GET INVOLVED

There are many ways you can get involved with supporting SALT team and the communities they work with realize change. Your involvement with SALT work will allow the SALT team engage more with work in the field than spending time doing fundraising.

Donations

You can make SALT a beneficiary of a life insurance policy or put SALT in your will to make a lasting legacy of indigenous cultures for future generations. You can donate stocks, bonds, or mutual funds that have appreciated and want an end-of year tax deduction. 

You can make in-kind donations of office equipment, furniture, current computer equipment, good quality still and video cameras, recording equipment and other items to keep our effort running. With as little as $100, SALT community members can have a light lunch during their monthly dialogues. Make SALT your cause, and fundraise for us to harness the collective giving power of your friends, family and relatives and co-workers. You can help by simultaneously spreading the awareness of SALT and the important work we are doing locally, nationally and globally. Whatever you are doing – hosting an event, running a marathon, celebrating birthday or an anniversary, you have the potential to be an incredible fundraiser.
COMMUNICATION & ADVOCACY
Support SALT to advance the rights of nature and indigenous peoples’ self-determination. Advocate for the human rights of the indigenous peoples and local communities. If you are a strong writer and comes from the indigenous communities that SALT work with or do have experience working with indigenous communities as they work towards full respect and dignity, SALT is always on the lookout for stories from the frontline of the indigenous peoples and local communities. You can pledge support and boycott buying goods and materials from companies that abuse rights of nature and indigenous peoples and by calling for ethical business. Signing petitions is another way to let the heads of the organizations and elected representatives know that we as citizens are taking a stand. Don’t forget to share with your family and friends too. Sign our petition/resolution. You can volunteer if you have expertise in law, communications and website development and maintenance, public relations, graphic arts, nonprofit marketing and fundraising environment, finance etc. and you are willing to donate your time, expertise and services to help the indigenous peoples. You can volunteer for an event. SALT also accepts interns willing to learn about current issues of indigenous peoples while helping SALT achieve their goals.
INTERNSHIPS

SALT is also looking for interns who may research and write press releases and other publicity pieces, scout locations for new events, coordinate participating artists, curate art to be sold at SALT’s booth, research and contact new artists and musicians, represent SALT at festivals, and more! Interns should have strong writing and communication skills. Experience with art writing, Indigenous crafts, marketing, and fluency in English and other languages is desired.
Advocacy interns will help write news articles that keep our campaigns up to date, research and write reports on human rights violations, and use social media to build solidarity and bring about change. Advocacy interns must have a bachelor’s degree or be in their senior year of an undergraduate program. Strong research and writing skills required.
Interns for research and publications must have outstanding writing and communication skills and be comfortable interviewing sources. They should be adept internet and journal researchers who pay particular attention to detail, and are able to read extensive amounts of information and present clear and concise summaries. Interns must be independent, self-motivated, and reliable.
Interns for social media will work to design and implement a social media strategy consistent with SALT’s brand. The interns will monitor online platforms for key news and trending conversations, draft social media posts for advocacy campaigns and news articles, and help grow and engage our audience. Social media interns should have strong communication skills, with the ability to quickly synthesize information and communicate complex information to general audiences.
SALT interns for radio program will promote rights of nature and indigenous peoples to protect their sacred natural sites and territory from unwanted resource exploitation. They will achieve this by producing informative for radio programs to be aired locally and nationally. The interns may research topics to be made into radio content; develop educational material to provide to radio stations to supplement our radio programs; design and produce newsletters to ensure our radio content reaches more listeners; and communicate with radio stations around. Great fit for students in communications or broadcast journalism and other majors are welcome.
To get involved in any of those working areas and any other area you could be interested please kindly contact us to make necessary arrangement with you. Our contacts are listed below. Thanks in anticipation.