intern at the MHF

Grant Writing & Education Intern

Note: Grant writing and Education internships are currently available for Master’s level Social Work (MSW) students only.

As a grant writing and education intern, your duties will include some or all of the following:

- Research funding opportunities

- Assist in writing narratives for grants and maintain grant requirements and reporting

- Research up to date information on mental health topics for education presentations

- Participate in delivering presentations to community groups and classrooms

- Assist our school Program Coordinators in the implementation and sustainability of the be nice. Programs

- Create /write lesson plans and school wide activities for K-12th grade students for the online portal

- Represent be nice. at health fairs and/or community events

Communications and Promotion Intern

Works directly with the Program Promotion Coordinator to create digital content to promote mental health awareness, education, and Foundation programming and events.

As a communication and marketing intern, your duties will include:

- Create digital content for social media platforms, benice.org, and email marketing newsletters and campaigns

- Create promotional materials for events and awareness campaigns

- Develop new ideas for online content

- Shoot, edit, and produce videos to be used for online platforms

- Host a resource table and/or speak at community events and fundraisers

- Research current happenings in our community and beyond, that could be relevant to mental health and suicide prevention education and awareness

- Maintain and develop new community partnerships

be nice. Business Intern

Work directly with our Business Coordinator to help facilitate the be nice. Program and develop relationships with leads in former, current and prospective companies/congregations.

- Very good to Excellent organizational and communication skills.

- Must be flexible and available to travel.

- Assist to manage and maintain the business program training log- which helps track of training dates, times, and fees as well as maintain follow-ups with those contacts (phone calls, attend meetings with program coordinator, etc.)

- Research up-to-date and relevant information on mental health topics for workplace presentations.

- Participate in delivering presentations to various workplace groups.

- Develop new ideas and/or help enhance current business promotional materials (must be proficient in Microsoft Publisher, Canva, or software that can help create any form of promotional materials.)

- Host a resource table (hand out resources and sell merchandise) at any business or community event.

Fund Development Intern

Work directly with the Fund Development Director to assist with the management of the donor database, retainment, and engagement.

- Assist in the planning of Third Party, Micro Fundraising, and Donor-Advised Fund events from the planning stages to the post-event responsibilities.

- Work with Communications and Promotions to create promotional materials for events.

- Learn how to manage the donor database system, GiftWorks.

be nice. Faith Intern

Work directly with our Faith Coordinator to help facilitate the be nice. Program in faith organizations. Weekend availability often needed for presence at faith services, with youth groups, during Sunday school, or hosting a resource table.

- Very good to excellent organizational and communication skills.

- Must be flexible and available to travel.

- Assist to manage and maintain the faith program training log- which helps track of training dates, times, and fees as well as maintain follow-ups with those contacts (phone calls, attend meetings with program coordinator, etc.)

- Research up-to-date information on mental health topics for faith community presentations.

- Participate in delivering presentations to various congregations or youth groups.

- Develop new ideas and/or help enhance current faith promotional materials (must be proficient in Microsoft Publisher, Canva, or software that can help create any form of promotional materials.

- Host a resource table (hand out resources and sell merchandise) at any faith community event.

Merchandise Intern

Coordinatebe nice.merchandise and track inventory for the community and schools.

- Keep the shop (in-store and online) relevant and appealing to customers

- Assist in the management of the inventory database

- Fold, price, and stock incoming merchandise

- Keep items relevant with new and fading trends

- Handle all online orders from purchase to pickup/delivery

- Work with Communications and Promotions to create campaigns promoting be nice. Merchandise.