ATLANTA

Type of organization: The Foundation's mission of granting wishes to children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy has enabled it to make a difference in the life of children facing life threatening medical conditions and to make their greatest wishes come true. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama, in its 12^th year, has granted more than 3,500 wishes and will grant more than 400 wishes in 2007. (source: website)

What departments offer internships? Program Services – Medical Outreach Internship

Qualifications and/or majors preferred: Social Services, Health Care, Child Life or related fields

Duties: Assist Director of Program Services with management of Medical Outreach, data entry related to referrals and medical contacts, communication with physician and social workers regarding qualification, assist with overall maintenance of medical outreach materials, day to day operations related to administrative responsibilities, assist in producing marketing materials

What departments offer internships: The Madison Gallery has three employees, including the owner. Internship will be comprehensive.

Qualifications: Must be studying Art History. A minor in English and a working knowledge of French and/or German is helpful.

Duties: The Madison Gallery is a profitable business, and everyone works to that end. We are open to suggestions for an internship project. Past interns have assimilated into the daily routine of the gallery: writing biographies, handing paintings, pulling information for clients; special events, production of brochures and catalogs, etc.

What departments offer internships? College Asset Marketing department is offering this position

Qualifications: Student should be studying marketing as a part of their core curriculum. Should have experience in developing power point presentations, excel and word processing documents

Duties: The core assignment for the role is to assist in the development of marketing programs for college campuses throughout the U.S. During the month internship, the student will participate in weekly Region Asset meetings, attend applicable brand/marketing/company meetings, will work with the Sr. Marketing Manager for Colleges on projects for 1^st quarter activation, research materials needed for projects in development and a variety of other functions.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

(alum-sponsored: Diane Hall

Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention, Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch (PDEB)

Type of business: CDC is the federal public health agency for the U.S. The Division of Violence Prevention is situated within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and focuses on the prevention of the following types of violence: child maltreatment, suicide, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and youth violence. For more information, see: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

What departments offer internships? Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch (PDEB). PDEB focuses on the development and research evaluation of violence prevention programs.

Qualifications: Major in one of the social or behavioral sciences (e.g., psychology or sociology) or natural sciences (e.g., biology); knowledge of the research process, either by work experience or a course on research methods; ability to conduct literature searches and data entry; good oral and written communication skills; interest in the field of violence prevention or public health approaches to social problems

Duties: Attend research team and branch meetings, content area workgroup meetings (e.g., child maltreatment, youth violence, violence against women, suicide), and other research meetings; assist behavioral scientists with literature searches, data entry, data coding, screening of abstracts; participate in conference calls with outside researchers; possible opportunities to create own research project within larger project (for advanced student interns)