Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Housing Works
The Intake Coordinator manages referrals, screens applicants for eligibility, oversees the program waitlist, and coordinates admissions and site placement for transitional housing participants. The role prepares vacancy and outcome reports, maintains accurate data and electronic client charts, and communicates with referral agencies and interdisciplinary care teams.
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
The Membership Coordinator will own the member experience, cultivate donor relationships, and execute digital and mail fundraising campaigns. The role manages membership systems and records, fulfills member benefits, analyzes giving data, plans engagement events, and prepares reports for leadership, the board, and grant requirements.
Robin Hood
This part-time temporary associate supports the day-to-day delivery of fellowship and accelerator programs, including scheduling, event logistics, onboarding, surveys, and communications. The role also coordinates user-research and co-design sessions, supports community-member registration and payments, and maintains accurate program records.
Make the Road New York
This position leads restorative justice implementation across four high schools at the Bushwick Campus Community School. The coordinator collaborates with school leaders, students, families, and staff to develop restorative school-climate plans, deliver trainings and workshops, facilitate interventions, and track student-intervention data.
CHIRLA
The Program Assistant provides confidential administrative and operational support to the Director of Programs and Subcontract Administration and related program staff. Responsibilities include organizing contracts, invoices, reports, correspondence, databases, and audit materials; tracking project progress; and coordinating meetings, travel, and reimbursements. The position also follows up with internal departments and subcontractors, assists with initial contract reviews under attorney supervision, and supports day-to-day program and compliance needs.
ERS
The Analyst Consultant works in small consulting teams to help K-12 districts and state agencies redesign how they allocate people, time, and funding. Responsibilities include conducting descriptive data analysis and research, breaking down ambiguous questions, managing defined workstreams, developing evidence-based recommendations, and supporting team culture initiatives.
Pursuit
The Career Coach owns job-placement outcomes for program participants, coaching them through career exploration, networking, applications, interviewing, negotiation, and offer acceptance. The role delivers one-on-one and group coaching, monitors job-search pipelines, partners with the jobs team on hiring opportunities, and helps participants build employer-ready AI project portfolios.
Pursuit
This associate owns execution of the recruitment funnel, tracking applicant volume and conversion to meet enrollment goals. They lead information sessions and workshops, coordinate event logistics, and provide timely, personalized outreach across email, text, and social channels. The role also identifies and implements AI-enabled improvements to admissions workflows.
Pursuit
This role owns execution of top-of-funnel applicant generation for workforce training programs. The associate develops and evaluates community partnerships, oversees paid and referral channels, maintains lead-performance dashboards, and tests outreach approaches to increase qualified applicants.
Milken Institute
The Associate maintains accurate account records and reports in Salesforce, performs data-quality checks, and supports departmental data-management operations. They will draft business letters and contracts, update workflow documentation, and collaborate with development, events, finance, and IT teams.
Solar United Neighbors
This contractor will conduct community outreach and recruit participants for a solar group-purchasing program serving Cincinnati, Dayton, and surrounding Southwest Ohio counties. Responsibilities include tabling and public events, facilitating Solar 101 sessions, maintaining CRM records, answering participant questions, and supporting homeowner follow-up and grant reporting.
Food & Water Watch
This temporary full-time role directs a canvass operation in the Lehigh Valley focused on educating residents about proposed data centers. The director recruits and trains canvassers, assigns turf through VAN, monitors performance and data quality, coordinates payroll and transportation logistics, and completes at least one canvassing shift per week.
Children's Aid
The Prevention Facilitator delivers evidence-based substance-use prevention programming, social-emotional learning activities, life-skills workshops, mentoring, and case management for youth and families. The role manages a small caseload, recruits and engages participants, conducts assessments, documents services in required databases, and coordinates with schools, families, and community partners.
Children’s Aid
The Prevention Facilitator delivers evidence-based prevention groups, social-emotional learning, and college and career readiness programming in school and community settings. The role provides individualized mentoring, referrals, interventions, and crisis support to at-risk youth while coordinating with families, schools, and community partners.
Posse Bay Area
The Career Program Specialist designs and facilitates career-enhancing workshops and events for Scholars and alumni. The role cultivates career partnerships with the Director and development staff, while connecting participants to internships, job-search support, skills-building resources, and career guidance.
Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
The Education Specialist supports youth enrolled in summer employment and school-based work-readiness programs. The role facilitates trainings and workshops, coordinates with worksites and industry partners, matches and monitors participants, and manages data, surveys, files, and other program compliance tasks.
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.
Chinese Progressive Association Action Fund
The Canvasser will conduct phone banking and door-to-door outreach to Chinese immigrant voters in San Francisco regarding the 2026 congressional race. The role involves explaining campaign messaging, gathering and entering accurate voter data, recruiting people for follow-up events, and adapting outreach based on voter feedback.
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.
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.
Better Markets
The Communications Intern will create graphics and draft blog posts, press releases, newsletters, and fact sheets for a busy communications office. They will maintain social media and website content, research media opportunities, track press coverage, and support press engagement and database management.
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
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.
Bantam Communications
This intern provides flexible support across campaign, advocacy, research, and communications workstreams. Responsibilities include researching policy, stakeholders, opposition, public opinion, and media; drafting and editing materials; supporting meetings and follow-up; and helping coordinate tasks, timelines, processes, and workflows.