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Fall Internship at the UT Immigration Clinic

U.T. Immigration Clinic

For the 2015-2016 academic year

We are recruiting undergraduate students in their junior or senior year for an intern position with the Immigration Clinic at the School of Law.

This is an unpaid internship sponsored through the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/humanrights/). The commitment for the intern involves 10 hours per week of work in the Immigration Clinic. Hours are divided to support the various aspects of the Clinic’s work.

The Immigration Clinic provides crucial representation to vulnerable low-income immigrants. The cases handled by the Clinic are diverse and illustrate the breadth of immigration practice. The Clinic has handled cases for clients from, among other countries, Colombia, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guinea, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe. The Clinic’s cases range from asylum claims based on political persecution or religious, ethnic or gender-based violence to claims of United States citizenship by individuals born abroad to U.S. citizen parents whose status has not been recognized by immigration authorities. An important component of the Clinic’s caseload involves work at the Karnes County Family Detention Center in Karnes City, Texas. The controversial facility holds women and children who are seeking asylum. For more information, see the clinic website (http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/immigration/).

This internship would be an ideal position for students interested in applying to law school and/or working in the fields of immigration and human rights.

Details for the internship position follow:

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Command of the Spanish language, demonstrated organizational skills, demonstrated regular and punctual attendance at work and professional demeanor, as well as experience with internet research, printers, Microsoft Word.

PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION: To provide support to Immigration Clinic faculty and students through case work, research, translation and interpreting (English-Spanish). Assist with other projects and tasks directly related to clinic work as assigned.

The interns should be ready to start this position at the commencement of the fall 2015 semester.

TO APPLY PLEASE SEND A COVER LETTER, TRANSCRIPT AND RESUME TO: Lourdes Diaz (ldiaz@law.utexas.edu) by May 1, 2015.

Application package should include a resume indicating language and computer skills, a cover letter stating why you are interested in this position, and a copy of your most recent transcript. Please make sure that you demonstrate basic knowledge of our programs in your cover letter (visit the website). We will be interviewing applicants in mid-May.   If you have any questions, please email us at ldiaz@law.utexas.edu.

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Summer Internships Available at the Texas Civil Rights Project

The mission of the Texas Civil Rights Project is to promote racial, social, and economic justice through community education and litigation. The organization strives to foster equality, secure justice, ensure diversity, and strengthen communities. Services include direct legal representation, community education, public awareness campaigns, education and advocacy on behalf of those who have historically been underserved or excluded from the justice system.

Summer Police Accountability Research Intern

*Job Description  : TCRP is seeking interns to investigate the use of surplus military equipment by police departments in Texas. Interns will research protocols established for the use of this equipment with an eye toward writing a report with model protocols.

Part- or full-time based on availability, for the duration of the summer.
*Job Qualifications  : Demonstrated initiative and experience conducting self-directed research. Willingness to reach out to various government officials for information.
*Application Instructions  : Please contact Veronica Madrigal at veronica.tcrp@gmail.com to submit your resume, cover letter and writing sample, or for additional details.

 

Prison Litigation/Criminal Justice Reform Team Members

*Job Description  : The Texas Civil Rights Project and the Prison Justice League seek regular interns committed to social justice to assist with special projects and general operations of our organizations which focuses on representing indigent Texas prisoners whose civil rights have been violated.

We offer a range of opportunities that can be tailored to your specific interests and skill set. Some responsibilities may include screening inmate mail, corresponding with inmates, preparing open records requests, reviewing discovery documents, researching and writing about reform topics, public policy analysis, social media and communications, development, and other tasks as needed.

This position would be ideal for an undergraduate or recent graduate seeking exposure to the practice of law and interested in protecting human rights, or students who have an interest in working in the nonprofit sector after graduation.
*Job Qualifications  : Part- or full-time based on availability, for the duration of the summer.
*Application Instructions  : Please send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to:
Veronica Madrigal
veronica.tcrp@gmail.com

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Summer Internships Available at Charity Charge

Social Media Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability. Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. We have teamed up with Network for Good a leading online giving platform that has processed over $1 billion in donations for over 100,000 nonprofits since 2001.

Additionally, our app will allow you to search by cause, region or non profit, support multiple charities, displaying the tangible, trackable impact you’ve contributed. We pitched at South by Southwest Eco in March and were recently selected by IBM as one of the top ten millennial social startups in the country. This entered us into IBM’s pitch competition during SXSW. Advancing to the final round, the action will be documented in a series of webisodes to demonstrate how the five social startups work with IBM to transform big ideas into big change airing in July.

We are a startup, this is an unpaid internship, but we are young & fun and are putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The social media intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial, honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.  The primary focus would be to manage the content distribution for one or more social channels.  A secondary component of the role would be using our social handles to get into conversations which exist outside our community.

Manage Content

– Be the voice of Charity Charge. Help cultivate a community through our topics and messaging

– Find news and articles that are relevant and are aligned with Charity Charge.

This would include but is not limited to topics like Philanthropy, Fundraising, Charities, Socially Responsible Companies, 1 for 1 Companies, etc.

– Build and schedule content distribution for your assigned channel(s)

Community Management

– Engage with community, answering questions, and showing attention to all mentions

– Explore ideas for how to engage and expand the community through campaignsor posts with a request for action

Social Listening & Outreach

– Engage with users and companies outside of our community.  Outside of our own channels, and outside of people mentioning Charity Charge, there are conversations that we need to be in.

– The social media intern will need to explore keywords and hashtags to discover relevant discussions to be a part of.

If interested in joining the #charitytribe email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com

PR Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability.

Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. We have teamed up with Network for Good a leading online giving platform that has processed over $1 billion in donations for over 100,000 nonprofits since 2001.

Additionally, our app will allow you to search by cause, region or non profit, support multiple charities, displaying the tangible, trackable impact you’ve contributed. We pitched at South by Southwest Eco in March and were recently selected by IBM as one of the top ten millennial social startups in the country. This entered us into IBM’s pitch competition during SXSW. Advancing to the final round, the action will be documented in a series of webisodes to demonstrate how the five social startups work with IBM to transform big ideas into big change airing in July.

We are a startup, this is an unpaid internship, but we are young & fun andnare putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The public relations intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial, honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.

Duties include: help with business development to define, build, and manage the alliance program and outreach

PR + Media Outreach

– Find relative key influencers and bloggers on web and document

– Find and document key media and publishers contact information

– Reach out to the press and influencers along with a follow up

– Write press releases

Content

– Help create content strategy and editorial calendar for company blog

– Create a content repository for ideas concerning blog posts and social assets

 Business Development

– Identify top prospects (Non profits, for profit social impact companies)

– Create plan of action for strategic alliance

– Compile contact information and setup initial key alliance meetings

– Follow-up with alliance partners to execute respective plan of actions

If interested in joining the #charitytribe email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com

Digital Media & Content Strategy Internship with Charity Charge

Making a positive impact is deeply rooted in the DNA of our company. Charity Charge is a Public Benefit Corporation, meaning we

pledged to meet higher standards of corporate purpose, sustainability, transparency and accountability.

Our mission is to help people give back in a simple, easy, everyday way, to charities of THEIR choice. We are creating a credit card that donates the reward points to any registered 501(c)(3) charity, religious organization and K-12 school in the United States. We have teamed up with Network for Good a leading online giving platform that has processed over $1 billion in donations for over 100,000 nonprofits since 2001.

Additionally, our app will allow you to search by cause, region or non profit, support multiple charities, displaying the tangible, trackable impact you’ve contributed. We pitched at South by Southwest Eco in March and were recently selected by IBM as one of the top ten millennial social startups in the country. This entered us into IBM’s pitch competition during SXSW. Advancing to the final round, the action will be documented in a series of webisodes to demonstrate how the five social startups work with IBM to transform big ideas into big change airing in July.

We are a startup, this is an unpaid internship, but we are young & fun and are putting a positive dent in the universe which is priceless.

Join us!

The content strategy intern (will not be treated like an intern), should be entrepreneurial, honest, self motivated, organized and reliable.  The primary focus would be to create a content strategy for online company assets such as blog and social properties.  A secondary component of the role is would be finding new topics to write about and attracting guest bloggers.

Content Discovery

– Help create content strategy and editorial calendar for company blog

– Create a content repository for ideas concerning blog posts and social assets

– Find news and articles that are relevant and are aligned with Charity Charge.  This would include but is not limited to topics like Philanthropy,

Fundraising, Charities, Socially Responsible Companies, 1 for 1 Companies, etc.

Innovation

– Explore new ways to reach out and appeal to the Charity Charge community through innovative content

– Examples of future projects would include a weekly show hosted on YouTube or Google Hangout, guest interviews, etc.

– Find and manage relationships with guest bloggers who align with our messaging

– Create e-mail newsletter subscription list

– Create e-mail newsletter copy and layout

If interested in joining the #charitytribe email:

stephen@charitychargecard.com

Follow us @gocharitycharge

Charitychargecard.com