Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Greenlight America
This role supports the Industry Engagement team by creating developer-facing content, synthesizing campaign lessons, and building resources that improve how the clean energy industry engages with communities. The position also helps maintain internal systems, coordinate across teams, and support webinars, events, trainings, and thought leadership efforts.
Communities Unlimited
This role provides onsite technical assistance and training to rural communities and small water or wastewater systems facing operational and infrastructure challenges. The consultant manages multiple community engagements, prepares technical and project documentation, and builds relationships with public stakeholders while working largely from home in the Tuscaloosa area.
ACLU of Oregon
The Administrative Associate provides broad administrative support to the Executive Director, Deputy Director, Policy Director, and other teams across the organization. Responsibilities include scheduling, travel coordination, meeting support, document editing, recordkeeping, office operations, mail handling, and event and board support, with heavier policy support during legislative sessions.
California Immigrant Policy Center
This role supports the organization’s day-to-day operations by coordinating meetings and events, maintaining Fresno and Sacramento office spaces, managing vendors and supplies, and assisting with travel, technology, and administrative systems. It also supports workplace culture, fundraising logistics, and compliance-related operational tasks so staff can effectively carry out mission-driven work.
California Immigrant Policy Center
This role leads creation of digital content across social media, email, and related platforms to grow supporter engagement, mobilize advocacy action, and support fundraising. The specialist works across communications, organizing, policy, and development teams to produce timely, values-driven content and use performance data to refine strategy.
Four Lions Media
This role produces and posts day-to-day digital content across channels including social media, email, SMS, blogs, simple graphics, and light video. The position also supports content calendars, quality control, reporting, and administrative systems that keep multiple client workstreams moving efficiently.
Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality
The Finance Coordinator supports financial operations with a focus on accounts receivable, donor and deposit tracking, contract invoicing, and fund accounting support. The role also helps maintain financial records, communicate revenue information internally, and support the monthly close process.
Openhouse
This role supports and helps run programs for transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex older adults and adults with disabilities, including support groups, events, outreach, referrals, and participant engagement. The specialist also handles participant documentation, data entry, evaluations, and coordination with partners while working mostly on-site with some evening and weekend responsibilities.
Siegel Family Endowment
This role supports the foundation’s research team in developing research agendas, managing projects, synthesizing findings, and sharing insights with internal and external audiences. The associate will also work across research, grantmaking, and partner relationships to inform strategy and support work on emerging technologies such as generative AI and social media.
National Governors Association
This role supports governors and senior state policymakers on public safety and criminal justice issues, including criminal justice reform, pretrial, reentry, corrections, justice planning, state-local partnerships, and opioid and drug policy. The analyst will provide technical assistance, organize learning events, develop policy materials, and build relationships with high-level stakeholders.
Urban Justice Center
This role serves as the primary point of contact for people seeking services from the Mental Health Project. The Intake Coordinator screens and assesses prospective clients, manages intake records and waitlists, coordinates referrals, supports Medicaid and SSI-related processes, and occasionally presents at community events and handles limited client cases.
Panterra
This role leads the in-house processing of survey data for opinion research projects, handling data cleaning, weighting, crosstabs, tabulation, quality assurance, and statistical analysis. The position also helps build internal systems and automation to improve speed, consistency, and reduce reliance on outside data-processing vendors while collaborating closely with research staff on client deliverables.
DREAM
This role supports DREAM alumni who are enrolled in college by providing advising, mentoring, re-enrollment support, and career and social-emotional guidance. The counselor manages a caseload of about 100 students, tracks progress in Salesforce, collaborates on events, and builds relationships with both high school staff and college partners.
Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon
This role manages and grows a portfolio of mid-level and major donors, foundations, and other funders to help meet fundraising goals. It focuses on donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, proposal writing, community representation, and coordination with development staff and national partners.
Authentic
Support paid media client accounts by writing and QA’ing high volumes of fundraising and persuasion ad copy (P2P texts, Meta ads, Google Search) and helping execute digital advertising strategy. You’ll assist with campaign setup in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads, contribute creative concepts and scripts, and support optimization and rapid-response content as news breaks. The role also provides short-term coverage for client communications needs, including meetings and follow-ups.
Minnesota House DFL
Field Organizers (multiple hires) will run core field operations in assigned Minnesota House districts for the 2026 cycle, reporting to a Regional Field Director. The role focuses on direct voter contact (doors/phones), volunteer recruitment and management, and coordination with candidates, caucus staff, and partner organizations to hit program goals and deadlines.
Working America
This confidential, fixed-term HR Assistant role provides administrative support across core HR operations. The position supports onboarding/offboarding, employee documentation, benefits and status changes, and helps implement policies across HQ and field offices. The expected end date is on or before December 18, 2026.
Save the Children
Manages a caseload of Head Start/Early Head Start families, building trusting partnerships and supporting goal-setting, self-sufficiency, and parent-child interactions that prepare children for school. Leads and documents family development services, coordinates referrals and community resources, and collaborates with program staff and partners. Oversees key ERSEA responsibilities including eligibility, recruitment/selection, enrollment maintenance, and attendance support.
Essie Justice Group
Support day-to-day implementation of organizing programs and campaigns by recruiting, engaging, and retaining members and helping them grow into leadership. Assist with campaign tactics (e.g., rallies, press events, meetings with elected officials), outreach (canvassing/phone banking), and producing member/partner communications. Provide logistics for meetings/events and help maintain relationships with community allies in alignment with values of care, equity, and empowerment.
Saga Education
Oversee the day-to-day on-site operation of a Saga Math Lab at an assigned school, ensuring a structured, high-quality learning environment. Supervise and support math tutors, manage classroom routines and culture, track attendance and incidents, and troubleshoot basic technology or platform issues. Partner with the Instructional Program Manager to monitor trends, use data to drive interventions, and strengthen overall site performance and relationships with school staff.
Saga Education
Oversees day-to-day operations of the on-site Saga Math Lab at an assigned school, ensuring a structured, positive learning environment. Supervises and supports math tutors, manages classroom systems and coverage, and troubleshoots on-site issues (including technology). Partners with the Program Manager and school staff to monitor performance trends and implement action plans that improve student and tutor outcomes.
American Indian College Fund
Provide administrative and operational support to the Major Gifts team and the broader Resource Development department, reporting to the Senior Director of Major Gifts. Responsibilities include editing stewardship/cultivation materials and scholarship-related reports, supporting grant writer/researcher workflows, donor services support, and coordinating internal processes like acknowledgements, calendars, reimbursements, and special projects.
The Brigid Alliance
Client Services Coordinators provide direct, trauma-informed support to abortion seekers by conducting intakes and coordinating travel, lodging, and related logistics, including urgent changes and troubleshooting. The role works within a remote, pod-based team structure and closely collaborates with a Program Manager while documenting cases and expenditures in organizational systems.
The Brigid Alliance
Provides day-to-day administrative and operations coordination so program and development teams can focus on mission. Responsibilities include scheduling and meeting support, mailbox and records management, purchasing and vendor coordination, travel/logistics for retreats and convenings, reimbursements support, and light finance administration. Reports to the Director of Operations and collaborates across Operations, People & Culture, Programs, and External Relations.