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Volunteer with QEJ
Volunteer Opportunities Administrative Work · Help manage the QEJ office, by helping out with mailings, entering data in to
the computer, managing correspondence, handling the phones, etc. Fundraising · Help develop funding proposals to foundations · Help cultivate potential major donors · Help organize special fundraising events QEJ Website ·
Help research resources and organizations that can
be linked on our website. These links are to help poor LGBT people find assistance, and also to help advocates, service
providers and researchers to find resources. Go to this page to check it out. · Work with QEJ Volunteer Librarian to identify and obtain articles and essays that
address queer poverty or queer progressive thought, to include on our website’s library. Go to this page to check it out. Shelter Organizing Project Outreach Groups Once
a week, for six weeks, go into a homeless shelter, with a partner, and run a support and outreach group to homeless LGBT people. QEJ’s Community Organizer will provide you with a series of trainings to prepare
you for co-facilitating these groups. “Know Your Rights” Trainings Work
with QEJ staff to plan a monthly series of Trainings. Each training will focus
on a different issue of concern to homeless and/or low-income LGBT people. Help
plan the topics, contact speakers, book space, conduct outreach. Internship Opportunities Advocacy / Lobbying · Work with QEJ Coordinator to link QEJ to existing advocacy campaigns that other
organizations are engaged in · Generate our own advocacy/lobbying efforts, and help coordinate these efforts Community Forums Help
design, schedule, plan and advertise a series of public education events, which will bring together activists, academics and
leaders to address a variety of queer poverty/class issues. Fundraising · Help develop funding proposals to foundations · Help cultivate potential major donors · Help organize special fundraising events “Know Your Rights” Trainings Work
with QEJ staff to plan a monthly series of Trainings. Each training will focus
on a different issue of concern to homeless and/or low-income LGBT people. Help
plan the topics, contact speakers, book space, conduct outreach. Leadership Development Course Work
with QEJ staff to develop an 8-week course, training LGBT homeless people in the skills they need to be effective advocates. Each week will focus on a different skill (talking with the media, lobbying, running
a meeting, etc.). Curriculum must be developed, outreach must be organized, and
course must be run. QEJ Network Work
with QEJ Coordinator to organize and coordinate monthly meetings of the Queer Economic Justice Network, which brings together
dozens of organizations from the queer movement and from the anti-poverty movement.
Coordinate meetings and help develop/run the events that are generated at these meetings. Research Project Potential
may exist for interns to work on various research projects, but they are still being developed, and are currently only
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