The information below can be found at http://www.pluralism.org/resources/calendar/summer_internships.php

The Pluralism Project at Harvard Universityseeks interns for the summer of 2005. Interns will be involved in a wide variety of projects including research and documentation, outreach, website and database maintenance, and administrative tasks. To explore the research of last year's interns, visit this link. We are looking for committed candidates with strong academic records and excellent research and writing skills. Some background in Religious Studies and interest in the diversity of world religions in Americais required. HTML and database experience are a plus. These internships are unpaid opportunities to be part of our unique inter-disciplinary research team at HarvardUniversity. Scheduling is flexible but at least twenty hours a week is desired. Please send a letter of interest and resume to Grove Harris, Managing Director, at mailto:staff@pluralism.org

Interfaith Allianceand The Interfaith AllianceFoundation 2005 Internships, WashingtonD.C. 

The Interfaith Alliance offers a variety of fall, spring, summer internship possibilities. These internship opportunities and their availability are listed on their comprehensive website (http://www.interfaithalliance.org/site/pp.asp?c=8dJIIWMCE&b=120710)

"Throughout the year, students from around the country intern at The Interfaith Alliance. Interning at The Interfaith Alliance gives them the unique opportunity to explore the various faith traditions represented in our diverse nation and to see first-hand the religious liberty at work. In addition, interns also work in a specific department, including development, program, or policy to learn about the specific rewards and challenges inherent in non-profit work. As full members of the The Interfaith Alliance staff, interns are expected to contribute to the daily tasks and ongoing projects."

Special Opportunity: Youth Mobilization Intern

The Interfaith Alliance is currently seeking a graduate student to help create a new program to train the next generation of people of faith and good will to be active and engaged citizens. Work with experts in religious education, political activism, and youth outreach to design a curriculum for youth ages 14-18 which will encourage them to put their faith into action to promote religious liberty, social justice and peace. For more information, visit this link. To learn more about the organization, visit http://www.interfaithalliance.org/.

Interfaith Centerof New YorkSummer Internships, New York, NY 

"The Interfaith Center of New York is a secular educational non-profit that seeks to make New Yorksafe for religious difference. We do this by working with and organizing religious and secular communities to better understand one another and work together." The Interfaith Center of New York offers a variety of summer internship options. For more information, see this website (http://www.interfaithcenter.org/jobs.shtml)

Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL 

The Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) has a number of internship opportunities available during both the summer and the academic year. IFYC is a Chicago-based international organization that seeks to encourage better understanding and cooperative service among religiously diverse youth through various programs that build the interfaith youth work movement. To learn more about IFYC and its programs please visit http://www.ifyc.org/. Please contact April Kunze in their office regarding internships.

Religions for Peace - USAInternships 

Religions for Peace - USA seeks interns at its headquarters in New York City. The unpaid positions are available in the areas of media/communications, justice and peace education, interreligious advocate/resource management, United Nations/public policy, web work/information systems management, and more. Please see their website for more information at http://www.rfpusa.org/join/internships.html

TexasFaith Network, Austin, TX 

The Texas Faith Network, a project of the Texas Freedom Network, is an advocacy group which includes more than 500 clergy from around the state who are committed to advancing a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the radical right. To learn more about the organization and its programs please visit http://www.tfn.org/. They already have their interns in place for 2005, and anticipate needing additional interns in 2006.

United StatesCommission on International Religious Freedom, Washington, DC 

The USCIRF is seeking summer, fall, and spring interns "interested in assisting with the policy research, legal research, communications/media relations, government affairs, immigration law, or outreach functions of the Commission. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is a federal government commission created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-292) to monitor religious freedom in other countries and advise the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress on how best to promote it." For deadlines and more detailed decriptions of internship possibilities, see their website (http://www.uscirf.gov/cirfPages/employ_1.php3?scale=1400)