WRL is looking or a Summer 2012 Freeman Intern to work in Fundraising and Membership Development

Want to hone or share your grassroots fundraising skills? Want to work with one of the oldest and most exciting anti-militarism organizations? We are currently taking applications for our Summer  2012 Freeman Internship Program, which runs for 13 weeks starting June 4  (dates are flexible).  Application deadline:  May 11. You do not have to be a student to apply. The Summer 2012 Freeman intern will focus specifically on fundraising.

WRL works with a grassroots fundraising model. We’re looking for an energetic, passionate intern to help us carry out strategies for growing our membership, increasing our income, and better broadcasting our unique and exciting approach to antiwar work.  An intern would work closely with WRL’s Development & Membership Coordinator, helping foster deeper relationships with our members, donors and sustainers, and helping to acquire and cultivate financial support from new prospects. Intern will help coordinate fundraising work, make phone calls, hand-write notes to supporters, assist with letter writing and drafting of materials including email blasts and help with other fundraising activities including planning our 90th anniversary gala. There will also be some administrative and office tasks.

Interns will work 20 hours a week.  The Freeman Intern will work in the War Resisters League National Office in New York City. Internships generally run for about 13 weeks.

This Freeman Internship is an opportunity for a young person to become involved with a national antiwar organization, and to develop grassroots fundraising skills and leadership. Applicants with experience in organizing and grassroots fundraising are encouraged to apply. Excellent writing and communication skills are necessary. Web and design skills are a plus. There is a stipend provided. College credit can be arranged. There is an office cat.

Some of the things War Resisters League, founded in 1923, is working on are a teargas campaign, GI rights and resistance support,  nonviolence and counter military recruitment materials and direct action trainings.  We have a great young staff focused on movement building, taking leadership from and supporting those most affected by war at home and abroad, helping foster an intersectional analysis of oppression and war, and developing relationships with and taking cues on solidarity from activists in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Our strong emphasis on fostering a national movement for revolutionary change using nonviolent direct action and ally work gives us a dynamic place from which to engage supporters and donors.

To Apply: Please submit a resume (which includes all relevant experience, educational background, and volunteer and work history) a cover-letter, and a brief writing sample. Please send files as PDFs. Application deadline: May 11.  Send applications to Liz Roberts: liz [at] warresisters.org.

The Harrop A. and Ruth S. Freeman Peace Internship Endowment was created in 1996 by a bequest from life-long peace activists Ruth and Harrop Freeman to provide stipends to interns in the War Resisters League’s national office. The Freemans were close personal associates of WRL co-founder A.J. Muste, and Harrop — a radical lawyer and World War II conscientious objector — was one of the founding board members of the Muste Institute.

The War Resisters League is actively committed to seeking the full representation and participation of people of color, women, lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, transgender or gender queer people, and people with disabilities (the office is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible yet), as well as people representing various ages, classes, and cultural backgrounds. Such diversity is sought throughout WRL’s staff and decision-making bodies.

The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of the causes of war, including racism, sexism, and all forms of human exploitation.