This career interest area focuses on creating positive change through education, community service, and mission-driven organizations. This can include opportunities in K-12 and higher education, nonprofit organizations, community development, philanthropy, advocacy, social services, and programs that support individuals and communities through meaningful social impact initiatives.
Resources
Explore the list of resources below to learn more about career paths in the Education, Non-profit, and Social Impact Career Interest Area. These resources will help you discover opportunities, grow your network, and more!
Join the Education, Non-profit, and Social Impact career interest area in Handshake:
- Log in to Handshake
- Click on your name in the top right corner of the screen
- Select 'Career Interests'
- Navigate to the question 'In what career interest areas are you most interested?'
- Select the 'Education, Non-profit, and Social Impact' career interest area
- Click the 'Save My Career Interests Button'
Explore offerings in departments, programs and centers such as these:
General Exploration
Industry based exploration
- bcorporation.net: Certified “B Corporations” are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability
- Idealist: Search for jobs and internships at social impact firms, nonprofits, and NGOs
- Nonprofit exploration
- Psychology Careers Blog
- Careers in Non-Profits: Jobs with Purpose & Social Impact
Job-based exploration
Opportunities and listings
- Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities Internship List
- Cleveland Foundation for Summer Internship Program
- CCEL Scholars
- Indeed
- Partnership for Public Service
- SOTC
- Teach For America
- Idealist
- Jobscoop
- NASW Job Board
- PSJD
- Roll Call
- WRP
- The Impact Job
- Sustainable Business Impact Jobs Hub
- Search Nonprofit Jobs and Apply With Scion Nonprofit Staffing
- Foundationlist
- Job Board | Philanthropy Ohio
Funding
Networking the best way to tap into the hidden job market—an immense underground marketplace where jobs open up and then are filled through word of mouth and personal referrals.
There are many ways to network at CWRU:
Education
- American Association of School Administrators
- International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
- NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
- Association for Career and Technical Education
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Educational Research Association
Foreign Language and Global Studies
- American Translators Association
- American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages
- Disaster Relief Agencies
- Foreign Policy Association
- International RelationsEDU
- U.S. Committee For Refugees and Immigrants
Nonprofit
Social Services
Here is a selection of organizations that might interest you:
- Boys and Girls CWRU
- Camp Kesem
- Case Cares
- Kids Against Hunger CLE
- Project Sunshine
- Radical Student Union
- Sunrise CWRU
- Students Demand Action
For a full list of student clubs and organizations that match your interests, visit CampusGroups.
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