Internships

Enrollment by permission only; application required (instructions below).  Intermediate Spanish or above is strongly recommended.

This course requires a 90-minute weekly seminar and a minimum of 10 hours fieldwork a week at an approved internship field site. The seminar is designed to complement your internship fieldwork, exploring many different aspects of your organization and of Argentine Civil Society. Your goal is to finish the semester with an in-depth understanding of your agency. The course provides you with tools to analyze your organization’s approach, its policies, its programs, and the political, legal, social, economic and cultural contexts in which it operates. Guest-speakers are invited to the seminar and case studies on Argentina civil society are discussed.  You will also spend time reflecting on the internship experience itself as a way to better understand your academic, personal, and career goals.

Sample Syllabus

Note: The application is only for students intending to enroll in the 4 credit Internship Seminar and Fieldwork course. Students wishing to participate in an internship or volunteer work  without enrolling in the course should not fill out the application. These students will be able to particpate in an internship fair to find out about opportunities after arriving in Buenos Aires. (Prior to Fall semester, all Global Liberal Studies Students should fill out an application.)

Admitted Spring 2013 NYU Buenos Aires students should complete the online application by Friday, April 5 if they are interested in the program. Students that fill out the application by April 5, will receive notification by April 22. After review of internship applications, students may be contacted and asked to do a Skype interview with the language coordinator in Buenos Aires to assess Spanish conversational ability.  Students that apply after November 9, may be accepted if spaces are available.

The online appication requires you to answer a series of questions designed to help you think systematically about what you would like to learn and accomplish from an internship experience in Buenos Aires, and to indicate which internship placements you would be most interested in. You will also be required to upload a resume in .pdf or .doc format.

NYU Buenos Aires Internship Application

Questions? Email global.internships@nyu.edu

Art exhibits in public and private spaces; design, translation and production of catalogues, installations, consulting on art collections.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Administrative work

Please note that this placement is for mucisians only (placements require the students to play an instrument at an advanced level).

Organization that promotes and organizes juvenile orchestras in different parts of Argentina.  This particular branch is in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Requires a minimum of 12 hours per week

A non-governmental, not-for-profit and non-partisan organization whose principle objective is to promote sustainable development through policy, law and the institutional organization of the society.  The organization works to generate public policy that will provide environmental justice, as well as sustainable development.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Research

Program Development

Translations

Through alliances with secondary schools and local partners, the organization works with environmental education and recycling, as well as labor insertion.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participate in program activities

Administrative tasks

Organization working to promote sustainable development with cooperation, technical assistance, and consultancies for local and regional partners.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participate in program activities

Administrative tasks

La Asamblearia is a cooperative located in a Fair Trade market which commercializes products produced by small farmers, peasants and cooperatives. The objective of the cooperative is to collaborate in the formation of a vast network of Solidarity Economy in Argentina and the world.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Translating

Contacting members

Writing articles on the cooperative

Helping the cooperative grow and sell its products

The NGO works with recognizing the Indigenous Pueblos in Argentina and sells and promotes crafts produced by indigenous peoples based on fair trade. They organize courses and workshops allowing the artisans to improve their designs and to recuperate ancient techniques.

Potential Internship Tasks: 

Fundraising

Translating

Organizing workshops in schools

Organizing a trip to the indigenous communities to meet the artisans

Centro Acer/Conin is part of a network of organizations that provide food and training to women of low-income to improve the nutritional situation of their children.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Developing and running classes and workshops for children and mothers

Accompanying medical staff

Administrative tasks

An organization that works in response to HIV/AIDS with access to information, education, and prevention to form a committed social consciousness and solidarity, promote research and the updating of health professionals, and improving social services and health including protection against discrimination.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Recreational activities with children affected by HIV/AIDS

Administrative tasks at a public hospital

The Natalí Dafne Flexer Foundation helps children with cancer. The Foundation develops emotional containment activities for children with cancer and their families. It works in a variety of activities which includes assisting schools and hospitals, and helps to develop business social responsibility.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Play with the children in recreational activities

Organization working with the promotion of microcredit to low-income sectors.  Also works to build productive human and social capital.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participating in program activities

Administrative work

Translations

Argentina’s oldest and largest Jewish organization provides a wide range of services to the community, including voluntary services.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Help senior citizens in day care center

Institutional development

Teaching and tutoring

Neighborhood newspaper dedicated to promoting the cultural heritage of San Telmo.

Potential InternTasks:

Administrative tasks

Wwriting articles

Political science, law, human rights

Potential Internship Tasks:

Translations

RACI works to strengthen the access to International Cooperation by promoting collaboration among the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and subsequently contributing to the social transformation of Argentina.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Voluntary placement includes doing research on international cooperation in Argentina.

CIPPEC is a private, non-for profit organization that conducts research, consulting and implementation of public policies.

Potential Internship Tasks:

The voluntary placement includes participating in one of the four policy areas of the institutions, with research on different topics.

The Argentine Fulbright Commission for scholarships within higher education institutions in the United States.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participating in program activities

Administrative tasks, translations

Research center focusing on education systems and education policies in Argentina and in the region.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Research

Translations and administrative tasks

Centro Acer/Conin is part of a network of organizations that provide food and training to women of low-income to improve the nutritional situation of their children.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Developing and running classes and workshops for children and mothers

Accompanying medical staff

Administrative tasks

This cooperative was formed by the unemployed workers movement.  It provides day care services and a textile cooperative where workers produce clothing.  It also has other projects.

Potential Internships Tasks:

School support

Computer lessons

Teaching English

*Voluntary placement can include working with textile workshops, screen printing, computer recycling, supporting the bakery, working in the community garden, working with the editorial, and various social programs including the microcredit program, a community fair, the center for construction of citizenship, teaching support, English, computer skills, guitar, crafts, and folklore.

Food Banks, based and linked to the American Food Banks, this organization is the network which groups the food banks of Argentina.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Administrative work (receiving goods, identify and classify products that are donated by marketers or producers)

Fundraising

Translating

Organization within the Episcopal Conference of Argentina with over 50 years experience in the care and integration of migrants and refugees.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participate in program activities

The organization carries out projects in communities with low resources in the Greater Buenos Aires area to get access to gas, water, and sewage systems at home and to attain a more dignified life.  They promote social programs focused on groups with the most urgent needs and act associatively with local community organizations.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participate in program activities

Administrative tasks

A self-sustaining program that acts as a link between those with building materials and furniture to donate to those in need.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Administrative tasks

Promotes formal and informal education through training programs for low- income people.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Participating in program activities

Administrative tasks

Develops projects to improve the situation of rural communities which are undergoing social and economic decline.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Activities are carried out on Saturdays.

A regional non-governmental organization devoted to the construction of houses for poor people in shanty-towns.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Help in the construction of houses

*This organization provides an excellent opportunity for American students to meet Argentines, help in conducting surveys and building houses, and to learn about poverty alleviation projects.

Ashoka promotes the formation of an enterprising citizen sector, efficient and globally integrated, where social entrepreneurs can flourish and inspire others to become true agents of change. The voluntary placements include supporting the Ashoka office in Argentina, developing programs, and communication.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Research

Administrative work

Please note that students have to travel quite far to work for this organization.

This NGO generates spaces of encounter between the different members of the community with the aim of recovering the neighborhood´s social fabric and human development of its people. They work with sports (soccer, volley, and basket), arts, health, and access to justice and education.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Accompany low-income children in their educational development, working together with the public and private school system offering a complementary service to the children and adolescents attending the center.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Tutoring school children who live in an impoverished neighborhood from 1st to 9th grade.

Conviven seeks to promote and strengthen the community of youth and families.  The organization provides tutoring services and training workshops.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Tutoring

A Catholic center that supports and provides tutoring services to young girls and adolescents who live in the low-income neighborhoods in Buenos Aires.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Tutoring in English and arts

Accompany the girls and adolescents in recreational activities

Argentina’s oldest and largest Jewish organization, provides a wide range of services to the community, including voluntary services.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Help in senior citizens day care center

Institutional development

Teaching and tutoring

Food Banks, based and linked to the American Food Banks, this organization is the network which groups the food banks of Argentina.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Administrative work (receiving goods, identify and classify products that are donated by marketers or producers)

Fundraising

Translating

Community gardens, malnutrition

Potential Internship Tasks:

Institutional development

Communication

Giving English classes to staff

Administrative support

Developing partnerships with other organizations

Activities are carried out on Saturdays.

A regional non-governmental organization devoted to the construction of houses for poor people in shanty-towns.

Potential Internship Tasks:

Help in the construction of houses

*This organization provides an excellent opportunity for American students to meet Argentines, help in conducting surveys and building houses, and to learn about poverty alleviation projects.