Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
Maryland Legal Aid Inc
The Outreach Specialist will develop and sustain relationships with community groups, grassroots partners, service providers, and anchor institutions to advance targeted outreach objectives. They will plan and deliver outreach, trainings, meetings, and media opportunities related to housing justice, tenant right to counsel, and other priority legal issues. The role also uses quantitative and qualitative data to inform outreach strategies, reporting, and evaluation.
Nonprofit Finance Fund
The Initiative Support Associate coordinates consulting projects by maintaining plans, timelines, trackers, documentation, meeting materials, invoicing processes, and client-facing deliverables. The role also manages Salesforce records; researches and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information; supports workshops and events; and identifies practices that improve future engagements.
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
This field organizer will support higher-education organizing campaigns and help newly organized workplaces secure first contracts. Day-to-day work includes developing workplace leaders, training members and stewards, leading negotiations, assisting with grievances and arbitrations, and building escalating workplace, coalition, and political-action campaigns.
RepresentUs
The Field Organizer will establish and grow a grassroots Local Action Team in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Responsibilities include phone banking and in-person recruitment, facilitating team meetings, preparing constituent office visits, developing volunteer leaders, supporting public-facing advocacy, and maintaining outreach records. The organizer will work closely with national staff, a local consultant, and a state advisory council.
IGNITE
The Operations Coordinator provides broad administrative support across finance, development, programs, HR, and technology for a lean national nonprofit. Responsibilities include coordinating logistics, managing records and vendor invoices, processing donor and financial transactions, supporting onboarding and payroll documentation, maintaining HubSpot data, and improving operational workflows.
Blue Haven Initiative
The Civics Team Intern will support civic-engagement investments and advocacy work through research memos, visual presentations, project support, and participation in strategy meetings. The intern will also prepare written and verbal briefings for the Principal, attend relevant events and summarize insights, and organize briefing materials.
American Friends Service Committee
This one-year, part-time fellowship supports Chicago Peacebuilding programs, with an emphasis on engaging young people and advancing campaigns to shift public investment away from policing and incarceration toward community resources. Responsibilities include coalition meeting support, youth curriculum and political-education materials, newsletter and social-media support, research, administrative work, and fundraising merchandise fulfillment; training is provided.
Children's Aid
Provide clerical, data-entry, recordkeeping, and front-office support for an Early Childhood Division, reporting to the Program Director. The role maintains child and family records, attendance, health, screening, and family-engagement data; assists families and staff; and supports compliance with Head Start, NYC DOHMH, and funding requirements.
N Street Village
On-call Program Associates provide flexible onsite coverage across seven DC locations during staffing shortages, peak periods, emergencies, and special needs. They build relationships with residents, support care coordination and case plans, document services, handle intakes and incidents, respond to crises, enforce program rules, and help maintain safe shelter and housing environments.
Children's Aid
Manage fiscal, business, and administrative operations for the Whitney Young Jr. campus, including bookkeeping, budget tracking, payroll and personnel documentation, purchasing, records, and audit preparation. The role also coordinates site events, maintains staff schedules and office operations, serves as a liaison to central fiscal and HR teams, and provides occasional receptionist backup.
Mothership Strategies
Lead the day-to-day operations, strategy, staffing, and workflow for a digital fundraising team serving political and advocacy clients. Manage staff development and performance, set fundraising projections and spending recommendations, monitor program performance, oversee client relationships and onboarding, and lead rapid-response fundraising execution.
Children's Aid
The Content Specialist manages and implements high-quality curricula across after-school and summer programs. The role coaches and supervises instructional staff, facilitates planning and professional-learning meetings, observes programming, and uses student work and data to improve instruction. It also serves as a liaison among out-of-school-time programs, schools, and program leadership.
Operation Restoration
Provide intake, case management, life coaching, referrals, benefits and employment-resource support, budgeting assistance, and regular client check-ins for clients across programs. Maintain timely Salesforce and physical-file documentation, coordinate with internal staff and community partners, and support community and fundraising events; occasional travel and nonstandard hours may be required.
IREX
The Program Associate provides hands-on operational and administrative support for donor-funded programs, including travel, event logistics, systems, research, records, and participant communications. They support partner and participant recruitment and engagement, maintain program, financial, procurement, and compliance records, and assist with reports, presentations, newsletters, grants, payments, and vendor coordination. The role also contributes to proposal development, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with finance, events, and communications teams.
Ohio Democratic Party
Campus Organizing Fellows will recruit, train, and manage student volunteers to conduct voter outreach and mobilize student voters for the 2026 coordinated campaign. They will build campus partnerships, table and canvass in high-traffic areas, organize campaign events, and register students to vote.
Atlantic Council
Supports the Europe Center’s policy, event, and administrative work, including organizing public and private engagements in the United States and abroad. The assistant conducts research, drafts correspondence and briefings, tracks projects and donor relationships, coordinates travel and stakeholders, and provides calendar and administrative support to the Senior Director.
The Wisco Project
Campus Organizers will mobilize college students across Wisconsin for the 2026 election cycle. They will build campus relationships, recruit and manage student volunteers and fellows, conduct voter outreach through canvassing, tabling, texting, and phone banking, and support student-led events.
ISAIAH
Organize residents in manufactured home communities in St. Cloud to build leadership and support the Save Our Homes campaign and Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Duties include door-knocking, one-on-one meetings, community conversations and candidate forums, leader coaching, voter engagement, and strategy meetings.
ISAIAH
The Organizing Fellow will organize residents in manufactured-home communities in northern Minnesota around ISAIAH's Save Our Homes campaign and a Manufactured Home Residents Bill of Rights. Responsibilities include door-knocking, one-on-one relationship building, community conversations and candidate forums, leadership development, voter engagement, and facilitating resident strategy meetings and trainings.
Food & Water Watch
Conduct voter outreach across Iowa by knocking on doors, discussing water pollution and public-health issues, collecting petition signatures, and recording engagement data. This temporary canvassing role reports to a regional canvass director and runs through November 3, 2026.
Children's Aid
The Policy & Advocacy Associate supports the Fostering Youth Success Alliance’s statewide efforts to improve outcomes for current and former foster youth in New York. The role coordinates coalition operations, advocacy campaigns, events, stakeholder engagement, communications, policy research, youth advocate cohort check-ins, and government-relations logistics.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
The Early Vote Analyst will analyze early voting, ballot rejection, and ballot cure trends across battleground Senate races during the 2026 election cycle. They will translate findings into actionable written reports, dashboards, presentations, recommendations, and documentation for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
National Geographic Society
Supports the administration of employee compensation, benefits, and recognition programs, including invoices, plan audits, employee inquiries, awards, surveys, stipends, and annual merit and promotion processes. The coordinator also maintains reports, HR data, intranet content, and standard operating procedures in collaboration with the Total Rewards team.
Essential Partners
The Communications Associate will create digital and print content, maintain communications platforms, support marketing strategy, and help tell stories about the organization's programs and impact. The role also supports fundraising campaigns, donor communications, events, research, and cross-functional communications projects.