Internship Overview:

The PIRGIM Internship Program bridges classroom studies with real world experience by offering students hands-on experience in the fight to protect our environment, consumers and democracy. PIRGIM has internships available to motivated students seeking a challenge outside of the traditional classroom setting. Students may earn college credit while building skills and their resume, and working on important issues.

Interns must be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills and have a strong desire to make a difference on important public interest issues. A commitment of 10 hours per week is required.

Types of Internships:

· Legislative Research Intern
· Grassroots Organizing Intern

Join us the front lines of the fight for the public interest. Get involved today!

To apply, send a resume and a letter explaining why you are interested in the position to .

PIRGIM Internship Descriptions

Each internship varies based on the present need of the organization and the interests and skill of the intern. Here are a few of the intern positions we are currently interviewing for:

Legislative Research Internship
Goals:
· Gather the information needed to persuade state legislators pass strong public interest legislation, strengthen PIRGIM's reputation among legislators
· Learn how the state legislative system works, how to influence the making of legislation and how a non-profit organization works

Potential Activities:
· Track bills - find out what bills have been introduced on our issues, write bill summaries for our lobbyists, track when these bills are discussed and voted on
· Update our target chart - gather and record key information about legislators and their districts for use in legislative targeting work
· Prepare our legislative scorecard to hold legislators accountable for their votes - record the voting record of state legislators on important public interest issues, summarizing legislation, create a brochure and website explaining votes, assist in release of scorecard to the media

Grassroots Organizing Internship
Goals:
· Defend important environmental laws by organizing demonstrations of broad public support for environmental policies and increasing involvement of concerned citizens and students in our work
· Strengthen leadership and organizing skills, learn how non-profit organizations and grassroots advocacy campaigns work

Potential Activities:
· Activist phone-banking - call PIRGIM members, let them know about important upcoming public interest decisions and urge them to call their elected officials, write letters to the editor and
· Build activist network - identify and work with activists willing to help spread the word when calls to legislators are needed
· Organize volunteers - recruit, train and organize volunteers to assist in activist phone banking and postcard gathering efforts
· Organize a citizen lobby day - assist in planning and coordinating a citizen lobby day - including recruiting students and citizen-activists, scheduling lobby meetings with legislators in Lansing