Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
Four Lions Media
This fellowship supports communications work through research, memo writing, slide deck creation, strategy assessment, copyediting, and drafting content such as social media posts and emails. The role is designed for someone who can quickly learn new topics and help translate complex issues into clear, persuasive messaging for clients.
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.
Minnesota DFL Party
This is a part-time fellowship supporting the campaign’s field and voter contact operation. The fellow will canvass, phone bank, text voters, recruit and train volunteers, and help staff campaign and community events while learning core organizing skills.
Harlem Grown
The Group Leader supports after-school and summer programming for K-5 youth, helping deliver enrichment activities related to food, farming, STEM, cooking, and wellness. The role includes student pickup, homework help, behavior management, attendance tracking, classroom support, and maintaining a safe, inclusive program environment.
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.
Greenlight America
This contract organizer will support clean energy campaigns in Adams County by leading community education, coalition building, and grassroots mobilization around utility-scale battery storage and solar projects. The work includes organizing events, recruiting coalition partners and supporters, coordinating outreach tactics, and helping drive turnout at public hearings and other campaign milestones.
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.
ACLU of New Hampshire
This 12-month part-time organizing role builds grassroots power in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley through campaign support, volunteer engagement, coalition building, and public education. The fellow will work with regional and cross-departmental colleagues to mobilize community members, respond to emerging issues, and strengthen long-term local organizing infrastructure.
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
This part-time campus-based organizing role supports youth voter engagement and turnout during the 2026 election cycle. The fellow will recruit and mobilize volunteers, run field activities like phone banks and canvasses, engage students online and in person, and work with campus political groups and local candidates.
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.
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon
This role manages and grows a portfolio of mid-level and major donors, foundations, and other funders to help meet fundraising goals. It focuses on donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, proposal writing, community representation, and coordination with development staff and national partners.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
Two paid internship tracks are offered: Communications Intern (reports to the Communications Director) and Digital Content Intern (reports to the Digital Strategist). Interns support advocacy communications and digital content—newsletters, press, social media, multimedia, and events—while gaining exposure to public-interest advocacy, financial regulation, and coalition work. Internships can last 3–12 months (up to a year).
SPUR
Student fellows complete a short summer fellowship that offers mentorship, flexibility, and hands-on experience, with opportunities to publish and present original research. The fellowship runs sometime between June 1 and August 31, and applications are reviewed starting April 1 with an April 30 deadline.
Authentic
Support paid media client accounts by writing and QA’ing high volumes of fundraising and persuasion ad copy (P2P texts, Meta ads, Google Search) and helping execute digital advertising strategy. You’ll assist with campaign setup in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads, contribute creative concepts and scripts, and support optimization and rapid-response content as news breaks. The role also provides short-term coverage for client communications needs, including meetings and follow-ups.
Minnesota House DFL
Field Organizers (multiple hires) will run core field operations in assigned Minnesota House districts for the 2026 cycle, reporting to a Regional Field Director. The role focuses on direct voter contact (doors/phones), volunteer recruitment and management, and coordination with candidates, caucus staff, and partner organizations to hit program goals and deadlines.
Middle Seat
Temporary full-time coordinator role on the texting team supporting large-scale mobile fundraising and engagement programs. You’ll write and QA fundraising/mobilization/persuasion texts, manage production calendars and trackers, and help with reporting and testing. The role runs March 1 through November 13, 2026, with the option to work from DC or remotely.
Working America
This confidential, fixed-term HR Assistant role provides administrative support across core HR operations. The position supports onboarding/offboarding, employee documentation, benefits and status changes, and helps implement policies across HQ and field offices. The expected end date is on or before December 18, 2026.
Rank the Vote
Part-time student interns organize locally to grow supporters, volunteers, and donors for pro-voter electoral reforms. The role includes leading canvasses and phonebanks, onboarding and training volunteers, making donation-pledge calls, and supporting communications like email newsletters and social media. Interns receive weekly manager check-ins and may facilitate chapter meetings and local events.
Save the Children
Manages a caseload of Head Start/Early Head Start families, building trusting partnerships and supporting goal-setting, self-sufficiency, and parent-child interactions that prepare children for school. Leads and documents family development services, coordinates referrals and community resources, and collaborates with program staff and partners. Oversees key ERSEA responsibilities including eligibility, recruitment/selection, enrollment maintenance, and attendance support.
Essie Justice Group
Support day-to-day implementation of organizing programs and campaigns by recruiting, engaging, and retaining members and helping them grow into leadership. Assist with campaign tactics (e.g., rallies, press events, meetings with elected officials), outreach (canvassing/phone banking), and producing member/partner communications. Provide logistics for meetings/events and help maintain relationships with community allies in alignment with values of care, equity, and empowerment.