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Communications Press & Media Strategy Internship (PAID)

Third WayWashington, DC
The Third Way Adam Solomon Internship Program introduces highly motivated graduate or law students, with an interest in policy analysis and development, to the process of advancing a 21st century progressive agenda. Interns will gain hands-on experience working closely with Third Ways senior management team, which has extensive political, communications, and policy experience, forged at every level of government and advocacy: the White House, federal agencies, the House and Senate, presidential campaigns, and national non-profit advocacy organizations. Third Ways Communications Department focuses on cultivating and maintaining strategic relationships with DC decision makers, the national press & influentials. Examples of our impact include: - Third Way ideas and staff are regularly in cited in major news outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; - Third Way staff is called on to offer commentary & analysis by broadcast media. Our staff is regularly featured on ABC News, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, the BBC, NPR and almost all major cable political programs; - Publication of op-eds in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Roll Call, Politico and others; - Events co-hosted and attended by Senate & House leadership, elite media, and progressive leaders. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. You may apply for the following sessions: Fall (September- December), Spring (January- May), or Summer (June- August). Incomplete applications will not be considered. EOE. Please send the following to internship@thirdway.org: 1. Cover Letter 2. Resume 3. Short writing sample 4. References (professor/current or recent employer)

AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIPS: How to Reinvent the African Mud Hut

Nka FoundationOklahoma City, OK
AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIPS: How to Reinvent the African Mud Hut (See review of one of our recent Projects: http://www.archdaily.com/289081) PROJECT SITE: Abetenim Arts Village, which is a developing demonstration site and training center, located 40 km Southeast of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. WHAT: Design-build camp for learning-by-doing on African architecture WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: Open to all students and graduates of architecture, landscape architecture, design, engineering, and school teams DATES: Year-round and lengths-of-stay from 1-6 months PROJECT CONTEXT The recurrent problem with local buildings made of earth is sustainability. Mud houses in the area are poorly constructed. Wall cracks and water damage are commonplace. Hence, there is local stigma associated with mud architecture: it is only used by the very poor. We reason that a design-build intervention can help generate alternatives. Along these lines, one question keeps coming to our minds: How can we blend the vernacular and contemporary traditions to reinvent the African mud hut to help generate choices for the rural population? As an intern, you will be assigned a task on an ongoing project or you can propose your own project as a solution to the problem. The design-build project takes in the theoretical frame of the book, Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt by a known Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy. In it, Fathy puts forward that an informed person can, in fact, self-build durable, aesthetic and highly functional buildings without using expensive materials. The project is organized by Nka Foundation, a development NGO run by arts practitioners and volunteers. Project site is a living learning arts village in the Ashanti Region that invites creative persons from around the world to come to interact with the local community via projects such as social architecture, community arts and social services to improve local livelihoods to alleviate poverty. Everybody is welcome to our arts village: Interns and professionals in all of the arts, architecture, design, social work, and innovators seeking new challenges, or spaces to share ideas. PROJECT ORGANIZER Nka Foundation is a nonprofit organization run by arts practitioners and volunteers in Ghana and Burkina Faso. In rural Ghana, we are building a community for the arts, a living learning arts village designed to bring together creative persons from around the world to interact with the local community via projects such as rural architecture, community arts and social services to improve local livelihood skills to alleviate poverty. Everybody is welcome to our arts village: Interns and professionals in all of the arts, architecture, design, social work, engineering, and sustainable development are all welcome to share expertise.

SOCIAL SERVICE INTERNSHIPS (Short-Term or Gap Year in Ghana)

Nka FoundationOklahoma City, OK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ________________________________________ SOCIAL SERVICE INTERNSHIPS Ghana: Nka Foundation announces a new program for sustainable rural development that invites social service persons worldwide to bring their gifts to the question: How do you create permanent long-term change in light of the conditions that perpetuate poverty in rural Ghana? The program offers international participants a unique opportunity for cultural immersion through working with children, the elderly or young adults to improve rural livelihood skills, to alleviate health, to inspire decent housing, to enrich k-12 education, or to research a local condition that perpetuates abject poverty and look for remedies. Join us! All students, recent graduates and teachers of arts therapy, social work, psychology, education, theology and African studies are welcome to our project. The empowering questions may therefore be: How do you engage people who are culturally different? How do you create permanent long-term change in light of the conditions that perpetuate poverty in rural Ghana? One way to begin is to see the people as a people to be known. And keep in mind that community participatory questions are the key to the local door: What can we do to work with you on this...? Why? Thereby, they bring their gifts to the question and we bring ours to the question. Empowering them to be successful in leveraging the abundant local resources for community development may entail training and counseling in mutual respect and trust. We anticipate the result will be permanent long-term change. PROGRAM ORGANIZER Nka Foundation is a nonprofit organization run by arts practitioners and volunteers in Ghana and Burkina Faso. In rural Ghana, we are building a community for the arts, a living learning arts village designed to bring together creative persons from around the world to interact with the local community via projects such as rural architecture, community arts and social services to improve local livelihood skills to alleviate poverty. Everybody is welcome to our arts village: Interns and professionals in all of the arts, architecture, design, social work, engineering, and sustainable development are all welcome to share expertise.