Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Direct Relief
The Corporate Engagement Coordinator processes donated medicines and medical goods from initial product offers through receipt, designation, and distribution. They maintain donor and product records in CRM and SAP, coordinate documentation and inbound logistics with internal teams and healthcare companies, and prepare reports, receipts, and donor updates.
Yale Economic Growth Center
This role manages digital and external communications for development economics research, including website updates, social media, newsletters, multimedia, and print materials. It also supports major events and webinars, coordinates speakers and contractors, tracks communications projects and metrics, and maintains brand and resource systems.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
The Finance Assistant provides operational and fundraising support to party leadership and the finance department. Day-to-day work includes scheduling and staffing call time, managing fundraising-event outreach and RSVPs, researching donor prospects, tracking pledges, drafting acknowledgments, and assisting with contribution compliance.
Science Friday
This role serves as the primary point of contact for members and prospective members, managing membership onboarding, renewals, benefits, technical troubleshooting, and customer service. The specialist will maintain donor and member data, coordinate digital communications and SMS campaigns, analyze performance metrics, and work across development, audience, editorial, and audio teams to grow retention and revenue.
Precision
This role executes and monitors digital paid-media campaigns, including campaign setup, optimization support, reporting, and finance-tracker updates. The associate also supports client accounts through meeting materials, research, project tracking, written content, and collaboration with internal teams.
American Bridge 21st Century PAC
The Tracker/Field Researcher identifies public events, attends and documents them, and edits resulting footage for strategic use. They analyze content for key moments and patterns, write reports, monitor current events, and coordinate with communications and project teams.
Democratic National Committee
The Community Analyst provides technical support through a Zendesk queue for campaign, state-party, and committee users of data products and tools. The role facilitates trainings, creates and updates documentation, maintains relationships with state-party data staff, and shares recurring user feedback with product, data, and engineering teams.
New York Immigration Coalition
The Community Engagement Associate manages event data, records, reporting processes, grant deliverables, budgets, and administrative workflows for a statewide outreach team. They develop and distribute community-facing resources, coordinate materials and vendors, participate in events, and deliver Know Your Rights workshops to community members and partners.
Ohio Democratic Party
The Operations Associate provides day-to-day logistical support for a statewide coordinated campaign. Responsibilities include maintaining operational tracking systems, procuring and distributing materials, supporting field offices and events, and coordinating with multiple campaign departments.
Civitas Public Affairs Group
The Associate provides day-to-day research, writing, and coordination support across a portfolio of advocacy campaigns. They will develop work plans and client materials, manage deadlines and reporting, monitor policy and political developments, coordinate meetings, and cultivate relationships with conservative and cross-partisan partners.
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
The Accessibility Coordinator leads inclusive access initiatives for environmental education and public programs, including adaptive outdoor equipment and resource-library operations. The role supervises program staff and volunteers, trains colleagues on accommodations and inclusive design, evaluates barriers across facilities and trails, and develops partnerships with disability-community stakeholders.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Program Associate supports a health-equity portfolio focused on helping families and children thrive, combining operational coordination with program development and grantmaking support. Responsibilities include conducting desk research, managing workplans and grant tracking, coordinating meetings and events, reviewing proposals, preparing grant materials, and maintaining relationships with grantees and field leaders.
Friends of the High Line
The Coordinator supports the full employee lifecycle, including job postings, candidate communications, interview scheduling, screenings, background checks, orientation, offboarding, and HRIS recordkeeping. The role also coordinates employee learning, engagement, benefits communications, and administrative workflows while escalating complex employee matters to appropriate team members.
Democratic Socialists of America
This full-time role provides direct coaching, training, and strategic support to chapters across Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The organizer will strengthen chapter campaigns and leadership pipelines, facilitate interchapter learning, support national organizing priorities, and coordinate regional planning, records, travel, and logistics.
Movement Labs
The associate will support the delivery of voter-turnout and persuasion programs, including drafting campaign messaging, assisting with experiment design, and researching prospective campaigns. They will manage project workflows and systems, coordinate across internal teams and clients, and help prepare reports and decks that communicate experiment results and actionable insights.
American Indian College Fund
The coordinator supports faculty-development programming for faculty across 34 tribal colleges, acting as a front-line contact and managing day-to-day program operations. Responsibilities include coordinating conferences and workshops, maintaining data systems and budgets, processing payments, updating web content, producing communications, and supporting stakeholder meetings.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York
The Community Health Outreach Educator builds relationships with LGBTQ+, Black, and other underserved communities to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services. Responsibilities include facilitating workshops and outreach events, maintaining referral directories, navigating clients to services, training partner agencies, supporting partnerships, and completing program reporting.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
The Mobility Mentor works directly with families leaving emergency shelter programs to build long-term housing stability and self-sufficiency. Responsibilities include tenancy coaching, landlord and housing-team collaboration, housing-related advocacy, crisis management, and connecting participants with schools, employment services, and medical providers.
Urban Land Institute
This role provides detailed program coordination for awards, housing conferences, and other convenings across a cross-functional impact team. Responsibilities include maintaining websites and newsletters, coordinating speakers and panel materials, processing site-visit expenses, supporting marketing content, arranging recognition logistics, and assisting on site at approximately three events per year.
Founders Pledge
This role provides the administrative and operational foundation for a community team that manages relationships with philanthropic members. Responsibilities include coordinating event invitations and attendance, responding to routine member inquiries, monitoring member-company news, supporting cross-team projects, and improving team processes.
ACLU of Georgia
The fellow will learn Georgia’s legislative process and support the policy and advocacy team throughout the 2027 legislative session. Responsibilities include researching elected officials and legislation, tracking committees and hearings, scheduling meetings, drafting memos and testimony, maintaining legislator relationships, and supporting advocacy campaigns.
PETA
The Strategic Initiatives Coordinator supports special projects intended to expand animal-rights campaigns and legislative wins. Responsibilities include researching issues, drafting advocacy materials, coordinating multimedia and outreach projects, engaging stakeholders, attending protests and events, and speaking at city council meetings as needed.
Relentless
The Visual Content Designer develops program-facing materials that participants use and share while learning about elections and mobilizing their communities. Day-to-day work includes designing event slide decks, social and video graphics, flyers, logos, Zoom backgrounds, recruitment assets, and shareable organizing toolkits.
Relentless
The Organizing Copywriter creates participant-facing content across email, text, live events, social media, FAQs, and the organizing platform. They translate election, candidate, and policy information into clear action-oriented messaging, research and script event videos, and revise materials quickly as program needs evolve.