Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
HarperCollins Publishers
The Marketing Intern will help develop and execute campaigns aimed at younger audiences for Bible study products. Responsibilities include drafting marketing copy and emails, uploading video and photo assets, supporting mailings and author calls, conducting market research, and reporting on campaign performance.
Bread for the World
The intern gathers, cleans, validates, analyzes, and visualizes public data on food insecurity, nutrition, health, demographics, and public programs. They support Tableau dashboards, state factsheets, grant reporting, and program evaluation while maintaining accurate constituent records, imports, and data-quality processes in Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Milken Institute
The intern will support a business and program development team by researching prospective partners, building engagement strategies, managing outreach data, and helping maintain stakeholder relationships. The position also collaborates with events, programs, and communications colleagues and may provide local event support.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC)
The fellow supports grant programs and business-development initiatives that help Massachusetts researchers and startups commercialize clean-energy technologies. Responsibilities include maintaining program databases, reviewing proposals and invoices, tracking awardee metrics, conducting market research, drafting communications and reports, responding to inquiries, and supporting meetings and events.
Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
The intern will create and edit visual materials for print and digital channels, including policy briefs, reports, social-media graphics, presentations, and web assets. They will maintain brand consistency, organize design files, participate in concept development, and incorporate feedback from staff across the organization.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF
The intern will assist the Advocacy Department with legislative, administrative, and community-engagement campaigns across civil-rights issue areas. Responsibilities include researching laws and proposed amendments, drafting comments and policy memos, supporting workshops and coalition meetings, identifying partners, and coordinating with communications staff.
Election Reformers Network
This part-time intern supports research, communications, and policy work focused on election administration and democratic reform. Day-to-day work includes policy research, tracking media and legislative developments, drafting written materials, and organizing research resources.
PETA
The intern will help advance youth animal-rights activism through Instagram and TikTok content, trend research, campaign development, and brainstorming meetings. They will organize a local or university animal-rights campaign and may travel for protests or outreach tours when possible.
Project for Pride in Living
The Youth Program Assistant Intern helps deliver enrichment programming for young people who have experienced homelessness. They will plan and facilitate age-appropriate activities, collaborate with staff and community partners, serve as a consistent role model, and help redirect behavior when needed.
AARP
This intern will help advance advocacy communications through media relations work focused on caregiving, health and welfare, and prescription drug issues. Responsibilities include policy research, drafting support materials, contributing to communications strategy, supporting media events, and designing post-campaign PowerPoint reports.
American Clean Power Association
The intern supports pre-conference planning for large industry events, with work spanning exhibitor and sponsor fulfillment, sales outreach, and event administration. Responsibilities include reviewing booth-design submissions, responding to partner inquiries, maintaining CRM and project records, conducting prospect research, and tracking follow-up communications.
Better Markets
The Communications Intern will create graphics and draft blog posts, press releases, newsletters, and fact sheets for a busy communications office. They will maintain social media and website content, research media opportunities, track press coverage, and support press engagement and database management.
Bantam Communications
This intern provides flexible support across campaign, advocacy, research, and communications workstreams. Responsibilities include researching policy, stakeholders, opposition, public opinion, and media; drafting and editing materials; supporting meetings and follow-up; and helping coordinate tasks, timelines, processes, and workflows.
Education Forward Arizona
The intern will create and publish audience-focused digital content, including social posts, blog articles, newsletters, campaign materials, graphics, and TikTok or Instagram Reels. They will support social media scheduling and engagement, capture event media, research marketing performance, and assist the communications team with projects and administration.
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.
Rising Voices
The intern will help coordinate community engagement activities, including tabling, outreach, signature drives, and monthly membership meetings. They will support organizing campaigns, member recruitment, college-based voter outreach, and community canvasses while learning grassroots advocacy tools.
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.
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 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.
Voters of Tomorrow
The fellow will conduct one-on-one and group voter outreach through campus canvassing, tabling, door knocking, classroom visits, and student-organization outreach. They will also plan engagement events, recruit and train volunteers, and help create momentum for youth voter participation in the 2026 election.
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.
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.
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.