Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
The Activity Specialist plans and delivers hands-on, age-appropriate after-school enrichment programming for elementary and middle school students. The role supervises youth, teaches activities such as sports, recreation, arts, and STEAM, supports program assistants, and maintains communication, records, supplies, and safety procedures.
Bully Pulpit International
This role manages analytics and reporting workflows for paid-media campaigns, including dashboard setup, quality assurance, audience onboarding, conversion tracking, and troubleshooting. The analyst collaborates with media, planning, insights, vendor, and client teams to deliver reporting that informs campaign strategy and optimization. The position also tracks emerging ad-tech and measurement tools and helps coordinate briefs, meetings, and project timelines.
Civitech
The Marketing Business Development Representative owns the lead-to-customer journey for RunningMate, acting as the primary contact for prospects from initial outreach through purchase. Responsibilities include qualifying inbound leads, prospecting outbound, conducting discovery conversations and demos, maintaining pipeline data, and reporting conversion insights. The role also supports marketing programs and coordinates with customer success, sales, and product teams to improve the customer experience.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate manages a caseload of 15–20 chronically absent students, identifies attendance barriers, and provides mentoring and light case management. Responsibilities include tracking attendance, contacting absent students and families, leading clubs and workshops, tutoring students, facilitating SEL groups, and coordinating support plans with school staff.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor serves as a primary contact for participants who have recently exited emergency shelter, helping them pursue stable housing and economic self-sufficiency. The role provides trauma-informed coaching, conducts assessments and goal planning, maintains service records, makes referrals, and supports reporting requirements.
Ounce
The Community Navigator serves as an on-site point of contact for residents in affordable-housing communities. Responsibilities include outreach, benefits applications, appointment scheduling, referral tracking, partnership building, and coordinating resident events and programming.
Science News Media Group
The Social Media Producer creates and curates daily content across social channels, schedules posts, engages readers, and works with newsroom and design teams to strengthen visual storytelling and brand voice. The producer manages newsletters, monitors trends and social performance, supports story pitching, and runs experiments to expand audience engagement.
Science Friday
The Membership Specialist runs the digital membership experience, helping convert listeners into paying members and retain existing supporters. Responsibilities include member communications and support, CRM maintenance, benefits and merchandise fulfillment, email and SMS campaigns, performance analysis, and coordination with development, audience, and editorial teams.
Sierra Club
The Chapter Organizer will build long-term grassroots power in Imperial County by recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers and local community leaders. They will develop coalitions with residents, Tribal and Indigenous communities, environmental justice groups, labor, faith organizations, and public agencies; organize events and advocacy; and elevate local priorities in campaigns and policy positions. The role also maintains organizing records, tracks campaign outcomes, and reports on community engagement.
Kennedy Human Rights Center
The Special Events Manager leads fundraising-event and auction operations, including procurement, cataloging, bidding, fulfillment, sponsorship tracking, donor acknowledgments, budgets, and performance analysis. They coordinate logistics, vendors, contracts, travel, registration data, and on-site staff for five signature events annually, while supporting additional major galas and conferences.
Reading Partners
The Tutoring Coordinator leads daily fall tutoring operations at a Newark site, including assessments, attendance, student scheduling, tutor coaching, and quality oversight. They also support tutor orientations and family-engagement workshops while coordinating closely with partnership and national staff.
American Association for Justice
The coordinator helps plan and execute educational programming for two large conventions with more than 2,000 attendees each. They serve as a key contact for speakers, maintain program and attendee records, prepare communications and promotional materials, and coordinate onsite logistics with hotels and convention centers.
Education Forward Arizona
The intern will create and publish audience-focused digital content, including social posts, blog articles, newsletters, campaign materials, graphics, and TikTok or Instagram Reels. They will support social media scheduling and engagement, capture event media, research marketing performance, and assist the communications team with projects and administration.
Council on Foreign Relations
The Library Assistant retrieves and delivers print and digital materials to support researchers and helps maintain access to databases, intranet resources, and subscriptions. They will assist with digitization and collection-management projects, compile usage data, maintain resource guides, and provide responsive service to staff and researchers.
Working Families Party
The fellow completes an electoral and advocacy training program while organizing direct voter contact and local electoral justice activities. They will recruit and facilitate a 15–20-person volunteer action team, hold community meetings, conduct relational outreach, map local power structures, and run phone banks, canvasses, and election-protection work. The fellow also represents the organization at coalition tables and transitions volunteer leadership into a member-led committee.
AidKit
Support applicants in a 12-month guaranteed-income program through phone, email, and text, using custom tools to answer questions and resolve application or payment issues. Review applications and supporting documents for accuracy, request corrections when needed, and escalate potential fraud concerns. The role also collaborates with program staff and may support occasional in-person outreach across Maui County.
The Brookings Institution
The Research Assistant supports the development of an economic-policy agenda through original analysis, research support, and co-authored written products. The role analyzes and visualizes data, maintains dashboards and research figures, and coordinates commissioned policy proposals, author timelines, feedback, quality control, and communications deliverables.
The Brookings Institution
This two-year Research Assistant role supports scholars in economic policy research across areas such as economic security, fiscal and monetary policy, health policy, regulation, and tax policy. The assistant conducts data analysis and statistical programming, prepares tables and graphs, researches literature and source materials, and drafts content for publications and web pages. The role also provides limited communications, publication, and event-support assistance.
SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
The Organizer supports campaigns that help non-union workers build power and win union recognition. Day-to-day work includes outreach at homes and worksites, one-on-one and group worker meetings, leadership development, committee building, trainings, coalition participation, and planning actions and events.
United Nations Foundation
The intern will create and distribute communications materials, including blogs, social-media posts, newsletters, webpage content, photography, and video assets related to global health advocacy. They will track content performance, support communications around major global health events such as the UN General Assembly, and collaborate with global health, public affairs, and campaign colleagues.
Council on Foreign Relations
The research associate will support a senior fellow leading an energy, security, and climate change program. Responsibilities include research and fact-checking for a book and other publications, editorial preparation, travel and calendar management, event logistics, correspondence, and social media or multimedia outreach.
PETA
The AI Creative Producer develops and delivers bold social videos for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, and YouTube. They will write concepts and scripts, use generative-AI tools alongside traditional production techniques, self-film content when needed, and collaborate with creative and social-media colleagues on timely campaigns.
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.