Our Business Internships offer you an excellent opportunity to apply your strategic and critical thinking skills while building your network and creating a meaningful impact. Help organizations working on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as food security, clean water, sanitation, and education inequality – streamline their operations, work on their business growth plan, assist them with fundraising strategies, etc. You will get to work directly with inspiring social entrepreneurs or accomplished executives, giving you an incredible hands-on experience on meaningful projects!
Sample Business Internships
Fundraising Strategy
Host Country:
Canada
Sector:
Investment Management
Functional Area:
Business Development
Skills Involved:
Financial valuation and modelling, market research, copy-writing, slide writing
UN SDGs Addressed:
Host Country:
Canada
Sector:
Investment Management
Functional Area:
Business Development
Skills Involved:
Financial valuation and modelling, market research, copywriting, slide writing
UN SDGs Addressed:
Problem/Opportunity:
A growth-stage impact fund is gearing up to fund raise this summer $25-$30M. They most recently closed a CA$120+ million deal with the Canadian government in the COVID-19 campaign to supply PPE. They need the investment thesis, fundraising strategy, and compelling portfolio of opportunities in order to succeed at their fundraising this summer.
Project High-Level Activities:
- Fundraising strategy—working with a senior PE analyst in shaping the go-to-market strategy
- Opportunity identification—building up a target portfolio of companies they want to invest in
- Thought leadership—work with a tech consultant to generate thought-provoking and buzz-generating content for the website and social media presence
Generate actionable insights to improve income security for women workers
Host Country:
India
Sector:
Social Enterprise
Functional Area:
Business Development
Skills Involved:
Data Analysis, Research, Strategy
UN SDGs Addressed:
Host Country:
India
Sector:
Social Enterprise
Functional Area:
Business Development
Skills Involved:
Data Analysis, Research, Strategy
UN SDGs Addressed:
Problem/Opportunity:
The host organization members, mostly rural women, are engaged in various trades but do not have access to meaningful insights and best practices to improve productivity and enhance revenue. The organization has collected extensive data over the past few years that can be leveraged to provide real-time feedback to members on customer preferences and needs.
Project High-Level Activities:
- Conduct stakeholder meetings for data strategy and framework collection for SEWA’s ongoing initiatives.
- For robust datasets collect additional data for certain occupations.
- Review, digitize, cleanse, and analyze the existing data for correlation between variables.
- Evaluate existing regulations for safely collecting, storing, transferring, and analyzing confidential data.
Explore other sectors for internships of your choice
Design
Marketing
Coding
Engineering
Healthcare
These are just a small percentage of the projects we have lined up for VIX participants. Apply Now with your preferences so we can help you land your dream internship!
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