Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Planned Parenthood North Central States
This full-time specialist develops and facilitates onboarding and training for health center associates, including front-desk and non-licensed back-office staff. Responsibilities include creating learning materials, evaluating competencies and program effectiveness, coaching staff, tracking training records, and traveling to regional sites for hands-on instruction.
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York
The specialist assesses community needs and designs and presents reproductive health education programs for youth and other community members. They represent the organization at schools, colleges, health fairs, and community events; maintain documentation and reports; and make referrals to family-planning, health, and support services.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
The coordinator provides administrative, compliance, systems, and data support across HR functions including talent acquisition, total rewards, learning, and HR business partnerships. Responsibilities include managing employee lifecycle transactions, maintaining records and organizational charts, coordinating recruitment logistics, supporting payroll processes, and producing reports, dashboards, trackers, and SOPs.
Center for Employment Opportunities
The Employment Specialist develops local employer partnerships, conducts prospecting and outreach, and works toward participant placement targets. Depending on the assigned track, the role may focus on employer engagement and placement support or manage the full participant relationship from job readiness through placement. The specialist also coaches participants, tailors resumes, manages caseloads, and records employer and participant activity in Salesforce.
Prosperity Now
The Operations Coordinator provides high-level administrative and operational support to the COO, including calendar management, meeting preparation, correspondence, and confidential records management. They track cross-functional initiatives, turn unstructured priorities into tasks and timelines, and flag risks to keep work moving. The coordinator also supports partner engagement and prepares research, policy briefings, and status updates.
Children's Aid
The Data Coordinator oversees data integrity, compliance, attendance tracking, enrollment records, and reporting across multiple school-age and after-school programs. They analyze and visualize program data, manage CSIS and other reporting systems, troubleshoot discrepancies, and coordinate with program leaders and performance-management staff.
SSP International, Inc.
The Program Coordinator supports development and management of host-campus partnerships for a summer science program. Responsibilities include tracking contracts, invoices, budgets, campus logistics, records, travel, stakeholder communications, admissions support, and operational process improvements.
Duke Farms / Doris Duke Foundation
The Professional Education Coordinator designs, delivers, and evaluates professional learning programs, including trainings, workshops, retreats, conferences, and symposia. They manage participant communications, registration, vendors, materials, event logistics, and program evaluation while supporting school partnerships and visits. The coordinator also creates instructional resources and curates science and sustainability content for the website and social media.
Brilla Schools
The Operations Coordinator keeps daily school logistics running smoothly, serving families, staff, and visitors while managing records, enrollment, transportation, meal-service compliance, and school communications. The role also supports emergency preparedness, facilities and supply management, technical troubleshooting, event planning, vendor communication, and budget-related projects.
Partnership for Public Service
The Press Associate supports daily media outreach and strategic communications campaigns, serving as a contact for selected media inquiries and collaborating with the Senior Media Relations Manager. Responsibilities include drafting pitches, releases, advisories, and talking points; tracking news coverage; maintaining press lists; and supporting media briefings and events. The role also helps build relationships with journalists and may require evening or weekend availability during active news cycles.
Acacia Center for Justice
The Communications Associate manages the digital content calendar and creates blogs, videos, and social media content for external and internal audiences. They monitor online engagement, coordinate with vendors and influencers, support narrative and storytelling work at events, and provide research and administrative support to the communications team.
National Association of Counties
The Program Associate works with the center director to research public-lands policy, analyze government datasets, and translate findings into reports, explainers, dashboards, and digital content. They also support county-official training curriculum, conferences and roundtables, video production, fundraising coordination, and general center operations.
All In Energy
The Data & IT Coordinator maintains data infrastructure and technical tools supporting energy programs across Massachusetts. Responsibilities include quality-checking imports and exports, producing program reports, cleaning and uploading data, supporting Salesforce, creating web forms and scripts, and providing basic IT and server support. The role also documents systems and collaborates with staff and external partners to resolve data and technology needs.
Posse
The HR Coordinator provides administrative support across the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding through benefits, leave administration, payroll support, and offboarding. The role maintains employee records, coordinates open enrollment and vendor communications, answers HR questions, and assists the AVP of Human Resources with projects.
Save the Children
The Program Aide supports infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children through classroom activities, relationship-building, and daily center operations. Duties may also include substitute classroom coverage, bus monitoring, custodial tasks, kitchen and food-service support, and participation in family and staff activities.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
This role recruits, trains, and manages volunteers in assigned Pennsylvania turfs while building an active online organizing community. Responsibilities include phonebanking and other voter-contact work, managing dialer and texting tools, tracking engagement data, and leading online trainings and events.
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity
The Program Advocate delivers survivor-centered support and advocacy within a shelter program and coordinates services with external systems. The role also provides backup coverage across hotline, outreach, legal advocacy, family support, and general advocacy services.
Runwise
The Customer Success Associate supports Customer Success Managers with customer accounts and helps property managers, supers, and owners use the platform effectively. Responsibilities include preparing savings reports, reviewing customer data and dashboards for trends or issues, maintaining CRM data, and engaging customers to increase product adoption. The role also coordinates across teams and escalates risks that could affect customer savings or goals.
Maryland Center for Legal Assistance LLC
The Administrative Assistant supports daily operations at a family-law help center serving civil litigants. Responsibilities include visitor intake, phone routing, data entry, filing, calendar updates, supply ordering, report generation, and coordination of HR and IT paperwork. The role also provides administrative support to the leadership team and staff attorneys.
Mi Familia Vota / Mi Familia en Acción
The Canvas Lead oversees daily field operations for a team of 4–5 canvassers engaging Latino community members around voter registration, voter education, vote by mail, and turnout. They assign turf, train and motivate staff, review and enter canvassing data, organize materials, submit nightly reports, and drive the team as needed.
EMERGE Scholars
The Event Operations Manager turns established event strategies and production plans into detailed, reliable execution for events and multi-day scholar travel experiences. Responsibilities include managing workplans, budgets, venues, transportation, registration, vendors, materials, staffing, inventory, and on-site event operations. The role also maintains event systems and templates, reconciles expenses, leads debriefs, and partners with program, development, finance, and operations teams.
Urban Justice Center
The Community Organizer recruits and develops street-vendor members through direct outreach, intake, one-on-one conversations, and regular membership and committee meetings. They facilitate political education and leadership-development activities, maintain member-participation data, build alliances with community organizations, and engage members in legislative campaigns. The organizer collaborates with the Lead Organizer on strategy and work plans in a flexible small-organization environment.
Posse Foundation
The Program Coordinator serves as primary administrative support for the Boston site, managing student nominations, interview schedules, records, calendars, supplies, communications, and visitor support. The role also coordinates recruitment and training logistics, special events, volunteer organization, travel, student-data collection, and reporting support.
American Library Association
The Program Coordinator provides shared administrative support for programs, projects, member engagement, governance, awards, scholarships, and grants across two library-service divisions. The position coordinates committee and board logistics, responds to members, maintains program records, tracks deadlines, and helps deliver virtual and in-person awards programming and ceremonies.