Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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
This part-time, four-month fellowship supports electoral organizing and chapter-building throughout Metro Atlanta. Fellows will canvass, phone bank, text voters, recruit and develop a 15–20 person volunteer team, and coordinate volunteer support for endorsed campaigns and community partners.
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.
Penta Group
This temporary, part-time weekend role supports real-time social and traditional media monitoring for global clients. The employee will use monitoring tools to flag viral or reputation-related developments, prepare client alerts and briefings, analyze social data, and help create reports, charts, and graphics.
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.
PETA
The intern will help advance youth animal-rights activism through Instagram and TikTok content, trend research, campaign development, and brainstorming meetings. They will organize a local or university animal-rights campaign and may travel for protests or outreach tours when possible.
Project for Pride in Living
The Youth Program Assistant Intern helps deliver enrichment programming for young people who have experienced homelessness. They will plan and facilitate age-appropriate activities, collaborate with staff and community partners, serve as a consistent role model, and help redirect behavior when needed.
Democracy Forward Foundation
The Social Media Strategist will own day-to-day social media planning, publishing, and community engagement, with particular emphasis on LinkedIn and additional channels including Instagram, TikTok, X, Bluesky, Facebook, and YouTube. The role develops long-term content strategy, creates written and short-form video content, analyzes results, and partners with subject-matter experts to communicate legal and policy work.
Democracy Forward Foundation
The Social Media Strategist will manage day-to-day content planning, publishing, and community engagement across LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, and YouTube. The role develops long-term channel strategy, writes campaign and explanatory content, evaluates performance data, and expands short-form video and emerging-platform efforts.
Grameen America, Inc.
The Recruitment Associate conducts neighborhood outreach, information sessions, and group trainings to recruit new program members and meet branch growth goals. They lead weekly member meetings, follow up on loan repayments, conduct home and business verification visits, and accurately document payment activity.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Journalist Support Correspondent provides on-call coverage for a journalist-facing inbox and responds quickly to requests for SciLine's expert matching service. They coordinate with scientist-facing colleagues, log inquiry data in Salesforce, maintain handoffs across shifts, and escalate difficult correspondence.
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County
The Program Manager oversees daily operations of a community resilience hub and administers the Helene Fund, including grant application review, contracting, recordkeeping, and distribution reporting. The role also develops disaster activation plans, coordinates preparedness activities, manages supplies and resource referrals, and represents the organization in community resilience networks.