Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
BattleAxe Digital
The Digital Associate builds and manages digital fundraising communications across email, text messaging, ads, and landing pages. Day-to-day work includes coding and quality-checking campaign sends, testing audience targeting and content, analyzing results, reporting to clients and senior staff, and supporting onboarding and content planning.
Campaign Legal Center
The Communications Associate serves as the communications team's lead partner for the Campaign Finance and Ethics portfolio. They develop strategic communications plans; write, edit, and coordinate products such as blogs, press releases, reports, fact sheets, newsletters, and web copy; and help shape messaging on emerging threats to government institutions. They also track relevant federal, state, and local developments and coordinate content review and rollout with program staff.
Think of Us
Support the External Engagement team’s federal and state child-welfare advocacy, coalition building, policy research, and communications. The role coordinates trauma-responsive lived-experience participation; manages policy projects, convenings, events, and stakeholder logistics; and maintains relationships with congressional staff and other partners. It also supports AI-enabled research, knowledge management, and drafting, subject to independent verification and human judgment.
Tech Impact
The Technical Account Manager supports existing managed IT customers by assessing their technology needs, advising on budgets and solutions, and helping clients make business-oriented technology decisions. They manage client communications, support-plan pricing and documentation, CRM records and sales opportunities, and recommendations for hardware, software, and licensing while partnering with customer success, account management, and help desk teams.
Human Rights Campaign
This temporary role supports the Municipal Equality Index team with research, data preparation, database and spreadsheet entry, and creation and maintenance of city scorecards. The employee may correspond with cities, analyze municipal laws and policies, and help publish the Index and coordinate its launch event.
Doris Duke Foundation
The Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator supports the preservation, documentation, access, and presentation of a museum’s objects, archives, galleries, and exhibitions. Daily work includes handling and cataloging objects, managing loans and inventories, monitoring gallery and environmental conditions, coordinating installations, and maintaining collection records. The coordinator also supports digitization, rights and reproductions workflows, procurement, reporting, and cross-functional exhibition projects.
IGNITE
This role supports the delivery, quality, and evaluation of youth leadership, fellowship, internship, campus chapter, and legislative advisory-group programming. It leads civic-engagement training and outreach, supports nonpartisan voter education and GOTV efforts, analyzes participation and voter data, and builds relationships with community partners, legislative staff, and elected officials.
Brilliant Detroit
This part-time, in-person coordinator serves as a welcoming frontline contact for families, guiding intake, answering questions, providing referrals, and helping participants navigate programs and technology. The coordinator conducts outreach and recruitment, tracks participant data and reports, supports play groups and listening sessions, and helps maintain an organized, family-friendly center.
Brilliant Detroit
The Community Engagement Coordinator welcomes families, completes intakes, provides resource referrals, and answers participant questions at a neighborhood family center. They conduct outreach and recruitment, enter program data, support meetings and listening sessions, and help lead Play and Learn groups. The role also includes light site upkeep, snack preparation, and logistical support for programs.
The DART Center
This entry-level organizer will spend most of their time building one-on-one relationships with people of faith and helping them develop into community leaders. They will research local issues, recruit congregations, organize trainings and large direct-action assemblies, and help run an annual fundraising drive.
USA for UNFPA
The Data Intern will help create and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and KPI visualizations that support data-informed decision-making. They will work with the database manager and internal stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models and reporting solutions, while assisting with data cleanup, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
All on the Field
The Quality Control Associate splits time between auditing canvasser shift data and making daily verification calls to voters. They manage the audit pipeline for assigned districts, coordinate work across QC teammates, maintain quality records, escalate suspected fraud, and produce regular performance reporting.
All on the Field
The Canvasser conducts door-to-door outreach to educate residents about candidates, initiatives, or ballot measures and collect complete voter surveys. They record interactions in MiniVAN, deliver GOTV information such as voting locations and deadlines, and follow campaign safety and reporting protocols.
All on the Field
The intern supports the daily operations and quality-control systems behind active canvassing programs. Responsibilities include scheduling and tracking applicants, coordinating materials, verifying voter-contact data by phone, maintaining audit records, cleaning data, and preparing routine program reports.
Clean Water Action
This part-time evening organizer builds public support for environmental campaigns by collecting e-signatures, encouraging calls to lawmakers, and raising funds. The organizer will communicate directly with members, maintain accurate outreach records, and contribute to a motivated campaign team.
Equal Justice Works
The Development Coordinator supports donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship for individual, foundation, and corporate funders. The role maintains prospect pipelines and constituent data in the CRM, conducts prospect research and data-quality checks, and produces fundraising reports and donor-facing materials. It also supports grant applications, online donor engagement, and team training on CRM practices.
American Association for Justice
The coordinator helps plan and deliver in-person and virtual educational programming for members and legal professionals. Responsibilities include managing registrations and program webpages, communicating with faculty and attendees, preparing reports and materials, maintaining online learning content, and coordinating program logistics before, during, and after events.
Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The HR Assistant provides administrative and operational support across recruitment, onboarding, employee records, benefits, compliance, and employee relations. Day-to-day work includes maintaining HRMS data, collecting new-hire documents, answering staff questions, supporting audits and training processes, and assisting with recruitment events and HR communications.
Clean Water Action
This organizer will conduct field canvassing and fundraising while helping Michigan communities engage on environmental and public-health issues related to data center development. Responsibilities include helping residents contact lawmakers, identifying volunteers, and joining occasional advocacy events such as press conferences and lobby days.
Clean Water Action
This full-time, in-person organizer will help build support for a statewide moratorium on data-center construction in Michigan. Day-to-day work includes canvassing and fundraising with a field team, helping residents contact lawmakers, recruiting volunteers, and participating in occasional press conferences, lobby days, and community events.
Posse Foundation
The Trainer recruits and supports Posse Scholars from high school selection through college graduation. Responsibilities include outreach to schools and community organizations, interviewing applicants, facilitating weekly pre-collegiate workshops, and helping students navigate college applications. The role also involves campus visits, academic-progress tracking, retention planning, and collaboration with college-based mentors.
Posse Foundation
The Program Coordinator serves as the primary administrative support for the San Francisco site, managing recruitment nominations, interview schedules, student information, and volunteer logistics. They also coordinate training and campus-program events, maintain student data and reports, arrange travel and supplies, and handle day-to-day office administration.
Southern Office of The Council of State Governments (CSG South)
The Programs Associate coordinates leadership-development programs, legislative staff initiatives, webinars, member engagement, and assigned conference programming. Responsibilities include participant and presenter communications, application processes, curricula and online learning portal maintenance, evaluations, records management, and collaboration with events and communications teams.
North Carolina Asian Americans Together
The Community Engagement Coordinator supports day-to-day community programming, including workshops, Know Your Rights clinics, community gatherings, and large events. The role conducts outreach, supports volunteers, maintains constituent and event data in EveryAction, attends coalition meetings, and coordinates with internal teams to strengthen membership and community participation.