Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
AARP
Support the Alabama Communications and Outreach team by creating and scheduling social media graphics, videos, and other digital content focused on issues including caregiving and financial security. The intern will also assist with virtual events, website and channel management, audience engagement, editorial planning, reporting, and data analysis while maintaining brand consistency.
ISAIAH
Organize residents in manufactured home communities in St. Cloud to build leadership and support the Save Our Homes campaign and Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Duties include door-knocking, one-on-one meetings, community conversations and candidate forums, leader coaching, voter engagement, and strategy meetings.
ISAIAH
The Organizing Fellow will organize residents in manufactured-home communities in northern Minnesota around ISAIAH's Save Our Homes campaign and a Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Responsibilities include door-knocking, one-on-one relationship building, community conversations and candidate forums, leadership development, voter engagement, and facilitating resident strategy meetings and trainings.
D.C. Hunger Solutions
Supports District residents with SNAP pre-screenings, applications, mid-certifications, and recertifications, including client interviews and follow-up on application issues. The associate will track client interactions and collaborate with the SNAP team to improve the District’s SNAP application process.
Zeta Charter Schools
Coordinate employee onboarding and provide responsive support to staff navigating People Operations processes. Partner across internal teams and external vendors, manage tickets and workflow tracking, and identify improvements to employee communications, resources, and systems.
Children's Aid
Manage administrative, financial, personnel, payroll, purchasing, inventory, office-support, and compliance systems for the P.S. 8 community school. The role supports the Community School Director and program managers, supervises office support staff, coordinates with school personnel on facilities needs, and helps maintain accurate, timely operations for a site employing about 70 people.
Children's Aid
The Policy & Advocacy Associate supports the Fostering Youth Success Alliance’s statewide efforts to improve outcomes for current and former foster youth in New York. The role coordinates coalition operations, advocacy campaigns, events, stakeholder engagement, communications, policy research, youth advocate cohort check-ins, and government-relations logistics.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
The Early Vote Analyst will analyze early voting, ballot rejection, and ballot cure trends across battleground Senate races during the 2026 election cycle. They will translate findings into actionable written reports, dashboards, presentations, recommendations, and documentation for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
National Geographic Society
Supports the administration of employee compensation, benefits, and recognition programs, including invoices, plan audits, employee inquiries, awards, surveys, stipends, and annual merit and promotion processes. The coordinator also maintains reports, HR data, intranet content, and standard operating procedures in collaboration with the Total Rewards team.
Essential Partners
The Communications Associate will create digital and print content, maintain communications platforms, support marketing strategy, and help tell stories about the organization's programs and impact. The role also supports fundraising campaigns, donor communications, events, research, and cross-functional communications projects.
AARP
The intern will support enhancements to AI/ML and agentic personalization capabilities across digital channels. Responsibilities include reviewing content recommendations, analyzing web, app, and email engagement, evaluating content relevance and audience alignment, supporting experiments, and preparing insights, presentations, and documentation.
AARP
The intern will support the West Virginia team’s communications, community outreach, policy promotion, and event planning related to caregiving, broadband, fraud prevention, and financial security. Responsibilities include policy research, communications tactics, social media, team strategy discussions, and logistical support for virtual and in-person events.
AARP
The intern will support advocacy campaigns involving voter engagement, Social Security, caregiving, prescription drugs, and other policy priorities. Responsibilities include drafting text messages and other communications, supporting reporting and presentations, improving activist email-response processes, assisting with Mobilize America, and contributing to email, direct-mail, fundraising, and special projects.
AARP
The intern will support AARP Delaware’s communications, volunteer engagement, and community outreach concerning issues affecting older adults. Responsibilities include creating social and video content, drafting and proofreading communications, coordinating virtual and in-person events, maintaining schedules, and posting events to organizational platforms.
Powered by People
The intern will organize on campus during the 2026 summer and fall semesters, including booking tabling spaces, working two to three tabling shifts weekly, registering and engaging voters, and potentially helping establish a student chapter. They will also complete training, report metrics through weekly check-ins, and support other regional organizing activities as needed.
Powered by People
The Organizer will lead regional voter-registration and volunteer-engagement programs across Texas, including on college campuses. Responsibilities include recruiting and training volunteers and interns, hosting events, conducting digital outreach, maintaining voter relationships, and tracking weekly performance metrics.
Bread for the World
This two-year, early-career fellowship supports federal advocacy on international development, global health, nutrition, food security, and humanitarian assistance. The fellow will research policy, monitor federal action, prepare advocacy materials, coordinate meetings, participate in coalitions, and build relationships with Congress, executive agencies, and partner organizations, potentially as a registered lobbyist.
10,000 Degrees
The fellow advises students and families on college and career planning, financial aid, applications, and degree completion while managing a student caseload and delivering workshops. The role also builds relationships with schools and community partners, maintains program data, travels regularly to campuses, and occasionally supports evening, weekend, and fundraising events.
10,000 Degrees
The Fellow advises students and families on college and career planning, financial aid, applications, and pathways to degree completion. The role manages a student caseload, delivers workshops and curriculum, maintains program data, develops school and community relationships, and travels regularly to partner campuses during a three-year fellowship.