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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 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.

CATO Institute
Non-profit public policy research foundation offering jobs and internships

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.

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.

GuideStar
Search for non-profit organizations.

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.

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.

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.

SocialService.com
"The job site for jobs in social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, mental health, case management, employee assistance, volunteer management, substance abuse treatment, domestic violence, community development, mentoring, youth development, child welfare, developmental disabilities and all other areas of social services."

Society for American Archaeology
Provides job listings and career information.

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.

Urban Institute
Find jobs and internships related to nonpartisan economic and social policy research

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.

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.

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.

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.

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