Non-Profit/Human Services/Social Sciences Sector

• Administration for Children and Families 
  An agency of the US Dept of Health & Human Services with job and internship listings.
  
  

• Alternative Behavioral Services
  Provides high quality, accessible behavioral health care in privately owned psychiatric hospitals and outpatient settings.
  
  

• American Anthropological Association
  
  

• American Counseling Association
  Provides job listings and allows you to post your resume to the site.
   

• American Humanics
  Mission is to educate, prepare, and certify professionals to strengthen and lead nonprofit organizations.  Provides job and internship information.
   

• American Psychological Association
  Provides job listings and allows you to post your resume to the site.
   

• American Therapeutic Recreation Association
  The American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) is the largest, national membership organization representing the interests and need of recreational therapists.
  
  

• American Red Cross
  Posts job listings and volunteer opportunities.
  
  

• AmeriCorps
  A network of national service programs that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than 2,100 nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters.
  
  

• Central Virginia Community Services--Behavioral Healthcare
  Posts job listings weekly.
   

• Charles G. Kock Charitable Foundation
  Offers an associate program for recent graduates and an internship program as a way to explore and learn about leadership opportunities with non-profits.  Both positions are paid.
  
  

• Childhelp USA/Virginia Program
  Childhelp USA^® is one of America's leading organizations in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment.  This site provides job listings for the Virginia Programs.
  
  

• Christian Children's Fund
  Lists job and internship opportunities world wide.   
  
  

• Chronicle of Philanthropy
  Lists job opportunities in the nonprofit world, plus information that will help you with your career.
  
  

• Danville-Pittsylvania Community Services 
  Provides public mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse, and prevention services to the citizens of Danville and Pittsylvania County.
  
  

• Direct Marketing Association
  "DMA has been representing direct marketing since 1917. Since that time, one principle has driven us: Our commitment to our members. Whatever a marketer's size, market or media, we are here to help members achieve bottom line success and satisfied customers."
   

• Elk Hill
  Provides both internship and job opportunities.  Elk Hill provides a healthy environment where young men, ages 11 to 18, can feel safe to make positive changes.
  
  

• Families USA
  National nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
  
  

• Fannie Mae Foundation
  Creates affordable homeownership and housing opportunities through innovative partnerships and initiatives that build healthy, vibrant communities across the United States.
   

• Great Richmond ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens)
  Serves more than 1200 individuals and their families each year through a variety of programs and services that range from preparation of young children, teens and adults for independent living and job skill development, to recreational opportunities for individuals of all ages in the greater Richmond community.
   

• Habitat for Humanity International
  A nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
  
  

• Idealist
  Contact directory to nonprofits on the web designed to help people think globally and act locally.  Lists jobs and internships.
  
  

• InterAction
  The largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations.  With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, they work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.  Lists both employment and volunteer opportunities.
  
  

• International Service Agencies
  A federation of America's leading international humanitarian agencies with employment and internship opportunities.
  
  

• Jackson-Field Homes for Girls
  Offers internship and full-time job opportunities.
  
  

• Madeline Centre
  Provides intensive in home counseling as well as parenting classes in Central & Southside Virginia.
   

• Make-A-Wish Foundation
  Provides volunteer opportunities and full-time job listings.
   

• Mission:Teach
  The purpose of Mission:Teach is to promote and connect qualified Christian educators with Christian schools—worldwide.
  
  

• National Association of Social Workers
  Provides job listings and allows you to post your resume to the site.
  
  

• National Mental Health Association
  Provides internship and job listings.
   

• New Dominion School
  Located on 550 wooded acres 60 miles west of Richmond, Virginia, has two separate year-round outdoor therapeutic programs, one serving boys and one serving girls. This program offers a unique combination of group therapy and treatment techniques along with experiential adventure-based outdoor services and activities. 
   

• Peace Corps
  Currently, 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 70 countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of AIDS. Since 1961, more than 165,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps, serving in 135 nations.
  
   

• Phoenix Project
  The Phoenix Project is a Virginia-based, non-profit that seeks to alleviate poverty in the Commonwealth by building sustainable university-community partnerships in economically distressed communities.
   

• Public Interest Research Groups
  An alliance of state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the public interest. Lists both employment and internship opportunities.
  
  

• Residential Services Inc.
  RSI is a private, non-profit organization located Charlotte, NC that provides living options and related supports to people of all ages with developmental disabilities.
  
  

• Society for American Archaeology
  Provides job listings and career information.
  
  

• Society for Human Resource Management
  Provides job listings in HR.
   

• Special Olympics
   

• STEPS
  A private, non-profit organization that provides job training for individuals with disabilities and welfare recipients which will lead to an employment outcome.
  
  

• United Methodist Family Services
  Provides Intensive care in a group treatment process for adolescents to help them overcome serious behavioral, emotional, and educational obstacles.   Lists full and part time jobs.
  
  

• US Office of Personnel Management
  Federal Government  jobs, internships, and summer jobs.
  
  

• United Way of America
  Find job opportunities at United Way of America as well as positions posted by Local United Ways across the United States.
  
  

• The Washington Center
  An independent nonprofit organization that provides internship programs and academic seminars to college students from across the country and around the world.  Affiliated with more than 800 colleges and universities nationwide and work with 2,000-3,000 internships placements in Washington representing major professional fields in the private, public and nonprofit sector.
  
  

• Virginia Department of Health Professions
  Provides licensure information for Counseling, Psychology and Social Work.
  
  

• Virginia Jobs
  Job listings with all state agencies including the Department of Social Services, Department of Rehabilitative Services, and Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services.
  
  

• Youth Villages
  Offers help and hope to more than 5,000 troubled and troubling children and their families each year through home-based counseling, therapeutic foster care and adoption services, residential treatment, community-based programs and prevention services.  Search for internship & jobs.
  
  

• The Washington Internship Program
  a combination of work and study – places undergraduate and graduate students, or college graduates, in our nation’s capital for a semester (summer, fall, or spring). Yearlong internships are also available.
  
  

• Washington Jobs
  Product of the Washington Post which lists jobs in the MD, VA, DC areas and provides a lists of the Post's Top 200 Local Businesses.