people-powered outreach. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining donor research lists (individuals, businesses, foundations), improving our BetterUnite fundraising infrastructure, and developing outreach materials such as tabling scripts, signage, and donor communication templates. You’ll also assist with coordinating and hosting pop-up shops and donor engagement at our monthly volunteer events. This internship is ideal for someone excited to build relationships, experiment with community-based fundraising strategies, and create systems that future volunteers can use.

Communications Intern

The Communications Intern will help shape FBFF’s digital presence by contributing to newsletters, social media, and storytelling campaigns. You’ll support monthly content planning, create and publish posts across Instagram and Facebook, and contribute to community outreach materials such as flyers, blurbs, and signage. This is a great fit for someone interested in environmental storytelling, public engagement, and brand building. You’ll also help organize and maintain our communications archive, streamlining tools and templates to support future collaborators.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for people who are comfortable in collaborative environments, willing to participate in self-governance models, and inspired by our work. If you’re unfamiliar with us, check out this segment produced by PBS (https://youtu.be/jNNwcXL29lg).

To Apply

Please send a resume and a short statement of interest to contact@festivalbeach.org and include: The internship track you are most interested in (grant writing, fundraising, or communications), any relevant experience, coursework, or goals, and what you hope to learn or contribute through this opportunity.

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Enhabit Home Health and Hospice – Fall 2025 Internship

About Us

We are a hospice company that provides care for our patients wherever they are living (home, assisted living or group home). We have opportunities to visit patients or as an administrative intern as well. There are many ways to learn more about the depths of hospice and we hope to teach you that. Learn more at ehab.com.

Position Information

8 hours per week that can be divided into different job duties. (150+ hours per semester). There is an onboarding process; we require a background check, 2 step TB test, a saliva drug test and a 2-hour orientation.

Location

7901 E. Riverside Dr, Austin, TX. This is an in-person internship

For more information, contact Kelli Delgado at Kelli.Delgado@ehab.com

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Summer 2025 Internships with Whole Communities-Whole Health

Whole Communities-Whole Health (WCWH) is a grand challenge in research at UT Austin. Our challenge is to change the way science helps society thrive. To do this, we are conducting a 5-year community-engaged cohort study in SE Austin and surrounding areas with families who have children under 5 years old. The goals of this study are to:

  • Study how individual and environmental health determinants impact young children and their families. By studying factors of health across physical, mental, environmental health and more, we hope to learn more about how these sectors influence each other and the health of the child and family.
  • Create an effective implementation model for multi-disciplinary family research processes.
  • Include families who have historically been excluded from research.
  • Provide opportunities for participants and community members to engage in the research process, ultimately improving the usefulness of the data.
  • Test new technologies for data collection.
  • Return study results to study participants.

WCWH is looking for 2-4 interns for the summer of 2025 to support our study team, community engagement, and returning data to participants.
Study Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Prepare data collection materials for visits with participants
  • Conduct home visits with participants (you will always be accompanied by a staff member)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

Community Engagement/Data Return Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Assist with the creation and sending of reports to return study results to study participants
  • Develop content for a monthly community-facing newsletter
  • Maintain list of community resources for study participants
  • Conduct feedback interviews with study participants (training will be provided)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

To apply, email your resume and a letter of interest, to Shirene Garcia, Community Engagement Manager for WCWH, at shirene.garcia@austin.utexas.edu. Deadline to apply is May 13th. [Update: Due to number of applications received, the application deadline has closed early, as of May 8th.] This is an unpaid position but can be used for a BDP Connecting Experience.