Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Atlantic Council
The Project Assistant supports defense and security initiatives focused on Indo-Pacific challenges, including research, project tracking, stakeholder coordination, and written products. They organize public and private events, manage participant and travel logistics, support outreach and promotion, and assist with workshops, briefings, and tabletop exercises.
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.
ACLU of Florida
The Field Intern will support the Orlando organizing team in recruiting and engaging volunteers, tabling at community and campus events, conducting outreach, and helping run trainings and actions. Day-to-day work includes phone and text banking, canvassing, maintaining volunteer relationships, entering data, creating flyers and presentations, and assisting with research and local communications.
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.
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.
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.
American Indian College Fund
The Program Associate leads event-based student recruitment and outreach, representing the organization at conferences, college fairs, scholarship presentations, and community gatherings nationwide. They manage event logistics and materials while supporting communications campaigns, partnership development, scholarship presentations, and virtual engagement activities.
Inclusive Abundance
The Government Affairs Associate supports advocacy with congressional offices, federal agencies, and allied organizations. Responsibilities include monitoring legislation and hearings, drafting policy and briefing materials, researching policymakers and issues, maintaining outreach systems, and coordinating external meetings and events.
Young Women's Freedom Center
The Self-Determination Coordinator provides individualized support, intake assessments, resource referrals, and self-advocacy coaching to youth participating in programs. The role facilitates healing circles, leadership and career-development activities, and youth advocacy initiatives while coordinating with justice-system, school, and community partners. It also manages participant data, reporting, evaluations, and program materials.
Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL)
The Fellow oversees institutional giving, major-donor cultivation, and grassroots sustainer fundraising. They will coordinate grant prospecting and applications, build donor relationships, organize fundraising events and membership drives, and train staff and board members to support solicitation.
Ohio Democratic Party
Interns will work up to 10–20 hours weekly in departments such as finance, communications, or political. Assignments may include donor research and database upkeep, fundraising-event support, candidate and news tracking, newsletter content preparation, and calendar management.
The Trustees of Reservations
This part-time, onsite role supports youth public programs, private events, field trips, birthday parties, and cooking classes at a working farm. Responsibilities include setting up program spaces, checking in and orienting visitors, leading activities, assisting instructors, maintaining clean and safe event areas, and processing membership and sales transactions.
Think of Us
Support the External Engagement team’s federal and state child-welfare advocacy, coalition building, policy research, and communications. The role coordinates trauma-responsive lived-experience participation; manages policy projects, convenings, events, and stakeholder logistics; and maintains relationships with congressional staff and other partners. It also supports AI-enabled research, knowledge management, and drafting, subject to independent verification and human judgment.
Tech Impact
The Technical Account Manager supports existing managed IT customers by assessing their technology needs, advising on budgets and solutions, and helping clients make business-oriented technology decisions. They manage client communications, support-plan pricing and documentation, CRM records and sales opportunities, and recommendations for hardware, software, and licensing while partnering with customer success, account management, and help desk teams.
USA for UNFPA
The Data Intern will help create and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and KPI visualizations that support data-informed decision-making. They will work with the database manager and internal stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models and reporting solutions, while assisting with data cleanup, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
All on the Field
The Canvasser conducts door-to-door outreach to educate residents about candidates, initiatives, or ballot measures and collect complete voter surveys. They record interactions in MiniVAN, deliver GOTV information such as voting locations and deadlines, and follow campaign safety and reporting protocols.
All on the Field
The intern supports the daily operations and quality-control systems behind active canvassing programs. Responsibilities include scheduling and tracking applicants, coordinating materials, verifying voter-contact data by phone, maintaining audit records, cleaning data, and preparing routine program reports.
The Brookings Institution
The coordinator supports earned-media operations by routing media inquiries, scheduling interviews, maintaining journalist databases, drafting press materials, monitoring coverage, and tracking media placements. The role also contributes to social, newsletter, and web content; prepares reports and dashboards; and coordinates team meetings, training, vendor administration, and other communications workflows.
Children's Aid
The Youth Advocate supports chronically absent elementary and early-childhood students at a community school by identifying attendance barriers and creating individualized academic and social-emotional interventions. Responsibilities include weekly student check-ins, family engagement activities, attendance-plan development, data tracking, club lesson facilitation, and coordination with school staff and community partners.
Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee
This full-time, campaign-cycle role builds remote volunteer capacity for a statewide distributed organizing program. The organizer will supervise phone and text banks, cultivate volunteer and partner relationships, deliver platform trainings, and ensure accurate, timely voter-contact and recruitment reporting.
Texas Democratic Party
The organizer will plan and lead at least two weekly voter-contact events, recruit and train volunteers, and develop volunteer leaders. They will maintain Mobilize and VAN records, secure and prepare staging locations, monitor program results, and troubleshoot voter-contact operations during the GOTV period.
LGBTQ Victory Fund and LGBTQ Victory Institute
This role develops on-brand content for websites, blogs, social media, email, print materials, and organizational reports. It tests and improves digital strategies, tracks web and social performance, supports online fundraising and list growth, and coordinates with vendors on technical and production needs. The manager may also oversee digital advertising, email acquisition, or Google AdWords depending on experience.
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund
The Political Associate helps run endorsement processes, researches candidate campaigns and races, and maintains candidate-pipeline and stakeholder databases. They communicate with campaigns and political partners, track election results, support fundraising-event coordination, and provide scheduling, meeting, research, and presentation support to the political team.