Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Planned Parenthood North Central States
This full-time specialist develops and facilitates onboarding and training for health center associates, including front-desk and non-licensed back-office staff. Responsibilities include creating learning materials, evaluating competencies and program effectiveness, coaching staff, tracking training records, and traveling to regional sites for hands-on instruction.
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York
The specialist assesses community needs and designs and presents reproductive health education programs for youth and other community members. They represent the organization at schools, colleges, health fairs, and community events; maintain documentation and reports; and make referrals to family-planning, health, and support services.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
The coordinator provides administrative, compliance, systems, and data support across HR functions including talent acquisition, total rewards, learning, and HR business partnerships. Responsibilities include managing employee lifecycle transactions, maintaining records and organizational charts, coordinating recruitment logistics, supporting payroll processes, and producing reports, dashboards, trackers, and SOPs.
Bread for the World
The intern gathers, cleans, validates, analyzes, and visualizes public data on food insecurity, nutrition, health, demographics, and public programs. They support Tableau dashboards, state factsheets, grant reporting, and program evaluation while maintaining accurate constituent records, imports, and data-quality processes in Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Center for Employment Opportunities
The Employment Specialist develops local employer partnerships, conducts prospecting and outreach, and works toward participant placement targets. Depending on the assigned track, the role may focus on employer engagement and placement support or manage the full participant relationship from job readiness through placement. The specialist also coaches participants, tailors resumes, manages caseloads, and records employer and participant activity in Salesforce.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This nine-week hybrid summer internship supports projects in economic research, economic education, or digital history and archives. Interns may analyze macroeconomic data, create charts and reports, develop K–12 economic education materials, research historical documents, or build content for an economics and finance archive.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This 12-week internship supports communications and external-engagement work, including event planning, stakeholder outreach, media-list research, and database maintenance. The intern will also help develop and evaluate social-media and storytelling content, including visibility work for the Economy Museum and AI-supported communications efforts.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
This intern will support the operations of a research-and-development team focused on the future of money and payments. Responsibilities include coordinating with Legal, Audit, Finance, and Procurement; identifying risks and process improvements; creating reports for leadership; and supporting agile planning and delivery.
Prosperity Now
The Operations Coordinator provides high-level administrative and operational support to the COO, including calendar management, meeting preparation, correspondence, and confidential records management. They track cross-functional initiatives, turn unstructured priorities into tasks and timelines, and flag risks to keep work moving. The coordinator also supports partner engagement and prepares research, policy briefings, and status updates.
Children's Aid
The Data Coordinator oversees data integrity, compliance, attendance tracking, enrollment records, and reporting across multiple school-age and after-school programs. They analyze and visualize program data, manage CSIS and other reporting systems, troubleshoot discrepancies, and coordinate with program leaders and performance-management staff.
SSP International, Inc.
The Program Coordinator supports development and management of host-campus partnerships for a summer science program. Responsibilities include tracking contracts, invoices, budgets, campus logistics, records, travel, stakeholder communications, admissions support, and operational process improvements.
Duke Farms / Doris Duke Foundation
The Professional Education Coordinator designs, delivers, and evaluates professional learning programs, including trainings, workshops, retreats, conferences, and symposia. They manage participant communications, registration, vendors, materials, event logistics, and program evaluation while supporting school partnerships and visits. The coordinator also creates instructional resources and curates science and sustainability content for the website and social media.
Brilla Schools
The Operations Coordinator keeps daily school logistics running smoothly, serving families, staff, and visitors while managing records, enrollment, transportation, meal-service compliance, and school communications. The role also supports emergency preparedness, facilities and supply management, technical troubleshooting, event planning, vendor communication, and budget-related projects.
Partnership for Public Service
The Press Associate supports daily media outreach and strategic communications campaigns, serving as a contact for selected media inquiries and collaborating with the Senior Media Relations Manager. Responsibilities include drafting pitches, releases, advisories, and talking points; tracking news coverage; maintaining press lists; and supporting media briefings and events. The role also helps build relationships with journalists and may require evening or weekend availability during active news cycles.
Milken Institute
The intern will support a business and program development team by researching prospective partners, building engagement strategies, managing outreach data, and helping maintain stakeholder relationships. The position also collaborates with events, programs, and communications colleagues and may provide local event support.
Acacia Center for Justice
The Communications Associate manages the digital content calendar and creates blogs, videos, and social media content for external and internal audiences. They monitor online engagement, coordinate with vendors and influencers, support narrative and storytelling work at events, and provide research and administrative support to the communications team.
National Association of Counties
The Program Associate works with the center director to research public-lands policy, analyze government datasets, and translate findings into reports, explainers, dashboards, and digital content. They also support county-official training curriculum, conferences and roundtables, video production, fundraising coordination, and general center operations.
All In Energy
The Data & IT Coordinator maintains data infrastructure and technical tools supporting energy programs across Massachusetts. Responsibilities include quality-checking imports and exports, producing program reports, cleaning and uploading data, supporting Salesforce, creating web forms and scripts, and providing basic IT and server support. The role also documents systems and collaborates with staff and external partners to resolve data and technology needs.
National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
The Temporary Digital Manager will execute digital advocacy and organizing campaigns developed by team leads and partner teams during a staff leave. Responsibilities include building, segmenting, QAing, scheduling, and launching email, SMS, and P2P campaigns; managing tracking and source codes; and coordinating approvals, assets, deadlines, and stakeholder communication. The role also supports recurring recruitment and mobilization efforts and resolves routine platform issues.
Posse
The HR Coordinator provides administrative support across the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding through benefits, leave administration, payroll support, and offboarding. The role maintains employee records, coordinates open enrollment and vendor communications, answers HR questions, and assists the AVP of Human Resources with projects.
Save the Children
The Program Aide supports infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children through classroom activities, relationship-building, and daily center operations. Duties may also include substitute classroom coverage, bus monitoring, custodial tasks, kitchen and food-service support, and participation in family and staff activities.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
This role recruits, trains, and manages volunteers in assigned Pennsylvania turfs while building an active online organizing community. Responsibilities include phonebanking and other voter-contact work, managing dialer and texting tools, tracking engagement data, and leading online trainings and events.
Interactive Strategies
The intern will help audit and organize website content, draft and edit copy, support content mapping, and maintain project documentation in content-management and workflow systems. They will contribute to research, workshops, and client materials while learning from senior content strategists and cross-functional agency teams.
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity
The Program Advocate delivers survivor-centered support and advocacy within a shelter program and coordinates services with external systems. The role also provides backup coverage across hotline, outreach, legal advocacy, family support, and general advocacy services.