Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Ohio Democratic Party
Interns will work up to 10–20 hours weekly in departments such as finance, communications, or political. Assignments may include donor research and database upkeep, fundraising-event support, candidate and news tracking, newsletter content preparation, and calendar management.
Institute for Higher Education Policy
The Research Intern will assist with quantitative and qualitative research on postsecondary education equity, access, affordability, completion, and data transparency. Responsibilities include literature reviews, data collection and analysis, drafting blogs and research materials, preparing presentations and memos, and supporting convening logistics.
Bread for the World
This part-time fall intern supports the Government Relations team’s domestic policy advocacy on hunger and poverty. Responsibilities include monitoring congressional activity, researching policy issues and congressional offices, coordinating lobby-meeting scheduling, and attending coalition and advocacy meetings.
Bread for the World
The intern supports the Government Relations team’s international policy and humanitarian-aid portfolio, particularly around appropriations, Farm Bill, and emergency supplemental advocacy. Responsibilities include scheduling congressional meetings, tracking hearings and votes, preparing advocacy materials, taking meeting notes, and supporting policy events such as a fly-in and advocacy summit. The intern will also research an international humanitarian-assistance strategy and present findings in a paper and slide deck.
Bread for the World
The intern will help grow and mobilize a national and local network of student advocates. Responsibilities include recruiting students, building relationships with campus and community partners, coordinating campus events, and connecting participants to leadership training and advocacy opportunities.
Human Rights Campaign
This temporary role supports the Municipal Equality Index team with research, data preparation, database and spreadsheet entry, and creation and maintenance of city scorecards. The employee may correspond with cities, analyze municipal laws and policies, and help publish the Index and coordinate its launch event.
USA for UNFPA
The Data Intern will help create and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and KPI visualizations that support data-informed decision-making. They will work with the database manager and internal stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models and reporting solutions, while assisting with data cleanup, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
All on the Field
The intern supports the daily operations and quality-control systems behind active canvassing programs. Responsibilities include scheduling and tracking applicants, coordinating materials, verifying voter-contact data by phone, maintaining audit records, cleaning data, and preparing routine program reports.
Voters of Tomorrow
The fellow will conduct one-on-one and group voter outreach through campus canvassing, tabling, door knocking, classroom visits, and student-organization outreach. They will also plan engagement events, recruit and train volunteers, and help create momentum for youth voter participation in the 2026 election.
Blue Haven Initiative
The Civics Team Intern will support civic-engagement investments and advocacy work through research memos, visual presentations, project support, and participation in strategy meetings. The intern will also prepare written and verbal briefings for the Principal, attend relevant events and summarize insights, and organize briefing materials.
American Friends Service Committee
This one-year, part-time fellowship supports Chicago Peacebuilding programs, with an emphasis on engaging young people and advancing campaigns to shift public investment away from policing and incarceration toward community resources. Responsibilities include coalition meeting support, youth curriculum and political-education materials, newsletter and social-media support, research, administrative work, and fundraising merchandise fulfillment; training is provided.
United Way of Lancaster County
This seasonal role manages appointments for the VITA free tax-preparation program during tax season. Responsibilities include answering program calls, administering the online scheduling system, maintaining appointment schedules, tracking call trends to inform staffing, and coordinating with the VITA tax manager, site coordinators, and tax assistants.
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.
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.
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.
The Education Trust
The intern will support the Strategic Initiatives & National Partnerships team’s work with national partners and coalitions advancing P-12 and higher-education policy priorities. Responsibilities include coordinating partner engagement, organizing partnership information, developing collaboration materials, and staying current on organizational and partner priorities.
City of Boston
This six-month, part-time fellowship supports the Farmers Market Coupon Program through market and vendor technical assistance, operations coordination, site visits, coupon distribution tracking, and customer support. The fellow will help train market managers, communicate with community partners, produce biweekly reports, collect feedback, and support evaluation and analysis of coupon redemption data.
AARP
Support the Alabama Communications and Outreach team by creating and scheduling social media graphics, videos, and other digital content focused on issues including caregiving and financial security. The intern will also assist with virtual events, website and channel management, audience engagement, editorial planning, reporting, and data analysis while maintaining brand consistency.
ISAIAH
Organize residents in manufactured home communities in St. Cloud to build leadership and support the Save Our Homes campaign and Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Duties include door-knocking, one-on-one meetings, community conversations and candidate forums, leader coaching, voter engagement, and strategy meetings.
ISAIAH
The fellow will organize faith communities and other Southern Minnesota residents to build leadership and collective power around racial, economic, climate, and democracy issues. They will support an organizing program engaging 15–20 churches; recruit and train volunteer leaders; conduct outreach and community meetings; and lead public actions and meetings with elected officials.
ISAIAH
The Organizing Fellow will organize residents in manufactured-home communities in northern Minnesota around ISAIAH's Save Our Homes campaign and a Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Responsibilities include door-knocking, one-on-one relationship building, community conversations and candidate forums, leadership development, voter engagement, and facilitating resident strategy meetings and trainings.
ISAIAH
The Organizing Fellow will split time between manufactured-home communities and congregations in the Mankato–St. Peter area, building relationships and developing local leaders. Responsibilities include door-knocking and petition drives, community conversations and candidate forums, volunteer recruitment and training, voter engagement, public actions, and organizing engagement across 15–20 churches.
AARP
The intern will support enhancements to AI/ML and agentic personalization capabilities across digital channels. Responsibilities include reviewing content recommendations, analyzing web, app, and email engagement, evaluating content relevance and audience alignment, supporting experiments, and preparing insights, presentations, and documentation.
AARP
The intern will support the West Virginia team’s communications, community outreach, policy promotion, and event planning related to caregiving, broadband, fraud prevention, and financial security. Responsibilities include policy research, communications tactics, social media, team strategy discussions, and logistical support for virtual and in-person events.