Spend a quarter — or a year — doing real work at a working human-rights nonprofit, and earn academic credit at your own college for it. The Rachel Corrie Foundation hosts college interns year-round: hybrid, from our downtown Olympia office and remotely, with the role shaped to what you want to learn. Students have interned with us from Olympia and from colleges across the country.
What you could work on
Every internship is matched to your interests and our needs, in one or more of these areas:
We deliberately invite students who aren’t usually extended the offer — artists, musicians, and performers; cultural-studies students; wellness practitioners; finance and accounting students — right alongside the usual nonprofit, organizing, and communications tracks. If you’re sympathetic to our mission, there is very likely a role.
Your college’s pathway
The Evergreen State College
Register an Individual Learning Contract (ILC) or Internship Learning Contract (INT): you find a faculty sponsor, we serve as your field supervisor, and the contract sets your hours, activities, and learning goals each quarter.
Evergreen students can also ask about paid Community Service Work-Study positions with us, arranged through the CCBLA.
Saint Martin’s University
The Internship Hub at the Center for Career and Calling helps you find and secure internships, and most academic programs offer internships for credit. We work with your program on the paperwork.
South Puget Sound Community College
SPSCC’s Cooperative Work Experience / Internship program is a credit course: your faculty and our site supervisor set measurable learning objectives together, and faculty grade them at the end of the quarter.
Every other college — including out of state
Most schools have an equivalent pathway — internship, practicum, field study, or co-op. A recent intern joined us for a full winter from an out-of-state college, entirely for credit. We complete whatever your program needs: site agreements, learning contracts, supervisor evaluations.
How it works
- Write to us. Tell us your school, your program, and what you want to learn. That’s enough to start.
- Interview and match. We talk, then shape a role around your interests and our real needs.
- Your school’s paperwork. You line up your faculty sponsor or program registration; we sign the site side — agreements, contracts, whatever your college requires.
- Do the work. A named field supervisor, weekly one-on-ones, and substantive projects — not busywork. Credit is for real learning, and we build the role that way.
- Evaluations. At mid-term and end of term we assess your progress and submit it to your faculty — on time.
Start the conversation. One email is enough — your school, your program, what you’re curious about.
[email protected] · (360) 754-3998. Prefer to volunteer without the credit paperwork? See our volunteer roles.