Volunteer Opportunity

Creative Writer/ Journalist Expertise

Hybrid
Volunteer must be in or near Pelham Manor, NY
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Details at a Glance

Start Date
April 2, 2024
12:00 PM EDT
End Date
June 29, 2024
2:00 PM EDT
Schedule
Weekends
Time Commitment
A few hours per month
Recurrence
Recurring
Benefits
Stipend Provided
Training Provided
Language / Cultural Support Available
Participation
Wheelchair Accessible
International Volunteers Welcome

Description

Our organization Young Women on the Rize-YWR is seeking a creative writer preferable English literature/ who is familiar not only with the Bronx culture but who has the expertise and skills to tell a tell unique NYC boroughs and lower Westchester / NY areas stories as the individual spends time with our members.

The creative writer will write and assemble together news stories that will interest the Bronx community especially for our young women, friends , and their family. YWR would like the writers to gather together a number of different sources and ensuring that all the arguments are represented, they keep their young women are interested in topics that are about them and that are for them in the Bronx community and NYC tri-state area abreast of events in the community and world.

The creative writer/Journalism expertise position involves:

  • writing press releases
  • researching materials about the community involving the members and making connections to enroll new members
  • establishing and maintaining contacts
  • interviewing various sources
  • writing, editing, and submitting copy
  • attending events
  • proofreading
  • verifying statements and facts
  • staying up to date with privacy, contempt and defamation law
  • liaising with editors, sub–editors, designers and photographers.

It is possible to transfer between television, radio, newspaper and publishing work.


Send an email with resume to info@youngwomenontherize.org

 

Our organization Young Women on the Rize-YWR is seeking a creative writer preferable English literature/ who is familiar not only with the Bronx culture but who has the expertise and skills to tell a tell unique NYC boroughs and lower…

Location

Hybrid
Volunteer must be in or near Pelham Manor, NY

NYC Five Boroughs and Westchester Counties Spaces

Pelham Manor, NY, USA

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Instructions:

Materials and any supplies are supplied from from our organization. YWR has a weekly supply that must be filled out to receive the materials necessary to conduct a very successfully workshop.

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