Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Atlantic Council
The Program Assistant will provide executive support to the Vice President of Energy and Infrastructure and help manage day-to-day operations for the Global Energy Center. Responsibilities include scheduling, travel coordination, briefing materials, research, drafting, event support, stakeholder liaison work, and maintaining program records and internal processes.
Operation Smile
The Travel Coordinator manages travel logistics for employees, volunteers, and guests, including flights, lodging, ground transportation, and group travel for programs and events. The role ensures compliance with travel policies, monitors itineraries, resolves disruptions, supports travel-related finances, and provides responsive customer service before, during, and after travel.
Foundation Source Philanthropic Services
This role supports client foundation operations by processing high volumes of expense, grant, tax, and transfer payments with a high degree of accuracy. It also handles check and disbursement workflows, reconciles account activity, and communicates with clients to resolve payment-related issues.
The Brookings Institution
This role supports the planning and execution of development-led events, including donor gatherings, board meetings, study tours, and virtual programs. The coordinator manages event data and RSVPs, prepares materials and communications, staffs events, and provides administrative support such as scheduling, travel, and expense reporting.
FAR.AI
This is a hands-on generalist operations role supporting the Business Operations Manager and COO across finance, compliance, HR, IT, events, and coworking space operations. The associate will own recurring operational processes, triage internal requests, coordinate vendors and equipment, and take on special projects as the organization scales rapidly.
PEN America
This role provides primary administrative, logistical, and strategic support for the Board of Trustees and its committees, serving as a key liaison among board members, senior leadership, and executive staff. The position manages board scheduling, meeting preparation, records, communications, and governance documentation while also assisting with executive office needs and special projects.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
This role supports implementation of the Women Leaders India Fellowship through administrative, logistical, communications, data, and event coordination work. The assistant will help manage participant engagement, program operations, and virtual and in-person activities while coordinating with U.S.-based staff, India-based partners, trainers, and fellows.
URGE
This role supports and grows campus-based chapters across Texas, develops young leaders, and helps run reproductive justice campaigns at the local, state, and national levels. The organizer also facilitates trainings, builds partnerships and coalitions, recruits members, and deepens engagement through in-person and digital organizing.
URGE
This role leads and expands statewide voter engagement, organizing, and community-building efforts in Alabama as part of the Integrated Voter Engagement team. The coordinator will run year-round education and mobilization campaigns, manage canvassers and campaign data, support Community Action Networks, and represent the organization in coalition spaces.
NUHW
This role covers the Greater Sacramento Area and focuses on organizing workers already represented under collective bargaining agreements. The representative/organizer will build worker leadership, cultivate relationships across diverse groups, and help lead workplace struggles and union campaigns in the field.
PEN America
This coordinator supports the day-to-day operations of the Florida office while helping grow its advocacy and community presence across the state. The role includes coalition coordination, event and program support, public communications, administrative and budget tasks, and relationship-building with partners, educators, authors, and policymakers.
National Women's Law Center
This role supports issue advocacy campaigns that advance legislative, policy, and narrative change goals across multiple issue areas. The associate helps execute multi-channel campaigns, create digital and written content, coordinate project tracking, and assist with mobilizations, events, and partner engagement.
Greenlight America
This role supports the Industry Engagement team by creating developer-facing content, synthesizing campaign lessons, and building resources that improve how the clean energy industry engages with communities. The position also helps maintain internal systems, coordinate across teams, and support webinars, events, trainings, and thought leadership efforts.
Communities Unlimited
This role provides onsite technical assistance and training to rural communities and small water or wastewater systems facing operational and infrastructure challenges. The consultant manages multiple community engagements, prepares technical and project documentation, and builds relationships with public stakeholders while working largely from home in the Tuscaloosa area.
ACLU of Oregon
The Administrative Associate provides broad administrative support to the Executive Director, Deputy Director, Policy Director, and other teams across the organization. Responsibilities include scheduling, travel coordination, meeting support, document editing, recordkeeping, office operations, mail handling, and event and board support, with heavier policy support during legislative sessions.
California Immigrant Policy Center
This role supports the organization’s day-to-day operations by coordinating meetings and events, maintaining Fresno and Sacramento office spaces, managing vendors and supplies, and assisting with travel, technology, and administrative systems. It also supports workplace culture, fundraising logistics, and compliance-related operational tasks so staff can effectively carry out mission-driven work.
California Immigrant Policy Center
This role leads creation of digital content across social media, email, and related platforms to grow supporter engagement, mobilize advocacy action, and support fundraising. The specialist works across communications, organizing, policy, and development teams to produce timely, values-driven content and use performance data to refine strategy.
Four Lions Media
This role produces and posts day-to-day digital content across channels including social media, email, SMS, blogs, simple graphics, and light video. The position also supports content calendars, quality control, reporting, and administrative systems that keep multiple client workstreams moving efficiently.
Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality
The Finance Coordinator supports financial operations with a focus on accounts receivable, donor and deposit tracking, contract invoicing, and fund accounting support. The role also helps maintain financial records, communicate revenue information internally, and support the monthly close process.
Openhouse
This role supports and helps run programs for transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex older adults and adults with disabilities, including support groups, events, outreach, referrals, and participant engagement. The specialist also handles participant documentation, data entry, evaluations, and coordination with partners while working mostly on-site with some evening and weekend responsibilities.
Siegel Family Endowment
This role supports the foundation’s research team in developing research agendas, managing projects, synthesizing findings, and sharing insights with internal and external audiences. The associate will also work across research, grantmaking, and partner relationships to inform strategy and support work on emerging technologies such as generative AI and social media.
Urban Justice Center
This role serves as the primary point of contact for people seeking services from the Mental Health Project. The Intake Coordinator screens and assesses prospective clients, manages intake records and waitlists, coordinates referrals, supports Medicaid and SSI-related processes, and occasionally presents at community events and handles limited client cases.
Panterra
This role leads the in-house processing of survey data for opinion research projects, handling data cleaning, weighting, crosstabs, tabulation, quality assurance, and statistical analysis. The position also helps build internal systems and automation to improve speed, consistency, and reduce reliance on outside data-processing vendors while collaborating closely with research staff on client deliverables.
DREAM
This role supports DREAM alumni who are enrolled in college by providing advising, mentoring, re-enrollment support, and career and social-emotional guidance. The counselor manages a caseload of about 100 students, tracks progress in Salesforce, collaborates on events, and builds relationships with both high school staff and college partners.