Fwd: [noi-jobs] Internships With ACORN

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From: Work For ACORN <youth...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Subject: [noi-jobs] Internships With ACORN
To: NOI Jobs <noi-...@googlegroups.com>



Locations: Various Including Washington, Boston, North Carolina,
Mississippi, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Dallas

What is ACORN? http://www.acorn.org

ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of
low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families
organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities
across the country.  Since 1970, ACORN has been building community
organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and
won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members,
through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter
participation.  ACORN helps those who have historically been locked
out become powerful players in our democratic system.
What to ACORN Organizers do?  ACORN organizers are responsible for
building local community organizations of concerned residents to fight
for changes in their communities.  ACORN organizer recruit dues-paying
members,

Community organizing: Each of the 1,200 local ACORN neighborhood
chapters in 110 cities and 40 states brings neighbors together to work
for stronger, safer and more just communities. * Issue campaigns:
Each ACORN office carries out multiple issue campaigns.  ACORN members
across the country work to raise the minimum wage or enact living wage
policies; eliminate predatory financial practices by mortgage lenders,
payday lenders, and tax preparation companies; win the development of
affordable housing and community benefits agreements; improve the
quality of and funding for urban public schools; rebuild New Orleans;
and pass a federal and state ACORN Working Families Agenda, including
paid sick leave for all full time workers.  A recent study shows that
our issue campaign victories have delivered approximately $15 billion
in direct monetary benefits to our membership and constituency over
the past 10 years.  * Service delivery:  ACORN and its allied
organizations provide extensive services to our members and
constituency. These include free tax preparation focusing on the
Earned Income Tax Credit; screening for eligibility for federal and
state benefit programs; and, through the ACORN Housing Corporation,
first time homeowner mortgage counseling and foreclosure prevention
assistance, and low income housing development.

We are currently seeking interns for Summer 2009.
Community Organizing Interns (nationwide)
Research and Policy Interns (Washington DC)
Online Campaigns and Communications Interns (Los Angeles)

TO apply:       Please submit a resume and cover letter to Garrick Charles,
ACORN National Recruiter, at natre...@acorn.org.

--
Dave Shukla
New School for Social Research
Responsible Endowments Coalition
Student Environmental Action Coalition
415.699.2673

"America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to prevent us from paying adequate wages to schoolteachers, social workers and other servants of the public to insure that we have the best available personnel in these positions which are charged with the responsibility of guiding our future generations. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer. There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum—and livable—income for every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from remolding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood."

Martin Luther King, Jr. - The World House.