KIP Spring 2025 - Communications Intern - Families Empowered - Stand Together

The Koch Internship Program (KIP) is a paid, 10-week experiential learning program run by Stand Together Fellowships that offers meaningful work experience at non-profits all over the country tackling some of our nation's most pressing challenges. Throughout your internship with a partner organization, Stand Together Fellowships hosts virtual professional development sessions every Thursday from 1-5 pm ET, wherein you will be mentored by seasoned professionals as you craft a capstone project on the topic that matters most to you. Interns will receive either a $5,500 or $3,300 stipend from Stand Together Fellowships depending on whether they are participating full-time (40 hours/week) or part-time (28 hours/week).

Successful candidates will interview with both our non-profit partner organizations and Stand Together Fellowships staff, so we strongly encourage you to apply in advance!

Families Empowered is a community-based, women- and minority-led non-profit parent service organization that envisions, one day, all families will have access to schools that work, for them. With a leadership team and staff comprised of multiple first-generation college graduates, we deeply understand the importance of empowered parents, and the positive impact they can have on Texas communities. Each year we reach out to tens of thousands of families in Houston, San Antonio, Tarrant County, and Austin through in-person events, our bi-lingual call center, text, and social media, and provide them with free, personalized support to help them navigate their many great PreK-12 school options.

Integrity: Conduct all affairs with parents, partners, staff, and donors with integrity and transparency. We are scrupulous and brutally honest about performance data, and courageous in sharing lessons learned with those who might benefit from our missteps or help us correct them.

Value Creation: Ensure that all our actions focus on creating maximum value for families we serve and are oriented toward empowering others to improve their lives. Hold yourself and others accountable.

Empathy. Honor each other and lead with understanding; although we work at scale to solve an urgent problem, we strive for quality, personalized interactions with our customers and each other.

Humility: Exemplify humility and intellectual honesty. Constantly seek to understand and constructively deal with reality.

Optimism: Face questions and challenges with hopefulness and confidence. Maintain a sense of possibility when serving families and each other.

Listening: Seek input from our customers as frequently as possible in order to deepen and broaden our relevancy and impact.

Collaboration: Understand that we alone cannot provide everything that families need to access excellent schools; we initiate and maintain strategic partnerships and collaborations with like-minded organizations.

In order to support parents of PreK-12 grade aged children in Texas, Arizona, and Florida who are struggling with finding the right school for their child, Families Empowered views our Communications Intern as a critical part of our team. The internship will focus on written translation of English marketing and communications copy to Spanish, as well as assisting with organization of digital assets for marketing purposes

Stand Together Fellowships believes that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. Our admissions office treats all program participants and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.