Non-Profit and Public Benefit
Explore careers in the non-profit and public benefit sector by exploring the links below. Found a career you're interested in? Stop by our office or make an appointment via Handshake with a career advisor and begin networking to learn more.
The Office of Career and Professional Development at Washington and Lee University has not vetted any of the internship and volunteer opportunity listings on this page and makes no representations or guarantees regarding any of the listed opportunities. It is the responsibility of students and alumni to do their own due diligence when applying for and accepting any of these opportunities.
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Job and Internship Resources
For nonprofit opportunities that address specific subject areas, view the subject based industry page (e.g., arts, education, health and human services, and sports).
Activism
- Koya Leadership Partners - Mission-driven search firm committed to helping social impact hire qualified candidates
- Feminist Majority Foundation Online
- Organizers for America
- Partnership for Public Service
- U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) - jobs, internships, and fellowships
Development
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Council on Foundations - Resource center with job board
- 13 Professional Fellowships for Careers in Philanthropy
Microfinance
- Hope International - International microfinance organization
- Citi Foundation - Philanthropic arm of Citigroup
- SEEP - International network of microfinance organizations with job board
- Banking With the Poor Network - Resources in microfinance in Asia
- FinDev Gateway - Job board with positions in microfinance
Nonprofit
- Coalition on Human Needs
- Council on Foundations - Resource center with job board
- Global Service Corps - Non-profit international development volunteer organization that offers service-learning volunteer, internship and study abroad opportunities
- GoinGlobal - Career Guides, Job and internship Search, H1B visa information
- Idealist.org - Search for positions, organizations and volunteer opportunities with non-profits throughout the U.S and abroad
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- Maryland Nonprofits - Maryland jobs and internships in a variety of sectors
- National Council of Nonprofits Career Center
- Nonprofit Opportunities, NPO.net – Specialized job board - registration required
- Work For Good - your source for nonprofit jobs
- Peace Corps - 27 month post-graduate opportunities; several application cycles available; you choose which position to apply for
- Society for Nonprofits
Student Organizations & Departmental Resources
- Campus Kitchen - Organization combats hunger and promotes nutrition by recovering and reusing food that would otherwise go to waste into balanced meals for low-income members of the community in Rockbridge County. Volunteers also develop valuable relationships with clients.
- SHECP Program
- Alpha Phi Omega
- Amnesty International
- Bead the Change
- Doctors Without Borders
- Engineering Community Development
- ESOL
- Feel Good
- Habitat for Humanity
- Languages for Rockbridge
- Nabors Service League
- Red Cross Club
- Rotaract Club
- SEAL
- Students Against Rockbridge Area Hunger
- Coalition on Human Needs
- Council on Foundations - Resource center with job board
- Global Service Corps - Non-profit international development volunteer organization that offers service-learning volunteer, internship and study abroad opportunities
- GoinGlobal - Career Guides, Job and internship Search, H1B visa information
- Idealist.org - Search for positions, organizations and volunteer opportunities with non-profits throughout the U.S and abroad
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- Maryland Nonprofits - Maryland jobs and internships in a variety of sectors
- National Council of Nonprofits Career Center
- Nonprofit Opportunities, NPO.net – Specialized job board - registration required
- Work For Good - your source for nonprofit jobs
- Peace Corps - 27 month post-graduate opportunities; several application cycles available; you choose which position to apply for
- Society for Nonprofits
Student Organizations & Departmental Resources
- Campus Kitchen - Organization combats hunger and promotes nutrition by recovering and reusing food that would otherwise go to waste into balanced meals for low-income members of the community in Rockbridge County. Volunteers also develop valuable relationships with clients.
- SHECP Program
- Alpha Phi Omega
- Amnesty International
- Bead the Change
- Doctors Without Borders
- Engineering Community Development
- ESOL
- Feel Good
- Habitat for Humanity
- Languages for Rockbridge
- Nabors Service League
- Red Cross Club
- Rotaract Club
- SEAL
- Students Against Rockbridge Area Hunger