Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
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.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Research Associate conducts statistical, econometric, computational, and analytical work to support economists' publishable research. Responsibilities include collecting and interpreting economic and financial data, reviewing academic and market sources, using tools such as Stata, R, Python, and SAS, and helping prepare articles and presentations on economic conditions and policy. The role also supports survey data and Beige Book economic summaries as part of a two-year program.
Simons Foundation
The Administrative Coordinator supports scientific leadership and the administrative operations of a computational neuroscience center. Responsibilities include managing calendars and expenses, coordinating travel and events, maintaining websites and databases, supporting seminars and workshops, and serving as a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
BUILD Inc.
The Community Engagement Specialist will develop a Humboldt Park community safety plan and convene the Community Response and Engagement Workgroup (CREW) to coordinate local safety interventions. They will facilitate meetings, document progress, analyze violence trends with stakeholders, and align participating organizations' resources. The specialist will also conduct outreach and canvassing, support neighborhood events and programs, recruit and lead volunteers, and represent the organization in community forums.
Working Families Party
The Regional Organizer will grow the party’s membership and activist base through in-person events, relational organizing, digital outreach, calls, texts, and welcoming programs. They will recruit, train, and manage volunteers for canvasses and candidate outreach, assess program results, and help shape regional electoral and legislative strategy.
Working Families Party
The Regional Organizer will expand membership and activist leadership through in-person events, relational organizing, digital outreach, and welcome programs. They will also lead volunteer recruitment and training, coordinate canvasses and phone/text banks for endorsed candidates, and adapt regional strategy based on political and community conditions.
Working Families Party
The Regional Organizer will build the party’s membership, supporter, and activist base across Congressional District 3 through events, relational organizing, digital outreach, and welcome programs. The role leads canvasses, phone and text banking, volunteer recruitment and training, and regional electoral programs for endorsed candidates.
Elevate
The Coordinator helps implement clean-energy workforce and contractor training programs for individuals and businesses historically marginalized in the energy and building-trades sectors. Responsibilities include outreach and enrollment, participant paperwork and referrals, event and training logistics, direct case management, partner relationship management, and program data reporting.
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
The Career Specialist supports clients with career planning, workforce-skills development, training enrollment, scholarship applications, and job-search preparation. The role manages WIOA and SNAP E&T eligibility documentation, case notes, service data, outcomes reporting, and labor-market information. It also leads workshops, coordinates with workforce partners, and connects participants to wraparound services and employment opportunities.
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund
The Fundraising Database Associate keeps the fundraising CRM accurate by uploading donor and donation data through manual and automated processes. The role processes mailed and phone credit-card donations, routes checks to vendors, sends acknowledgments, and responds to donor questions by phone, email, and mail.
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
The Coordinator supports operational delivery of the annual National Charter Schools Conference, additional organizational events, and virtual learning programs. Responsibilities include managing invoices, contracts, expense tracking, registration systems, attendee data, surveys, reports, vendor coordination, and stakeholder communications. The position also provides onsite event support and coordinates event logistics, materials, presenters, and follow-up communications.
iMentor
The Development Operations Coordinator manages the administrative systems underlying fundraising, including processing gifts and pledges, maintaining donor records, issuing acknowledgments, and reconciling revenue information with Finance. The role also produces reports and lists, maintains data quality in Salesforce and fundraising platforms, supports campaign and event administration, and coordinates department communications and projects.
Clean Water Action
The organizer will engage residents on water, environmental health, and data-center development issues through field canvassing and fundraising. They will support constituents in contacting elected officials, recruit volunteers to hold politicians accountable, and occasionally participate in press conferences, lobby days, and other events.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
The Voter Access Associate will support ballot-cure outreach for voters whose ballots have been rejected after an election. They will maintain training and voter education resources, lead trainings, recruit and engage volunteers, and work with campaign voter-access staff to implement state-specific programming.
Youth Guidance
The Grants Coordinator manages systems, deadlines, documentation, reporting, and compliance for city, county, state, and federal grants. The role researches public funding opportunities, supports grant proposals and funder reports, and coordinates data collection with program, evaluation, finance, and external-affairs teams.
Precision
The Associate manages day-to-day client-account logistics, including agendas, notes, clips, timelines, trackers, and defined project deliverables. They draft press releases, pitches, op-eds, presentations, social content, and messaging; support media outreach and coverage tracking; and conduct research to inform client strategy.