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About TICAS The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) is a national non-profit based in Washington D.C. and Oakland, California. We are a trusted source of research, design, and advocacy for student-centered public policies that promote affordability, accountability, and equity in higher education. We conduct and disseminate research, build diverse coalitions, develop policy solutions and advocate for their adoption nationally, in California, and in Michigan. Our programmatic work spans college access, affordability, and success, particularly for historically marginalized students. Our program work aims to strengthen student financial aid, increase federal support for public higher education, simplify the student loan repayment system, and expand evidence-based comprehensive college support strategies that improve student success. We also seek to ensure colleges are held appropriately accountable for student outcomes, and that students have the information they...

American Oversight is looking for a collaborative and organized office and operations manager to support the people and organization shining a light on government misconduct and threats to democracy. We’re a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses targeted public records requests and litigation to uncover evidence of corruption, abuse of power, or conflicts of interest. We leverage our open records expertise to act where corruption and government power overlap. From the federal Freedom of Information Act to state transparency laws, we use carefully crafted records requests to extract information from the government. When the government fails to respond as required by law, our team litigates to enforce the public’s right to hold our leaders accountable. American Oversight has obtained and published more than one million pages of emails, memos, calendars, text messages, and other records — ensuring accountability, exposing misconduct, and often driving significant corrective...

ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND National Housing Trust (NHT) is a national nonprofit that has been dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for over 30 years. Our mission is to create and preserve affordable homes to provide opportunity, advance racial equity, reduce economic disparities, and strengthen community resilience through practice and policy.   NHT’s lending practice is made up of two Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI): the National Housing Trust Community Development Fund (NHTCDF) and the Institute for Community Economics (ICE). NHT Lending is committed to providing access to flexible financing for the preservation and creation of affordable housing around the country. Through our unique lending practice, capital is accessible to a broad range of borrowers including non-profit and for-profit owners and developers, Community Land Trusts, and limited-equity housing cooperatives. NHT Lending has both regional and national focuses. In the...

Are you a champion for economic and racial equity? Are you committed to tackling systemic opportunity gaps that have prevented adults from accessing professional careers and upward mobility? Are you inspired to help StreetWise Partners drive impact and expand? Mission: The mission of StreetWise Partners is to leverage mentorship to increase employment opportunities in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Michigan. StreetWise Partners pairs volunteers with mentees who are unemployed or underemployed to provide them with the skills, resources, and networks they need to secure and maintain employment. Organizational Description: For 25 years, StreetWise Partners has driven economic and career success for adults from overlooked and under-resourced communities. StreetWise Partners’ one-year mentoring program provides customized, individualized mentorship for internship and job seekers while helping them establish an expansive professional network made up of hundreds...

ABOUT LSC : The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is the country’s single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans. Established in 1974, LSC operates as an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance. LSC currently funds 133 independent, nonprofit legal aid organizations with nearly 800 offices throughout the nation.  This position will require working from an office in Washington, D.C., but is remote until LSC returns to in-office work. The successful candidate must live in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. LSC requires that all employees be up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, including any booster dose(s) when eligible, except as required by law. Any employment offer will be contingent upon satisfactory proof that you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines, including any booster dose(s) when eligible, subject to reasonable accommodations for medical or...

The Edlavitch DCJCC seeks an experienced and motivated Communications and Outreach Manager. JxJ is one of the nation’s leading presenters of contemporary Jewish and Israeli film and music, hosting programs for 30,000 patrons in 2019. After pivoting to mostly virtual programming in 2020-2021, JxJ returned to in-person programming for a scaled-down 2022 Washington Jewish Film and Music Festival, with the aim of returning to pre-pandemic volume by 2023-2024.   The public programming of JxJ is primarily split between the Festival and a robust slate of year-round film and music programming and is in an exciting period of expansion.   Position The Communications and Outreach Manager reports to the Director of Communications and Operations, provides logistical and administrative support for the annual JxJ Festival and related year-round programming and leads communications efforts.   Responsibilities ·        Year-Round and Festival marketing plan implementation including: o...

Radio Free Asia (RFA) seeks a seasoned Communications Manager to assist in positioning RFA as a key player in the information space, bringing answers, accountability and empowerment to people living in closed media environments under authoritarian rule. The Communications Manager will strengthen and expand RFA’s media relations with outside journalists and editors, through direct outreach and narrative advancement. S/he will also create and establish routine participation in events and gatherings, with outside experts and groups, including Hill stakeholders. Responsibilities for this role include: Overseeing and managing the development of an enterprise communications strategy, including deploying tactics to support our strategic plan, external activities, stakeholder communications, media mentions, and newsletter content and strategy. Finding and convening public-facing and select group opportunities, through virtual and in-person events, such as salon-like conversations...

The Chinese American Museum’s mission is to advance the understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of the Chinese American experience, by highlighting the history, culture, spirit, and contributions of Chinese Americans to our nation and beyond. Our vision is to be a forward-looking, nationally-recognized center for everyone. We will build a meaningful, continuous dialogue about Chinese Americans’ culture, contributions, and potential as an important part of the American fabric. We seek to work with organizations, museums, experts, and leadership across the country to tell the Chinese American story on DC’s unique, national stage. The museum is seeking a personable, detail-oriented, and technology savvy individual to serve as Museum Operations Associate undertaking responsibilities that focus on the operations of the facilities, procedures, technology and functions of the museum as they apply to the physical building, visitor services, utilities, vendors, and the ability to...

Description: The Natural Resource Policy Specialist is responsible for working with the National Association of Conservation District’s (NACD) Government Affairs Team to develop NACD’s policy priorities and work with congressional offices, federal agencies, stakeholder groups, and coalitions to advance them. The Natural Resource Policy Specialist works with NACD’s committees and resource policy groups to develop and communicate policy positions, advance legislative priorities, prepare briefing materials, and keep members informed about federal and local natural resources issues. Duties and Responsibilities: Analyzing natural resource concerns and policies, including those related to federal lands, water, forestry, grazing, and endangered species. Developing relationships with congressional offices, federal agencies, and other natural resources policy leaders. Understanding NACD’s priorities and identifying opportunities to advance them. Drafting policy materials,...

Position: Communications Associate Department: Communications FLSA Status:  Full-Time, Non-Exempt Reports to:  Director of Communications Direct Reports: None Date Issued: January 9, 2022 Date Revised: N/A Location: Washington, DC The Mission Polaris is leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking at the massive scale of the problem – 25 million people worldwide deprived of the freedom to choose how they live and work.  For more than a decade, Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. With the guidance of survivors, we use that data to improve the way trafficking is identified, how victims and survivors are assisted, and how communities, businesses and governments can prevent human trafficking by transforming the...

Background:  Inspired by the life experiences of its founder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, AHA Foundation was established in 2007 as a women’s rights organization seeking to end honor violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the U.S. Since 2017, in line with our Founder’s interests, the focus of the Foundation’s programs included: Compiling data on FGM/C, Organizing prevention and detection training to protect the at-risk populations, Advocating and outreach to expand and strengthen state and national legislation for the protection of women and girls, Connecting women and girls in crisis to appropriate services, Through a series of seminar and webinars, building a network of activists to promote the ideas in our founder’s book  Heretic , to combat extreme Islamist propoganda, and Creation of the Critical Thinking Fellowship, a program for college students to promote debates on their campuses about all of our program areas. Recently, our Board...

PEN America, a nonprofit organization that stands at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a thoughtful, proactive and entrepreneurial program coordinator to support our advocacy in defense of the freedom to learn and teach through our program on free expression and education. This is a full-time position and is expected to be based at PEN America’s Washington, D.C. or New York City offices. The program coordinator will contribute to the growth of PEN America’s work on free expression in educational institutions, with a focus on defending academic freedom in higher education and combating legislative censorship of professors, teachers, and students. Working collaboratively with the Free Expression and Education program team, the coordinator will help design and carry out advocacy, research, and coalition-building efforts against censorious legislation and politically-motivated efforts to prohibit curricular materials and constrain public education, as documented...

About you: We are looking for a Virtual Office Manager, but neither Siri nor Alexa should apply. Instead, we are looking for a human who would like to serve as the Manager of our virtual office.  NVI is seeking a smart, hard-working, fun-loving organizer to help us manage our office, increase our impact, and fulfill our vital mission. Below, we will list a wide range of specific tasks that this new team member will be asked to undertake. Experience with these tasks matters, but we believe most of these core work areas are ones that a motivated, competent professional should be able to learn in the first months of employment.  So our focus is on finding the right person for the job, not on what you’ve done leading up to this position. We imagine this might be a wonderful opportunity for an emerging leader who wants to dive into the tasks required to build effective organizations while learning about the power of nonviolence and social movements.  About us:...

Overview World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world's leading conservation organizations, seeks a Manager, Private Sector Engagement. Major Function The Manager for Private Sector Engagement manages corporate partnerships in support of our mission. This position is responsible for the planning, development, and management of corporate partnerships which could provide resources (funding or in-kind), brand awareness, and/or reduction of environmental threats through improved business practices. Provides key technical input in design and implementation of strategies to meet goals of the Private Sector Engagement (PSE) team. Collaborates closely with PSE colleagues and with other teams in both “Program” and “Influence” subject-matter areas. Responsibilities Serves as the relationship manager for key WWF corporate partners in the tech sector. Continually works to steward and strengthen relationships through excellent service and communications of...

About CAC The Constitutional Accountability Center is dedicated to fulfilling the inherently progressive promise of the Constitution’s text, history, and values. The Constitution is our national charter, amended over the generations to become more just, equitable, and inclusive. As a nonprofit law firm and think tank, we work in our courts, through our government, and with legal scholars to make real the rights and freedoms the Constitution provides for all in America, with meaningful justice and equality for all. To make real the promises of our national charter, we must honor and celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds, and especially the contributions of historically marginalized communities. As an organization, we make every effort to live by these ideals and help create the conditions that will allow all individuals and communities to thrive. We are committed to the recruitment, development, and retention of talented and diverse staff who believe in true...

Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project (CVP) was launched in 2012 to expand our work on student voting issues. We work with universities, community colleges, faculty, students, and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. CVP helps campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote. Campus Vote Project’s Curriculum and Research Associate has four main areas of focus: Planning and executing civic engagement programming that will be presented to our student fellows across the country, as well as tracking program completion, including organizing student data in our CRM Brainstorming ways to uniquely engage students in legislative advocacy, redistricting, milestone commemorations (i.e. 26th Amendment), etc. within CVP and with partners in the student voting space. Increasing CVP’s engagement with faculty interested in bringing student voter engagement into their classroom  Expanding the reach of the CVP...

Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project (CVP) was launched in 2012 to expand our work on student voting issues. We work with universities, community colleges, faculty, students, and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. CVP helps campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote. The CVP Communications Associate have four main areas of focus: Content Creation and Social Media Management Basic website support (wix) Support E-blast development Support CRM management Position Description Campus Vote Project seeks a Communications Associate. The Communications Associate is a key member of our team. They will be charged with working with the CVP Communications Director to support external and internal communications, with a focus on social media management and content creation. The ideal candidate has a passion for voting rights with a particular interest in helping college students access our...

Overview The National Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation organization that protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. We work throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state, regional, national, and international programs, nature centers, and chapters have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. As a sentinel species, we recognize that the fate of birds is inextricably tied to the fate of us all.  Audubon has more than 700 staff working across the United States and seven countries in 17 state and regional offices, 41 nature centers, and 23 wildlife sanctuaries. Together as one Audubon, we aspire to alter the course of climate change and habitat loss, leading to healthier bird populations and reversing current trends in biodiversity loss.  Audubon is committed to a culture of workplace...

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES: The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable foundation dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities, and strengthen connections to the land. The Wyss Foundation’s philanthropy supports national, state, and local projects that promote conservation, economic security for working families, women’s equality, and democracy. Each philanthropic investment seeks to encourage new ideas and new solutions that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion. The Democracy Program seeks to ensure that everyone has a chance to participate in the democratic process and that the government is reflective of the people. It supports projects that educate the public about our constitutional rights and responsibilities, encourage civic participation, and protect the institutions of democracy in the United States. The Program Assistant will provide general support to the Democracy Program’s grantmaking teams. They...

ABOUT GREENPEACE : Greenpeace  is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. For over fifty years, Greenpeace has fought to save the planet from the threat of global warming, destruction of ancient forests, deterioration of our oceans, and the threat of a nuclear disaster looms large. As an independent organization, Greenpeace does not accept funds from any corporations or government entities. Greenpeace is headquartered in the Netherlands, with offices all around the world in over fifty countries. POSITION SUMMARY: Greenpeace USA is hiring a  Senior Clean Technology Campaigner  to join our team. This highly experienced campaigner will report to the Campaigns Director and play a vital role in shaping and implementing Greenpeace’s work to combat climate change and promote justice and human rights. They will...