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Interns in Action 
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Keith Sutherland
McGill, BComm student
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Hi,
During the summer of 2001 I did a CEI internship with the Centre for
Community Organizations/Centre des organisms communautaires (COCo),
a Montreal non-profit whose purpose is to help other non-profits by
building the capacity and strength of organizations and communities
through accessible training and resources. COCo's philosophy is that
strong community groups and organizations are essential to create
active citizenship, local democracy, social justice, and socio-economic
development within communities.
My job at COCo was to build a web site to do a number of things: to
create awareness among other non-profit organizations about COCo and
the many ways it can help them; to build connections and synergies
between non-profit organizations; and to be an online source for tools,
educational resources, and job/volunteer postings that will benefit
non-profit organizations.
I started from scratch, working mostly independently to take the web
site from an idea to a finished product. It was a terrific learning
experience that taught me a great deal about web site design and hosting,
project management, and the non-profit sector and its challenges and
opportunities. It was also a great work experience – I enjoyed the
time I spent there, and Michael Stephens, the co-director of COCo
who supervised the project, was a pleasure to work with. The site
is still growing and improving, with goals to eventually have web-conferencing
capabilities. You can check it out at www.coco-net.org.
Thanks a lot to CEI and COCo for a great internship!
Cheers,
Keith
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