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The Texas After Violence Project welcomes interns, community historians, and volunteers of all ages and backgrounds.

This project largely relies on the energy, creativity, dedication, intelligence, knowledge, and unpaid labor of volunteers, unpaid interns, or students working with us for academic credit. We do not have funds to pay interns although some find their own funding to work with us. All but a handful of team members donate their labor. Our very small number of paid employees usually emerge from the ranks of former long-term volunteers or unpaid interns; occasional other contractors bring particular and specialized skills that we direly need.

We welcome students who wish to work with us in conjunction with a class or community service requirement, for service learning, an internship, or academic credit, or simply as volunteers. If you are in high school, college, or graduate or professional school, please read for students and expectations of undergraduate interns.

But you certainly do not need to be a student to work with us!!

What do interns, students, community historians, and other volunteers do? Interns and volunteers perform many different tasks requiring a variety of skills and levels of commitment. One size does not fit all. We’d like to talk with you to figure out if there is a good match between your interests, skills, and availability and our project.

If you are interested in working with the Texas After Violence Project, please

1) Read this website carefully. You'll find many of your questions answered here.

2) Please complete this application for interns, community historians, & other volunteers.

3) Send the completed application to us at info@texasafterviolence.org or P.O. Box 41476, Austin, Texas, 78704. We will read your application and make an appointment to meet you in person.

4) Plan to come to our training sessions. But you don't have to wait for the next training session to apply and come meet with us.

5) Review the Texas After Violence Project Code of Conduct. If you have questions, please ask. Every person who works with this project must agree to abide by the code of conduct.

6) If you hope to interview with the project, please read preparing to interview with the Texas After Violence Project.

Not in Austin, but still want to participate? That's great! Please get in touch with us. We interview people across Texas and are looking for friends and coworkers in every part of the state. Let's see how we can work together.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to meeting you!

The Texas After Violence Project is a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, per an Internal Revenue Service determination letter of August 10, 2009. Contributions to the Texas After Violence Project made at any time after its incorporation on April 10, 2007, are tax-deductible.