Give Books for Children

Feed a Child

Stop sexual abuse

Shelter animals

Fund cancer research

How You Benefit

Use your skills and intelligence to:

• Enhance your resume with a record of achievement and service with a prestigious nonprofit, in just 4 hours per week
• Improve your skills, including leadership
• Build your network at your school and nationwide
• Make the world a better place (this may be the single greatest opportunity for you to make a difference)

Choose Your Focus

Focus on your favorite charitable cause, ethnic group, religious community or country, such as:

• • • Women & Girls, Cancer, Environment, Animals, Climate Change, Hunger, Education, Mental health, Sexual Abuse, Veterans, India, Catholic, Latino, etc.

You can also focus on any aspect of college life, such as:

• • • Greek Life, Athletics, Residence Halls, ROTC, Faculty, or Alumni.

Unpaid / Possible Credit

We offer a great experience. We are a nonprofit, and so:

• This is an unpaid position.
• It is eligible for credit and for community service hours at many schools and colleges.

About Changing The Present

We help nonprofits and schools capture some of the $450 billion Americans spend each year on birthday, wedding, and holiday presents.

We do that by making the experience of a donation, which you give in a friend's name, feel like a rewarding present and an appealing alternative to buying yet more "stuff." We provide:

• tangible charitable gifts (provide books for children, fund cataract surgery to restore a blind person's eyesight, etc.)
• personalized printed greeting cards
• wish lists and registries
• gift cards, etc.

This slideshow shows how it works.

Plant a Tree

Support Mental Health

Cure blindness

Provide safe water

Provide Cancer Care

This is Prestigious and Competitive

We seek undergrad and graduate students who:

• have a strong academic record
• commit to at least four hours per week during the summer or the school year. (If you can spend at least ten hours per week, please see our opportunities for virtual internships.

What You Will Do as a Community Engagement Intern

You will use social media, email, marketing, and in-person conversations to raise awareness of Changing The Present among:

• fellow students, student organizations, departments, faculty, and alumni
• local nonprofits so they know of this opportunity to attract new funding
• local K-12 schools
• other colleges.

We Provide the Tools You Need to Succeed

We will provide detailed instructions, message templates, downloadable flyers, digital graphics, and other marketing assets for your use. We also welcome your great ideas.

Be Part of a Nationwide Community  

We plan to have multiple Community Engagement Interns at each school, and we will provide an online community for you to connect with one another, at your college and nationwide. That will let you collaborate, share tips, celebrate your successes, build your network, and make new friends.