The CWIS internship program provides individuals interested in Fourth World peoples, an opportunity to work to support a diverse group of world leaders, scholars and activists who live in the four corners of the world.
Areas of application may include international relations, policy formulation and economic development, health, spirituality and traditional medicine, and environmental issues including resource management, biodiversity geography and mapping projects. Activities may include records and documents management, documents research, information management, meeting organization, or office support.
CWIS supports an approach to professional and personal development, that integrates intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual growth.
Most of the projects and departments are interdisciplinary by nature, and provide interns with a broad range of opportunities for both learning and practical application.
Interns are asked to commit to a minimum of at least three months (or the equivalent of one quarter/semester), 20 - 40 hours per week.
College credit may be arranged at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Supervision is provided by a senior CWIS staff. The terms of supervision, which may include either individual or group processes are negotiated on an individual basis.

An Application Fee of $35.00 (USD) (non-refundable) must accompany your application to CWIS for internships taking place in Olympia. No fees are paid to interns. Interns are accepted on the basis of providing skills and services which foster the mutual goals of CWIS and the intern.
Normally interns pay no additional fees to CWIS for internships taking place in Olympia, nor are any fees paid to interns. Interns are evaluated and selected competitively.
Under special circumstances, when an individual at CWIS and also wants to apply this position toward the receipt of credit for academic credit at an academic institution, a fee of $125.00 will be assessed for administrative costs associated with supervision documentation.

Application Fee:$35.00 (nonrefundable)
Internship Fee: $125.00 To meet Credit documentation

Organization and Administration: Working under the supervision of the Assistant Executive Director or the Administrator and with direction from the Executive Director, interns contribute to: public relations, community outreach, proposal grant writing and research, maintenance of documentation and maintenance of the CWIS George Manuel Memorial Library.

Communications/Media: Interns may write and distribute press releases on CWIS events and issues, gathering information on current media contacts and updating data-base for networking and educational programs.

Publications: CWIS publishes the Fourth World Journal, as well as Occasional Papers, full length books, and online publications appearing the George Manuel Memorial Library. Interns may participate in the areas of both hard copy and electronic publications production, including graphic design, research, editing and writing. Interns are encouraged to publish the results of their research and may serve as primary or secondary authors with CWIS staff.

Community-determined research, including field research and bibliographic research serve programs including:

• Project on Cultural and Biological Diversity - Natural foods & medicines research, environmental issues.
• Fourth World Documentation Project - researching, scanning, editing documents for inclusion in the project's online archives.
• Fourth World Atlas Project - organization and data entry for maps and database.
• The Traditional Medicine Working Group
• Chief George Manuel Memorial Library
• Research documentation service. Respond to inquiries about various FW issues
• Meeting Organization

Complete an electronic application to pay by Credit card. Or print out this form and fill it out then return it with your payment to CWIS Fellowship/Internship Program at the address below. If you have questions do not hesitate to call 360 586 0656.