Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The intern will help build media coverage by monitoring news and social media, maintaining press lists, and drafting or editing reports, press releases, and blog posts. They will also track communications analytics and create content for the web, email, and social media channels.
Youth Law Center
This part-time remote role works closely with the Director of Finance to manage recurring financial transactions and administrative processes. Responsibilities include billing, reconciliations, reimbursement and vendor-invoice processing, financial documentation, grant compliance support, and seasonal audit preparation. The specialist also helps maintain internal controls and supports month-end close and other finance projects.
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.
The Council of State Governments
The Communications Fellow will assist with branded visual materials, asset management, short-form writing, email newsletters, website updates, and social media publishing. The role also supports design templates, creative reviews, and cross-department communications projects while gaining broad experience in nonprofit and public-policy communications.
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.
Our Children's Trust
This temporary, part-time associate supports the Senior Director of Donor Development and the engagement team with meeting coordination, briefing materials, CRM upkeep, donor acknowledgements, and supporter communications. The role also helps organize fundraising campaigns and virtual or in-person events, research donor prospects, manage grant documentation, and coordinate Youth Advisory Council activities.
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.
Oceana
The Communications Intern will monitor and circulate U.S. and international press coverage, prepare regular media-coverage reports, and maintain campaign media lists. The role also drafts and edits blog posts, pitches, press releases, social posts, and Executive Committee and Board media reports while supporting ad hoc communications research.
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.
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
The intern will manage a backlog of website maintenance and enhancement tasks focused on accessibility compliance, SEO/GEO optimization, content quality, and UX. They will update website content and designs, research improvement opportunities, and may assist with wireframes and page layouts in Figma.
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.
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
The Activity Specialist plans and delivers hands-on, age-appropriate after-school enrichment programming for elementary and middle school students. The role supervises youth, teaches activities such as sports, recreation, arts, and STEAM, supports program assistants, and maintains communication, records, supplies, and safety procedures.
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.