Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
This part-time contract organizer role supports policy campaigns by developing leaders, mobilizing volunteers, and helping directly impacted community members share their stories and build power. The position includes base-building, campaign organizing, rapid response mobilization, civic engagement, and integrating arts, culture, and storytelling into organizing work.
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.
Museum of African American History
This role supports the museum store by providing customer service, promoting merchandise, and processing sales transactions. The associate also helps with merchandising, inventory, visitor metrics, and promoting museum programs and events across in-person, phone, and online channels.
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.
NUHW
This role covers the Greater Sacramento Area and focuses on organizing workers already represented under collective bargaining agreements. The representative/organizer will build worker leadership, cultivate relationships across diverse groups, and help lead workplace struggles and union campaigns in the field.
Ounce of Care
The Community Navigator serves as the on-site face of the organization within affordable housing communities in Lewisville. The role focuses on resident outreach, benefits navigation, care coordination, event programming, and relationship-building with residents and local partners, with a strong emphasis on reliability and consistent in-person presence.
American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
This role supports the executive team, serves as liaison to the board of directors, and helps coordinate staff committees and events. Responsibilities include calendar management, meeting preparation, board communications, file organization, and administrative support across leadership and engagement functions.
PEN America
This coordinator supports the day-to-day operations of the Florida office while helping grow its advocacy and community presence across the state. The role includes coalition coordination, event and program support, public communications, administrative and budget tasks, and relationship-building with partners, educators, authors, and policymakers.
National Women's Law Center
This role supports issue advocacy campaigns that advance legislative, policy, and narrative change goals across multiple issue areas. The associate helps execute multi-channel campaigns, create digital and written content, coordinate project tracking, and assist with mobilizations, events, and partner engagement.
CodePath
This 6-month full-time contract role owns top-of-funnel sourcing across multiple searches, building diverse candidate pipelines for functions ranging from engineering to marketing and philanthropy. The sourcer will run high-volume outbound outreach, partner with recruiters and hiring managers on search strategy, and track sourcing metrics in a fast-moving, AI-forward environment.
Greenlight America
This contracted organizer will mobilize supporters in the Salem and Portland region for clean energy campaigns, with work spanning public education, grassroots outreach, and local advocacy. The role includes campaign planning, event turnout, public hearing mobilization, partner coordination, and regular reporting across both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) activities.
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.
exalt
This role manages young people throughout their full program experience, from intake and assessment through goal-setting, classroom support, internship monitoring, and connection to outside resources. The coordinator also collaborates with teachers, justice-system stakeholders, schools, and employers to support participant retention and progress across multiple program cycles each year.
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.
Four Lions Media
This fellowship supports communications work through research, memo writing, slide deck creation, strategy assessment, copyediting, and drafting content such as social media posts and emails. The role is designed for someone who can quickly learn new topics and help translate complex issues into clear, persuasive messaging for clients.
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.