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Thank you for staying tuned! We’ve tweaked the bugs, moved the content and are excited to welcome you to Let Me Know’s new home at www.letmeknow.in

One year, over 400 posts and thousands of connections later, we bring you a personalized, intuitive and ever-burgeoning service, with tons of new features. So, whether it’s a writing contest you’re looking for, or a business conference, browse our categories, find your event and add it to your calendar.

What’s more? There’s nothing we enjoy better than making sure you get to that opportunity that could clinch it for you. So keep browsing and see what our periodic tweaks can bring you.

So, here’s to you, and to all our supporters. And to the fantastic team from Grayscale, BITS Pilani (Goa), who have built our new home.

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Let Me Know moving to a new, better website!

Thanks for being part of the Let Me Know community – for the last 1 year, our team has worked hard to be your first and best source of information on opportunities.

425+ posts. 268,000+ hits. Thousands of comments, letters and subscribers.
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We are moving to a new, better website in early December. We’re pausing the blog, moving our content, tweaking bugs and very excited to welcome you to our new youth portal. Stay tuned!

Google Policy Fellowship

Google Policy Fellowship

Offered By: Google

Key Dates:
Deadline for Application Submissions: December 12, 2008

For Whom:
The fellowship is open for undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy

Avyakta Research Labs (ARL) paid Internships – HYDERABAD

Suggested By G.S. Kranthi Kumar

Events: Avyakta Research Labs (ARL) paid internship

Offered By: Avyakta Research Labs

For whom:
Final year Computer Science and Information Technology Students of HYDERABAD who wish to work in software related ideas.

Internship for Writers available at We Flap

Internship Opportunity: Writers for We Flap (Website)

About We Flap:
We Flap is an online social non-profit business aimed at creating a vibrant community that enables individuals to engage with and assist various Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) across the world. We Flap provides NGOs with the tools, capacity and the platform to showcase their work, engage with the global community and request support.

In its first phase, We Flap will focus on working with NGOs in India. We Flap leverages the fundamental belief that people want to help, and if we can get together and all help in some small way, then we can collectively affect great philanthropic change. We Flap’s goal is to be the largest and most trusted online philanthropic community to learn about, interact with and help NGOs across the world.

Smart, enthusiastic interns/volunteers for Question Box Project

Volunteer: Interns/Volunteer for Question Box Project (Website)

Offered By: Open Mind

About Open Mind:
Open Mind is a U.S. nonprofit that originated and houses the Question Box Project. It is founded by Rose Shuman, who has spent the last decade involved in projects worldwide with a particular focus on the intersection of business and development.

Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme

Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme (Website)

Offered By: Aspiring Minds (Wesbite)

Aspiring Minds, a high-technology venture founded by alumni of MIT and IIT, seeks to identify each employable fresher and match him/her to a job at-par with his/her skills. It also seeks to help each unemployable fresher to improve his/her skills to become suitable for the job market.

Aspiring Minds is proud to present the Aspiring Minds Ambassador Programme which gives students opportunities to become representatives of their respective colleges, wherein, they would be the direct link between their college students and Aspiring Minds. Any new development or news, regarding any job opportunity, new seminars, counselling sessions etc- the ambassador would be the first one to know and can spread more awareness about the same in their college and campus.

MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations

Resource: MBA’s Without Borders – Developing People and Nations (Website)

In 2004, co-Founders, Tal Dehtiar and Michael Brown, believed that business can and must play an important role in alleviating poverty in developing countries; they also believed that MBAs have valuable skills which are needed by businesses and NGOs working in developing countries.

Atlas Service Corps Fellowship Program 2008-09

Program: Atlas Service Corps Fellowship (Website)

Offered By: Atlas Service Corps, Inc.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Applications: May 18, 2008

UInterns.com- Webportal linking Undergrads, industries and faculty members

Internships and Projects Resource: UInterns (Website)

Key Dates:
Internships and Projects slots available to be announced on 30th April

About:
UINTERNS.COM is an initiative by a group of 6 undergraduate students of Birla Institute of Technology & Science – Pilani, Goa Campus. It is a web-based service aimed at facilitating easy interaction of students with the corporate world and faculty members of various academic institutes all across India.

YouthActionNet® Global Fellowship Program

Suggested By Dana Ledyard

Program: YouthActionNet Global Fellowship Program (Website)

Offered By: International Youth Foundation (Website)

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission Application Forms: May 15, 2008
Announcement of Fellowships: August 1, 2008

Marjorie Deane internship – 2008

Program: Marjorie Deane Internship – 2008 (website)

Offered By: Marjorie Deane Financial Journalism Foundation.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Application: April 11, 2008.

Renault F1 Internship programme – 2008

Program: Renault F1 Internship Programme – 2008 (Website)

Organised By: Altran Engineering Academy.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2008.
Announcement of Finalists: June 5, 2008.
Final Presentation: June 30, 2008 at Enstone(UK)

Center for Global Education – Internship , China

Program: Center for Global Education Internship Programme (Website)

Offered By: Manson Center for Global Education, Beijing, China.

Key Dates:
Project Date-Summer 2008: June 19,2008 – August 20, 2008.
No deadlines but interested students are encouraged to apply early.

Summer Fellowship Programme:IIT Delhi

Programme: Summer Fellowship Programme (Website)

Organised By: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Applications:March 31, 2008
List of selected candidates: April 20, 2008
Commencement of Work: May 8, 2008

CMIC Internship Programme, 2008

Programme: Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center(CMIC) Internship 2008 (Website)

Offered By: Microsoft Innovation Center, Cairo

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Application: March 31, 2008
Internship winner decision: April 30, 2008
Internship starts: 1st week of July, 2008
Internship ends: Last week of August, 2008

Institute of Peace and Conflict Internship

Programme: The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Internship Programme (Website)

Organized by: The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi, India

Key Dates: IPCS accepts applications all through the year, based on availability of positions

ISPCS-Summer Internships

Program: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) Summer Internships (Website)

Offered by: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium

Key Dates:
Deadlines: Summer 2008(Rolling Admissions)

Indicorps Fellowship Program

Suggested By Shilpa Shah

Program: Indicorps Fellowship Program (Website)

Offered By: Indicorps

Key Dates:
For Indicorps Felloswhip Starting August 15, 2008
Deadline for submission of Applications: March 31, 2008
Acceptance deadline for fellowship recipients: May 09, 2008

For Indicorps Fellowship Starting January 26, 2009
Deadline for submission of Aplications: October 15, 2008
Acceptance deadline for fellowship recipients: November 29, 2008

IATA Internship Programme 2008

Program: IATA Internship Programme (Website).

Offered By: International Air Transport Association.

Key Dates:
Internships will normally start on fixed start dates to facilitate orientation and integration of the interns into IATA.

Start date: July 1, 2008 Deadline for submissions April 8, 2008
Start date: October 1, 2008 Deadline for submissions July 8, 2008
Start date: January 5, 2009 Deadline for submissions October 31, 2008