Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Center for Community Alternatives
The Career Mentor conducts outreach and intake, helps justice-impacted youth develop employment plans, address barriers, and connect with community resources. The role also supports reentry and career-readiness workshops, maintains participant records, and prepares program reports.
Peregrine Advisors
The coordinator keeps a federal agency program on schedule by maintaining trackers, following up on open actions, and monitoring risks and dependencies. They prepare meetings with senior leaders and subject-matter experts, and turn complex discussions into concise reports and presentations.
Make-A-Wish America
The specialist supports leadership and planned giving operations, including planned gift marketing, estate administration, donor stewardship, and CRM tracking and reporting. They coordinate with chapters and internal teams on gift distributions, donor communications, pledge reminders, and campaign logistics.
Panorama Global
The Project Manager supports execution of assigned social impact projects in a matrixed team environment. They maintain work plans and tracking systems, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, prepare project materials, and manage logistics and follow-up. The role also contributes to grantmaking, contracting, budget review, documentation, and systems improvement across the team.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
The Program Associate provides administrative and operational support for undergraduate fellowship and graduate/professional initiatives. Responsibilities include maintaining databases and web portals, managing calendars and deadlines, processing grants and payments, communicating with stakeholders, and supporting workshops and convenings. The position also contributes to outreach materials, meeting records, reporting, and cross-departmental technical and communications projects.
Montana Free Press
The fellow will report on Indigenous affairs and communities in Montana, developing sources and covering both breaking news and enterprise stories. Responsibilities include research, public-records requests, collaboration with reporters and editors, ethical fact-based reporting, and capturing photo and video content.
Youth Guidance
The Program Instructor provides direct supervision and enrichment programming for students before and after school. They help develop lessons and activities, assist students with homework, maintain behavioral expectations, communicate with families, and support school staff and the Community Resource Coordinator.
Vera Institute of Justice
The Research Analyst supports research that informs immigration advocacy and policy priorities, including universal legal representation for immigrants facing deportation and alternatives to detention. Responsibilities include cleaning and analyzing data, maintaining research materials and codebooks, conducting literature reviews, producing reports and visualizations, and responding to time-sensitive research requests. The role also helps coordinate with partners, facilitate meetings, and support advocacy and program work.
Moms Clean Air Force
This part-time consultant will grow a Texas network of partners, volunteers, and stakeholders while organizing events, digital outreach, and advocacy actions. They will engage elected officials and agencies, prepare volunteers for hearings and meetings, and represent the organization at community forums. The consultant will also coordinate media opportunities and storytelling, act as a spokesperson, and submit regular reports.
Housing Works
The Outreach & Retention Specialist promotes enrollment in a 24-week workforce training program for justice-impacted adults through community outreach and referral partnerships. They conduct screening and orientation, facilitate work-readiness groups, provide vocational counseling and retention support, and monitor employment outcomes. The specialist also documents services, submits reports, participates in case conferences, and supports program evaluation and quality-improvement activities.
Grameen America, Inc.
The Relationship Associate supports member retention and growth by facilitating weekly center meetings, following up on loan repayments, answering member questions, and conducting home and business verification visits. The role also conducts neighborhood outreach, information sessions, and recruitment activities while maintaining accurate payment records and compliance with lending procedures.
Detroit Action, a project of Tides Advocacy
The Field Organizer recruits and develops members and community leaders through outreach, one-on-one follow-up, trainings, events, and popular education. They execute field and canvassing strategies, track engagement in a database, and support the development of neighborhood chapters and issue-based groups. The role also includes hiring, training, and supervising canvassers.
New Roots Institute
The Digital Marketing Coordinator will help execute email campaigns, paid advertising, website updates, and digital performance reporting. They will monitor campaign results, research audience and competitor trends, and support proofreading, formatting, and coordination across the Marketing and Communications team.
HarperCollins Publishers
The Marketing Intern will help develop and execute campaigns aimed at younger audiences for Bible study products. Responsibilities include drafting marketing copy and emails, uploading video and photo assets, supporting mailings and author calls, conducting market research, and reporting on campaign performance.
CollegeSpring
The contractor will quality-assure ACT science lessons and assessment items across biology, chemistry, physics, and earth and space science. They will proofread instructional materials, check alignment among objectives and slides, review graphics and instructional flow, and flag inconsistencies for the curriculum team.
Planned Parenthood North Central States
This full-time specialist develops and facilitates onboarding and training for health center associates, including front-desk and non-licensed back-office staff. Responsibilities include creating learning materials, evaluating competencies and program effectiveness, coaching staff, tracking training records, and traveling to regional sites for hands-on instruction.
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York
The specialist assesses community needs and designs and presents reproductive health education programs for youth and other community members. They represent the organization at schools, colleges, health fairs, and community events; maintain documentation and reports; and make referrals to family-planning, health, and support services.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
The coordinator provides administrative, compliance, systems, and data support across HR functions including talent acquisition, total rewards, learning, and HR business partnerships. Responsibilities include managing employee lifecycle transactions, maintaining records and organizational charts, coordinating recruitment logistics, supporting payroll processes, and producing reports, dashboards, trackers, and SOPs.
Bread for the World
The intern gathers, cleans, validates, analyzes, and visualizes public data on food insecurity, nutrition, health, demographics, and public programs. They support Tableau dashboards, state factsheets, grant reporting, and program evaluation while maintaining accurate constituent records, imports, and data-quality processes in Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Prosperity Now
The Operations Coordinator provides high-level administrative and operational support to the COO, including calendar management, meeting preparation, correspondence, and confidential records management. They track cross-functional initiatives, turn unstructured priorities into tasks and timelines, and flag risks to keep work moving. The coordinator also supports partner engagement and prepares research, policy briefings, and status updates.
Children's Aid
The Data Coordinator oversees data integrity, compliance, attendance tracking, enrollment records, and reporting across multiple school-age and after-school programs. They analyze and visualize program data, manage CSIS and other reporting systems, troubleshoot discrepancies, and coordinate with program leaders and performance-management staff.
Milken Institute
The intern will support a business and program development team by researching prospective partners, building engagement strategies, managing outreach data, and helping maintain stakeholder relationships. The position also collaborates with events, programs, and communications colleagues and may provide local event support.
National Association of Counties
The Program Associate works with the center director to research public-lands policy, analyze government datasets, and translate findings into reports, explainers, dashboards, and digital content. They also support county-official training curriculum, conferences and roundtables, video production, fundraising coordination, and general center operations.
All In Energy
The Data & IT Coordinator maintains data infrastructure and technical tools supporting energy programs across Massachusetts. Responsibilities include quality-checking imports and exports, producing program reports, cleaning and uploading data, supporting Salesforce, creating web forms and scripts, and providing basic IT and server support. The role also documents systems and collaborates with staff and external partners to resolve data and technology needs.