Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
iMentor
The Program Fellow assists high school program managers with class preparation, monthly mentoring events, participant communications, and attendee confirmation. They provide frontline support to mentors and students, escalate concerns as needed, and may assist with recruitment and other initiatives. The position combines remote work with in-person event support and includes ongoing training.
American Public Human Services Association
The Interstate Program Coordinator supports initiatives related to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, working with internal teams, state member jurisdictions, and external partners. Responsibilities include scheduling, tracking deliverables, preparing materials, coordinating events and communications, maintaining databases and resources, and assisting with surveys, reporting, and project implementation.
National Women’s Law Center
The Program Assistant supports the Child Care and Income Security team and its vice president through calendar management, internal coordination, meeting facilitation, and event logistics. The position prepares and proofreads materials, manages travel and invoices, posts website content, and assists with policy research and legislative communications.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned Assembly campaign district. Responsibilities include canvassing, phone banking, planning GOTV events, training volunteers, staffing the candidate, coordinating with party field staff, distributing literature, and maintaining voter-contact data and trackers.
Direct Relief
The Corporate Engagement Coordinator processes donated medicines and medical goods from initial product offers through receipt, designation, and distribution. They maintain donor and product records in CRM and SAP, coordinate documentation and inbound logistics with internal teams and healthcare companies, and prepare reports, receipts, and donor updates.
Yale Economic Growth Center
This role manages digital and external communications for development economics research, including website updates, social media, newsletters, multimedia, and print materials. It also supports major events and webinars, coordinates speakers and contractors, tracks communications projects and metrics, and maintains brand and resource systems.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Finance Assistant provides operational and fundraising support to party leadership and the finance department. Day-to-day work includes scheduling and staffing call time, managing fundraising-event outreach and RSVPs, researching donor prospects, tracking pledges, drafting acknowledgments, and assisting with contribution compliance.
Science Friday
This role serves as the primary point of contact for members and prospective members, managing membership onboarding, renewals, benefits, technical troubleshooting, and customer service. The specialist will maintain donor and member data, coordinate digital communications and SMS campaigns, analyze performance metrics, and work across development, audience, editorial, and audio teams to grow retention and revenue.
Precision
This role executes and monitors digital paid-media campaigns, including campaign setup, optimization support, reporting, and finance-tracker updates. The associate also supports client accounts through meeting materials, research, project tracking, written content, and collaboration with internal teams.
Democratic National Committee
The Community Analyst provides technical support through a Zendesk queue for campaign, state-party, and committee users of data products and tools. The role facilitates trainings, creates and updates documentation, maintains relationships with state-party data staff, and shares recurring user feedback with product, data, and engineering teams.
Atlantic Council
The Project Assistant supports defense and security initiatives focused on Indo-Pacific challenges, including research, project tracking, stakeholder coordination, and written products. They organize public and private events, manage participant and travel logistics, support outreach and promotion, and assist with workshops, briefings, and tabletop exercises.
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
This part-time coordinator grows peer-to-peer fundraising and volunteer participation for walks and special events. The role develops donor, participant, sponsor, corporate, and volunteer relationships; supports campaign planning, communications, data tracking, and event logistics; and helps manage daily chapter office operations.
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc.
The Fellow will help the Community Engagement Team deliver voter-engagement events and election-related programming during the 2026 midterm GOTV season. Responsibilities include volunteer and partner communication, RSVP management, event-material preparation, participation data entry, vendor coordination, and onsite event support.
New York Immigration Coalition
The Community Engagement Associate manages event data, records, reporting processes, grant deliverables, budgets, and administrative workflows for a statewide outreach team. They develop and distribute community-facing resources, coordinate materials and vendors, participate in events, and deliver Know Your Rights workshops to community members and partners.
Ohio Democratic Party
The Operations Associate provides day-to-day logistical support for a statewide coordinated campaign. Responsibilities include maintaining operational tracking systems, procuring and distributing materials, supporting field offices and events, and coordinating with multiple campaign departments.
Civitas Public Affairs Group
The Associate provides day-to-day research, writing, and coordination support across a portfolio of advocacy campaigns. They will develop work plans and client materials, manage deadlines and reporting, monitor policy and political developments, coordinate meetings, and cultivate relationships with conservative and cross-partisan partners.
ACLU of Florida
The Field Intern will support the Orlando organizing team in recruiting and engaging volunteers, tabling at community and campus events, conducting outreach, and helping run trainings and actions. Day-to-day work includes phone and text banking, canvassing, maintaining volunteer relationships, entering data, creating flyers and presentations, and assisting with research and local communications.
ACLU Foundation of Florida
The Miami Field Intern supports grassroots organizing and volunteer leadership development across civil-liberties campaigns. Day-to-day work includes community and campus outreach, protests and legal-observing support, Know Your Rights trainings, canvassing, phone and text banking, event support, data entry, and creation of flyers and digital content.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor works directly with families leaving emergency shelter programs to build long-term housing stability and self-sufficiency. Responsibilities include tenancy coaching, landlord and housing-team collaboration, housing-related advocacy, crisis management, and connecting participants with schools, employment services, and medical providers.
Rising Voices
The intern will help coordinate community engagement activities, including tabling, outreach, signature drives, and monthly membership meetings. They will support organizing campaigns, member recruitment, college-based voter outreach, and community canvasses while learning grassroots advocacy tools.
Urban Land Institute
This role provides detailed program coordination for awards, housing conferences, and other convenings across a cross-functional impact team. Responsibilities include maintaining websites and newsletters, coordinating speakers and panel materials, processing site-visit expenses, supporting marketing content, arranging recognition logistics, and assisting on site at approximately three events per year.
Founders Pledge
This role provides the administrative and operational foundation for a community team that manages relationships with philanthropic members. Responsibilities include coordinating event invitations and attendance, responding to routine member inquiries, monitoring member-company news, supporting cross-team projects, and improving team processes.
PETA
The Strategic Initiatives Coordinator supports special projects intended to expand animal-rights campaigns and legislative wins. Responsibilities include researching issues, drafting advocacy materials, coordinating multimedia and outreach projects, engaging stakeholders, attending protests and events, and speaking at city council meetings as needed.
Maine People’s Alliance (MPA)
The fellow will help build get-out-the-vote programs on college campuses across Maine for the 2026 November election. Work includes educating students about voting and explaining Maine laws on student voter registration and same-day registration.