Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
City of Boston
This one-year rotating fellowship coordinates seasonal and cross-functional youth initiatives, managing timelines, deliverables, documentation, logistics, budgets, and procurement. The fellow will conduct youth outreach and engagement, collaborate with City agencies and community partners, support language-access needs, and may work nights or weekends and travel offsite.
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.
GrowNYC
The Seasonal Greenmarket Site Lead manages day-to-day operations at assigned outdoor farmers markets across New York City, including vendor setup, safety and food-safety compliance, paperwork, customer service, and conflict resolution. The lead also administers SNAP/EBT and other customer transactions, maintains financial records, promotes market programs through outreach and social media, and helps build community partnerships.
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.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia
This internship supports advocacy and organizing teams with digital strategy for campaigns and activist engagement. The intern will create social graphics, copy, and video; manage social channels; and collect and edit event footage with the field team.
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.
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.
9to5
The Revenue Canvasser will support a Colorado 2026 general-election GOTV campaign for progressive statewide revenue measures. Responsibilities include door-to-door voter outreach, tabling, phone and text banking, voter education, contact and membership collection, data entry, and helping turn out supporters for campaign events.
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.
NextGen America
Support a national digital organizing program that recruits, trains, and manages remote volunteers to contact and mobilize voters in key 2026 races. The associate will run P2P texting and other voter-contact campaigns, create volunteer resources, lead trainings, track and report campaign metrics, and manage digital communities.
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.
Ohio Democratic Party
Campus Organizing Fellows will recruit, train, and manage student volunteers to conduct voter outreach and mobilize student voters for the 2026 coordinated campaign. They will build campus partnerships, table and canvass in high-traffic areas, organize campaign events, and register students to vote.