As part of Boston College's Hunger Action Week, the Career Center has compiled some resources regarding possible internships and jobs related to hunger, poverty and homelessness.
Note that this is just a short list to help you get started, and remember that hunger is a complicated issue that needs to be addressed in a number of ways.
Remember that you can also speak with a Career Advisor while you're a student or any time after you graduate.
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HUNGER RELIEF POST-GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES
Full-Time Post-Graduate Volunteer Opportunities
Boston College Post-Graduate Volunteer Opportunities Database
- Search over 100 organizations offering full-time volunteer opportunities, most of which offer room, board and a small stipend.
- Also includes link to 3 other databases of volunteer opportunities.
Professional Work Fellowships
- Extraordinary work opportunities for Graduating Students and Recent Alumni not offered through the usual job-hunting channels.
- Unlike traditional jobs, these professional work "fellowships" have a set time frame (from 3 months to two years, depending on the position).
- Most are designed to provide graduating students and recent alumni with a comprehensive introduction to a career field as well as a challenging work experience.
- Click for complete list of Post-Graduate Professional Work Fellowships in a variety of fields.
The Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program
http://www.hungercenter.org/international/index.html
- Leland International Hunger Fellowship is a two-year initiative that begins with a one-year field placement in countries throughout South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.
- Field placements include national and international non-governmental organizations, private commercial organizations, and bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations.
- Fellows then spend a second year assisting with policy formulation in the headquarters of the organizations where they served during their field placements. Field and policy placements are coordinated so that timely, innovative information from the field translates into appropriate policies
Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship
http://www.hungercenter.org/national/
- A project of the Congressional Hunger Center, the Fellowship is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty.
- Each year about twenty participants are selected for this twelve-month program. Fellows are placed for six months with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as food banks, community kitchens, and local advocacy agencies. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with six months of work at national organizations involved in the anti-hunger and poverty movement, including national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and federal agencies.
Kip Tiernan Education and Social Justice Fellowship
- One year fellowship designed to provide support for an individual who seeks to create, design, or otherwise carry out an effort which will some way further the broad mission of assisting and empowering poor and homeless women.
- Fellows are paid a generous stipend and provided with health and dental benefits, as well as given administrative support and office space at Rosie's Place.
Greater Boston Food Bank
99 Atkinson Street
Boston MA 02118-2701
Phone: (617) 427-5200
Web Site: http://www.gbfb.orgProject Bread – The Walk for Hunger
145 Border Street
East Boston, MA 02128-1903
tel: 617-723-5000
Web Site: http://www.projectbread.org/The Food Project
555 Dudley St.
Dorchester, MA 02125
phone -- (617) 442-1322
Web Site: http://www.thefoodproject.orgThe Home for Little Wanderers
271 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: (888) HOME-321 or (617) 267-3700
Fax: (617)267-8142
Web Site: www.thehome.orgThe Grow Clinic for Children
Boston Medical Center
820 Harrison Avenue, FGH-3
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-5251
Web Site: http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/services/Specialty/Development/GrowClinic/Index.htmlPine Street Inn
444 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
Telephone: (617) 521-7626
Web Site: http://www.pinestreetinn.orgRosie's Place
889 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
Telephone: (617) 442-9322
Web Site: http://www.rosies.org
Food First - Resources
http://www.foodfirst.org
A great collection of links on such topics as Hunger, Poverty and Food Security, Social and Economic Justice, Sustainable Agriculture, International Development and Globalization, and Biotech.
Congressional Hunger Center - Resources
Includes links to National Hunger and Poverty Organizations; Statistics on Hunger and Poverty; and International Relief & Development Organizations.
Twelve Myths About Hunger
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s98v5n3.html
Why so much hunger? What can we do about it?To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.