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Total Cumulative Financing:   

$5.66 billion to 43,585 families, individuals, and organizations.

 
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105 Marketing Intern

Durham, NC

Team: Residential Real Estate

Location: Durham, NC

Hours: Full-Time; 10 weeks

Direct/Related Experience: Required

Education Status Preferred: Undergraduate or Graduate

Salary:  $12.00/hr. for Undergraduate Students, $14.00/hr. for Graduate Students

 

The Organization

Self-Help is a community development lender founded in 1980 that creates and protects ownership and economic opportunity for minority, women-headed, rural and low-wealth families through home and small business lending.  It has provided over $5.5 billion in financing to help more than 62,000 low-wealth borrowers buy homes, start and build businesses, and strengthen community resources across the country.  Self-Help’s affiliate, the Center for Responsible Lending, researches and advocates for state and national legislation to address predatory lending practices and policies. 

 

Self-Help and the Center for Responsible Lending are national organizations based out of Durham, North Carolina with offices in North Carolina, Washington DC, and California. Nationally and internationally recognized as a leader in community development lending, Self-Help is one of twelve nonprofits featured in Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits.

 

Major Duties:

  • Create a marketing/PR plan for Residential Real Estate
    • Focus on charting the history and successes of Self-Help CDC as well as providing information on current development efforts.
    • Integrate traditional and new media
    • Ensure the plan is organized and transferable- a process that can be adapted and used repeatedly by the organization
  • Create a cohesive online presence for Self-Help CDC, primarily through redesign of the Residential Real Estate section of the Self-Help website.
  • Assist in planning and documentation of major events held by Self-Help CDC and it’s partners
  • Assist in implementation of “Telling our Stories” campaign with the Duke Office of Community Affairs
  • Data Entry

 

Additional Skills Needed:

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
  • Desktop publishing
  • Website editing/design
  • Excellent written skills- press release and copy writing
  • Familiarity with digital video creation and editing
  • Data entry and database query

 

Application:

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send a resume and cover letter to internships@self-help.org with the internship number (105) in the subject line. If you are interested in applying for more than one position, please apply for each position individually to ensure appropriate consideration.

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