Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
IGNITE
The Operations Coordinator provides broad administrative support across finance, development, programs, HR, and technology for a lean national nonprofit. Responsibilities include coordinating logistics, managing records and vendor invoices, processing donor and financial transactions, supporting onboarding and payroll documentation, maintaining HubSpot data, and improving operational workflows.
Atlantic Council
The Program Assistant provides operational, research, and logistical support for a nuclear energy policy initiative. Responsibilities include coordinating events, managing schedules and travel, drafting and editing correspondence and briefing materials, maintaining records, and researching policy developments and stakeholders. The role also serves as a liaison with government officials, diplomats, business leaders, and internal teams.
GreenLight Fund
The Operations Coordinator supports GreenLight Fund Boston’s daily administration, scheduling, financial tracking, systems, workflows, and event logistics, with approximately 80% of the role focused on operations. The remaining work includes program meeting preparation, donor database management and communications, grant support, digital communications, and investor engagement.
Children's Aid
Provide clerical, data-entry, recordkeeping, and front-office support for an Early Childhood Division, reporting to the Program Director. The role maintains child and family records, attendance, health, screening, and family-engagement data; assists families and staff; and supports compliance with Head Start, NYC DOHMH, and funding requirements.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Manage full-cycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt roles, from intake, sourcing, screening, and interviews through offers and pre-employment activities. Partner with hiring managers, build diverse talent pipelines, manage early-career programs, and use recruiting metrics to improve hiring outcomes. The specialist will also support cross-functional talent-acquisition projects involving ATS operations, reporting, employer branding, and candidate experience.
Mothership Strategies
Lead the day-to-day operations, strategy, staffing, and workflow for a digital fundraising team serving political and advocacy clients. Manage staff development and performance, set fundraising projections and spending recommendations, monitor program performance, oversee client relationships and onboarding, and lead rapid-response fundraising execution.
Aspen Institute
Support the Financial Security Program’s finance and operations team through accounts payable and receivable, expense tracking, budgeting, forecasting, financial records, and closeout activities. The role also provides office, administrative, systems, grant, fundraising, and CRM support, including maintaining files, coordinating meetings, tracking grant expenditures, and improving operational processes.
The Aspen Institute
This coordinator supports Aspen Digital’s Cybersecurity Program through executive support for the Senior Director and operational coordination across cybersecurity policy convenings, projects, and stakeholder relationships. Responsibilities include calendar and travel management, briefing preparation, communications and CRM upkeep, event logistics, payment processing, records management, and improving team systems.
ProgressNow
The Operations Coordinator manages core administrative, finance, HR, compliance, travel, and event logistics for the national organization. Responsibilities include payroll, accounts payable and receivable, credit-card reconciliation, cost-sharing support for month-end close, vendor contracts and 1099s, employee onboarding and records, compliance deadlines, and logistics for conferences, meetings, and staff retreats.
Columbia Basin Health Association
Coordinates early-intervention eligibility, assessments, Individual Family Service Plans, referrals, and service delivery for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or special healthcare needs and their families. The coordinator serves as a primary family contact, collaborates with providers and school districts, conducts home visits and travel to remote clinics as needed, and maintains required case documentation.
Children's Aid
The Content Specialist manages and implements high-quality curricula across after-school and summer programs. The role coaches and supervises instructional staff, facilitates planning and professional-learning meetings, observes programming, and uses student work and data to improve instruction. It also serves as a liaison among out-of-school-time programs, schools, and program leadership.
Operation Restoration
Provide intake, case management, life coaching, referrals, benefits and employment-resource support, budgeting assistance, and regular client check-ins for clients across programs. Maintain timely Salesforce and physical-file documentation, coordinate with internal staff and community partners, and support community and fundraising events; occasional travel and nonstandard hours may be required.
Ducks Unlimited
Lead and expand youth engagement programming across the 13-state Region 6 territory. The coordinator will grow high-school Varsity and collegiate participation, promote youth shooting sports, hunting, and R3 initiatives, recruit chapters and volunteers, and maintain relationships with state youth engagement leaders and partner organizations.
IREX
The Program Associate provides hands-on operational and administrative support for donor-funded programs, including travel, event logistics, systems, research, records, and participant communications. They support partner and participant recruitment and engagement, maintain program, financial, procurement, and compliance records, and assist with reports, presentations, newsletters, grants, payments, and vendor coordination. The role also contributes to proposal development, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with finance, events, and communications teams.
California Immigrant Policy Center
Support statewide legislative, budget, and administrative advocacy efforts focused on immigrant communities. Track and analyze bills, budgets, amendments, hearings, and political developments; draft advocacy materials; coordinate campaigns and coalitions; and represent the organization with legislative offices, agencies, and partners. The role includes regular in-person work at the Sacramento office and State Capitol, with occasional evening, weekend, and California travel requirements.
Glen Echo Group
The Associate will support integrated communications campaigns and client relationships for technology and innovation-focused clients. Responsibilities include developing strategic messaging and media materials, building relationships with national, political, technology, and trade reporters, tracking coverage, and using communications data and social tools to inform client service.
Council on Foreign Relations
Support the Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics through research on sanctions, export controls, industrial policy, trade, finance, and economic statecraft. The role also handles editing, event and travel logistics, correspondence, budget tracking, social media and publication support, and administrative assistance across the program.
Middle Seat
The Accounting Associate supports daily transactional accounting and general ledger operations, reporting to the Finance Director. Responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, payroll entries, account reconciliations, month-end close, vendor management, financial reporting support, budgeting, and accounting-process improvements.
SAGE
The Program Operations Coordinator provides administrative, operational, data, budget, and event support for SAGEServes programming for LGBTQ+ older adults, primarily with the Special Programs team. Responsibilities include coordinating events and participant outreach, supporting grant reporting and financial tracking, maintaining program data, assisting with hiring and onboarding, and staffing participant referrals and intake as needed.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
This early-career role supports external communications and development operations, with work split approximately 60% communications, 30% development, and 10% team support. Responsibilities include coordinating blog publishing, email and social campaigns, research launches, and performance analytics; drafting grant proposals and funder communications; maintaining Salesforce records; and helping with conferences and programs.
Atlantic Council
Supports the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s events, projects, partnerships, communications, research, and program operations. Responsibilities include planning public and private in-person and virtual events, assisting with Europe travel and workshops, maintaining contacts and project records, drafting memos, monitoring news, and supporting publications, social media, fundraising, and financial administration.
Atlantic Council
Supports the Europe Center’s policy, event, and administrative work, including organizing public and private engagements in the United States and abroad. The assistant conducts research, drafts correspondence and briefings, tracks projects and donor relationships, coordinates travel and stakeholders, and provides calendar and administrative support to the Senior Director.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
This logistics-focused role splits time equally between Crisis Response and Mothers' Call, a Palestinian-Israeli women-led peace movement. The assistant coordinates international travel, events and convenings, schedules, vendor and payment processes, documentation, and secure case records, while supporting crisis-response planning and operations.
The Wisco Project
Campus Organizers will mobilize college students across Wisconsin for the 2026 election cycle. They will build campus relationships, recruit and manage student volunteers and fellows, conduct voter outreach through canvassing, tabling, texting, and phone banking, and support student-led events.