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- 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

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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

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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 o Courts o Health & Human Services/Social

Services o Justice o Labor/Employment & Training o Public Service/Consumer Advocacy o 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)

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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 & 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