Development & Data Internship
Uptown Stories
Summary
The Development Intern works alongside the Executive Director and the Development Associate to raise the funds required to operate the organization. They will learn and practice researching, writing, and reporting on grants, stewarding major donors, and partnering with foundations and local businesses. They may do analysis or visualization of our registration data, or research studies that support Uptown Stories’ theory of change.
The Data Intern works with both the Development and the Marketing departments to help our organization clean, update, analyze, and visualize data to support our operation.
The Data Intern works with both the Development and the Marketing departments to help our organization clean, update, analyze, and visualize data to support our operation.
Qualifications
Development Intern
Ideal Skills:
Grant writing; Data Visualization; Google Drive, Sheets, and Docs; Analytics; Research Skills; AirTable
Data Interns
Must be highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to document and systemetize processes. You must be able to manage your time effectively—learning and working independently. We appreciate those with the ability to have creative approaches to problem solving,
Ideal skills:
Familiarity with the following platforms (or a willingness to learn): Airtable, Bloomerang, Mailchimp, Zapier; Experience with LMMs (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity); Data computation and visualization skills via platforms such as Excel or R; Solid understanding of research methods.
Duties
Key Responsibilities: Look through relevant research for information we can use in future grants; analyze registration data; explore new grants our organization can apply for funding; write and submit grants; other development tasks as needed. Duties also include:
- Support transition from previous Donor CRM (Bloomerang) to new CRM (Give Butter).
- Integrate Airtable, Bloomerang, Give Butter, and Mailchimp to automate processes and communicate with each other.
- Gather, analyze, and interpret datasets (especially student and parent surveys) to aid in improving our programming and operations. This includes both qualitative and quantitative values.
- Research and identify new potential metrics and avenues to consistently track in order to measure our impact and success.
- Create automations and Dashboards to make data analysis more efficient in future.
