Initial CRE Options

Grouped in broad career categories, the following are types of organizations and departments you might consider contacting in your local home area to explore a possible summer CRE/internship:

The Arts

• Auction house
• Children’s program
• Cultural organization
• High-school summer program
• Local artist or craftsperson
• Local Arts Council
• Local government, tourism and historical office or society
• Local museum, gallery or theatre (community, college, or library)
• Local publication – graphics, photography, or design
• Non-profit organization with a art or art instruction related mission
• Performance space (theatre or arena)
• Senior Center
• Summer Arts & Crafts Fair
• Summer camp art program

Business

• Chamber of Commerce
• City, county or state government office
• Commercial bank or credit union – bank teller
• Insurance company – actuarial
• Manufacturing or service company
• Money management or investment firm
• Nonprofit agency
• Private accounting firm
• Real estate agency – field appraisals
• Regional economic development office
• Retail brokerage

Communications

Most of the organization types listed below have individuals and/or departments who are involved in: public, media, community relations, publications, event promotion and other forms of writing and communications.

• Casino
• Chamber of Commerce or Tourism Office
• College, university or private school
• Community newspaper
• Corporate communications department of a local company
• Hospital communications department
• Investor Relations department at a corporate headquarters
• Local advertising agency
• Local city, town, county or state government office
• Nonprofit organization (cultural, historic society, human services, environmental)
• Political campaign or the local office of elected representative
• Radio station
• Regional magazine
• Summer fair, festival, or performing arts venue

Education

• Adventure tour or teen tour program
• Day care center or preschool
• Library (educational programs for kids)
• Nature/environmental education center
• Nonprofit organization with education department or an education mission
• Outdoor leadership program (Outward Bound, NOLS, etc.)
• Police department (safety training)
• Private school with summer school session
• Public school - substitute teaching, or summer enrichment
• Summer camp or sports camp, including those for kids with special needs
• Summer residential program for kids with behavioral problems
• Town recreation department
• YMCA/YWCA – sports, recreation, and social programs for kids and teens

Finance

• Charitable foundation (marketing outreach, communications, grant writing)
• Insurance company (sales, research, marketing, investor relations, actuarial)
• Local government agency or business office - budget office assistant
• Local investment or commercial bank, or credit union - bank teller, back office staffer
• Local stockbroker - stock broker assistant, sales assistant, researcher
• Money management firm - portfolio management assistant, sales assistant
• Real estate firm (sales, marketing, office work, field appraisals, research)
• Stock Market or Exchange - runner, trader, researcher

Government

• Local federal, state, county & town government offices
  • Courts
  • Health & Human Services/Social Services
  • Justice
  • Labor/Employment & Training
  • Public Service/Consumer Advocacy
  • Check telephone “blue pages for other offices”
• Local congressional offices
• Local courts
• Local democratic/republican parties
• Local nonprofit organization that addresses policy area of interest (i.e. education, energy/environmental, health, welfare & poverty)
• Political campaign
• Political consultants and lobbyists (especially near state capitals)

Law

• County, state and federal government office and department (i.e., Legal, Mayor’s Office, Taxation, Codes, PR, Solicitor General, Treasury, Fraud)
• Court/Judge/Public Defender/District Attorney
• Estate Planning/accounting firms/tax service
• Government Relations department at a corporate headquarters
• Legal or human resources department at a corporation
• Local law office
• Not-for-Profit advocacy agency (department might include government relations/lobbying, programming)
• Real Estate Closings department at a bank/savings & loan/credit union

Science and Health

Clinical

• American Red Cross blood drive
• Hospitals
• Local ambulance service
• Physical therapy office
• Reproductive health clinic
• Residential Care facilities (i.e. for seniors, developmentally delayed)
• Residential home
• Skilled nursing & long term care facilities (i.e., rehabilitation center, nursing home)
• Social Services organization (i.e., United Cerebral Palsy)
• Summer camps for kids with mental or physical health issues

Field

• County or state departments of health
• Environmental consulting firm (hydrology, air, soil, wetland assessment)
• Humane Society
• Nature Center
• State Department of Environmental Conservation
• Nonprofit organization with health or science mission
• Local zoo

Lab

• Community Blood Center
• Cooperative extension office (i.e., Cornell)
• Hamilton College Summer Science Research Program
• Local vet clinic – lab work
• Medical & diagnostic laboratories
• Other university research laboratories