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Business Development Internship

Whittier Time BankWhittier, CA
Mission The Whittier Time Bank facilitates skill-sharing and skill-building to promote reciprocity and community self-reliance. Learn more at http://whittiertimebank.org. Vision Our vision is to create a more self-reliant community through neighborly sharing, volunteerism, education, and sustainable practices. Background The Whittier Time Bank operates on the truth that every person has something to give. Time banking's system of reciprocal service exchange means that recipients of service are also providers of service. Time banking's self-organizing design offers strengths-based volunteer job placement for rewarding, meaningful skill-sharing opportunities. Our programs include the monthly Build-Your-Skills workshop series (workshops include fruit tree grafting, beekeeping, biodiesel, foraging, etc.) and the Neighborhood Work Exchange, a group of volunteers who earn service credits (time dollars) for providing neighborly services. Neighborhood Work Exchange members have organized barn-raisers, moving days, workshops, craft days, and free swaps, in addition to one-on-one exchanges. We also sponsor farm work days and luncheons promoting local food reliance in partnership with a Whittier backyard farming collective. Other programs include the Neighborhood Fruit Picking Project, potlucks, outreach presentations, and weekly community exercise classes. Our large events include the Strub Avenue Block Party and the Cardboard and Imagination Day of Play in collaboration with Caines Arcade. Why business development: If you are a business entrepreneur, plan to start your own nonprofit, or want to help an existing nonprofit grow, this internship will help you learn hands-on, practical skills for building and growing a local organization. Skills you will develop: Project management, leadership, engaging community members/community building, the Elevator Speech, marketing/PR/social media communications, volunteer recruitment and management, progress reports. Benefits: You will learn, work, and perform in an environment of experienced professionals who will support your skill-building with us, and who can provide letters of reference, and direct you to job opportunities, post-internship. Stipend: $500 Intern reports to Whittier Time Bank Co-Founder and Director Megan Hobza, MBA. Megan is a grant consultant for a major metropolitan hospital in Glendale, where she has helped develop strategic proposals awarded $20 million over the past 15 years. She also developed and co-taught the Free Grants Class for Emerging Nonprofits, and facilitated monthly fundraisers for emerging nonprofits in 2011 and 2012 through the Tuesday Dinners at HM157. As a demonstration project for local self-reliance, Megan directs and chefs the bi-monthly Urban Dinner Socials traveling vegan gastropub in collaboration with Whittier Backyard Farms.