The Institute for Nonviolence in Los Angeles

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Organization Description

The Institute for Nonviolence in Los Angeles is a volunteer driven organization that works with broad sectors of the community to build safer and more peaceful communities. We do this by focusing on two main projects: Days of Dialogue, and The Peer Mediation Program. Both programs focus on communication and listening skills, social emotional learning, dialogue, and mediation as tools that people between the ages of 8 - 100 and from varied sectors may employ on a daily basis to de-escalate violence and create communities that are constructive, creative and healthy.

Program Information

Student interns will be fully engaged in all aspects of the daily operation of a small, busy, volunteer-driven nonprofit. The range of activities may include: research; impact data design, collection, and analysis; event support; social media; fundraising research and grants prep; office administration tasks; powerpoint prep; tech support at training sessions and events; videography, and more. Please see separate PDFs of Internship Description. We are looking for one or more interns who will support all of the above activities and who will work with Executive Director Avis Ridley-Thomas and Senior Project Director Jill Frank. Separately, we are looking for one person who will be a Development/Fundraising Intern who will work with Charlotte Dobbs, our Director of Development.

Health & Safety
Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Background Check (e.g. fingerprinting/livescan, driving record)
  • Computer Literacy
  • Must be 18 or older
  • SUPERVISION: Students may be required to work at night (after 6pm).
Address 
1000 N. Alameda Street, Suite 240
Los Angeles, CA 90066
United States
General Phone 
(213) 346-3271
Website:
http://invla.org
Program(s) 
Service Learning
Internship
Volunteers
Organization type 
Focus Population(s)
Focus Area(s)
Education, Emergency Services & Public Safety
Hours of operation 

Interns typically work with us in our office one full day or one half day per week. We can discuss which day per week will best suit students and supervisor to work together on site. Additional hours are spent off site at activities at schools and other venues, during trainings, dialogues, and other events. It is expected that additional hours will be spent working remotely doing research on new topics for dialogues, data collection and reports preparation, grants research, and other internet/computer based tasks. Events and trainings take place during regular business hours and school days, as well as on occasional weeknight evenings and Saturdays. Most rarely, on Sundays.

Minimum required hours 
30
Maximum students 
4