Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
AARP
The intern will support the Louisiana team’s advocacy, outreach, events, and special projects focused on caregiving, retirement security, and livable communities. Duties include policy research, drafting advocacy materials, attending community events and public meetings, contributing to communications, and assisting with remote and in-person programming.
AARP
The intern will support advocacy and communications efforts related to housing, transportation, health, and other quality-of-life priorities. Responsibilities include policy and partner research, drafting advocacy materials, creating social media and video content, coordinating events, assisting with volunteer outreach, and providing administrative support.
AARP
The intern will support advocacy campaigns involving voter engagement, Social Security, caregiving, prescription drugs, and other policy priorities. Responsibilities include drafting text messages and other communications, supporting reporting and presentations, improving activist email-response processes, assisting with Mobilize America, and contributing to email, direct-mail, fundraising, and special projects.
AARP
The intern will support AARP Delaware’s communications, volunteer engagement, and community outreach concerning issues affecting older adults. Responsibilities include creating social and video content, drafting and proofreading communications, coordinating virtual and in-person events, maintaining schedules, and posting events to organizational platforms.
Powered by People
The intern will organize on campus during the 2026 summer and fall semesters, including booking tabling spaces, working two to three tabling shifts weekly, registering and engaging voters, and potentially helping establish a student chapter. They will also complete training, report metrics through weekly check-ins, and support other regional organizing activities as needed.
The Aspen Institute
The William Randolph Hearst Fellow supports the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation through research, writing, logistics, and administrative work for leadership initiatives, public programs, and convenings. The fellowship is designed to introduce students to issues in philanthropy, social enterprise, nonprofits, and the broader social sector, and may be completed remotely or from the Washington, DC office.
Raben
The intern will support Raben’s client services work across practice areas, including research, data analysis, report preparation, administrative support, and client deliverables such as presentations, memos, and briefs. The role also includes tracking policy and legislative developments, coordinating project logistics, and supporting internal initiatives, events, and special projects.
Signal Group
The Communications Intern will support client teams with daily press clippings, research, media outreach, media and social media monitoring, writing assignments, and administrative account management tasks. The internship includes hands-on client work and professional development sessions on topics such as media relations, pitching, digital marketing, communications strategy, and navigating the news.
FWD.us
The External Affairs Intern will support communications, earned media, digital, and social media work across immigration and criminal justice campaigns. Responsibilities include media and social monitoring, drafting and posting social content, supporting analytics and press materials, creating simple visual assets, researching digital trends and reporters, and assisting with day-to-day operations.
Rising Voices
The intern will support policy advocacy, research, organizing, and outreach projects focused on local and state policy advocacy in Michigan. Responsibilities include tracking policy and budget issues, conducting research on campaign areas such as inclusive education, immigration justice, language access, voting rights, and reproductive justice, and assisting with outreach, stakeholder engagement, meetings, and events.
Common Justice
The intern will support social media, storytelling, graphic design, media outreach, and communications campaigns. They will draft content, create graphics, research topics for news meetings, and work closely with the Communications and Civic Engagement teams.
Hamkae Center
Part-time canvassers will educate voters about the November 2026 General Election through door-to-door conversations in and around Fairfax, Virginia. The role includes sharing voting information and deadlines, entering voter contact data accurately, completing reports, attending training, and representing the organization professionally during the civic engagement campaign.
Vera Institute of Justice
The intern will support the Finance team on financial operations, accounting processes, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and audit/compliance documentation. The role also focuses on process improvement projects at the intersection of finance and IT, including workflow documentation, system improvements, data integrity, automation, and testing tools such as Excel, Power BI, Python, and AI platforms.
Vera Institute of Justice
The intern will support Restoring Promise’s Designed for Dignity work focused on prison culture change and humane corrections policies. Responsibilities include assisting with technical assistance, policy review, trainings, research, data entry and analysis, transcription, document drafting, meeting support, and potentially one site visit.
Earthworks
The Human Resources Fellow is a five-month, full-time temporary role supporting HR functions across the employee lifecycle. The fellow will assist with recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, benefits administration, record maintenance, compliance, policy implementation, employee relations, and HR communications while receiving mentorship and professional development support.
Human Rights Campaign
The Events & Activations Temp will provide administrative and program support for major fundraising events, including the National Dinner, Chefs for Equality, and related events. Responsibilities include auction procurement and tracking, database entry, bidder follow-up, raffle support, and on-site event support.
Atlantic Council
The Project Assistant will support day-to-day operations, events, meetings, and administrative needs for the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Responsibilities include preparing event materials, coordinating onsite and virtual convenings, supporting VIP and guest logistics, drafting correspondence and summaries, and assisting with research and special projects.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
This temporary, paid, part-time internship supports community health education and outreach through the Ohio Center for Sex Education. The intern will help plan, market, implement, and evaluate education programs on reproductive health, STI prevention, family planning, and sexual health in schools and community settings.
Operation Smile
The intern will create and publish multimedia content for Student Programs’ social media channels, website, and print materials. Responsibilities include designing digital and print graphics, paginating toolkits and reports, interviewing audience members, managing multimedia assets, and analyzing social media data.
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.
Minnesota DFL Party
This is a part-time fellowship supporting the campaign’s field and voter contact operation. The fellow will canvass, phone bank, text voters, recruit and train volunteers, and help staff campaign and community events while learning core organizing skills.
ActBlue
This temporary full-time remote role supports donors who give through the fundraising platform during the busy 2026 election cycle. The position focuses on handling donor inquiries by email and phone, triaging requests, preventing fraud, identifying platform issues, and meeting service quality and productivity standards.
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
This part-time campus-based organizing role supports youth voter engagement and turnout during the 2026 election cycle. The fellow will recruit and mobilize volunteers, run field activities like phone banks and canvasses, engage students online and in person, and work with campus political groups and local candidates.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
Two paid internship tracks are offered: Communications Intern (reports to the Communications Director) and Digital Content Intern (reports to the Digital Strategist). Interns support advocacy communications and digital content—newsletters, press, social media, multimedia, and events—while gaining exposure to public-interest advocacy, financial regulation, and coalition work. Internships can last 3–12 months (up to a year).