WFM - Wenda Weekes Moore Intern in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota

SUMMARY

The Wenda Weekes Moore Internship is designed to provide a pathway into the philanthropic sector through training, network building, and professional development opportunities. This experience will explore all functional areas of a statewide community foundation and is designed for an undergraduate college student or a graduate student interested in the philanthropic sector.

We expect the intern to start Fall 2026 and continue through the end of Summer 2027. The intern works approximately 10 hours per week during the academic year and 40 hours per week during the summer. This internship can be completed remotely and therefore would be a good opportunity for someone who lives in Greater or Rural Minnesota.

The Wenda Weekes Moore Intern is someone who has a passion or motivation to create change through the mechanisms of systems change. This individual is interested in data projects, as well as surveying the different functional areas of the Foundation through working with each department. The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota takes the long view, setting systemic change in motion to bring about a more equitable and just Minnesota, particularly through the lens of gender and racial justice. The Intern will have an opportunity to gain exposure to all functional areas of the Foundation in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the operations of a community foundation. This exposure will be obtained in ways that best meets the needs of the Intern and the Foundation such as attendance at a committee meeting, working with the participatory grantmaking committee, individual coaching and/or training by a Foundation team member, and/or external training participation. The position is housed under Executive Vice President of People and Culture, has projects in each functional area of the Foundation, and has a project lead for each project.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Role-Specific Essential Functions

Young Women’s Initiative Support

1. Assist in supporting the Dr. Reatha Clark King Fellow and the Young Women’s Initiative Cabinet with Cabinet communication, application and selection process, and tracking
2. Meet with alumni 1:1 (virtually, phone, in person, etc.) to gather updated stories of accomplishments and to expand own professional network
3. Support for planning, coordination, and logistics for the Day At The Capitol event.

Communications Support

1. Assist with collection and organization of grantee-partner information for website or another data support project for communications
2. Develop blog post or another form of story sharing to reflect on one impactful aspect of time as intern or overall intern experience
3. Prepare social media posts for Foundation to generate engagement and increased brand visibility

Innovation Support

1. Provide administrative and project support for Foundation portfolio of work including research, policy and advocacy, and learning and evaluation
2. Track research upon request; maintain Foundation research in an effective manner to inform Foundation staff and stakeholders
3. Draft and create follow-up surveys for various events and projects

Advancement Support

1. Thank you cards to donors

Operations Support

1. Raisor’s Edge data cleanup
   1. Basic data entry on constituent records

Community Impact Support

1. Download and organize information stored in survey platform
   1. Download all survey data that we would like to keep, especially grantee-partner surveys
   2. Store this data in a new location.
   3. The Foundation will then discontinue part or all of our Survey Monkey licenses.
2. Assistance with events
3. Collaborate on and support Community Connect event
4. Collaborate on and support Participatory Grantmaking Summer Social
5. Be out in community with community impact team
6. Ongoing support for community office hours, including basic data entry on constituent records in Raiser's Edge
7. Support creating presentation slides
8. Participate in one grantmaking day

Organizational Essential Functions (10%)

1. Gain exposure to all functional areas of the Foundation, as mapped out above under role-specific essential functions and will also be asked to participate in relevant emergent opportunities
2. Participate as an active member of the Foundation by working collaboratively with other staff members and by communicating openly and honestly with staff and volunteers
3. Attend Foundation events, as well as external community events, as requested by the Executive Vice President of People and Culture
4. Perform all other projects and tasks as assigned by the Executive Vice President of People and Culture
5. Actively participate in Foundation's learning culture in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Desired Education and Experience

• Demonstrated experience and commitment to working within diverse communities and individuals living at the intersections of identities
• Working toward earning a college degree or equivalent experience
• Practical work experience and/or interest in grantmaking, fundraising, event management or other non-profit work
• Experience and comfort using PC computers, Microsoft products (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), and a commitment to learn and become proficient in databases such as Raiser’s Edge and SharePoint
• Experience and/or interest in applying an intersectional lens (gender, race, place, additional identities) to each project, reflective of the depth and breadth of the Foundation’s mission and commitment to gender and racial justice

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates initiative and a solution-focused attitude while positively contributing to our team’s work environment
• Commitment to gender and racial equity, including actively participating in Foundation’s learning culture in diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ability to understand and take direction, and ask questions as needed to clarify work duties
• Detail-oriented, well-organized, and methodical
• Effective interpersonal communication skills and relationship-building skills to work effectively with a diverse variety of people and personalities
• Self-directed, possesses initiative, and ability to plan and manage own work and solve routine problems independently
• Learns new skills quickly and develops abilities as necessary to support evolving programs
• Understands confidential nature of organization information and maintains confidences

Physical Requirements Necessary

• Hear and speak in order to use telephone and communicate with people both in and out of the office environment.
• Visual ability to review detailed reports and information on the computer, as well as in hard copy form.
• Apply manual dexterity for operating copy machine and office equipment use.
• Mobility to move around office area repeatedly throughout the day, as well as to visit off-site locations, as needed.
• Ability to view a computer screen and use computers for long periods of time.

Tools And Equipment Used

• Incumbent must be able to use computers, multi-line telephone, calculator, copy machines, and other office equipment.