SEO Marketing & Content Creation Externship

The Center for Education Reform's mission is to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes. In our technological 21st century, the Center is expanding its brand and presence in new ways to stay relevant, informed, and competitive. The Center is looking to leverage the skills and experience of passionate and mission-driven externs who'll be able to take the Center's social media strategy to the next level, through improved keyword optimization and content creation. This is often referred to as SEO or Search Engine Optimization. The Center is seeking student externs who'll produce professional and high-quality content that will be widely-used to generate publicity and grab the attention of important stakeholders and lawmakers.

Fundraising & Foundation Research Externship

The Center for Education Reform's mission is to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes. As an education non-profit, like all organizations, it takes financial support to operationalize goals and initiatives. To further expand the Center's reach and impact they are looking to secure more funding from existing foundations and grants in areas related to education and workforce development. The Center is looking to work with student externs who will refine an existing individual donor information, find new foundations and related grants that will help maximize the impact of the Center's mission. As an additional component to this experience, externs will also draft their best grant application response that could be submitted as a part of the Center's future grant submissions.

Career Partner Development Externship

For the past 4 years, Paragon One has specialized in teaching and helping students to win the best externships. In this unique opportunity, students will work on the inside of our process and learn exactly how we determine which companies would benefit from externs, how to evaluate them, how to research them, and how to contact them. Needless to say, the skills practiced during this externship are invaluable for anyone who wishes to grow their own career in the future. 

Middle Market Investment Banking Externship

Crafted Capital was created with the mindset that doing what is right for the client is top priority, above all else. The firm’s leadership strives to regain the “trusted advisor” position once commonly held by investment bankers. Our partners bring bulge bracket investment banking experience, track record and service. Our deep industry and sector knowledge allows us to craft the ideal solution for middle-market businesses. Crafted Capital primarily serves clients in the logistics, technology, and oil & gas services sectors. Crafted needs help sourcing private equity funds, credit funds, infrastructure funds, and sovereign wealth funds for the green-tech company that developed the technology in order to finance the plants.

Competitive Portfolio Analysis Externship

SEI Ventures is the corporate venture capital program of Strategic Education, Inc., a firm dedicated to enabling economic mobility with education. Through a suite of innovative programs and services, they are helping working adult students advance careers and improve lives. The corporate ventures team is led by Principal Taylor Chapman who built and led growth and sales teams at Remind, an ed tech platform now used in over 80% of US schools, and ran one (of three) business units at NationSwell, a B Corp dedicated to connecting America’s leading problem solvers. This externship will also be under the oversight of the Senior Associate Matt Tower.

VC Analyst Externship

This is an exciting externship where students can experience first-hand what it feels like to be an entry-level analyst at a venture capital firm. As investors, venture capitalists (VCs) are investing in new ideas, innovations, and most importantly teams. Where do they begin? This is called deal sourcing. And externs will profile startup companies, learn what VCs look for, and be a part of the investing in the next generation of technology. RallyCry Ventures is seeking ambitious students to help research relevant pre-seed stage startups for deal sourcing and evaluation.

Middle Market Investment Banking Externship

Crafted Capital was created with the mindset that doing what is right for the client is top priority, above all else. The firm’s leadership strives to regain the “trusted advisor” position once commonly held by investment bankers. Our partners bring bulge bracket investment banking experience, track record and service. Our deep industry and sector knowledge allows us to craft the ideal solution for middle-market businesses. Crafted Capital primarily serves clients in the logistics, technology, and oil & gas services sectors. Crafted needs help sourcing private equity funds, credit funds, infrastructure funds, and sovereign wealth funds for the green-tech company that developed the technology in order to finance the plants.

Competitive Portfolio Analysis Externship

SEI Ventures is the corporate venture capital program of Strategic Education, Inc., a firm dedicated to enabling economic mobility with education. Through a suite of innovative programs and services, they are helping working adult students advance careers and improve lives. The corporate ventures team is led by Principal Taylor Chapman who built and led growth and sales teams at Remind, an ed tech platform now used in over 80% of US schools, and ran one (of three) business units at NationSwell, a B Corp dedicated to connecting America’s leading problem solvers. This externship will also be under the oversight of the Senior Associate Matt Tower.

VC Analyst Externship

This is an exciting externship where students can experience first-hand what it feels like to be an entry-level analyst at a venture capital firm. As investors, venture capitalists (VCs) are investing in new ideas, innovations, and most importantly teams. Where do they begin? This is called deal sourcing. And externs will profile startup companies, learn what VCs look for, and be a part of the investing in the next generation of technology. RallyCry Ventures is seeking ambitious students to help research relevant pre-seed stage startups for deal sourcing and evaluation.

Career Partner Development Externship

For the past 4 years, Paragon One has specialized in teaching and helping students to win the best externships. In this unique opportunity, students will work on the inside of our process and learn exactly how we determine which companies would benefit from externs, how to evaluate them, how to research them, and how to contact them. Needless to say, the skills practiced during this externship are invaluable for anyone who wishes to grow their own career in the future. 

Fundraising & Foundation Research Externship

The Center for Education Reform's mission is to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes. As an education non-profit, like all organizations, it takes financial support to operationalize goals and initiatives. To further expand the Center's reach and impact they are looking to secure more funding from existing foundations and grants in areas related to education and workforce development. The Center is looking to work with student externs who will refine an existing individual donor information, find new foundations and related grants that will help maximize the impact of the Center's mission. As an additional component to this experience, externs will also draft their best grant application response that could be submitted as a part of the Center's future grant submissions.