Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Maine People’s Alliance (MPA)
The fellow will help build get-out-the-vote programs on college campuses across Maine for the 2026 November election. Work includes educating students about voting and explaining Maine laws on student voter registration and same-day registration.
Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL)
The Fellow oversees institutional giving, major-donor cultivation, and grassroots sustainer fundraising. They will coordinate grant prospecting and applications, build donor relationships, organize fundraising events and membership drives, and train staff and board members to support solicitation.
Breakthrough New York
The fellow mentors a caseload of eighth-grade students through high school admissions, helping them meet application milestones, prepare for interviews and visits, and revise essays and parent statements. The role includes regular family communication, virtual check-ins, progress documentation, and collaboration with staff and other fellows.
The Trustees of Reservations
This part-time, onsite role supports youth public programs, private events, field trips, birthday parties, and cooking classes at a working farm. Responsibilities include setting up program spaces, checking in and orienting visitors, leading activities, assisting instructors, maintaining clean and safe event areas, and processing membership and sales transactions.
Brilliant Detroit
This part-time, in-person coordinator serves as a welcoming frontline contact for families, guiding intake, answering questions, providing referrals, and helping participants navigate programs and technology. The coordinator conducts outreach and recruitment, tracks participant data and reports, supports play groups and listening sessions, and helps maintain an organized, family-friendly center.
Brilliant Detroit
The Community Engagement Coordinator welcomes families, completes intakes, provides resource referrals, and answers participant questions at a neighborhood family center. They conduct outreach and recruitment, enter program data, support meetings and listening sessions, and help lead Play and Learn groups. The role also includes light site upkeep, snack preparation, and logistical support for programs.
Clean Water Action
This part-time evening organizer builds public support for environmental campaigns by collecting e-signatures, encouraging calls to lawmakers, and raising funds. The organizer will communicate directly with members, maintain accurate outreach records, and contribute to a motivated campaign team.
Relentless
Program Organizers lead one-hour virtual events, rotating among event roles, managing breakout rooms, monitoring rapid-response Slack channels, and creating an inclusive participant experience. They also staff the participant inbox, answer logistical questions, support onboarding and troubleshooting, follow up proactively, and share participant feedback with the broader team.
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
The Activities Coordinator designs, implements, and refines enrichment activities aligned with academic, social-emotional, and engagement goals at a community school. The role also supports data collection, cultivates partnerships, and ensures programs comply with district policies, legal regulations, and safety standards.
Better Ballot Iowa
The Campaign Coordinator will grow and mobilize a statewide supporter and volunteer network through events, canvassing logistics, trainings, follow-up, and voter education efforts. The role also supports legislative engagement by coordinating advocacy outreach and tracking policymaker positions, while handling donor contact lists and fundraising email logistics.
RepresentUs
The Field Organizer will establish and grow a grassroots Local Action Team in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Responsibilities include phone banking and in-person recruitment, facilitating team meetings, preparing constituent office visits, developing volunteer leaders, supporting public-facing advocacy, and maintaining outreach records. The organizer will work closely with national staff, a local consultant, and a state advisory council.
N Street Village
On-call Program Associates provide flexible onsite coverage across seven DC locations during staffing shortages, peak periods, emergencies, and special needs. They build relationships with residents, support care coordination and case plans, document services, handle intakes and incidents, respond to crises, enforce program rules, and help maintain safe shelter and housing environments.
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.
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.
D.C. Hunger Solutions
Supports District residents with SNAP pre-screenings, applications, mid-certifications, and recertifications, including client interviews and follow-up on application issues. The associate will track client interactions and collaborate with the SNAP team to improve the District’s SNAP application process.
Girl Scouts of the USA
The Museum Guide will lead engaging tours and hands-on activities for visitors and Girl Scout troops at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum. The position also supports front desk and shop operations, visitor assistance, program preparation, historic research, light cleaning, and other daily museum tasks as needed.
Power California
The Canvasser will engage community members using campaign scripts through door-to-door outreach, classroom presentations, tabling, events, phone banking, and texting. The role supports voter registration and mobilization, volunteer recruitment, youth leadership development, campaign events, and daily reporting of voter contact data.
DreamYard Project
The Marketing and Communications Coordinator manages social media, website updates, email communications, and visual content for the organization. The role includes creating copy, graphics, photos, and video; maintaining the WordPress-based website; producing MailChimp emails; and attending occasional Bronx-based classes or events to document activities.
9to5
The canvassers will support 9to5 Wisconsin’s civic engagement and economic justice campaigns through door-knocking, phone banking, text banking, and community outreach. They will engage community members in priority Latinx and Hmong communities, collect and share member information, and help implement outreach and campaign strategies.
Chinese-American Planning Council
The Administrative Assistant will support afterschool programs at PS 160 or PS 255 in Brooklyn by coordinating office operations, maintaining program documentation, and supporting staff and families. Responsibilities include managing registration and attendance systems, preparing correspondence and reports, tracking expenditures, maintaining files and supplies, and serving as a liaison with finance and program staff.
The Door
The Per Diem Overnight Youth Counselor supports the Runaway and Homeless Youth program at a 24-hour drop-in center. The role ensures homeless and unstably housed youth have access to basic needs such as food, clothing, hygiene, rest, and safety during overnight hours, while providing crisis intervention and documentation as needed.
The Door
The Teaching Artist will design and lead creative and educational workshops and activities for youth in afternoon and evening programming. The role includes developing curriculum, facilitating arts, wellness, recreation, and community-building activities, supporting showcases, supervising participants, and connecting young people to additional services.
Food & Water Watch
This part-time organizer will help grow volunteer and ally networks in New Mexico and advance statewide campaigns, especially around factory farms and data center development. The role includes campaign planning and execution, volunteer leadership development, coalition work, public representation, and use of digital organizing tools.
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.