Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
ACLU of Florida
The Field Organizer will mobilize supporters, volunteers, and voters in Miami-Dade and surrounding counties to build power around ACLU of Florida campaign priorities, with a strong focus on immigrant justice. Responsibilities include organizing volunteer-led teams, leading trainings, supporting community events and rallies, coordinating phone banks and canvasses, developing advocacy materials, and tracking field progress toward campaign goals.
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.
Elevate
The Coordinator, Contractor Development supports clean energy workforce and contractor training programs focused on increasing participation among trainees and small businesses historically marginalized in the energy sector and building trades. The role involves outreach, participant support and case management, event and training coordination, data tracking, and relationship-building with community partners and program participants.
New York Civic Engagement Table
The Data and Training Coordinator supports partner organizations in using data and digital tools for civic engagement work. The role administers tools such as VAN and outreach platforms, fulfills partner data requests, maintains dashboards and databases, and provides coaching and trainings to build partners’ data capacity.
Jon Ossoff for Senate
The Operations Associate will support the systems, processes, and office infrastructure that campaign staff and volunteers rely on. The role includes office management, supply procurement, onboarding support, communication processes with the Operations Department, and assistance with office programs and campaign events.
Share Our Strength
The Associate, Community Engagement leads social media community engagement strategy, managing real-time audience interactions and helping turn digital platforms into spaces for dialogue, trust-building, and mobilization. The role also supports social content creation, may serve as an on-camera brand voice, and provides audience insights to inform communications, fundraising, and program work.
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.
Council on Foreign Relations
The Research Associate will support the Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy by conducting research and literature reviews, tracking news and data, and assisting with articles, book chapters, web interactives, and other publications. The role also includes administrative support, event coordination, budget and grant tracking, editing and proofreading, and social media outreach.
Council on Foreign Relations
The Program Associate will support a senior fellow focused on South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and China, while also assisting other fellows and programs within the Studies Program. Responsibilities include administrative support, event coordination, financial tracking, website and social media updates, publication preparation, and occasional research.
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.
Atlantic Council
The Program Assistant will provide executive support to the Vice President of Energy and Infrastructure and help manage day-to-day operations for the Global Energy Center. Responsibilities include scheduling, travel coordination, briefing materials, research, drafting, event support, stakeholder liaison work, and maintaining program records and internal processes.
Operation Smile
The Travel Coordinator manages travel logistics for employees, volunteers, and guests, including flights, lodging, ground transportation, and group travel for programs and events. The role ensures compliance with travel policies, monitors itineraries, resolves disruptions, supports travel-related finances, and provides responsive customer service before, during, and after travel.
Science Friday
The Associate Producer will pitch, research, book, produce, and edit one or two 12–17 minute audio segments each week for the daily podcast and weekly radio show. The role involves preparing host materials, writing scripts and web copy, editing audio, collaborating with audience and production teams, and helping translate science news into compelling conversations.
Hanover Research
The Business Development Associate supports sales growth by identifying and engaging senior-level prospects, conducting outreach through calls, email, and social messaging, and helping Sales Directors generate qualified meetings and manage pipelines. The role includes structured training, mentorship, exposure to live sales cycles, and a merit-based path toward promotion in sales or related business roles.
Red Wine & Blue
This role serves as the organization’s field presence in the Philadelphia suburbs, growing supporter networks through community outreach, coalition-building, and events. The organizer will also train local women, track engagement data, manage social media support, and represent the organization in public and media-facing settings.
D.C. Hunger Solutions
This role focuses on increasing participation in SNAP through outreach, case management, education, coalition-building, and policy analysis in Washington, D.C. The associate will support residents directly, build partnerships with community and government stakeholders, and help advance broader anti-hunger strategies across the District.
The Brookings Institution
This role supports the planning and execution of development-led events, including donor gatherings, board meetings, study tours, and virtual programs. The coordinator manages event data and RSVPs, prepares materials and communications, staffs events, and provides administrative support such as scheduling, travel, and expense reporting.
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.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
This role supports implementation of the Women Leaders India Fellowship through administrative, logistical, communications, data, and event coordination work. The assistant will help manage participant engagement, program operations, and virtual and in-person activities while coordinating with U.S.-based staff, India-based partners, trainers, and fellows.
URGE
This role supports and grows campus-based chapters across Texas, develops young leaders, and helps run reproductive justice campaigns at the local, state, and national levels. The organizer also facilitates trainings, builds partnerships and coalitions, recruits members, and deepens engagement through in-person and digital organizing.
URGE
This role leads and expands statewide voter engagement, organizing, and community-building efforts in Alabama as part of the Integrated Voter Engagement team. The coordinator will run year-round education and mobilization campaigns, manage canvassers and campaign data, support Community Action Networks, and represent the organization in coalition spaces.
Make the Road New York
The Immigration Intake Specialist supports the immigration legal team by managing referrals, conducting preliminary client consultations, answering general inquiries, and scheduling appointments. The role also maintains client records and tracks information in databases and grant management systems while helping connect community members to appropriate services.