Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL)
The Fellow oversees institutional giving, major-donor cultivation, and grassroots sustainer fundraising. They will coordinate grant prospecting and applications, build donor relationships, organize fundraising events and membership drives, and train staff and board members to support solicitation.
Breakthrough New York
The Program Assistant provides onsite logistical and operational support for one middle-school after-school program site in Manhattan or Queens. Responsibilities include attendance entry, snack setup, supply ordering, inventory, event support, cleanup, and serving as a positive role model for students.
The Trustees of Reservations
This part-time, onsite role supports youth public programs, private events, field trips, birthday parties, and cooking classes at a working farm. Responsibilities include setting up program spaces, checking in and orienting visitors, leading activities, assisting instructors, maintaining clean and safe event areas, and processing membership and sales transactions.
Brilliant Detroit
This part-time, in-person coordinator serves as a welcoming frontline contact for families, guiding intake, answering questions, providing referrals, and helping participants navigate programs and technology. The coordinator conducts outreach and recruitment, tracks participant data and reports, supports play groups and listening sessions, and helps maintain an organized, family-friendly center.
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.
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.
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.
N Street Village
On-call Program Associates provide flexible onsite coverage across seven DC locations during staffing shortages, peak periods, emergencies, and special needs. They build relationships with residents, support care coordination and case plans, document services, handle intakes and incidents, respond to crises, enforce program rules, and help maintain safe shelter and housing environments.
GrowNYC
The Seasonal Greenmarket Site Lead manages day-to-day operations at assigned outdoor farmers markets across New York City, including vendor setup, safety and food-safety compliance, paperwork, customer service, and conflict resolution. The lead also administers SNAP/EBT and other customer transactions, maintains financial records, promotes market programs through outreach and social media, and helps build community partnerships.
9to5
The Revenue Canvasser will support a Colorado 2026 general-election GOTV campaign for progressive statewide revenue measures. Responsibilities include door-to-door voter outreach, tabling, phone and text banking, voter education, contact and membership collection, data entry, and helping turn out supporters for campaign events.
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.
Girl Scouts of the USA
The Museum Guide will lead engaging tours and hands-on activities for visitors and Girl Scout troops at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum. The position also supports front desk and shop operations, visitor assistance, program preparation, historic research, light cleaning, and other daily museum tasks as needed.
Power California
The Canvasser will engage community members using campaign scripts through door-to-door outreach, classroom presentations, tabling, events, phone banking, and texting. The role supports voter registration and mobilization, volunteer recruitment, youth leadership development, campaign events, and daily reporting of voter contact data.
Chinese-American Planning Council
The Administrative Assistant will support afterschool programs at PS 160 or PS 255 in Brooklyn by coordinating office operations, maintaining program documentation, and supporting staff and families. Responsibilities include managing registration and attendance systems, preparing correspondence and reports, tracking expenditures, maintaining files and supplies, and serving as a liaison with finance and program staff.
The Door
The Per Diem Overnight Youth Counselor supports the Runaway and Homeless Youth program at a 24-hour drop-in center. The role ensures homeless and unstably housed youth have access to basic needs such as food, clothing, hygiene, rest, and safety during overnight hours, while providing crisis intervention and documentation as needed.
The Door
The Teaching Artist will design and lead creative and educational workshops and activities for youth in afternoon and evening programming. The role includes developing curriculum, facilitating arts, wellness, recreation, and community-building activities, supporting showcases, supervising participants, and connecting young people to additional services.
Youth Guidance
The Program Instructor facilitates before- and after-school programming and provides direct supervision for students at Carver Elementary School. The role includes supporting curriculum and lesson planning, helping students with homework and projects, maintaining behavioral expectations, communicating with parents, and assisting with program promotion and school-day support.
Food & Water Watch
This part-time organizer will help grow volunteer and ally networks in New Mexico and advance statewide campaigns, especially around factory farms and data center development. The role includes campaign planning and execution, volunteer leadership development, coalition work, public representation, and use of digital organizing tools.
Ounce of Care
The Community Navigator serves as the on-site face of the organization within affordable housing communities in Lewisville. The role focuses on resident outreach, benefits navigation, care coordination, event programming, and relationship-building with residents and local partners, with a strong emphasis on reliability and consistent in-person presence.
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This role manages young people throughout their full program experience, from intake and assessment through goal-setting, classroom support, internship monitoring, and connection to outside resources. The coordinator also collaborates with teachers, justice-system stakeholders, schools, and employers to support participant retention and progress across multiple program cycles each year.
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.
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.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) / NCAAT in Action
Conduct in-person canvassing conversations with voters in Wake County from Feb 20, 2026 through Election Day (Nov 3, 2026), up to 20 hours/week. The role emphasizes deep, one-on-one, emotionally engaged conversations to build rapport, explore views on issues/candidates, and shift attitudes over time, while meeting campaign goals and maintaining high-quality data and canvass standards.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) / NCAAT in Action
Seasonal, temporary canvassing role (up to 20 hours/week) running roughly Feb 20, 2026 through Election Day (Nov 3, 2026), depending on performance. You’ll conduct in-person, one-on-one conversations with voters to build rapport, listen to personal stories, and help shift attitudes on key issues/candidates, while meeting campaign goals and maintaining high-quality data practices.