Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The Development Associate supports donor management, fundraising communications, gift processing, and CRM reporting for the fundraising team. The role also provides executive and operations support, including calendar management, travel coordination, state registration tracking, inbox coverage, and event assistance.
CHIRLA
The Grant Writer will prepare persuasive grant proposals, reports, and supporting materials for private, corporate, and public funders. They will research prospects, maintain the grants calendar and tracking systems, coordinate with program and finance colleagues, and support broader development activities, events, and campaigns.
Community Builders
The Project Associate supports and leads elements of community development projects focused on issues such as affordable housing, economic diversification, complete streets, and brownfield redevelopment. Responsibilities include facilitating partner meetings and trainings, conducting research, synthesizing public input, creating plans and visual materials, supporting engagement strategies, and coordinating site visits and project logistics.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Program Coordinator supports a Fiscal Systems team working to strengthen local-government revenue systems and equitable land taxation. Responsibilities include coordinating programs and events, scheduling meetings and travel, maintaining materials and web content, processing RFPs and fellowships, and assisting with outreach and data collection. The role also supports procurement, contract deliverables, event budgets, vendor payments, and quality testing for an online property-tax database.
United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties
The Development Support Specialist manages CRM data quality, donor and prospect records, fund documentation, and grant workflows from intake through closeout. The role conducts prospect research, prepares reports and executive materials, supports donor stewardship, and improves development processes in collaboration with finance, community investments, and development colleagues.
UFW Foundation
The Finance Assistant supports the CFO as well as grants, budgeting, controller, and fiscal-compliance functions. The position records financial transactions, maintains grant information across accounting systems, reconciles accounts and revenue, and produces reports, schedules, analyses, and confidential presentation materials.
Grameen America, Inc.
This entry-level branch role manages relationships with members, including leading weekly center meetings, following up on loan repayments, responding to questions, and conducting home and business verification visits. The associate also recruits prospective members through neighborhood outreach, information sessions, and local travel, while accurately entering payment information and monitoring loan activity.
Braven
The IT Support Specialist is the first point of contact for staff IT requests and manages the helpdesk queue through Jira Service Management. They resolve common hardware, software, and account issues; prepare and deploy devices; support onboarding and offboarding; train end users; and track IT assets.
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
The Community Health Educator delivers medically accurate, inclusive sexual health and life-skills education in English and Spanish, with particular focus on youth in low-resource communities. They schedule presentations, conduct outreach and referrals, track program data, assist with curricula and grant reports, and collaborate with internal teams, volunteers, and community partners.
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
This hybrid Community Health Educator implements evidence-based sexual health and life-skills education, outreach, and Community Health Worker/Promotorx programming in English and Spanish. The position delivers presentations to diverse communities, connects people to reproductive-health services, tracks program outcomes, and contributes to curriculum, grant-reporting, and community-engagement activities.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The organizer will serve as a public-facing campaign representative, engaging voters through door knocking, phone banking, and canvassing. They will recruit, train, and manage volunteers; coordinate outreach and community events; track voter-contact metrics; and support digital messaging and regional office operations.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The Regional Organizing Director hires and manages organizers, helping them recruit volunteers and deliver direct voter-contact outreach. They develop regional systems to meet organizing metrics, maintain data integrity, build relationships with local political leaders, and implement campaign messaging and digital strategies. The role also trains staff and keeps the team motivated through a demanding campaign schedule.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The organizer serves as a public-facing member of a regional voter-outreach team, conducting door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, and other direct-contact activities. They recruit, train, and manage volunteers; organize outreach and community events; maintain local relationships; track metrics; and help with digital messaging and regional office operations.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The deputy press secretary conducts daily media monitoring and drafts advisories, releases, statements, op-eds, and other press materials for multiple Democratic candidates. They cultivate reporter relationships, pitch earned-media and rapid-response opportunities, prepare spokespeople for events, and organize press events. The role also advises on press-related social media strategy and coordinates communications across campaigns and allied stakeholders.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
This role oversees operational planning for statewide Get Out the Vote efforts, including staging locations, campaign literature, warehouse logistics, staffing, and shipping. The deputy director will coordinate closely with campaign leadership, organizers, data staff, and vendors to ensure voter-contact materials are delivered on schedule.
Council of State Governments
The Data Systems Specialist provides first-tier operational support for CompactConnect, an AWS-based system supporting occupational licensure compacts. Responsibilities include monitoring application and database health, resolving user-access and data-processing issues, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating with development teams on enhancements. The position also supports outreach, convenings, policy projects, grant proposals, and relationships with state officials and external partners.
Grameen America, Inc.
The Relationship Associate runs weekly member-center meetings, follows up on loan repayments, responds to member questions, and completes home and business verification visits. The role also conducts local outreach, information sessions, and recruitment activities to grow branch membership, while maintaining accurate payment records and loan-compliance documentation.
Bully Pulpit International
This role manages analytics and reporting workflows for paid-media campaigns, including dashboard setup, quality assurance, audience onboarding, conversion tracking, and troubleshooting. The analyst collaborates with media, planning, insights, vendor, and client teams to deliver reporting that informs campaign strategy and optimization. The position also tracks emerging ad-tech and measurement tools and helps coordinate briefs, meetings, and project timelines.
Civitech
The Marketing Business Development Representative owns the lead-to-customer journey for RunningMate, acting as the primary contact for prospects from initial outreach through purchase. Responsibilities include qualifying inbound leads, prospecting outbound, conducting discovery conversations and demos, maintaining pipeline data, and reporting conversion insights. The role also supports marketing programs and coordinates with customer success, sales, and product teams to improve the customer experience.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate manages a caseload of 15–20 chronically absent students, identifies attendance barriers, and provides mentoring and light case management. Responsibilities include tracking attendance, contacting absent students and families, leading clubs and workshops, tutoring students, facilitating SEL groups, and coordinating support plans with school staff.
Borderplex Connect
The member will support community digital-fluency classes through participant registration, site setup and breakdown, attendance tracking, and preparation of educational materials. They will conduct nonpartisan outreach and marketing through events, partner communications, social media, email, webinars, and other channels, while helping keep initiatives on schedule.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor serves as a primary contact for participants who have recently exited emergency shelter, helping them pursue stable housing and economic self-sufficiency. The role provides trauma-informed coaching, conducts assessments and goal planning, maintains service records, makes referrals, and supports reporting requirements.
Science News Media Group
The Social Media Producer creates and curates daily content across social channels, schedules posts, engages readers, and works with newsroom and design teams to strengthen visual storytelling and brand voice. The producer manages newsletters, monitors trends and social performance, supports story pitching, and runs experiments to expand audience engagement.
Science Friday
The Membership Specialist runs the digital membership experience, helping convert listeners into paying members and retain existing supporters. Responsibilities include member communications and support, CRM maintenance, benefits and merchandise fulfillment, email and SMS campaigns, performance analysis, and coordination with development, audience, and editorial teams.