Since 1984, Share Our Strength® has led the fight against hunger and poverty by inspiring and organizing individuals and businesses to share their strengths. Today, through the No Kid Hungry and Cooking Matters campaigns, Share Our Strength is ending childhood hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need. No child should go hungry in America – we’re on our way to making that a reality and we want you to join us. We’re bold, creative, always open to new ideas and 100% dedicated to our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d like you to consider becoming part of our team as our Fundraising (Corporate Partnerships & Culinary Events) Intern for the Spring of 2020. 

The Fundraising (Corporate Partnerships & Culinary Events) intern is responsible for advancing the mission of Share Our Strength, to end childhood hunger in America, by providing support to the Corporate Partnerships, Dine, and Culinary teams. Projects will include helping to steward and renew key corporate partners, secure new ones, and manage events. Partnerships may be of a wide variety including cause-related marketing promotions, sponsorships, foundation partnerships, and programmatic support.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide research and administrative support for the teams including, but not limited to:

• Assist with key Corporate and Dine partnerships by providing support with partnership execution, recapping calls/meetings and creating social media posts.
• Contribute to comparative event research and creation of partner marketing resources for Taste of the Nation events.
• Support for internal briefings and meetings, including researching and preparing documents for executive briefings and recapping team meetings.
• Prospect research for new business outreach.
• Participate in team brainstorm sessions to develop concepts for partner activations.
• Mailings for key Corporate and Dine partners and events.
• Other tasks and day-to-day duties as assigned.
• Research and present a final project toward the end of the internship

Required Skills

• College Junior or Senior or recent graduate.
• Organized, self-motivated and flexible
• Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work independently and efficiently
• Ability to work well with multiple and diverse groups of people
• Excellent oral and written communications skills required
• Excellent and proven research skills
• Interest in non-profits, fundraising, hunger, nutrition, sales, marketing, and/or children
• Available to work 40 hours per week
• Experience with Raisers Edge preferred
• Excellent computer skills, especially in Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel

DIVERSITY

At Share Our Strength, we value an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, experiences, ideas and perspectives.  A hallmark of our history, culture and values has been the organization’s desire to bring together motivated, intelligent, and talented people to work together to find and implement solutions to eliminate childhood hunger. We each come to Share Our Strength with a unique background, but together we form a team that yields amazing results.

This shared value of encouraging and embracing diversity in our organization fosters a workplace and culture that is highlighted for its innovation, open expression of ideas, and collaboration. With a strong shared commitment to the organization’s mission, and a unique blend of individual strengths, we are all working to end hunger and poverty – in the United States and abroad.

PLEASE APPLY WITH YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER. NO CALLS PLEASE. 

Required Experience

• College Junior or Senior or recent graduate.
• Organized, self-motivated and flexible
• Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work independently and efficiently
• Ability to work well with multiple and diverse groups of people
• Excellent oral and written communications skills required
• Excellent and proven research skills
• Interest in non-profits, fundraising, hunger, nutrition, sales, marketing, and/or children
• Available to work 40 hours per week
• Experience with Raisers Edge preferred
• Excellent computer skills, especially in Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel

DIVERSITY

At Share Our Strength, we value an individual’s diversity of backgrounds, experiences, ideas and perspectives.  A hallmark of our history, culture and values has been the organization’s desire to bring together motivated, intelligent, and talented people to work together to find and implement solutions to eliminate childhood hunger. We each come to Share Our Strength with a unique background, but together we form a team that yields amazing results.

This shared value of encouraging and embracing diversity in our organization fosters a workplace and culture that is highlighted for its innovation, open expression of ideas, and collaboration. With a strong shared commitment to the organization’s mission, and a unique blend of individual strengths, we are all working to end hunger and poverty – in the United States and abroad.

PLEASE APPLY WITH YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER. NO CALLS PLEASE.