Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
AARP
The intern will support enhancements to AI/ML and agentic personalization capabilities across digital channels. Responsibilities include reviewing content recommendations, analyzing web, app, and email engagement, evaluating content relevance and audience alignment, supporting experiments, and preparing insights, presentations, and documentation.
AARP
The intern will support the West Virginia team’s communications, community outreach, policy promotion, and event planning related to caregiving, broadband, fraud prevention, and financial security. Responsibilities include policy research, communications tactics, social media, team strategy discussions, and logistical support for virtual and in-person events.
AARP
The intern will support advocacy campaigns involving voter engagement, Social Security, caregiving, prescription drugs, and other policy priorities. Responsibilities include drafting text messages and other communications, supporting reporting and presentations, improving activist email-response processes, assisting with Mobilize America, and contributing to email, direct-mail, fundraising, and special projects.
AARP
The intern will support AARP Delaware’s communications, volunteer engagement, and community outreach concerning issues affecting older adults. Responsibilities include creating social and video content, drafting and proofreading communications, coordinating virtual and in-person events, maintaining schedules, and posting events to organizational platforms.
Powered by People
The intern will organize on campus during the 2026 summer and fall semesters, including booking tabling spaces, working two to three tabling shifts weekly, registering and engaging voters, and potentially helping establish a student chapter. They will also complete training, report metrics through weekly check-ins, and support other regional organizing activities as needed.
Powered by People
The Organizer will lead regional voter-registration and volunteer-engagement programs across Texas, including on college campuses. Responsibilities include recruiting and training volunteers and interns, hosting events, conducting digital outreach, maintaining voter relationships, and tracking weekly performance metrics.
Bread for the World
This two-year, early-career fellowship supports federal advocacy on international development, global health, nutrition, food security, and humanitarian assistance. The fellow will research policy, monitor federal action, prepare advocacy materials, coordinate meetings, participate in coalitions, and build relationships with Congress, executive agencies, and partner organizations, potentially as a registered lobbyist.
Power California
The Canvasser will engage community members using campaign scripts through door-to-door outreach, classroom presentations, tabling, events, phone banking, and texting. The role supports voter registration and mobilization, volunteer recruitment, youth leadership development, campaign events, and daily reporting of voter contact data.
Blessings in a Backpack
The Chapter Associate supports the Southwest Florida Chapter’s fundraising strategy by helping execute development initiatives, manage donor relationships, and support revenue-generating events. The role includes donor stewardship, grant and sponsorship support, donor communications, event coordination, database management, and operational support aligned with program needs.
South Asian Youth Action
The Mentor will support elementary school youth at PS 69 in Jackson Heights by creating a safe, structured, and engaging after-school environment. Responsibilities include planning and leading age-appropriate activities, helping with homework, supervising students during program activities and transitions, supporting positive behavior, and building caring relationships with youth and families.
Jon Ossoff for Senate
The Recruitment Manager will help the campaign meet volunteer and paid participant recruitment goals by developing plans, tracking progress, and reporting results. They will manage fellows and volunteers, support campaign presence at events, conduct recruitment phonebanks, and represent the campaign at public events as needed, including some evenings and weekends.
Jon Ossoff for Senate
The Training Manager will design and deliver training sessions and materials for volunteers, student groups, and paid organizers. The role includes managing RSVPs and attendance, hosting office hours, supporting tabling and recruitment events, and representing the campaign externally. The position requires flexibility, statewide travel, and some evening and weekend work as needed.
SEIU
This 12-month Organizer-in-Training program prepares participants for labor organizing careers by placing them on union organizing campaigns and training them in the fundamentals of helping non-union workers build power. Responsibilities include outreach, one-on-one worker engagement, leadership identification and development, meetings, mobilization, and planning actions and events.
Hamkae Center
The Field Coordinator develops and implements year-round voter engagement and organizing projects in Virginia’s Asian American communities. The role manages canvassers and volunteers, creates multilingual educational materials, supports voter outreach campaigns, coordinates with coalitions, and helps strengthen civic engagement programs.
Hamkae Center
Part-time canvassers will educate voters about the November 2026 General Election through door-to-door conversations in and around Fairfax, Virginia. The role includes sharing voting information and deadlines, entering voter contact data accurately, completing reports, attending training, and representing the organization professionally during the civic engagement campaign.
MiracleFeet
The Administrative Coordinator supports daily operations and administrative processes across the organization, with key support for Development & Communications and administrative teams. Responsibilities include procurement, inventory and vendor management, mail and check processing, donor recognition gifts, promotional materials, event logistics, and general office support.
Greenlight America
The Communications Senior Associate supports communications and campaign work through online research, social listening, and content creation. The role develops campaign materials such as talking points, fact sheets, op-eds, social media posts, presentations, and volunteer resources while collaborating with communications and campaigns staff.
Chinese-American Planning Council
The Administrative Assistant will support afterschool programs at PS 160 or PS 255 in Brooklyn by coordinating office operations, maintaining program documentation, and supporting staff and families. Responsibilities include managing registration and attendance systems, preparing correspondence and reports, tracking expenditures, maintaining files and supplies, and serving as a liaison with finance and program staff.
The Door
The Per Diem Overnight Youth Counselor supports the Runaway and Homeless Youth program at a 24-hour drop-in center. The role ensures homeless and unstably housed youth have access to basic needs such as food, clothing, hygiene, rest, and safety during overnight hours, while providing crisis intervention and documentation as needed.
The Door
The Teaching Artist will design and lead creative and educational workshops and activities for youth in afternoon and evening programming. The role includes developing curriculum, facilitating arts, wellness, recreation, and community-building activities, supporting showcases, supervising participants, and connecting young people to additional services.
Youth Guidance
The Program Instructor facilitates before- and after-school programming and provides direct supervision for students at Carver Elementary School. The role includes supporting curriculum and lesson planning, helping students with homework and projects, maintaining behavioral expectations, communicating with parents, and assisting with program promotion and school-day support.
Food & Water Watch
This part-time organizer will help grow volunteer and ally networks in New Mexico and advance statewide campaigns, especially around factory farms and data center development. The role includes campaign planning and execution, volunteer leadership development, coalition work, public representation, and use of digital organizing tools.
FAR.AI
This is a hands-on generalist operations role supporting the Business Operations Manager and COO across finance, compliance, HR, IT, events, and coworking space operations. The associate will own recurring operational processes, triage internal requests, coordinate vendors and equipment, and take on special projects as the organization scales rapidly.
PEN America
This role provides primary administrative, logistical, and strategic support for the Board of Trustees and its committees, serving as a key liaison among board members, senior leadership, and executive staff. The position manages board scheduling, meeting preparation, records, communications, and governance documentation while also assisting with executive office needs and special projects.