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About the Role

NRDC's Development (Fundraising) Department is seeking a graduate intern to support ongoing projects and priorities for our Principal & Major Gifts Division. This intern will have the opportunity to support the Principal Gifts team across a range of donor engagement and operational projects, including meeting preparation, donor research, and database management. This intern will help gather materials and draft engagement summaries for internal briefings, take notes during internal discussions, and track follow-ups across donor engagement workflows. They will also maintain donor information in Salesforce and SharePoint and lead a special project to clean up SharePoint and align it with Salesforce records. In addition, this intern will conduct topline donor research, draft outreach emails and meeting follow-ups, and collaborate with the operations team to coordinate information flow across teams. Key deliverables can include short donor profiles, engagement summaries, formatted templates for donor-facing and internal prep materials, and a reorganized SharePoint system aligned with Salesforce.

Responsibilities

Support ongoing projects and priorities for the Principal & Major Gifts Division.
Support the Principal Gifts team across a range of donor engagement and operational projects.
Assist with meeting preparation, donor research, and database management.
Gather materials and draft engagement summaries for internal briefings.
Take notes during internal discussions and track follow-ups.
Maintain donor information in Salesforce and SharePoint.
Lead a special project to clean up SharePoint and align it with Salesforce records.
Conduct topline donor research.
Draft outreach emails and meeting follow-ups.
Collaborate with the operations team to coordinate information flow across teams.

Requirements

Must be currently enrolled in a graduate program.
Able to collaborate within a team.
Demonstrate initiative, proactiveness, and creativity.
Possess research and/or data analysis skills.
Possess project management and/or problem-solving skills.
Strong attention to detail.
Commitment to NRDC’s mission, values, and DEI principles.

Skills

Salesforce or another CRM experience is preferred but not required.

Location

New York City

Work Type

Hybrid
Onsite (3 days per week)

Experience Level

Graduate Intern

Education Level

Graduate program enrollment

Salary/Compensations

$10,000.00 stipend paid bi-weekly

About the Company

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.
Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace.
Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd.).
Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.
NRDC interns play an active role on the front lines of the environmental movement.
Over the course of an internship, NRDC interns work with lawyers, scientists, or policy analysts in different program areas and amass experience that they could not have obtained anywhere else.
Interns also have access to various events to enhance their NRDC experience.
NRDC operates under a hybrid work model.
As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis.

Equal Opportunity

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace.
We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.