including dozens from Columbia University and Barnard College. You are invited to join us for an amazing VIRTUAL internship experience that will change many lives, including your own. You have the opportunity to be part of a successful and vibrant not-for-profit organization devoted to helping ill children and families. We have shared hands-on Soaringwords healing programs with more than 500,000 ill children, adults, and families who are grappling with serious illness and setbacks.
If you have passion, creativity, energy and the desire to make valuable contributions to a small team during your internship, then we want you to be a part of our success. See our Soaringwords Infographic!
Timing is everything:
As many undergraduate and graduate students have had to end their spring internships early and/or have lost their summer internships, we would like to offer the opportunity to begin an internship with
Soaringwords immediately, this summer, or this coming fall, all with the option to extend. Due to COVID-19, we are offering interns the opportunity to work on a project getting PPE supplies into the hands of healthcare organizations. For more information on this project, please see the section below on potential intern assignments.
About Soaringwords:
Soaringwords’ mission is to inspire ill children and their families to take active roles in self-healing. Each year, 22 million children in the U.S. suffer from chronic or serious illness. Soaringwords is unique, as it is the only organization to motivate ill children and families to “pay it forward” to help others. When a child does something kind for another child, it accelerates their transformative healing. Soaringwords' vision is to become the leading resource and destination for ill children and children with disabilities, their families, and their extended communities, helping them to realize that “the power to heal” already resides inside each of them.
Sample Soaringwords Videos:
Gabby
The Value of High Quality Connections with Dr. Jane Dutton
The Power of Passion and Perseverance with Angela Duckworth
SoaringHaikus
Zumba
How You Will Be Spending Your Time:
Skills-based contributions include the following priority areas/options:
- Get PPE supplies into the hands of healthcare organizations—one of our Soaringwords boardmembers works for one of the leading export suppliers in the world, and you can help reach out to Soaringwords healthcare partners and communal organizations to recommend a reputable, timely solution to help them secure essential medical supplies at this time.
- Line edit the content for videos and podcasts featuring top experts in Positive Psychology.
- Lead the production/editing of Zoom platform video content.
- Use strong writing and research skills to assist in script development customized for each featured Positive Psychology expert and workshop we are creating.
- Post Soaringwords videos, announcing virtual events, and sharing relevant content on FB, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms, with the goal of increasing Soaringwords’ reach and viewership.
- Design and write copy for creative social media posts and Soaringwords workshop layouts.
- Create artwork to be used as healing tools to share with children in hospitals around the world.
- Work on grant research, writing, and editing to secure donations from leading companies, foundations, individuals, and government grants.
- Work with leading companies to secure funding for VIRTUAL employee-engagement programs.
- Work with Soaringwords CEO & Founder Lisa Buksbaum on the publication of her first book: SOARING into Strength by securing cover quotations from prominent authors and leading social media/crowd sourcing campaigns to pre-sell books.
- Help produce the Soaringwords Book Club: creating videos with leading authors to promote books on resilience, courage, and positive topics to a Soaringwords audience.
If any or all of these project appeal to you, you’ve found the right internship! You will learn about working in a professional not-for-profit, making contributions to the Soaringwords Team. You will work directly with the Soaringwords team to support the daily projects. No two days are the same, and you’ll never be bored! Utilize the skills you have, and learn new ones that will make a difference to Soaringwords and to all the children, families and adults we serve. Feel free to share this document with your friends who might be interested in getting involved at this time.
If you are interested in joining our team please download the application, fill it out, and email it
to lisa@soaringwords.org as soon as possible. We will evaluate applications on a rolling basis and will contact you to set up a virtual interview if you seem like a good fit for our internship. We look forward to having you on our team!
