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For seniors and recent alumni:We’re looking for smart, talented seniors and recent alumni who work well in a team and are eager to make real change after graduation. The Fund for the Public Interest partners with leading nonprofit groups from around the country, providing the kind of people power it takes to build organizations for the long-term, win hard-fought campaigns, and make real change on some of the most important issues of our day. And we’re hiring!Specifically, we're hiring Citizen Outreach Directors to run our grassroots campaign offices across the country year round-- working on behalf of groups like Environment America and US PIRG.  Apply to direct a campaign for the environment.For current undergraduate students: What are you planning to do with your summer? Do you want to make a real difference, working to protect the environment or public health? Do you want to gain real-world experience and pick up valuable skills? Do you want to make good money? Apply for a campaign job with the Fund this summer, and you could get all of that and more. We’re a national, non-profit organization that builds the people power for America’s leading environmental and public interest organizations. We’re looking for individuals that work hard, communicate well, and are passionate about positive social change. If you’re looking for a valuable experience where you can make a real difference, visit www.SummerJobsThatMatter.org.Our Campaigns

• We’re working to protect bees from toxic chemicals: This winter, we’ve been campaigning to convince states to ban a class of insecticide called neonicotinoids (neonics) that is 6,000 times more toxic than DDT. Beekeepers report they’re losing on average of 30% of all honeybee colonies each winter. It’s time to act now. Without bees, we don’t have food.

• We’re doing our part to defend our current environmental protections:  Because 2017 brought some of the worst climate change-fueled extreme weather events we’ve ever seen and global warming continues to threaten our health and planet, we need to defeat any legislative attacks on our environmental protections from the Trump Administration. We are campaigning to get 51 senators to vote with us in order to protect our bedrock environmental laws such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

• We’re suing big polluters: Big oil and chemical companies often get away with dumping waste into our air and water. Just last year in Minnesota alone, 72 facilities allegedly violated the Clean Water Act. With Scott Pruitt running the EPA, we know we can’t rely on the government to enforce our environmental laws. So that’s why we’re working with our partners to file citizen lawsuits and hold these big companies accountable for their violations.