Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Organize Pennsylvania
This temporary, onsite position supports progressive candidates during the primary election season. Canvassers knock on doors, conduct outreach in high-traffic areas, attend community events, and talk with or register voters.
Nonprofit Finance Fund
The Initiative Support Associate coordinates consulting projects by maintaining plans, timelines, trackers, documentation, meeting materials, invoicing processes, and client-facing deliverables. The role also manages Salesforce records; researches and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information; supports workshops and events; and identifies practices that improve future engagements.
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
This field organizer will support higher-education organizing campaigns and help newly organized workplaces secure first contracts. Day-to-day work includes developing workplace leaders, training members and stewards, leading negotiations, assisting with grievances and arbitrations, and building escalating workplace, coalition, and political-action campaigns.
IGNITE
The Operations Coordinator provides broad administrative support across finance, development, programs, HR, and technology for a lean national nonprofit. Responsibilities include coordinating logistics, managing records and vendor invoices, processing donor and financial transactions, supporting onboarding and payroll documentation, maintaining HubSpot data, and improving operational workflows.
Atlantic Council
The Program Assistant provides operational, research, and logistical support for a nuclear energy policy initiative. Responsibilities include coordinating events, managing schedules and travel, drafting and editing correspondence and briefing materials, maintaining records, and researching policy developments and stakeholders. The role also serves as a liaison with government officials, diplomats, business leaders, and internal teams.
Bread for the City
The Diaper & Client Engagement Coordinator operates the diaper program and baby pantry, including inventory, distributions, documentation, referrals, reporting, and community partnerships. Based primarily at the Southeast center, the role also opens the facility, welcomes and triages clients, manages reception and building operations, connects visitors to resources, and supports outreach events.
New York Immigration Coalition
This role supports the Community Engagement team’s immigrant-community outreach, Know Your Rights education, and events across New York State. The associate manages event data, grant-reporting and administrative systems, develops and distributes community resources, coordinates material inventory and shipments, and helps lead workshops and community events.
GreenLight Fund
The Operations Coordinator supports GreenLight Fund Boston’s daily administration, scheduling, financial tracking, systems, workflows, and event logistics, with approximately 80% of the role focused on operations. The remaining work includes program meeting preparation, donor database management and communications, grant support, digital communications, and investor engagement.
Children's Aid
Provide clerical, data-entry, recordkeeping, and front-office support for an Early Childhood Division, reporting to the Program Director. The role maintains child and family records, attendance, health, screening, and family-engagement data; assists families and staff; and supports compliance with Head Start, NYC DOHMH, and funding requirements.
Children’s Aid
Support daily operations at a school-based health center by greeting and registering patients, scheduling appointments, maintaining electronic health records, managing documentation, and helping patient flow. The role also provides clerical and supply support, participates in outreach events, and may assist with first aid, patient preparation, and vital signs when trained and needed.
American Institutes for Research
Support development, quality review, and coordination for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and related assessment partnerships. Duties include reviewing assessment and survey materials, analyzing feedback and item documentation, conducting platform UX and content-quality reviews, supporting assessment operations, and preparing presentations and summaries. The role also manages partnership outreach, records, and follow-up; occasional local in-person observation of trainings or assessment activities may be needed.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Manage full-cycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt roles, from intake, sourcing, screening, and interviews through offers and pre-employment activities. Partner with hiring managers, build diverse talent pipelines, manage early-career programs, and use recruiting metrics to improve hiring outcomes. The specialist will also support cross-functional talent-acquisition projects involving ATS operations, reporting, employer branding, and candidate experience.
Children's Aid
Manage fiscal, business, and administrative operations for the Whitney Young Jr. campus, including bookkeeping, budget tracking, payroll and personnel documentation, purchasing, records, and audit preparation. The role also coordinates site events, maintains staff schedules and office operations, serves as a liaison to central fiscal and HR teams, and provides occasional receptionist backup.
Talarico for Texas
The Volunteer & Events Associate will help run the campaign's public events program, coordinate event logistics, train and support volunteers, manage general inboxes, and maintain a positive attendee experience. The role also supports organizing functions including voter contact, volunteer recruitment, and ongoing engagement.
Mothership Strategies
Lead the day-to-day operations, strategy, staffing, and workflow for a digital fundraising team serving political and advocacy clients. Manage staff development and performance, set fundraising projections and spending recommendations, monitor program performance, oversee client relationships and onboarding, and lead rapid-response fundraising execution.
CHIRLA
The Statewide Climate Justice Organizer will build and retain a statewide base of climate-impacted immigrant community members and lead climate-justice organizing, education, and advocacy efforts. The role coordinates meetings, workshops, leadership development, coalition partnerships, member mobilizations, campaign research, media strategy, and statewide advocacy actions in collaboration with internal policy, organizing, political, and communications teams.
Aspen Institute
Support the Financial Security Program’s finance and operations team through accounts payable and receivable, expense tracking, budgeting, forecasting, financial records, and closeout activities. The role also provides office, administrative, systems, grant, fundraising, and CRM support, including maintaining files, coordinating meetings, tracking grant expenditures, and improving operational processes.
The Aspen Institute
This coordinator supports Aspen Digital’s Cybersecurity Program through executive support for the Senior Director and operational coordination across cybersecurity policy convenings, projects, and stakeholder relationships. Responsibilities include calendar and travel management, briefing preparation, communications and CRM upkeep, event logistics, payment processing, records management, and improving team systems.
ASPCA
Support donors and members through phone, email, text, and other channels, answering questions, processing account and donation-related requests, resolving concerns, and following up to deliver a strong supporter experience. Maintain accurate confidential case records, meet service, quality, and productivity goals, identify recurring issues, and collaborate with the Member Support team to improve donor retention and engagement.
ProgressNow
The Operations Coordinator manages core administrative, finance, HR, compliance, travel, and event logistics for the national organization. Responsibilities include payroll, accounts payable and receivable, credit-card reconciliation, cost-sharing support for month-end close, vendor contracts and 1099s, employee onboarding and records, compliance deadlines, and logistics for conferences, meetings, and staff retreats.
10,000 Degrees
The College & Career Fellow provides direct college and career advising to students and families, including financial-aid guidance, application support, degree planning, workshops, and curriculum delivery. The fellow manages a student caseload, builds relationships with schools and community partners, tracks program data, and represents the organization at events. This is a three-year fellowship with professional-development support.
Columbia Basin Health Association
Coordinates early-intervention eligibility, assessments, Individual Family Service Plans, referrals, and service delivery for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or special healthcare needs and their families. The coordinator serves as a primary family contact, collaborates with providers and school districts, conducts home visits and travel to remote clinics as needed, and maintains required case documentation.
Reproductive Freedom for All
The Northern California Organizer will recruit, train, and mobilize Bay Area and Northern California members and volunteers to support reproductive-freedom legislation and candidates. The role leads in-person and virtual events, develops volunteer-led Action Councils, supports annual Lobby Day and coalition work, manages organizing data and metrics, and supervises California intern(s).
Children's Aid
The Content Specialist manages and implements high-quality curricula across after-school and summer programs. The role coaches and supervises instructional staff, facilitates planning and professional-learning meetings, observes programming, and uses student work and data to improve instruction. It also serves as a liaison among out-of-school-time programs, schools, and program leadership.