Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
After School Matters
The intern supports high school program operations, including student recruitment, application assistance, enrollment updates, attendance tracking, and collection of stipend-related documents. They communicate with teens and parents, help coordinate field-trip procedures, and provide occasional classroom and small-group support.
Ohio Democratic Party
Interns will work up to 10–20 hours weekly in departments such as finance, communications, or political. Assignments may include donor research and database upkeep, fundraising-event support, candidate and news tracking, newsletter content preparation, and calendar management.
Institute for Higher Education Policy
The Research Intern will assist with quantitative and qualitative research on postsecondary education equity, access, affordability, completion, and data transparency. Responsibilities include literature reviews, data collection and analysis, drafting blogs and research materials, preparing presentations and memos, and supporting convening logistics.
Human Rights Campaign
This temporary role supports the Municipal Equality Index team with research, data preparation, database and spreadsheet entry, and creation and maintenance of city scorecards. The employee may correspond with cities, analyze municipal laws and policies, and help publish the Index and coordinate its launch event.
USA for UNFPA
The Data Intern will help create and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and KPI visualizations that support data-informed decision-making. They will work with the database manager and internal stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models and reporting solutions, while assisting with data cleanup, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
All on the Field
The intern supports the daily operations and quality-control systems behind active canvassing programs. Responsibilities include scheduling and tracking applicants, coordinating materials, verifying voter-contact data by phone, maintaining audit records, cleaning data, and preparing routine program reports.
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.
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.
American Friends Service Committee
This one-year, part-time fellowship supports Chicago Peacebuilding programs, with an emphasis on engaging young people and advancing campaigns to shift public investment away from policing and incarceration toward community resources. Responsibilities include coalition meeting support, youth curriculum and political-education materials, newsletter and social-media support, research, administrative work, and fundraising merchandise fulfillment; training is provided.
Environmental Working Group
This paid fall internship supports the communications team’s media outreach and public-interest advocacy work on food chemicals, PFAS and other industrial chemicals, pesticide regulation, cosmetics safety and related issues. The intern will track media coverage, research reporters and outlets, write web articles and social content, monitor social-media conversations, and assist with virtual and D.C. press events while receiving professional feedback and training.
Ohio Democratic Party
Campus Organizing Fellows will recruit, train, and manage student volunteers to conduct voter outreach and mobilize student voters for the 2026 coordinated campaign. They will build campus partnerships, table and canvass in high-traffic areas, organize campaign events, and register students to vote.
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.
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.
The Aspen Institute
The William Randolph Hearst Fellow supports the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation through research, writing, logistics, and administrative work for leadership initiatives, public programs, and convenings. The fellowship is designed to introduce students to issues in philanthropy, social enterprise, nonprofits, and the broader social sector, and may be completed remotely or from the Washington, DC office.
Raben
The intern will support Raben’s client services work across practice areas, including research, data analysis, report preparation, administrative support, and client deliverables such as presentations, memos, and briefs. The role also includes tracking policy and legislative developments, coordinating project logistics, and supporting internal initiatives, events, and special projects.
South Asian Youth Action
The Mentor will support elementary school youth at PS 69 in Jackson Heights by creating a safe, structured, and engaging after-school environment. Responsibilities include planning and leading age-appropriate activities, helping with homework, supervising students during program activities and transitions, supporting positive behavior, and building caring relationships with youth and families.
Rising Voices
The intern will support policy advocacy, research, organizing, and outreach projects focused on local and state policy advocacy in Michigan. Responsibilities include tracking policy and budget issues, conducting research on campaign areas such as inclusive education, immigration justice, language access, voting rights, and reproductive justice, and assisting with outreach, stakeholder engagement, meetings, and events.
Hamkae Center
Part-time canvassers will educate voters about the November 2026 General Election through door-to-door conversations in and around Fairfax, Virginia. The role includes sharing voting information and deadlines, entering voter contact data accurately, completing reports, attending training, and representing the organization professionally during the civic engagement campaign.