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GWS Related Internship, Volunteer, and Job Opportunities
Descriptions are either quoted or paraphrased from the source web page.
About Face Theatre
About Face Theatre works within and beyond the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, committed to innovation, artistic excellence, and community transformation through theatrical projects.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
The Internship Program at the AFC is designed to provide selected applicants with rewarding educational opportunities that will lead to professional careers fighting HIV/AIDS. Working closely with staff, AFC interns acquire knowledge and skills in specific areas, learn about HIV/AIDS issues, work on critical assignments and projects, receive exposure to various professions, and gain first-hand experience working in a non-profit setting.
Amnesty International USA
A democratic, self-governing worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. Major policy decisions are taken by an International Council made up of representatives from all national sections.
Beyondmedia Education
Beyondmedia generates images and writings that are inclusive, realistically depicting the diversity of people in the world.
Center on Halsted
A multipurpose facility that serves Chicago 's LGBT community by offering services including organizational support, cultural/recreational programming, and counseling services.
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) was established to promote balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promote long-term public safety. CJCJ's mission is pursued through the development of model programs, technical assistance, research/policy analysis, and public education.
Chicago Books to Women in Prison Project
A volunteer collective working to distribute books free of charge to women in prison nationwide.
Chicago Coalition For the Homeless
CCH organizes and advocates preventing and ending homelessness based on our belief that housing is a human right in a just society.
Chicago Foundation For Women
The CFW believes that all women and girls should have the opportunity to achieve their potential and live in safe, just and healthy communities. For the last 22 years, the Foundation has influenced social justice through advocacy, leadership development, and public and grantee education.
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers
Provides legal and educational services to maintain the bond between imprisoned mothers and their children, as well as advocates for policies and programs that benefit families of imprisoned mothers and reduce incarceration of women and girls.
Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network
A collaborative membership organization that improves the lives of battered women, their children, and others impacted by domestic violence by leading public policy and advocacy efforts; providing education and raising public awareness; and connecting members of the community to direct service providers.
Chicago Women's Health Center
The longest-operating women's health collective in the United States, is a collective of women that includes health workers, counselors, outreach health educators, and doctors who work together to provide health education and affordable, respectful, and accessible gynecological and mental health care to women in the Chicago area.
CODEPINK
A women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.
Community Media Workshop
Encourages the media to tell the stories of the oft-neglected neighborhoods and back streets of Chicago, where the problems are felt most deeply and where solutions are most likely to be born. The Workshop trains people working on these problems to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities which make up Chicago and the Midwest.
Equip For Equality
A statewide, cross-disability, comprehensive advocacy organization providing self-advocacy assistance, legal services, and disability rights education while also engaging in public policy and legislative advocacy and conducting abuse investigations and other oversight activities.
Feminist Majority Foundation
The FMF seeks highly motivated undergraduate students with an interest in the public policy and political science, particularly in areas concerning gender, human rights and development. Interns must demonstrate a strong academic record and preferably have a background in the feminist movement and/or feminist issues.
Gerbert/Hart Library
The Midwest 's largest LGBT circulating library with over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.
Girls in the Game
Located in Chicago, Girls in the Game provides and promotes sports and fitness opportunities, nutrition and health education and leadership development to enhance the overall health and well being of ALL girls.
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
A national education organization working to ensure safe schools for students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
A trusted source for analysis on health reform and a valuable convener and leader of coalitions and collaborations working on health justice issues.
Heartland Alliance
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights champions the human rights and improves the lives of men, women, and children who are threatened by poverty or danger.
Howard Brown Health Center
Promotes the well-being of the GLBT community through the provision of health care and wellness programs, including clinical, educational, social service and research activities.
Human Rights Campaign
Works to secure equal rights for GLBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other GLBT organizations.
Illinois Coalition For Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert their rights; monitors, analyzes, and advocates on immigrant-related issues; and informs the general public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees.
In These Times Magazine
In These Times is a politically progressive monthly magazine of news and opinion published by The Institute For Public Affairs in Chicago.
Indo-American Center
Promotes the well being of South Asian immigrants through services that facilitate their adjustment, integration, and friendship with wider society, nurture their sense of community, and foster appreciation for their heritage and culture.
JusticeWorks Community
The mission of JusticeWorks is to educate, organize and mobilize a partnership of concerned citizens and community residents and organizations to advocate for just, humane and effective criminal justice policies, emphasizing alternatives to incarceration for women with children.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Lambda Legal is the oldest national organization pursuing high-impact litigation, public education and advocacy on behalf of equality and civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV.
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
The LAF is the principal provider in Chicago and Suburban Cook County of free legal services in civil law matters to individuals and families unable to afford legal counsel, and to the elderly.
Literature For All of Us
Literature for All of Us brings the rewards of reading and writing through book group discussions to teen mothers and other young people in underserved neighborhoods. They seek to develop family literacy by providing children's literature and child development resources to teen parents.
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
The nation's first museum dedicated to freedom and the First Amendment, located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue.
People For the American Way
A progressive advocacy group that seeks to hold government programs responsible for public policy. It actively promotes education on issues including school class size, separation of church and state, civil rights, equal rights for the LGBT community, and promotion of civic participation.
Planned Parenthood Chicago
Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area (PP/CA) provides medical services, educational programs and counseling to women, teens and men.
Project VIDA
Project VIDA was founded in 1992 to address the urgent needs of racial and ethnic minorities. Initially, the agency provided HIV education through street outreach services to area youth. Now, Project VIDA has expanded its community scope by initiating a variety of programs: direct services for people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and various prevention education programs.
Rainbow House
Rainbow House's mission is to provide violence prevention and outreach services to individuals, families, and communities, and to be effective public policy advocates for systemic change that reduces the prevalence and impact of domestic violence. They provide services in Chicago through three programs: Community Resource Program, Children's Program, and Domestic Violence Prevention and Education Program.
Rape Victim Advocates Chicago
RVA is an Illinois not-for-profit organization focusing on both social service and social change. Through their presence in Chicago area emergency rooms, they provide nonjudgmental emotional support to victims of sexual violence, basic legal and medical information, and referrals to other service organizations to help survivors make informed decisions. They also offer survivors continued support through telephone follow-up and their staff of counselors and legal advocates.
Sarah's Circle
Offers daytime supportive services to homeless women/women at risk of becoming homeless, working to end poverty through services, advocacy, and meeting the needs of women.
South Suburban Family Shelter
The Mission of South Suburban Family Shelter is to provide comprehensive, coordinated services to families in which domestic violence exists without imposing any one solution. South Suburban Family Shelter accepts clients regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, or age.
Video Machete
Video Machete (VM) is dedicated to producing media arts projects that promote economic and cultural equity within communities that have been historically under-represented, distorted or erased within mainstream media.
Women Employed Chicago
Women Employed is a leading national advocate for women's economic advancement. They analyze workplace issues, educate policy makers, and build support to improve opportunities and incomes. They fight to outlaw pay discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment and to strengthen federal equal opportunity policies and work/family benefits.
Women's Sports Foundation
The Women's Sports Foundation seeks to advance the lives of girls and women through sport and physical activity.
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people.
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