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Amizad encourages intercultural exploration and understanding through community-driven volunteer programs and service-learning programs. Programs in the Brazilian Amazon, Bolivian Andes, the Greater Yellowstone Region, and Australia.
The AMC offers a range of fun and rewarding employment opportunities — from full-time to seasonal positions and internships — in terrific locations throughout the Northeast. Volunteer opportunities also available.
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Are you looking for opportunities to work, play, learn, help, create, experience and grow worldwide? Backdoorjobs.com is simply about discovering life’s options and finding your place in the world (and that’s real exciting stuff).
BUNAC offers a range of opportunities including flexible work and travel programs to Britian, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and volunteering placements in South Africa, Peru, and Cambodia. These are open to full-time or gap year students and other young people from both the UK and the USA. Programs last from 8 weeks to eighteen months.
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There are over 1000 books and binders within the CDO, categorically separated to help your internship, job, or post-graduate search. Some of the resources are career specific, broken down into particular fields of interest, while others are more general career reference materials. There are domestic and international listings, with tips on interviewing, finding housing, researching prospective companies or colleges, and study guides for standardized graduate school tests. You are encouraged to make full use of the assistance provided by the counselors and CDO peer advisers.
Independent, non-profit organization dedicated to a wider understanding and appreciation of indigenous peoples.
CIEE is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. CIEE creates and administers programs that allow high school and university students and educators to study, volunteer, work and teach abroad.
Cross-Cultural Solutions offers short-term international volunteer programs in 10 countries. Start dates are year-round and programs run from 1 to 12 weeks.
Explorations in Travel provides volunteer work placements for students and adults from all over the world.
Partner with a grassroots organization in Latin America, East Africa, or India to improve a community’s social conditions, economic opportunities and overall environment. Gain practical hands-on experience, contribute your skills and talent, and make a difference through FSD’s flexible international programs for individuals and groups.
Go with a small team of volunteers to rural communities around the world to experience the daily life of the local culture for 1-3 weeks.
An international education and experiential travel resource. Our directories contain over 25,000 opportunities abroad updated daily including study abroad, internships, volunteer opportunities, teach abroad, language schools and much more.
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Search for jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities with non-profit organizations in the US and aborad. Also, check out their Career Center section, with tips and advice for non-profit job seekers.
American Council for Voluntary International Action. International volunteer and humanitarian action opportunities.
Dedicated to helping those who would like to work as volunteers on organic farms internationally.
Apply for jobs, internships, Campus Ecology fellowships or volunteer positions today!
Advice and information about working, studying, volunteering and traveling abroad.
Scenic Hudson is an environmental organization and land trust working to protect, preserve and restore the Hudson River and its riverfront as a public and natural resource. You can search for current job openings and volunteer opportunities.
The official site of the Peace Corps.
A comprehensive site from the University of California, Irvine with links to all types from international opportunities, from internships to study away to volunteering and working.
This UN program places “volunteers” (who are usually paid a stipend) with agencies and NGOs in their countries or others. A variety of the assignments are available including human rights ones.
Locate organizations of interest where you can volunteer your skills and talents.
Over 3000 affordable ($250-$500) international
voluntary service programs in 100+ countries.
Every winter, summer, and spring World Change Travel runs one- and two-week trips to destinations including:
Mexico + Brazil + Vietnam + Northern Ireland + South Africa + India + Morocco + Nepal + Cambodia + Colombia + Ecuador