Entry Writer Internship

About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.Your Role: As we are creating the online encyclopedia, we are always seeking writers to join our team of volunteers. Your primary role will be writing entries for the encyclopedia. In this role, you will be assigned a Canadian woman and will be required to research and write a short entry including a brief biography and details about her contribution to Canadian history. You must be able to write with footnotes in Chicago citation style with a youth-friendly diction. Ideally, each entry will be between 500 - 1000 words though you can write longer if you feel necessary. Our aim is to create a SparkNotes-inspired encyclopedia on Canadian women's history that is easily digestible and understood by Canadian youth ages 12-18. Expectations: We are looking for someone who can type 2-4 entries per month; however, this can be adjusted more or less per the availability. Based on the tracked hours for other volunteers on our team, an entry should take between 2-4 hours. Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer, sufficient internet access and Microsoft word or google docs for writing the entries. Skills: Intermediate writing skills and research ability.

Marketing Development Internship

About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.Your Role: As a not-for-profit start-up we are seeking someone with marketing knowledge to join our team. Your role would include but is not limited to: working alongside our director to create a marketing plan and brand development. We value your education and are excited about your contributions and input. We do not currently have a website but are in the process of having one created.Expectations: We are looking for someone with an educational background in marketing or business strategy. You must be passionate about gender equality and support women in business. Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer, sufficient internet access and Microsoft Word or Google Docs for any written projects and Google Meets or Zoom for online meetings.Skills: Advanced marketing knowledge and business awareness.

Business Advisor Internship

About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.Your Role: As a not-for-profit start-up we are seeking someone with business knowledge to join our team. Your role would include but is not limited to: working alongside our director to write a business plan, assisting in obtaining grants and searching for funding opportunities, and contributing to our brand development. You will work alongside our director and will be expected to use google meets or zoom for meetings. Expectations: We are looking for someone with an educational background in business development or business administration who can think out of the box. You must be passionate about gender equality and support women in business. Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer, sufficient internet access and Microsoft Word or Google Docs for any written projects. Skills: Advanced business knowledge and financial awareness.

Website Development Internship

About us: Canadian Herstory is a multi-faceted empowerment platform that focuses on sharing the stories of women in Canadian history to spread awareness of gender inequality and inspire future generations. We received not-for-profit status in May 2021 and originally began by creating short educational videos about women in Canadian history as a method to inspire a younger age during a time of heightened social media use and reduced classroom time. Today, we are creating an online Canadian women's encyclopedia to offer a place for cohesive further education. While we continue to make short videos, we feel they limit our ability to educate and would prefer to keep them going as a tool to create interest in Canadian women's history while offering a starting place for further research. While Canadian encyclopedias exist, we feel many lack gender and racial inclusivity. Canadian Herstory is building a website with an online encyclopedia to fill that gap and offer further information easily understood by a younger generation.Your Role: As we are creating the online encyclopedia, we seek a website developer to join our team of volunteers. Your primary role will be designing and building the Squarespace website. This role includes but is not limited to: a home page, an about us page, a recommendation submissions page, a guest lecture offer page, a power of gender-equal education page, and most importantly, the encyclopedia page that will have numerous sub-pages, each featuring a different woman in Canadian history. As we aim for a young prime audience for this website, we hope it would have a relatively in trend style that would fit well with the illustrations of Canadian women we already have for the encyclopedia entries.Expectations: We are looking for someone familiar with Squarespace who can work alongside our director in creating the website to feature an online encyclopedia. This internship will be completely remote and requires biweekly scheduled zoom meetings with our director.Tools Required: As this is an online position, you must have your own computer and sufficient internet access. If you do not have adobe creative cloud and would require it for creating graphic designs for the website, we can provide it for you.Skills: Intermediate web development knowledge, intermediate graphic design skills and the ability to learn Squarespace if you are unfamiliar.