Summer Development/Fundraising Intern
Company/Organization: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Description:
Summary: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening relationships between patients and their clinical caregivers; our programs are run in hospitals and healthcare sites across the country. The Schwartz Center relies on charitable contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations to carry out its work, so our development staff is engaged in a variety of fundraising activities. Development Interns are an essential part of the development team. They provide day-to-day office support for fundraising activities, work with the fundraising database, and assist in preparations for mailings and events. Development Interns receive training in The Raiser’s Edge, a fundraising software program used by many non-profit organizations. Interns are not asked to solicit donations.
Duties may include:• Updating addresses and other information in the database;
• Organizing materials for mailings;
• Helping staff with preparations for events;
• Researching potential funders;
• Preparing donor acknowledgement letters;
• General administrative support, which includes filing, photocopying, scanning, etc.;
• Occasional errands;
• Assisting with other development activities as needed.Internship Period and Commitment: The Schwartz Center is seeking either one or two Development Interns for the summer, from May through August. Internships are part-time and unpaid with an expected commitment of 8-10 hours per week. The schedule is negotiable, but must fit within the standard Monday – Friday work week.
Location: Our office is located near North Station and the TD Garden. It is easily accessible by both the Green and Orange MBTA lines.
Qualifications:
Requirements: Development Interns must be mature, reliable, detail-oriented, and self-driven, with a strong commitment to the quality of their work. Applicants should have an interest in fundraising or non-profit organizations and have strong communication and interpersonal skills. Knowledge of Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel is required; previous office experience is preferred. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a higher education degree program, and strong preference is given to candidates who plan to apply for school credit for the internship.
Paid Internship Info:
unpaid, school credit available
Hours:
8-15 hours/week
Length/Availability:
Summer
End Date:
5/31/13,
Tags:
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The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
To support and advance compassionate health care in which caregivers, patients and their families relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers and sustenance to the healing process
Shortly before his death from lung cancer at age 40 in September of 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a loving husband and father and successful health care attorney in Boston, established an organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers in the changing health care system. Ken viewed the Center as a vehicle to advance the ideas, hopes, and concerns that he expressed in his article, ‘‘A Patients Story,’’ published on July 16, 1995, in the Boston Globe Magazine.
As Ken wrote in his moving article, ‘‘As skilled and knowledgeable as my caregivers are, what matters most is that they have empathized with me in a way that gives me hope and makes me feel like a human being, not just an illness.’’ Everyone who read Kens story related to it. Patients and families applauded Ken for giving voice to their fears and experiences and eloquently articulating the importance of compassion. Caregivers were reminded to stay in the moment with patients and, as Ken wrote, that the smallest acts of kindness made the unbearable bearable.’’
Kens experience was seminal. During his ten-month ordeal, he came to realize that what matters most when a medical issue arises — whether for ourselves or a loved one — is the ‘‘human connection’’ with our health care professionals.
In 2005, the Schwartz Center celebrated its tenth anniversary. Ken could not have imagined the breadth of support accorded the Center in its short history. The Center seeks to sustain Kens vision of a more compassionate health care system, and has become a catalyst for change in health care, creating pioneering programs that teach caregivers to combine science with humanity and take pride in the ability to show compassion.
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205 Portland St
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