Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
The Brookings Institution
The coordinator supports earned-media operations by routing media inquiries, scheduling interviews, maintaining journalist databases, drafting press materials, monitoring coverage, and tracking media placements. The role also contributes to social, newsletter, and web content; prepares reports and dashboards; and coordinates team meetings, training, vendor administration, and other communications workflows.
Voters of Tomorrow
The fellow will conduct one-on-one and group voter outreach through campus canvassing, tabling, door knocking, classroom visits, and student-organization outreach. They will also plan engagement events, recruit and train volunteers, and help create momentum for youth voter participation in the 2026 election.
Asian Law Caucus
The Reception & Administrative Coordinator leads front-desk and administrative operations, including welcoming visitors, answering the main phone line, managing shared communications, scheduling, routing documents, and processing mail. The role also provides administrative support to legal staff, backs up legal-intake triage, and helps ensure continuous live phone coverage.
Essie Justice Group
The Community Organizer supports membership recruitment, retention, engagement, and leadership development for women and gender-expansive people with incarcerated loved ones. They help carry out campaign activities—including rallies, press events, elected-official meetings, canvassing, and phone banking—while coordinating events, tracking participation, producing materials, and maintaining community relationships.
National Center for LGBTQ Rights
The Philanthropy Coordinator manages donor database operations, gift processing and reconciliation, prospect research, donor records, and reporting for the Advancement team. The role also stewards general and new donors, supports fundraising campaigns and events, manages online forms and the organization’s online store, and provides data-informed strategic and administrative support for philanthropy initiatives.
Relentless
Program Organizers lead one-hour virtual events, rotating among event roles, managing breakout rooms, monitoring rapid-response Slack channels, and creating an inclusive participant experience. They also staff the participant inbox, answer logistical questions, support onboarding and troubleshooting, follow up proactively, and share participant feedback with the broader team.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate supports chronically absent elementary and early-childhood students at a community school by identifying attendance barriers and creating individualized academic and social-emotional interventions. Responsibilities include weekly student check-ins, family engagement activities, attendance-plan development, data tracking, club lesson facilitation, and coordination with school staff and community partners.
Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee
This full-time, campaign-cycle role builds remote volunteer capacity for a statewide distributed organizing program. The organizer will supervise phone and text banks, cultivate volunteer and partner relationships, deliver platform trainings, and ensure accurate, timely voter-contact and recruitment reporting.
Texas Democratic Party
The organizer will plan and lead at least two weekly voter-contact events, recruit and train volunteers, and develop volunteer leaders. They will maintain Mobilize and VAN records, secure and prepare staging locations, monitor program results, and troubleshoot voter-contact operations during the GOTV period.
LGBTQ Victory Fund and LGBTQ Victory Institute
This role develops on-brand content for websites, blogs, social media, email, print materials, and organizational reports. It tests and improves digital strategies, tracks web and social performance, supports online fundraising and list growth, and coordinates with vendors on technical and production needs. The manager may also oversee digital advertising, email acquisition, or Google AdWords depending on experience.
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
The Political Associate helps run endorsement processes, researches candidate campaigns and races, and maintains candidate-pipeline and stakeholder databases. They communicate with campaigns and political partners, track election results, support fundraising-event coordination, and provide scheduling, meeting, research, and presentation support to the political team.
Organize Pennsylvania
The Individual Giving Manager owns a portfolio of high-level individual donors and prospects, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts for annual, planned, and special-project funding. They will develop donor engagement plans, lead fundraising outreach and donor events, write proposals and acknowledgements, and maintain donor and revenue-tracking systems. The role also partners across development and program teams and supervises volunteer coordinator(s).
Organize Pennsylvania
The Community Outreach Specialist conducts daily door-to-door canvassing, street outreach, and phone banking to mobilize residents around elections and organizing campaigns. They build relationships with potential members and leaders, document conversations accurately, follow up with contacts, and meet outreach goals. During election season, the specialist also helps train and support temporary staff or volunteers.
Organize Pennsylvania
This temporary, onsite position supports progressive candidates during the primary election season. Canvassers knock on doors, conduct outreach in high-traffic areas, attend community events, and talk with or register voters.
Maryland Legal Aid Inc
The Outreach Specialist will develop and sustain relationships with community groups, grassroots partners, service providers, and anchor institutions to advance targeted outreach objectives. They will plan and deliver outreach, trainings, meetings, and media opportunities related to housing justice, tenant right to counsel, and other priority legal issues. The role also uses quantitative and qualitative data to inform outreach strategies, reporting, and evaluation.
Maryland Legal Aid Inc
The Administrative Assistant supports daily operations in a civil legal services office in Annapolis. Responsibilities include greeting clients, answering multi-line phones, scheduling appointments, maintaining calendars and mail logs, preparing and filing documents, and organizing legal forms and printed materials. The role also provides general office coverage and helps maintain office technology and records systems.
Nonprofit Finance Fund
The Initiative Support Associate coordinates consulting projects by maintaining plans, timelines, trackers, documentation, meeting materials, invoicing processes, and client-facing deliverables. The role also manages Salesforce records; researches and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information; supports workshops and events; and identifies practices that improve future engagements.
Better Ballot Iowa
The Campaign Coordinator will grow and mobilize a statewide supporter and volunteer network through events, canvassing logistics, trainings, follow-up, and voter education efforts. The role also supports legislative engagement by coordinating advocacy outreach and tracking policymaker positions, while handling donor contact lists and fundraising email logistics.
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
This field organizer will support higher-education organizing campaigns and help newly organized workplaces secure first contracts. Day-to-day work includes developing workplace leaders, training members and stewards, leading negotiations, assisting with grievances and arbitrations, and building escalating workplace, coalition, and political-action campaigns.
RepresentUs
The Field Organizer will establish and grow a grassroots Local Action Team in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Responsibilities include phone banking and in-person recruitment, facilitating team meetings, preparing constituent office visits, developing volunteer leaders, supporting public-facing advocacy, and maintaining outreach records. The organizer will work closely with national staff, a local consultant, and a state advisory council.
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.
Blue Haven Initiative
The Civics Team Intern will support civic-engagement investments and advocacy work through research memos, visual presentations, project support, and participation in strategy meetings. The intern will also prepare written and verbal briefings for the Principal, attend relevant events and summarize insights, and organize briefing materials.
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.