The length of internships is negotiable, with a minimum 10-week commitment. The National Center is an equal-opportunity employer. Work this spring will likely focus on cooperatives and worker-owned businesses. Internship involves researching and writing profiles of environmentally sustainable and economically viable enterprises now operating in communities around the country. Projects already identified range from municipally-owned facilities capturing landfill gas to heat homes to urban forestry and gardening projects.
Internships involve identifying and profiling institutional innovations.
Public Enterprise Internship Involves research on a series of questions aimed at exploring the conventional wisdom that all public enterprise is necessarily inefficient. This is an area for someone with economic skills and political-economic interests to make a real contribution. This internship will assist with the coordination of press events, creating press information packets, writing press releases and news advisories, responding to constituent letters, letters to the editor, building and maintaining media lists, and researching opposition press events. This internship will provide hands-on experience with various voter programs utilizing a variety of databases and resources. These responsibilities are critical to a variety of intitiatives and goals leading up to the 1998 general election.