OFRF has an ongoing part-time internship available. Depending on our current needs and your area of interest, the postion can focus on development, communications, and/or administrative tasks. Interns can receive academic credit in exchange for 12-15 hours of work per week. While we ask interns to help us with the critical day-to-day tasks that keep our organization running, we are committed to offering interesting work and learning opportunities.

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES may include:

• foundation research and correspondence
• proposal writing and editing
• donor prospect research and tracking
• online fundraising strategy creation

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITES may include:

• participating in an ongoing effort to update and maintain our national organic grower database
• general database entry
• filing
• other general office duties.

• developing outreach materials
• reviewing publications, media clippings and other informational materials for relevance to OFRF's work
• responding to information requests
• developing media citation packets
• maintaining media contacts
• answering phones
• sending and tracking OFRF publication orders
  

For this position, OFRF seeks candidates with at least a basic understanding of organic farming and consumer issues; enthusiasm for our mission; interest in learning about nonprofit management and development; a sense of humor; and the desire to work and learn in a casual, but focused environment. Proficiency in Microsoft software products is a plus: in particular MS Word, Excel, and Access.

If you are interested in joining our team, please send a resume* and letter of interest to:

Internship Coordinator OFRF
P.O. Box 440
Santa Cruz, CA 95061

or email: jonathon@ofrf.org
*please attach your resume in Microsoft Word format