Alumni
AJWS Alumni Announcements February 23, 2009
In this email…
AJWS Responds to Emergency in Sri Lanka· Programs and Fellowships
* AJWS Rabbinical Students’ Delegation
* Atlas Corps Fellowship
* BBYO Professional Development Institute
* City Hall Fellows
* Jewish Organizing Initiative
* KashmirCorps Summer Public Service Program
* Permaculture Design Course
* Uri L’Tzedek Fellowship Program
Jobs and Internships
- AJWS Summer Internship Program (NYC, DC, SF)
- AJWS Education Internship (Online)
- Corporate Accountability International (Boston)
- English Immersion Program (Thailand)
- Global Community Monitor (Bay Area)
- Social Venture Technology Group (Bay Area)
Contact Us
- Update Your Contact Information
- Be a Regional Contact
- Find a Regional Contact
The ‘opportunities’ listings included in the AJWS Alumni Announcements are submitted to AJWS by alumni, AJWS staff and colleagues from other organizations and are published in keeping with AJWS’s commitment to a spectrum of Jewish expression and activities on social and global justice issues. A listing in this newsletter does not constitute AJWS’s endorsement of the organization or event listed. AJWS reserves the right to edit submissions for language or length.
AJWS Responds to Emergency in Sri Lanka
A humanitarian catastrophe of devastating proportions is underway in Sri Lanka. The “final push” of a decades-long civil war is causing deaths, injuries and displacements of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. After providing support for grassroots development there in the 1980s, AJWS returned to Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and has made over 70 grants since this disaster. AJWS has identified community-based organizations in the country and will be providing emergency assistance to these groups in the form of food aid, medical attention and psychosocial services, with a particular focus on women and children. By working closely with community-based partners in Sri Lanka, AJWS is able to get support quickly to the people who need it most.
To learn more, please visit http://www.ajws.org/.
Programs and Fellowships
AJWS Rabbinical Students’ Delegation
AJWS is pleased to announce that our seventh Rabbinical Students’ Delegation (RSD 7) will go to Senegal in June 2009, where participants will work with Tostan, one of our most successful grantees. For the past six years, the AJWS Rabbinical Students’ Delegation has been the primary arena for tomorrow’s rabbis to grapple with questions of practical theology in a globalized context. There is no other program that provides rabbinical students the opportunity to work and study in the developing world, learning from and with grassroots leaders who building a more just world. RSD 7 will be led by Rabbi Brent Spodek, Rabbi-in-Residence at AJWS, and the scholar-in-residence will be Rabbi David Teutsch, director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The participant fee for RSD 7 will be $750, and applications, which are due March 7, 2009, are available by writing to rsd@ajws.org. This delegation is open to current students as well as rabbis ordained in 2009.
Atlas Corps Fellowship
Atlas Service Corps is seeking nonprofit leaders from around the world to apply for its 2009-2010 fellowship positions in Washington, DC and Bogota, Colombia. Atlas Corps is looking for nonprofit leaders from the United States, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia who have at least 3 years of nonprofit experience, a college degree, and who are rising leaders in their field. All expenses are paid in this prestigious fellowship program, including a living stipend, health insurance, visa, travel, training, and a $2,500 end of service award. Applicants must be fluent in English (and Spanish if applying to volunteer in Colombia), and must have a commitment to returning to their home country after one year. Candidates from the U.S. are placed at outstanding host organizations in Bogota including Give to Colombia and Oxfam GB. Candidates from outside the U.S. are placed at host organizations in Washington, DC including Asian American LEAD, CentroNía, and Population Action International. In addition to volunteering full time at their host organizations, Fellows are enrolled in a management development training program and join a growing network of nonprofit leaders from around the world. For more details about eligibility requirements and the application process, please visit: http://www.atlascorps.org/. The application deadline is April 1, 2009.
BBYO Professional Development Institute
Make a difference in the Jewish community while furthering your professional development and earning a free MBA with BBYO. This spring BBYO will be admitting 10 to 12 professionals into its Professional Development Institute (PDI), a three year program where, in addition to doing leadership development work with Jewish teens in one of many communities across the country, participants will receive an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Certificate in Informal Jewish Education from Hebrew College in Boston. During the three years of the program, the participant will receive a full-time competitive salary, health/retirement benefits, a professional mentor, travel opportunities and an MBA from a top 20 business school at no cost to the professional. While in the program, they will work for an organization that has enriched the lives of Jewish teens for more than 80 years and has been recognized as an employer of choice by its employees. For more information on how to join our team and start your professional development journey this summer, please visit BBYO’s website athttp://www.mbaforfree.org/.
City Hall Fellows
City Hall Fellows is a non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to training the next generation of civic leaders for America’s cities. City Hall Fellows offers America’s best and brightest recent college graduates an unparalleled opportunity to experience local government from the inside out. Fellows will be grouped in cohorts of 10 within each host city and will be placed throughout the local government with high-level local officials. Fellows will function as full-time staff members in their assigned departments and will work on projects and tasks designated by their host city. In addition to working on critical city projects, Fellows will participate in an intensive and comprehensive Civic Leadership Development Program spanning the entire fellowship term. For more information, please visit http://www.cityhallfellows.org/. The application deadline is March 6, 2009.
Jewish Organizing Initiative
The Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI) is now accepting applications for its 2009-10 fellowship year. JOI recruits young Jewish adults from all over the world for a year of leadership training that includes: working for social and economic justice, Jewish learning, training in grass roots community organizing skills, and Jewish community building. The fellowship year involves work in social justice community or labor organizations, generally in low-income community organizations (sometimes in the Jewish community) and bi-weekly learning and reflection about organizing for justice, Judaism and community building. For more information, please visit http://www.jewishorganizing.org/. The application deadline is March 2, 2009.
KashmirCorps Summer Public Service Program
KashmirCorps is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit organization whose mission is: to promote public service and research in Kashmir; to examine and contribute to the discourse on the Kashmir question; and to build a network of young leaders dedicated to improving the welfare of Kashmiri society. KashmirCorps is happy to announce that applications for the 2009 Summer Public Service Program are now available for download. This year’s program offers several opportunities for interns in fields related to healthcare, education, and economic development. KashmirCorps is seeking mature individuals with a strong passion for public service and research to utilize their skills and knowledge to assist its partner NGOs with their specific projects. For more information, please visithttp://www.kashmircorps.org/apply.php. The application deadline is March 6, 2009.
Permaculture Design Course
Come learn practical methods essential to becoming a steward of the earth while living in a Jewish community. This certification course will take place April 13-19 and May 19-26 at the new Environmental and Social Justice based Eden Village Summer Camp in Putnam County, NY, with 250 pristine acres of forest, farmland, rock edges, and watering holes to play in. Permaculture Topics covered included in the PCDC Certification include site analysis of vegetation and wildlife, natural building, compost and soil, water preservation, guilds, zoning, forest gardens, seed saving, grey water, and tools for planning, mapping, and executing a sustainable, abundant ecosystem and human culture. Each week the learning community will celebrate Shabbat, a day of rest with communal music and prayer. Jewish Permaculture teachings by the Jewish Farm School will include: Peah, Lechet, Food Security, Shmitta, & other Jewish Agricultural Practices (not part of certificate). For more information, please visit http://beresheitsummer.jimdo.com/permiculture-design-course.
Uri L’Tzedek Fellowship Program
Uri L’Tzedek is currently accepting applicants for the 2009 Uri L’Tzedek Fellowship Program. This 10-week program (from June 8 to August 14, 2009) is an opportunity to work alongside Uri L’Tzedek’s staff and board, experience the many mechanisms that come together to create an effective nonprofit organization, gain exposure to communal Jewish life, learn Torah, social justice philosophy, community organizing models, and effect change. Interns are needed in New York City and will dedicate their time to one of the following concentrations: Tav HaYosher (the ethical seal for kosher restaurants), development, communications, education, service, community outreach, website development, multi-media and technology. Fellows will participate in weekly seminars focusing on the role of social justice in the Torah; workshops devoted to social justice “how to” and community organizing; and open-space conversations where Fellows will be able to discuss the religious and emotional dimensions of the Fellowship. Sessions will be led by Uri L’Tzedek staff and board, local rabbis, and social justice professionals. Uri L’Tzedek Fellows are volunteers. For more information, please visit http://uriltzedek.webnode.com/.
Jobs and Internships
AJWS Summer Internship Program (NY, DC, SF)
American Jewish World Service is currently accepting applications for the 2009 summer internship program. This 10-week program (from June 8 to August 14, 2009) is an opportunity to work alongside AJWS’s staff, experience the many mechanisms that come together to create an effective nonprofit organization, gain exposure to the progressive Jewish community and learn about Jewish perspectives on global justice and international grassroots development. For more information please go to www.ajws.org/internship. The application deadline is February 27, 2009.
AJWS Education Internship (Online)
AJWS is currently seeking an Education intern to assist with departmental needs between March 1 and June 5 for approximately 5-10 hours each week. This spring, the education department will launch an online Jewish social justice text database. The intern will monitor and approve text submissions, search for and add new texts, troubleshoot glitches and make design adjustments in the website and publicize the database to Jewish educators. This unpaid internship will allow students the opportunity to gain broad exposure to Jewish social justice texts; exposure to Jewish social justice organizations, synagogues, rabbis and educators; and website management skills. For more information or to apply, please contact Lisa Exler at Lexler@ajws.org.
Corporate Accountability International (Boston)
Corporate Accountability International (CAI) has been running winning campaigns to challenge corporate abuse for the past 30 years. CAI seeks an Online Director responsible for directing Corporate Accountability International’s online outreach, web design, content development and optimization. The Online Director is responsible for developing Corporate Accountability International’s online outreach and fundraising plan and contributing to the development of the organization’s communications plan. For the complete job description, please visit http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1444.cfm#onlinedir.
English Immersion Program (Thailand)
The English Immersion Program (EIP) is looking for 2 dynamic English teachers for an 11-month period beginning June, 2009. EIP is a community-based advanced English program in Umphiem Mai, a Karen refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. Each year EIP takes 20 exceptional students from the border area for a 10-month intensive English immersion course, which emphasizes leadership skills and prepares students to work effectively in community and international organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/327073-132/c. The application deadline is March 1, 2009.
Global Community Monitor (Bay Area)
Global Community Monitor (GCM) is an environmental justice and human rights non-profit organization that empowers industrial communities to recreate a clean, healthy and truly sustainable environment. GCM seeks a Program Coordinator primarily responsible for interfacing with community members, industrial polluters, public agencies, environmental health experts and the media. The person in this position will participate in leadership capacity building, meeting facilitation, community organizing (including door-to-door and phone canvassing), environmental sampling and data interpretation, working with the media, good neighbor negotiation, and event planning. For the complete job description, please visit http://www.gcmonitor.org/article.php?id=849. The application deadline is March 1, 2009.
Social Venture Technology Group (Bay Area)
Social Venture Technology Group (SVT) is a San Francisco-based advisory firm specializing in measurement, management and communication of social and environmental impact. SVT is an emerging leader in the field, and well positioned to advance the widespread adoption of tools that make information about impact a strategic asset to both managers and investors. 2 three-month internship positions are available to be filled immediately in the areas of research and marketing. For more information, please visit http://www.svtgroup.net/about/involved.html.
Contact Us
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Be a Regional Contact
Would you be interested in being contacted by AJWS alumni looking to connect with other alumni who can help them find out about jobs, service opportunities, or the community feel in cities around the country and beyond? Please e-mail alumni@ajws.org and let us know if we can share your name and e-mail address with alumni who contact us about making connections in a particular place. Thank you for helping to create a more open, accessible alumni network!
Find a Regional Contact
Moving to a new city, or just thinking about it? Want to connect with like-minded folks where you already live? We are pleased to let you know that over 25 AJWS alumni have agreed to be regional contacts in cities all over the world, from Juneau, Alaska to Johannesburg, South Africa. E-mail alumni@ajws.org at any time to see if there’s an alum regional contact in a particular place, and we’ll be happy to put you in touch.
For updated information about AJWS and its project partners, service programs, advocacy efforts, and job opportunities, please visit http://www.ajws.org/.
