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5 people are interested
Bloom with Blossom ~ Help homeless women
ORGANIZATION: MARIN LINK INC
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5 people are interested
Bloom With Blossom
Blossom is looking for an intern 5 hours a week...do you want to join our team?
Blossom
Blossom is a California non-profit under 501 (c) (3) fiscal sponsorship. The organization has supported homeless women in the Bay Area since 2016, handing out sanitary bags to help women in distress manage their menstruation cycle. Blossom is partnering with SFHOT, Homeless Connection and other organizations to reach women throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Blossom believes in preserving the dignity of homeless women, to see homeless women not as a pathology or social condition, but as human beings whose lives are valued as equal to our own. Blossom works out from the values of respect, dignity, visibility and inclusion.
Hours: 5 hours a week (some weeks less/more than 5 hours)
Job type: Internship with an appreciation compensation
Follow up with the Executive Director (ED) biweekly and founder once a month on phone/email/face to face, to check in with each other.
Job assignments
- Help ED coordinate, pack and deliver 300 bags quarterly to our partner organisations.
- Answer emails in the to do folder
- Grow Blossom’s relationship with the community and existing partner’s
- Speak with media when Blossom is contacted
- Responsible for tracking/reconciling storage inventory
- Responsible for contact with people that wants to do a fundraiser or donation drive
Benefits
- Gain experience in social entrepreneurship and the nonprofit field
- Become part of creating the future of Blossom
- A letter of recommendation if volunteered for more than 6 months
If interested, please send a short motivation letter to infoblossomproject@gmail.com
Marked Internship in the subject field.
You can read more about Blossom here www.blossom-project.org
More opportunities with MARIN LINK INC
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About MARIN LINK INC
Location:
5800 NORTHGATE MALL STE 250, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903, US
Mission Statement
Mission Blossom is a non profit that through relationship-building work to create better conditions for homeless women, through prevention programs:
Description
- Hygiene bags that seek to help homeless women managing their menstruation and for outreach professional to make contact with the women and promote health.
- A locker room project for homeless women, for storage, safety and relationship-building.
Values
Blossom works out from the values of respect, dignity, visibility and inclusion
- Respect ~ Assumes the situation of vulnerable women
- Dignity ~ By seeing women not as a pathology or social condition, but as a human being, with a life whose value is the same from ourselves.
- Inclusion ~ By giving vulnerable women better opportunities through learning and support. As well, help them build the foundation for a brighter future and flourish to the potential they have.
- Visibility ~ By seeing the women and telling their story and raising the awareness of their relationships.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
WeWorkCivic Center 1161 Mission StSan Francisco, CA 94103
DATE POSTED
March 13, 2018
SKILLS
- Program Management
- Psychology
- Multi-Tasking
- CSR / Volunteer Coordination
- Social Work
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Must be at least 21
- 5 hours a week