Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
North Carolina Asian Americans Together
The Community Engagement Coordinator supports day-to-day community programming, including workshops, Know Your Rights clinics, community gatherings, and large events. The role conducts outreach, supports volunteers, maintains constituent and event data in EveryAction, attends coalition meetings, and coordinates with internal teams to strengthen membership and community participation.
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.
American Bridge 21st Century PAC
The Tracker/Field Researcher identifies public political events, conducts field tracking, documents events, and edits collected footage. They analyze content for strategic moments and trends, prepare reports, monitor political news, and coordinate with communications and other internal teams.
Asian Law Caucus
The Reception & Administrative Coordinator leads front-desk and administrative operations, including welcoming visitors, answering the main phone line, managing shared communications, scheduling, routing documents, and processing mail. The role also provides administrative support to legal staff, backs up legal-intake triage, and helps ensure continuous live phone coverage.
GiveWell
GiveWell is making multiple U.S.-remote operations hires at Coordinator, Specialist/Associate, and potentially Senior Associate levels across Grants Administration, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Technology/AI Enablement, and executive support for the CEO and COO. Responsibilities range from grant processing, HR/payroll, recruiting coordination, IT support, and AI adoption to executive scheduling, communications, project management, and cross-functional operations initiatives.
Essie Justice Group
The Community Organizer supports membership recruitment, retention, engagement, and leadership development for women and gender-expansive people with incarcerated loved ones. They help carry out campaign activities—including rallies, press events, elected-official meetings, canvassing, and phone banking—while coordinating events, tracking participation, producing materials, and maintaining community relationships.
California Native Plant Society
Support the Public Affairs team through content development, digital communications, media-relations assistance, volunteer engagement, and administrative coordination. Create website, newsletter, publication, marketing, and social content; coordinate chapter volunteer meetings and training; maintain media and digital-asset systems; and assist with outreach and reporting.
Human Rights Campaign
Supports daily membership-program operations, including budget and revenue tracking, invoice processing, vendor and contract coordination, campaign reporting, CRM data integrity, and fiscal-year audit closeout support. The role also coordinates membership premiums and direct-mail production, maintains team calendars and travel schedules, and works with Finance, Consumer Marketing, vendors, and membership colleagues to support acquisition, retention, and engagement campaigns.
American Farmland Trust
The National Agricultural Land Network Coordinator provides logistics, event coordination, administrative processing, and membership/data support for a four-person network team. The coordinator schedules and supports webinars, workshops, roundtables, discussion groups, and conferences; maintains the member database and online community platform; tracks activity metrics; and processes contracts and invoices. This is a two-year, fully remote position with potential extension depending on funding.
National Center for LGBTQ Rights
The Philanthropy Coordinator manages donor database operations, gift processing and reconciliation, prospect research, donor records, and reporting for the Advancement team. The role also stewards general and new donors, supports fundraising campaigns and events, manages online forms and the organization’s online store, and provides data-informed strategic and administrative support for philanthropy initiatives.
Natural Areas Conservancy, Inc.
The Forest Restoration Site Coordinator helps implement and monitor restoration projects that advance long-term management of New York City’s natural-area forests. Responsibilities include field visits, project scheduling and documentation, GIS mapping, plant procurement and quality checks, site safety inspections, and coordination with city agencies, contractors, conservancies, and volunteers.
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.
Democratic Party of Oregon
Field Organizers will recruit, train, and organize volunteers for door-knocking, phonebanking, and other voter-contact efforts. They will meet outreach and recruitment targets, carry out regional field strategy, support candidate events, and build networks of local organizations and supporters. The temporary, in-person role requires substantial evening and weekend work, particularly as Election Day approaches.
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.
Sundance Institute
The coordinator manages recruitment activities including sourcing, candidate assessment, interviewing, candidate communications, and consultation with internal departments. They support onboarding and offboarding, HRIS data updates, compliance, new-hire paperwork, orientations, trainings, surveys, and the HR inbox. The role also provides administrative coordination and serves as a point of contact for employee questions.
Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program
The Communications Manager develops and executes an annual communications strategy across digital, print, social, email, website, and earned-media channels. They create mission-driven stories and campaigns, manage press outreach, measure channel performance, and collaborate with program staff to gather content at school sites and events.
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.
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters
The Local Engagement Coordinator supports the organization’s PAC, electoral strategy, candidate and elected-official relationships, and environmental policy accountability efforts. The role manages PAC reporting, conducts district and candidate research, coordinates communications and events, supports endorsements and scorecards, and helps build a network of local environmental champions.
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters
The coordinator leads digital strategy intended to educate, engage, and mobilize supporters, partners, and decision-makers. Responsibilities include producing social, email, video, graphic, web, SMS, and advertising content; executing digital fundraising campaigns; maintaining constituent data; and evaluating campaign metrics. The position partners across communications and development teams and helps strengthen staff digital capacity through trainings.
Organize Pennsylvania
The Individual Giving Manager owns a portfolio of high-level individual donors and prospects, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts for annual, planned, and special-project funding. They will develop donor engagement plans, lead fundraising outreach and donor events, write proposals and acknowledgements, and maintain donor and revenue-tracking systems. The role also partners across development and program teams and supervises volunteer coordinator(s).
Organize Pennsylvania
The Community Outreach Specialist conducts daily door-to-door canvassing, street outreach, and phone banking to mobilize residents around elections and organizing campaigns. They build relationships with potential members and leaders, document conversations accurately, follow up with contacts, and meet outreach goals. During election season, the specialist also helps train and support temporary staff or volunteers.
Organize Pennsylvania
The Volunteer Coordinator will lead volunteer engagement for the 2026 electoral season, creating and managing canvasses, phone banks, text banks, and other opportunities across Pennsylvania. They will use organizing technology to build events, lists, scripts, and reports; recruit and support members; coordinate with partner organizations; and work across civic engagement and organizing teams. The role supervises a volunteer manager and helps host community events for local chapters.