Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Bread for the World
The intern gathers, cleans, validates, analyzes, and visualizes public data on food insecurity, nutrition, health, demographics, and public programs. They support Tableau dashboards, state factsheets, grant reporting, and program evaluation while maintaining accurate constituent records, imports, and data-quality processes in Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This nine-week hybrid summer internship supports projects in economic research, economic education, or digital history and archives. Interns may analyze macroeconomic data, create charts and reports, develop K–12 economic education materials, research historical documents, or build content for an economics and finance archive.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This 12-week internship supports communications and external-engagement work, including event planning, stakeholder outreach, media-list research, and database maintenance. The intern will also help develop and evaluate social-media and storytelling content, including visibility work for the Economy Museum and AI-supported communications efforts.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
This intern will support the operations of a research-and-development team focused on the future of money and payments. Responsibilities include coordinating with Legal, Audit, Finance, and Procurement; identifying risks and process improvements; creating reports for leadership; and supporting agile planning and delivery.
Milken Institute
The intern will support a business and program development team by researching prospective partners, building engagement strategies, managing outreach data, and helping maintain stakeholder relationships. The position also collaborates with events, programs, and communications colleagues and may provide local event support.
Interactive Strategies
The intern will help audit and organize website content, draft and edit copy, support content mapping, and maintain project documentation in content-management and workflow systems. They will contribute to research, workshops, and client materials while learning from senior content strategists and cross-functional agency teams.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
The fellow supports grant programs and business-development initiatives that help Massachusetts researchers and startups commercialize clean-energy technologies. Responsibilities include maintaining program databases, reviewing proposals and invoices, tracking awardee metrics, conducting market research, drafting communications and reports, responding to inquiries, and supporting meetings and events.
Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
The intern will create and edit visual materials for print and digital channels, including policy briefs, reports, social-media graphics, presentations, and web assets. They will maintain brand consistency, organize design files, participate in concept development, and incorporate feedback from staff across the organization.
Humane World for Animals
This remote intern supports the Media Relations team’s communications campaigns and earned-media efforts. Responsibilities include tracking coverage, researching reporters, drafting and distributing press materials and social content, collecting media-reach data, and proofreading the CEO’s blog.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF
The intern will assist the Advocacy Department with legislative, administrative, and community-engagement campaigns across civil-rights issue areas. Responsibilities include researching laws and proposed amendments, drafting comments and policy memos, supporting workshops and coalition meetings, identifying partners, and coordinating with communications staff.
Election Reformers Network
This part-time intern supports research, communications, and policy work focused on election administration and democratic reform. Day-to-day work includes policy research, tracking media and legislative developments, drafting written materials, and organizing research resources.
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.
AARP
This intern will help advance advocacy communications through media relations work focused on caregiving, health and welfare, and prescription drug issues. Responsibilities include policy research, drafting support materials, contributing to communications strategy, supporting media events, and designing post-campaign PowerPoint reports.
American Clean Power Association
The intern supports pre-conference planning for large industry events, with work spanning exhibitor and sponsor fulfillment, sales outreach, and event administration. Responsibilities include reviewing booth-design submissions, responding to partner inquiries, maintaining CRM and project records, conducting prospect research, and tracking follow-up communications.
Milken Institute
The intern will maintain relationship and prospect data, research target industries and prospective partners, and support day-to-day operations for the Miami office. They will help the business and program development team cultivate its network and may assist with local events and cross-functional work with communications, programs, and events teams.
Better Markets
The Communications Intern will create graphics and draft blog posts, press releases, newsletters, and fact sheets for a busy communications office. They will maintain social media and website content, research media opportunities, track press coverage, and support press engagement and database management.
Bantam Communications
This intern provides flexible support across campaign, advocacy, research, and communications workstreams. Responsibilities include researching policy, stakeholders, opposition, public opinion, and media; drafting and editing materials; supporting meetings and follow-up; and helping coordinate tasks, timelines, processes, and workflows.
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.
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.
iMentor
The Program Fellow assists high school program managers with class preparation, monthly mentoring events, participant communications, and attendee confirmation. They provide frontline support to mentors and students, escalate concerns as needed, and may assist with recruitment and other initiatives. The position combines remote work with in-person event support and includes ongoing training.
ACLU of Florida
The Field Intern will support the Orlando organizing team in recruiting and engaging volunteers, tabling at community and campus events, conducting outreach, and helping run trainings and actions. Day-to-day work includes phone and text banking, canvassing, maintaining volunteer relationships, entering data, creating flyers and presentations, and assisting with research and local communications.
ACLU Foundation of Florida
The Miami Field Intern supports grassroots organizing and volunteer leadership development across civil-liberties campaigns. Day-to-day work includes community and campus outreach, protests and legal-observing support, Know Your Rights trainings, canvassing, phone and text banking, event support, data entry, and creation of flyers and digital content.
Rising Voices
The intern will help coordinate community engagement activities, including tabling, outreach, signature drives, and monthly membership meetings. They will support organizing campaigns, member recruitment, college-based voter outreach, and community canvasses while learning grassroots advocacy tools.