Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Operation Restoration
The Communications Coordinator executes approved digital, written, media, and event communications while maintaining brand standards and established workflows. Responsibilities include managing social and website content, drafting newsletters and press materials, creating basic graphics and short videos, coordinating media support, and compiling monthly performance analytics.
Ducks Unlimited
Lead and expand youth engagement programming across the 13-state Region 6 territory. The coordinator will grow high-school Varsity and collegiate participation, promote youth shooting sports, hunting, and R3 initiatives, recruit chapters and volunteers, and maintain relationships with state youth engagement leaders and partner organizations.
IREX
The Program Associate provides hands-on operational and administrative support for donor-funded programs, including travel, event logistics, systems, research, records, and participant communications. They support partner and participant recruitment and engagement, maintain program, financial, procurement, and compliance records, and assist with reports, presentations, newsletters, grants, payments, and vendor coordination. The role also contributes to proposal development, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with finance, events, and communications teams.
California Immigrant Policy Center
Support statewide legislative, budget, and administrative advocacy efforts focused on immigrant communities. Track and analyze bills, budgets, amendments, hearings, and political developments; draft advocacy materials; coordinate campaigns and coalitions; and represent the organization with legislative offices, agencies, and partners. The role includes regular in-person work at the Sacramento office and State Capitol, with occasional evening, weekend, and California travel requirements.
Glen Echo Group
The Associate will support integrated communications campaigns and client relationships for technology and innovation-focused clients. Responsibilities include developing strategic messaging and media materials, building relationships with national, political, technology, and trade reporters, tracking coverage, and using communications data and social tools to inform client service.
United Way Forsyth County
This role manages fundraising data, donor systems, campaign operations, and reporting, with 75% of responsibilities centered on Andar/ePledge, GiveSmart, data integrity, reconciliations, segmentation, and direct-mail/digital campaign execution. The remaining 25% provides administrative and event support, including calendar coordination, meeting logistics, campaign-material inventory, reports, and stakeholder communication.
Council on Foreign Relations
Support the Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics through research on sanctions, export controls, industrial policy, trade, finance, and economic statecraft. The role also handles editing, event and travel logistics, correspondence, budget tracking, social media and publication support, and administrative assistance across the program.
Blue Haven Initiative
The Civics Associate will support and increasingly lead policy, advocacy, and political projects from research and stakeholder mapping through execution and relationship management. Responsibilities include drafting briefs and fundraising materials, conducting prospect research, maintaining stakeholder and CRM systems, managing an internship program, and helping improve team operations and technology workflows.
Middle Seat
The Accounting Associate supports daily transactional accounting and general ledger operations, reporting to the Finance Director. Responsibilities include accounts payable and receivable, payroll entries, account reconciliations, month-end close, vendor management, financial reporting support, budgeting, and accounting-process improvements.
SAGE
The Program Operations Coordinator provides administrative, operational, data, budget, and event support for SAGEServes programming for LGBTQ+ older adults, primarily with the Special Programs team. Responsibilities include coordinating events and participant outreach, supporting grant reporting and financial tracking, maintaining program data, assisting with hiring and onboarding, and staffing participant referrals and intake as needed.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
This early-career role supports external communications and development operations, with work split approximately 60% communications, 30% development, and 10% team support. Responsibilities include coordinating blog publishing, email and social campaigns, research launches, and performance analytics; drafting grant proposals and funder communications; maintaining Salesforce records; and helping with conferences and programs.
Atlantic Council
Supports the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s events, projects, partnerships, communications, research, and program operations. Responsibilities include planning public and private in-person and virtual events, assisting with Europe travel and workshops, maintaining contacts and project records, drafting memos, monitoring news, and supporting publications, social media, fundraising, and financial administration.
Atlantic Council
Supports the Europe Center’s policy, event, and administrative work, including organizing public and private engagements in the United States and abroad. The assistant conducts research, drafts correspondence and briefings, tracks projects and donor relationships, coordinates travel and stakeholders, and provides calendar and administrative support to the Senior Director.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
This logistics-focused role splits time equally between Crisis Response and Mothers' Call, a Palestinian-Israeli women-led peace movement. The assistant coordinates international travel, events and convenings, schedules, vendor and payment processes, documentation, and secure case records, while supporting crisis-response planning and operations.
Whiteboard Advisors
The Associate will manage a portfolio of 5–7 clients and collaborate with senior staff on communications strategies for K–12 and higher-education issues. Responsibilities include drafting press materials and thought leadership, pitching and building relationships with reporters, researching issues, developing story angles, and managing client meetings and deliverables.
The Wisco Project
Campus Organizers will mobilize college students across Wisconsin for the 2026 election cycle. They will build campus relationships, recruit and manage student volunteers and fellows, conduct voter outreach through canvassing, tabling, texting, and phone banking, and support student-led events.
All on the Field
The Field Operations / Program Associate will turn field-team data into standardized reporting and actionable summaries for leadership. The role also leads onboarding and training coordination for field staff and canvassers, while supporting scheduling, follow-up, and other program-management needs.
Jakara Movement
The Community Youth Organizer will recruit, train, mentor, and retain youth volunteers across San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Merced Counties. They will build school clubs and partnerships, lead youth organizing and civic-engagement campaigns, support youth educational opportunities, develop workshops and communications, and work with local institutions and public officials to build youth power.
Michigan FIRE Action
The Community Coordinator conducts campus and community outreach to engage young people in civic education, elections, and issue-based organizing. The role includes canvassing and tabling, relational one-on-one outreach, attending student and community events, recruiting for and coordinating events, maintaining social media, and supporting data entry.
Defenders of Wildlife
The Coordinator supports a fast-paced Government Relations department through administrative coordination, legislative and agency tracking, research, communications, event planning, and advocacy support. They will lead preparation of federal lobbying disclosure reports, assist with lobbying and grassroots campaigns, coordinate the annual legislative conservation report card, and serve as a liaison with partners, members, and the public.
Zeta Charter Schools
Coordinate employee onboarding and provide responsive support to staff navigating People Operations processes. Partner across internal teams and external vendors, manage tickets and workflow tracking, and identify improvements to employee communications, resources, and systems.
Foundation for California Community Colleges
The Senior Coordinator supports Workforce Development Department grant-administration projects that distribute funding on behalf of state and local partners. Responsibilities include validating grant data, coordinating contracts and communications with grantees and payment recipients, maintaining records and shared inboxes, and supporting project-management activities for large-scale initiatives.
Children's Aid
Manage administrative, financial, personnel, payroll, purchasing, inventory, office-support, and compliance systems for the P.S. 8 community school. The role supports the Community School Director and program managers, supervises office support staff, coordinates with school personnel on facilities needs, and helps maintain accurate, timely operations for a site employing about 70 people.
Children's Aid
The Policy & Advocacy Associate supports the Fostering Youth Success Alliance’s statewide efforts to improve outcomes for current and former foster youth in New York. The role coordinates coalition operations, advocacy campaigns, events, stakeholder engagement, communications, policy research, youth advocate cohort check-ins, and government-relations logistics.