Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania
This position runs a long-term peer education and mentoring program for middle and high school students. The specialist teaches lessons on relationships, consent, contraception, STI prevention, and related topics; supports youth leadership activities; and participates in community education events.
LINK Unlimited Scholars
The Coordinator, Programs serves as a primary contact for a portfolio of Scholars and their families, monitoring academic progress, maintaining regular communication, and connecting students to tutoring, counseling, and other support. The role also supports Scholar recruitment, school and community partnerships, program events, and collection and analysis of engagement and academic-performance data in Salesforce.
ACLU
The Program Associate provides administrative, operational, and coordination support to a team that strengthens programs across a nationwide network of state affiliates. Day-to-day work includes planning meetings and convenings, managing a senior leader’s calendar and expenses, maintaining program data and resources, tracking budgets and invoices, and supporting grant-related coordination and reporting.
Mountain State Spotlight
The reporter will lead coverage of the forces shaping West Virginia’s economy, including public investments, tax incentives, job-creation promises, government agencies, and legislative decisions. They will investigate who benefits from economic-development policies, report from affected communities, and hold public officials and companies accountable through enterprise and investigative journalism.
California Teachers Association
This temporary role delivers skilled, confidential administrative support for a management department and executive offices. Responsibilities include preparing bargaining and board materials, managing calendars and travel, drafting correspondence, recording notes, maintaining files, and coordinating communications and special projects.
Democratic National Committee
The Community Analyst provides technical support to campaigns, state parties, and affiliated organizations through a Zendesk support queue, including troubleshooting questions about data products and datasets. The role facilitates virtual training, creates and updates product documentation, and gathers user feedback to help improve technical tools and workflows.
Black Farmer Fund
Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, this full-time associate supports the organization’s communications strategy through social media content, digital campaigns, website updates, and audience engagement. The associate manages the communications calendar, analyzes campaign performance, produces current-events research, creates multimedia materials, and coordinates with internal teams on content strategy for public-facing projects and events.
Indivisible Project
This short-term, full-time role supports event operations, volunteer hosts, mobilization platforms, and reporting for grassroots and coalition campaigns. The associate will maintain tools such as Mobilize and EveryAction, troubleshoot tickets and platform issues, monitor event data, support grant-cycle reporting, and route requests from partners and field staff.
Indivisible Project
The Mobilization Associate helps operate distributed grassroots programs across organization-led and coalition campaigns. The role creates host resources, onboards and supports event hosts, staffs calls, tracks program results and spending, and helps activate grassroots capacity during rapid-response moments.
Trust for Public Land
The Project Associate supports the Colorado and Southwest land-protection program, primarily advancing land acquisition and conservation projects in New Mexico. Responsibilities include project research, landowner and community outreach, coordination with government and nonprofit partners, real-estate due diligence, grant support, presentations, reporting, and administrative tasks. The position includes statewide field travel and occasional evening or weekend work.
The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
The Legal Assistant supports a statewide network of immigration legal services, including clinics, remote assistance, rapid-response work, and special projects. Day-to-day work includes client intake and communication, appointment coordination, document preparation and filing support, records management, reporting, and support for senior paralegals.
Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The Program Coordinator supports a DYCD-funded after-school program at a Brooklyn high school. They provide student guidance, counseling, case management, workshops, and referrals while maintaining attendance, progress, and outcome records. The coordinator also recruits participants, arranges speakers and trips, supports tutoring, and develops relationships with worksites and industry partners.
Vital Strategies
The Associate administers global travel operations and duty-of-care processes, including travel requests, approvals, documentation, itinerary tracking, travel-data reporting, and occasional after-hours support during major group travel. The role also reconciles travel-card and vendor accounts, processes invoices and payments, coordinates with vendors and internal teams, and supports operational process improvements.
Institute for Policy Studies
This full-time Special Assistant provides high-level administrative, logistical, and communications support to the Executive Director and Deputy Director. Responsibilities include executive scheduling, board coordination, donor communication tracking, HR administration, fellowship support, briefing preparation, and special-project coordination.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Communications & Digital Associate will manage media monitoring and daily news clips while drafting social posts, newsletters, press releases, advisories, statements, and event materials. The role also supports rapid response, press logistics, internal communications, graphics production, and media events.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
This role manages mid-level and major-donor relationships, including cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, acknowledgments, and pledge follow-up. It plans fundraising events, staffs call time for party leadership, supports national fundraising and digital appeals, and helps coordinate associate-level staff workflows.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Constituency Organizer develops coalition-engagement strategies that expand voter outreach, volunteer recruitment, and community visibility in an assigned organizing turf. Day-to-day work includes relationship-building with community leaders and advocacy groups, direct voter contact through canvassing and phonebanking, volunteer management, and staffing community events.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Volunteer Coordinator will build and manage a campaign volunteer program, including recruitment, onboarding, trainings, shift scheduling, follow-up, and recognition. They will staff canvasses, phone banks, text banks, and events; maintain volunteer records in campaign databases; and cultivate volunteer leaders while reporting recruitment and retention metrics.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
Campus Organizers will lead young-voter registration, voting-plan, follow-up, and get-out-the-vote efforts at colleges in their assigned Pennsylvania turf. They will recruit and train student volunteers, run outreach activities such as tabling, canvassing, text banking, and events, and develop students into ongoing campaign leaders.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Deputy Digital Director helps carry out a unified digital strategy across social platforms for statewide candidates and the coordinated campaign. The role manages content and digital asset libraries, tracks performance metrics and trends, cultivates influencer relationships, and supports rapid-response messaging.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Field Organizer will build grassroots support through door-to-door canvassing, phonebanking, and other direct voter-contact tactics. They will recruit, manage, and train volunteers, staff canvasses and community meetings, and help tailor organizing programs to local community needs.
Bantam Communications
This cross-functional associate supports research, advocacy, campaign, and communications work related to advanced-energy deployment. Responsibilities include synthesizing policy and stakeholder research, developing campaign materials, coordinating teams and workflows, contributing to strategy, and serving as a client and partner contact on assigned engagements.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The Field Organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned targeted Assembly district. Responsibilities include canvassing and phone banking, running volunteer events and GOTV activities, supporting the candidate, coordinating with state party field staff, and maintaining voter-contact data and materials.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The Digital Fundraising Coordinator will manage grassroots fundraising email production, donor-facing digital content, donation-page development, SMS fundraising, and program analytics. The role works closely with Development and Digital colleagues to coordinate donor engagement opportunities, test messaging, and improve online fundraising results.