By featuring one internship every day, we like to think that we put internship related information in an easily digestible format. Causecast is trying to make finding cool causes easier by featuring ten every month. That’s just the start of it, though. They have a community/social networking aspect, and they also link non-profits with brands and celebrities. For exapmle, Generation Rescue is supported by Jenny McCarthy and sponsored by, well, it looks like Causecast is still working on the sponsorships. They use the power of Web 2.0 to collect a ton of relevant information on organizations, and they even provide an easy way to donate to the causes of your choice. You can see what the total donations from the Causecast community are to date, which is also cool. The community, so far, is still pretty small, but Causecast’s website is excellent and will certainly generate a lot more interest in the future.
One funky thing about Causecast is that they’re apparently both a for-profit and a non-profit (so we had a hell of a time whether our post about them should be during the week or the weekend when we feature non-profit internships). There’s no information about this on their website, but I asked a question on the post about Causecast on TechCrunch and was told that by two people. This is something that I think Causecast should be more forthright about. With a .org domain name and a name like Causecast, one would think that they’re entirely non-profit. All donations through Causecast go through their non-profit entity, so they’re not taking a cut of donations, but it seems as though they make their money through the partnerships that they create between non-profits and brands. I don’t have a problem with a company’s trying to make money while doing good, but I don’t think that it’s ok to give the impression that you’re solely non-profit when you’re not. I don’t think this intentional, and I know that Causecast just launched, but I hope they’ll be more clear about this in the future.
Causecast is located in Santa Monica, CA, and they’re looking for four interns. They need a Video Intern, a Production Intern, a Post-Production Intern, and a General Intern. These internships are available now and all of them can be done part-time. The General Internship can be full-time and has a stipend, but the others don’t seem to be paid. You can get the full scoop on each of the internships on Causecast’s Jobs page. Causecast is a brand new startup, so this is a chance to get in near the beginning. If you think that interning at Causecast would be awesome, send your cover letter and resume to jobs@causecast.org. They say that they’ll be hiring full-time in the near future, so an internship is a great way to make an impression.
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