Outstanding Internships and Volunteer Positions
Business School Students and Graduates
Make a Difference as You Gain Experience
ChangingThePresent.org
ABOUT THE ROLE
We seek very high-achieving business school students and graduates to take a leadership role interning or volunteering with a prestigious nonprofit. We have opportunities to focus on strategy, finance, marketing, analytics, and business development.
We seek very high-achieving business school students and graduates to take a leadership role interning or volunteering with a prestigious nonprofit. We have opportunities to focus on:
• Strategy
• Finance
• Marketing
• Analytics
• Business development
• Any specific cause, ethnic group, religious group or country
• Specific markets, such as the high school market, college market, wedding market, and corporate gift market.
You will take on a professional role. This is NOT the typical internship where people run a copy machine, file papers, and fetch coffee. We want people who can perform at a professional level, and we empower them to do so.
GREAT EXPERIENCE; UNPAID
We provide a great opportunity to gain experience as you make a meaningful change in the world, but we only have unpaid positions.
CREDIT
Many colleges offer credit, and this program is eligible, subject to approval by your school.
ABOUT US
The New York Times called our nonprofit, ChangingThePresent.org, “an Amazon.com of the nonprofit world.” We help channel to leading nonprofits some of the $450 billion Americans spend each year buying birthday, wedding, and holiday presents. We do this by making the experience of a donation, which you give in a friend’s name, feel like a rewarding present and a nice alternative to buying yet more unwanted merchandise.
Imagine the impact we can make together as more and more people adopt this type of meaningful giving! Each 1% of the money now spent on presents is $4.5 billion a year to make the world a better place.
A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
This is a great place to work. We have had interns and volunteers from all over the United States and more than 80 countries. Our initial business plan was co-written by a Harvard Business School graduate who went on to become a partner at McKinsey. The atmosphere is respectful, supportive, energetic, creative, and fun. We value brainstorming, initiative, sharing, and collaborating. The environment we want is like a laboratory, studio, seminar, or incubator.
WHAT YOU WILL GET OUT OF THE EXPERIENCE
• Make the greatest possible positive impact in the world.
• Use your skills, experience, knowledge, creativity and talent.
• Assume responsibility and take a leadership role.
• Learn a tremendous amount.
• Work with people from around the world and have a great time.
• Enhance your resume with a record of achievement and community service.
• Receive the rave recommendation you deserve.
WHO
We welcome outstanding undergraduates, graduate students, recent graduates, those on “dependent spouse” visas, such as H-4, and other professionals. For international students, we e meet the requirements of OPT and CPT.
WHEN
Full-time or part-time, weekdays, evenings, or weekends. We can accommodate your schedule.
WHERE: ENTIRELY VIRTUAL
We are based in New York City, but we have been 100% virtual since the start of the pandemic. Work from wherever you like (our most distant intern was in Mongolia), wear what you want, and don’t waste time commuting.
MORE INFO
For an overview of our program, please see ChangingThePresent.org/join
See rave reviews by interns and volunteers at ChangingThePresent.org/pages/reviews
A HELPFUL TIP: AN IMPRESSIVE PROFILE PAGE WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED
Improve your chances when you apply for anything: jobs, internships, scholarships, and grad school.
Everyone will google you.
Let them see what makes you you. You will gain a distinct advantage when they see that more dimensional, likeable, impressive picture of who you are, when they see what you care about and what you are doing to make a difference, and when they recognize that your values align with theirs.
Here is the easiest and most effective way to ensure an impressive online reputation: Create your profile page at ChangingThePresent.org/now
PLEASE SHARE
Please spread the word about our internship and volunteer opportunities, as well as the profile pages discussed above, with friends, classmates, and others.
APPLY NOW
What are you waiting for? If you are an outstanding student or professional and want a great experience, please review our website. If you share our enthusiasm for making a difference, then email a resume, your Linkedin URL, and a short cover letter about your interest and availability to: join [AT] ChangingThePresent [DOT] org