Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Clean Water Action
Grassroots Organizers conduct field canvassing to educate community members, raise funds, and mobilize support for the organization's environmental policy priorities. They communicate with the public about clean-water affordability, climate action, toxic chemicals, and related public-health and accountability issues.
Clean Water Action
The Field Manager will initially conduct canvassing, educate community members about campaigns, collect petitions and constituent letters, and raise funds. As they advance, they will train new activists, motivate teams of five or more, manage team logistics, track canvass and budget performance, and help teams meet campaign goals.
Four Friends Foundation
The Program Associate serves as a liaison to grantees, applicants, vendors, and philanthropic peers while supporting the full grantmaking cycle. Responsibilities include records and CRM management, research, meeting preparation, event logistics, reporting, workflow improvement, administrative coordination, and communications support.
Panorama Global
The coordinator supports day-to-day grants and contracts administration, including due diligence, drafting standard agreements, reviewing vendor and funding documents, and tracking restricted-grant requirements. They maintain accurate records, support approval workflows and post-award administration, and respond to routine questions while escalating complex compliance issues.
Milken Institute
This hybrid Washington, DC-based Associate supports the programmatic fundraising team across prospect research, donor stewardship, proposal development, relationship communications, and revenue-pipeline tracking. The Associate maintains Salesforce and project-tracking data, coordinates meetings and event logistics, and partners with program leads to advance philanthropic funding and engagement opportunities.
Swing Left and Vote Forward
The Field Manager will support a Texas randomized controlled trial evaluating two voter-contact scripts. They will train and coach volunteers, run in-person and virtual canvass debriefs, review incoming canvassing data, and provide troubleshooting support. The role also manages treatment/control logistics, coordinates daily with partners, and escalates threats to randomization or study fidelity.
Sundance Institute
This full-time hybrid IT support role resolves end-user help-desk requests, administers software and user access, and configures employee hardware. The Coordinator maintains IT inventory, provides employee technology orientations, and travels to Festival and event sites for onsite technical support.
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
The Parent Educator conducts twice-monthly home visits with enrolled families, using a parenting curriculum to share child-development information and activities that strengthen parent-child relationships. They conduct developmental screenings, make referrals, recruit families, facilitate group meetings or field trips, and complete confidential records and monthly reports.
The Menil Collection
This role is the main administrative contact for a curatorial department, directly supporting its Chief Curator while managing office workflows, scheduling, correspondence, finances, and departmental records. The position also coordinates fellowship administration, committee and board materials, exhibition logistics, collection access, and public programs.
Eviction Defense Collaborative
The coordinator serves as an in-person point of contact for tenants seeking self-representation or litigation assistance through the Tenant Right to Counsel program. Core responsibilities include client intake, eligibility screening, legal-document preparation, referral coordination, resource navigation, case-file maintenance, and timely data entry. The role also provides administrative support and helps coordinate outreach and education about available services.
Working Families Party
The Digital Platforms and Content Manager leads public-facing digital communications and design strategy for the California chapter. Day-to-day work includes drafting and scheduling social content, creating graphics and short-form video, coordinating with campaign staff, monitoring platform engagement, and supporting election-related rapid response.
New Heights
This full-time, onsite role oversees the daily operation of an administrative office, classrooms, and basketball facility in Brooklyn. Responsibilities include coordinating vendors and repairs, managing facility reservations and calendars, maintaining supplies and records, supporting HR administration, tracking expenses, and supervising part-time facility staff.
Vote Solar
The Associate manages operational finance processes, including vendor payments, credit-card reconciliations, donor and grant deposits, invoicing, receivables tracking, and audit support. They also support hiring, onboarding and offboarding, performance-management systems, benefits and payroll requests, internal communications, and staff events.
The Menil Collection
The Development Services Associate supports the Advancement Department’s gift processing, donor database maintenance, reporting, and donor acknowledgment workflows. They collaborate with development and finance staff to reconcile gifts, improve data procedures, conduct donor research, and support departmental operations and select evening events.
Housing Works
The Outreach Specialist recruits and enrolls community members into HIV prevention services through field, digital, and partner-based outreach. The role conducts testing, counseling, education, presentations, referrals, and client follow-up while coordinating with navigation and clinic teams and documenting services.
Housing Works
The Outreach Engagement Specialist recruits and supports Brooklyn-based nontraditional distribution sites for safer-sex products, maintains distribution records, and ensures compliance with NYC Department of Health protocols. The role also conducts outreach events, provides HIV prevention and harm-reduction education, performs rapid HIV and Hepatitis C testing, and connects participants with health, behavioral health, and housing services.
Housing Works
The Junior Account Manager develops and maintains relationships with 15–25 referral sources and community partners to grow referrals for services. They map a territory, prospect for new partners, present programs and eligibility requirements, document outreach in Salesforce, and meet activity and client-recruitment targets.
Housing Works
The Intake Coordinator manages referrals, screens applicants for eligibility, oversees the program waitlist, and coordinates admissions and site placement for transitional housing participants. The role prepares vacancy and outcome reports, maintains accurate data and electronic client charts, and communicates with referral agencies and interdisciplinary care teams.
Housing Works
The Community Partnerships Clinic Liaison welcomes and navigates clients through a community health center, helping them enroll in programs, access benefits and insurance, arrange transportation, and attend appointments. The liaison follows up on referrals, documents engagement and enrollment activity, resolves service issues, and supports outreach, reporting, team meetings, and community events.
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
The Membership Coordinator will own the member experience, cultivate donor relationships, and execute digital and mail fundraising campaigns. The role manages membership systems and records, fulfills member benefits, analyzes giving data, plans engagement events, and prepares reports for leadership, the board, and grant requirements.
Reproductive Freedom for All
The Arizona Organizer will recruit, engage, and develop members and volunteers to advance reproductive-freedom legislation and electoral priorities across the state. Responsibilities include planning in-person and virtual events, coordinating advocacy-day logistics, conducting one-on-one volunteer meetings, supporting volunteer-led Action Councils, and participating in statewide coalitions. The role also tracks engagement data, works with national and digital organizing teams, and manages Arizona interns.
Crooked Media
The Account Coordinator supports advertising sales operations from proposal creation and advertiser vetting through campaign execution, billing reconciliation, and renewals. They will coordinate ad copy approvals, insertion orders, client communications, campaign timelines, and post-sale reporting across podcast, newsletter, event, video, and social sponsorship inventory.
Rebuilding Together
The Marketing Associate supports digital storytelling, content creation, integrated campaigns, and audience engagement efforts. They will manage and monitor digital communications channels, assist with social media planning and engagement, coordinate stories with internal and external partners, and use performance data to improve marketing efforts.
Make the Road New York
This position leads restorative justice implementation across four high schools at the Bushwick Campus Community School. The coordinator collaborates with school leaders, students, families, and staff to develop restorative school-climate plans, deliver trainings and workshops, facilitate interventions, and track student-intervention data.