Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
PETA Foundation
The Production Coordinator supports the planning and execution of print, merchandise, advertising, and demonstration-material projects. They will track projects in Asana, coordinate among requestors, designers, and vendors, obtain bids and purchase orders, review proofs, research suppliers, and handle administrative production tasks.
Relentless
This role coordinates the systems that move program content from creation through review and approval, including participant emails, texts, event materials, FAQs, and in-app copy. The manager will maintain trackers and resource hubs, prepare team meetings, support writers and designers, and use staff and participant feedback to improve content. Work includes cross-functional project coordination and hands-on editing in support of voter-engagement programs.
American Public Human Services Association
The Interstate Program Coordinator supports initiatives related to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, working with internal teams, state member jurisdictions, and external partners. Responsibilities include scheduling, tracking deliverables, preparing materials, coordinating events and communications, maintaining databases and resources, and assisting with surveys, reporting, and project implementation.
National Women’s Law Center
The Program Assistant supports the Child Care and Income Security team and its vice president through calendar management, internal coordination, meeting facilitation, and event logistics. The position prepares and proofreads materials, manages travel and invoices, posts website content, and assists with policy research and legislative communications.
Direct Relief
The Corporate Engagement Coordinator processes donated medicines and medical goods from initial product offers through receipt, designation, and distribution. They maintain donor and product records in CRM and SAP, coordinate documentation and inbound logistics with internal teams and healthcare companies, and prepare reports, receipts, and donor updates.
Yale Economic Growth Center
This role manages digital and external communications for development economics research, including website updates, social media, newsletters, multimedia, and print materials. It also supports major events and webinars, coordinates speakers and contractors, tracks communications projects and metrics, and maintains brand and resource systems.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Finance Assistant provides operational and fundraising support to party leadership and the finance department. Day-to-day work includes scheduling and staffing call time, managing fundraising-event outreach and RSVPs, researching donor prospects, tracking pledges, drafting acknowledgments, and assisting with contribution compliance.
Science Friday
This role serves as the primary point of contact for members and prospective members, managing membership onboarding, renewals, benefits, technical troubleshooting, and customer service. The specialist will maintain donor and member data, coordinate digital communications and SMS campaigns, analyze performance metrics, and work across development, audience, editorial, and audio teams to grow retention and revenue.
Precision
This role executes and monitors digital paid-media campaigns, including campaign setup, optimization support, reporting, and finance-tracker updates. The associate also supports client accounts through meeting materials, research, project tracking, written content, and collaboration with internal teams.
Democratic National Committee
The Community Analyst provides technical support through a Zendesk queue for campaign, state-party, and committee users of data products and tools. The role facilitates trainings, creates and updates documentation, maintains relationships with state-party data staff, and shares recurring user feedback with product, data, and engineering teams.
New York Immigration Coalition
The Community Engagement Associate manages event data, records, reporting processes, grant deliverables, budgets, and administrative workflows for a statewide outreach team. They develop and distribute community-facing resources, coordinate materials and vendors, participate in events, and deliver Know Your Rights workshops to community members and partners.
Ohio Democratic Party
The Operations Associate provides day-to-day logistical support for a statewide coordinated campaign. Responsibilities include maintaining operational tracking systems, procuring and distributing materials, supporting field offices and events, and coordinating with multiple campaign departments.
Civitas Public Affairs Group
The Associate provides day-to-day research, writing, and coordination support across a portfolio of advocacy campaigns. They will develop work plans and client materials, manage deadlines and reporting, monitor policy and political developments, coordinate meetings, and cultivate relationships with conservative and cross-partisan partners.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor works directly with families leaving emergency shelter programs to build long-term housing stability and self-sufficiency. Responsibilities include tenancy coaching, landlord and housing-team collaboration, housing-related advocacy, crisis management, and connecting participants with schools, employment services, and medical providers.
Urban Land Institute
This role provides detailed program coordination for awards, housing conferences, and other convenings across a cross-functional impact team. Responsibilities include maintaining websites and newsletters, coordinating speakers and panel materials, processing site-visit expenses, supporting marketing content, arranging recognition logistics, and assisting on site at approximately three events per year.
Founders Pledge
This role provides the administrative and operational foundation for a community team that manages relationships with philanthropic members. Responsibilities include coordinating event invitations and attendance, responding to routine member inquiries, monitoring member-company news, supporting cross-team projects, and improving team processes.
PETA
The Strategic Initiatives Coordinator supports special projects intended to expand animal-rights campaigns and legislative wins. Responsibilities include researching issues, drafting advocacy materials, coordinating multimedia and outreach projects, engaging stakeholders, attending protests and events, and speaking at city council meetings as needed.
Food and Environment Reporting Network
The Assistant Engagement Producer creates, shoots, edits, and publishes video content for Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, while also producing and editing podcast episodes. The role writes scripts and captions, monitors and schedules social content, and coordinates content rollouts with editorial, co-publishing, and creator partners.
Inclusive Abundance
The Government Affairs Associate supports advocacy with congressional offices, federal agencies, and allied organizations. Responsibilities include monitoring legislation and hearings, drafting policy and briefing materials, researching policymakers and issues, maintaining outreach systems, and coordinating external meetings and events.
Young Women's Freedom Center
The Self-Determination Coordinator provides individualized support, intake assessments, resource referrals, and self-advocacy coaching to youth participating in programs. The role facilitates healing circles, leadership and career-development activities, and youth advocacy initiatives while coordinating with justice-system, school, and community partners. It also manages participant data, reporting, evaluations, and program materials.
Truth Initiative
The Communications Coordinator provides administrative, editorial, and project coordination support for a cross-functional communications team. Responsibilities include drafting and editing content, managing approvals and content calendars, maintaining media and spokesperson lists, distributing a daily news bulletin, and tracking communications performance metrics.
The New York Immigration Coalition
The Program Associate leads hands-on trainee recruitment, community outreach, and engagement for the NYC Community Interpreter Bank training program. The role coordinates training and event logistics, manages recruitment tracking and communications, develops multilingual outreach materials, and maintains relationships with community partners across New York City.
Campaign Legal Center
The Communications Associate serves as the communications team's lead partner for the Campaign Finance and Ethics portfolio. They develop strategic communications plans; write, edit, and coordinate products such as blogs, press releases, reports, fact sheets, newsletters, and web copy; and help shape messaging on emerging threats to government institutions. They also track relevant federal, state, and local developments and coordinate content review and rollout with program staff.
Think of Us
Support the External Engagement team’s federal and state child-welfare advocacy, coalition building, policy research, and communications. The role coordinates trauma-responsive lived-experience participation; manages policy projects, convenings, events, and stakeholder logistics; and maintains relationships with congressional staff and other partners. It also supports AI-enabled research, knowledge management, and drafting, subject to independent verification and human judgment.