This Voice Up Fundraising & Development Internship offers a unique opportunity to build fundraising expertise while serving as a global community ambassador. The role combines traditional development work with innovative community building across 1,700+ cities and 80+ countries.
**Key Highlights:**
- 100% remote position focused on securing resources for social impact organizations
- Dual role as fundraiser and community ambassador
- Multilingual candidates especially welcomed for global outreach
- Emphasis on crowdfunding innovation and digital fundraising strategies
**Core Responsibilities:**
The internship covers comprehensive fundraising approaches including individual donor cultivation, foundation grants, corporate partnerships, government funding, and crowdfunding campaigns. You'll identify and recruit community ambassadors worldwide while leveraging language skills to build international supporter networks.
**Specialization Areas:**
- Individual donor development and major gift cultivation
- Grant writing and foundation relations
- Corporate partnership development
- Government and public funding navigation
- Crowdfunding campaign design and management
- Digital fundraising and social media strategies
- Special events and community engagement
**Voice Up's Principles:**
The program operates on five core values: Collaboration, Humility, Precision, Patience, and Empathy. These guide authentic relationship building with supporters and sustainable funding strategy development.
**Learning Outcomes:**
You'll gain expertise in multilingual fundraising, cross-cultural leadership, global community development, and comprehensive revenue stream management. The experience builds both technical fundraising skills and cultural competency for international work.
**Application Requirements:**
Submit to with "Fundraising & Development Internship" in the subject line. Include a development portfolio showing fundraising, community engagement, or multilingual outreach experience, plus language skills and cultural competencies.
**Participation Options:**
- Academic Credit: 15-20 hours/week with university partnership
- Volunteer: 10-15 hours/week for experience building
- Stipend: $20-30/hour based on funding availability
This internship is ideal for purpose-driven individuals interested in social impact fundraising who want to develop both traditional development skills and innovative community ambassador capabilities while working with a global organization committed to connecting people to purpose.
Our project is a first step in raising awareness about a national health epidemic. All proceeds are reinvested directly into proactive strategies for improving behavioral health among youth, teens, and young adults in collaboration with community partners.
We sponsor every day people of all ages struggling with behavioral health challenges that are committed to making a sincere change in their life towards their purpose. We match then with mentors for the long term.
Our youth, teens, and young adults are reporting the highest levels of loneliness on record according to the U.S. Surgeon General. Our work is going to help change that through simple actions that bring people together for the common good, focused on lifting people up, and creating stronger in person connections.