Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
International Institute of New England
The Legal Assistant provides administrative, case-management, and legal-support services to an attorney representing unaccompanied children in immigration matters. Responsibilities include coordinating legal orientations, organizing client records and evidence, preparing routine documents and filings for attorney review, tracking deadlines, and maintaining confidential case data. The position also assists with reporting, data quality, and communication with clients and legal staff.
Colorado Democratic Party
The Field Organizer will recruit, coach, and manage volunteers to conduct direct voter contact, relational organizing, voter registration, and visibility events. They will empower volunteer leaders to run outreach and trainings independently, maintain campaign data, and build relationships with local party leaders and grassroots activists.
The Brookings Institution
The Research Assistant supports the development of an economic-policy agenda through original analysis, research support, and co-authored written products. The role analyzes and visualizes data, maintains dashboards and research figures, and coordinates commissioned policy proposals, author timelines, feedback, quality control, and communications deliverables.
The Brookings Institution
This two-year Research Assistant role supports scholars in economic policy research across areas such as economic security, fiscal and monetary policy, health policy, regulation, and tax policy. The assistant conducts data analysis and statistical programming, prepares tables and graphs, researches literature and source materials, and drafts content for publications and web pages. The role also provides limited communications, publication, and event-support assistance.
SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
The Organizer supports campaigns that help non-union workers build power and win union recognition. Day-to-day work includes outreach at homes and worksites, one-on-one and group worker meetings, leadership development, committee building, trainings, coalition participation, and planning actions and events.
United Nations Foundation
The intern will create and distribute communications materials, including blogs, social-media posts, newsletters, webpage content, photography, and video assets related to global health advocacy. They will track content performance, support communications around major global health events such as the UN General Assembly, and collaborate with global health, public affairs, and campaign colleagues.
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
The Contract Organizer will help implement nonpartisan 2026 voter education and mobilization efforts in either Mecklenburg County or the Triangle. They will lead volunteer canvasses, conduct direct voter contact, recruit volunteers, support community events, and maintain outreach data using electoral organizing tools.
Council on Foreign Relations
The research associate will support a senior fellow leading an energy, security, and climate change program. Responsibilities include research and fact-checking for a book and other publications, editorial preparation, travel and calendar management, event logistics, correspondence, and social media or multimedia outreach.
Orange County United Way
This part-time specialist responds to helpline, email, text, and outreach inquiries, assesses client needs, and provides accurate referrals to community services. The role supports callers in crisis through de-escalation, warm transfers to emergency resources, advocacy, follow-up, and detailed documentation in the 211 database. The specialist also assists with reports, technology systems, and community outreach events.
PETA
The AI Creative Producer develops and delivers bold social videos for platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, and YouTube. They will write concepts and scripts, use generative-AI tools alongside traditional production techniques, self-film content when needed, and collaborate with creative and social-media colleagues on timely campaigns.
PETA Foundation
The Production Coordinator supports the planning and execution of print, merchandise, advertising, and demonstration-material projects. They will track projects in Asana, coordinate among requestors, designers, and vendors, obtain bids and purchase orders, review proofs, research suppliers, and handle administrative production tasks.
Relentless
This role coordinates the systems that move program content from creation through review and approval, including participant emails, texts, event materials, FAQs, and in-app copy. The manager will maintain trackers and resource hubs, prepare team meetings, support writers and designers, and use staff and participant feedback to improve content. Work includes cross-functional project coordination and hands-on editing in support of voter-engagement programs.
Navajo County Democratic Committee
The Data Associate will maintain and improve campaign data infrastructure and produce reports for leadership, staff, partners, and stakeholders. They will collaborate with organizing and voter-protection teams to build analytics solutions, maintain databases and targeting systems, and identify ways to improve campaign programs.
Democratic Party of Oregon
The Compliance Assistant supports the coordinated campaign's HR, payroll, financial, and campaign-compliance processes. Day-to-day work includes maintaining tracking spreadsheets, processing contributions and banking tasks, managing accounts payable/receivable, tracking pledges, and coordinating with campaign teams and supervisors.
American Public Human Services Association
The Interstate Program Coordinator supports initiatives related to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, working with internal teams, state member jurisdictions, and external partners. Responsibilities include scheduling, tracking deliverables, preparing materials, coordinating events and communications, maintaining databases and resources, and assisting with surveys, reporting, and project implementation.
National Women’s Law Center
The Program Assistant supports the Child Care and Income Security team and its vice president through calendar management, internal coordination, meeting facilitation, and event logistics. The position prepares and proofreads materials, manages travel and invoices, posts website content, and assists with policy research and legislative communications.
Sierra Club
The Grassroots Coordinator builds volunteer leadership and grassroots power for environmental campaigns across eastern North Carolina. The role recruits and coaches volunteers, conducts community education, develops coalitions with local organizations and officials, and coordinates online and in-person events and mobilizations. The coordinator also tracks volunteer and engagement data while advancing inclusive, community-centered organizing practices.
Bread for the World
The intern will assist foundation, major-donor, and membership fundraising efforts during the organization’s year-end fundraising preparation. Responsibilities include researching grant prospects and donors, drafting briefings, making donor stewardship calls, updating database records, providing filing and customer-service support, and attending department meetings.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The organizer manages direct voter contact and volunteer recruitment for an assigned Assembly campaign district. Responsibilities include canvassing, phone banking, planning GOTV events, training volunteers, staffing the candidate, coordinating with party field staff, distributing literature, and maintaining voter-contact data and trackers.
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.