Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Global Strategy Group
This IT Operations & Support Engineer is the primary day-to-day technology contact for employees, resolving hardware, software, connectivity, account-access, and conference-room technology issues. The role deploys and supports Windows and Mac devices, manages onboarding and offboarding, administers SaaS and identity tools, and maintains asset and knowledge-base documentation. It also partners with senior IT staff and vendors on security, automation, endpoint, and broader technology projects.
Ocean Conservancy
The Climate Analyst will conduct quantitative and qualitative research on emissions, decarbonization, climate finance, and domestic and international policy developments. The role creates dashboards, policy briefs, reports, executive materials, and grant content, while providing analytical support across conservation, science, communications, development, and government affairs teams. The analyst will also support partnerships, convenings, and climate initiatives involving offshore wind, clean shipping, marine carbon dioxide removal, and offshore oil and gas.
Planned Parenthood affiliate
The Database Manager maintains donor-data integrity and serves as the development team's Salesforce subject-matter expert. Responsibilities include building and analyzing fundraising reports, dashboards, mailing lists, and revenue data; supporting financial reconciliation and grant reporting; and training new development staff. The position also supports prospect research, donor segmentation, wealth screening, and portfolio-development systems.
Mujeres Latinas en Acción
This specialist oversees the completeness, accuracy, organization, and compliance of client records and service data for the domestic violence program. The role manages data in ETO and InfoNet, supports internal and external audits, produces program reports, trains staff on documentation procedures, and provides data insights to strengthen services.
Disability Rights Michigan
The Education Team Advocate supports people with disabilities experiencing violations of education-related legal and service rights. Responsibilities include client advocacy, complaint filing and negotiation, case documentation, training and public presentations, and collaboration with schools, service providers, government agencies, and community groups. The advocate also maintains knowledge of disability-rights laws and contributes to systemic advocacy and policy education.
MF Professional Services
The Canvass Lead directs and coaches a team of roughly four to five canvassers while participating in field outreach. The role manages daily canvassing logistics, voter-contact data, reporting, and adherence to registration, data-security, timekeeping, and safety procedures.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF
The intern will assist the Advocacy Department with legislative, administrative, and community-engagement campaigns across civil-rights issue areas. Responsibilities include researching laws and proposed amendments, drafting comments and policy memos, supporting workshops and coalition meetings, identifying partners, and coordinating with communications staff.
Make the Road New York
The instructor delivers student-centered English-language and citizenship-preparation instruction for adult learners in Queens and Brooklyn. They develop curricula and lesson materials, assess learner progress, manage attendance and records, coordinate mock-interview volunteers, and connect students with internal services and organizing opportunities. The role includes substantial compliance, intake, testing, and funder-reporting responsibilities.
Texas Democratic Party
The Operations Associate provides hands-on logistical and administrative support for a large-scale voter-mobilization campaign. Responsibilities include coordinating staffing logistics, supplies, inventory, mail and literature, vendors, campaign offices, shipping, receipts, budgets, and operational trackers. The role responds quickly to changing needs across statewide campaign teams.
Pet Partners
This part-time, in-office development operations role processes mailed donations and maintains accurate donor and gift records in Salesforce. The associate prepares donor acknowledgments, pledge reminders, tribute mailings, reports, mailing lists, and event-related materials while providing administrative support to the development team.
Southern Poverty Law Center
The organizer will lead community outreach, local and state campaign activities, volunteer engagement, mobilization, and advocacy efforts across West Georgia. They will collaborate with allies and activists, plan events and future organizing work, develop research and educational tools, and report progress to stakeholders.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
The State Community Organizer leads grassroots outreach, campaign, advocacy, volunteer, and mobilization activities throughout East Georgia's CSRA region. They cultivate partnerships with residents, leaders, activists, and organizations; plan events and future work; develop materials; conduct research; and report progress to stakeholders.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains
The Operations Coordinator supports centralized clinical operations through patient-estimate preparation, regulatory data entry, vendor coordination, inventory support, and documentation of operational requests. The coordinator also assists health-center expansion and process-improvement efforts, working closely with health-services staff and contract physicians.
NCOA
The Program Associate supports workforce-development initiatives, including grant-funded employment programs for older adults. They provide technical assistance to grantees and community partners, monitor program performance and reporting, maintain operational tools, and coordinate trainings, meetings, communications, and other program activities. The role also contributes to grant compliance, partner relationship management, proposal development, and continuous improvement.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The Operations Associate supports the campaign’s daily physical and electronic operational needs, including project tracking, logistics, procurement, vendor coordination, and office administration. They will work with operations leadership and other departments to keep internal projects, field offices, printing, supplies, and event services running smoothly.
UnidosUS
The Program Coordinator will support family-engagement partnerships and programming across affiliate and partner sites. Responsibilities include coordinating grant-related meetings and events, assisting grantees with curriculum delivery and data systems, conducting research, supporting trainings, and contributing to evaluation. The coordinator will also help manage external communications, reports, funder materials, and partner relationships.
World Central Kitchen
The Fundraising Operations Coordinator manages incoming donation information from multiple sources and enters, cleans, adjusts, and quality-checks gift and donor records in Salesforce NPSP. They reconcile donation files with finance systems, resolve donor questions or donation issues, meet processing deadlines, and help improve gift-processing workflows.
Plan International USA
The Associate provides administrative and fundraising coordination for a five-person major gifts team that manages relationships with individual, corporate, and foundation partners. Responsibilities include handling partnership inquiries, conducting desk research, coordinating proposals and donor requirements, supporting events and travel, preparing meeting materials, and liaising with internal and global colleagues.
Election Reformers Network
This part-time intern supports research, communications, and policy work focused on election administration and democratic reform. Day-to-day work includes policy research, tracking media and legislative developments, drafting written materials, and organizing research resources.
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
The Dispatcher Organizer-in-Training runs core day labor center operations, including opening and closing the site, answering phones, issuing identification cards, maintaining worker and employer records, and dispatching workers to jobs. They help workers and employers negotiate fair work agreements, document and resolve conflicts, and support wage-theft claims. The position also builds worker leadership through outreach, one-on-ones, general-assembly follow-up, and workforce-training coordination.
Civitech
The Seasonal People & Operations Associate supports temporary hiring cycles and the broader People & Operations function through December 15, 2026. Responsibilities include setting up employee equipment and accounts, coordinating onboarding and offboarding, maintaining HR systems data, handling employee and vendor inquiries, and supporting operational projects.
Activate
The Program Associate supports a science-entrepreneur fellowship through education programming, event logistics, operational coordination, alumni resources, and special projects. The role coordinates learning materials, communications, attendance, and platforms; supports the annual retreat; manages executive scheduling; and analyzes program engagement and feedback data.
PETA
The Associate Intake Specialist supports the Intake & Assessment Division by responding to public phone and email inquiries about animal cruelty and neglect. The role researches cases, manages case and correspondence files, routes inquiries when needed, and may assist with occasional after-hours responsibilities.
PETA
The Special Projects Communications Planner manages campaign projects and supports advertising initiatives designed to elevate animal-rights issues. The role researches audiences and placement opportunities, helps develop ad concepts, coordinates cross-functional communications, documents placements, and evaluates campaign effectiveness.