Internships and early-career roles that make a difference
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.
Milken Institute
The intern will maintain relationship and prospect data, research target industries and prospective partners, and support day-to-day operations for the Miami office. They will help the business and program development team cultivate its network and may assist with local events and cross-functional work with communications, programs, and events teams.
CALSTART
The intern will support Clean Ports initiatives across the Midwest and California’s San Joaquin Valley, including research on emerging fuels and local environmental conditions. Responsibilities include drafting internal research memos, conducting outreach for data collection, developing community-engagement strategies, and assisting with project execution and statewide strategy work.
Reading Partners
The Family Engagement Intern will support literacy workshops and events for parents and caregivers, including preparing materials, facilitating sessions, assisting with event logistics, and following up with participants. The role also involves outreach to schools and community partners, relationship-building, and simple tracking of attendance and engagement feedback.
Catalist
The fellow will monitor a shared request inbox, determine the appropriate productionized script and inputs for each request, and deliver checked outputs. They will communicate statuses or questions to requestors and the Data Services Engineering team, escalating work that falls outside standard processes.
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.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
The intern will help build media coverage by monitoring news and social media, maintaining press lists, and drafting or editing reports, press releases, and blog posts. They will also track communications analytics and create content for the web, email, and social media channels.
The Council of State Governments
The Communications Fellow will assist with branded visual materials, asset management, short-form writing, email newsletters, website updates, and social media publishing. The role also supports design templates, creative reviews, and cross-department communications projects while gaining broad experience in nonprofit and public-policy communications.
Oceana
The Communications Intern will monitor and circulate U.S. and international press coverage, prepare regular media-coverage reports, and maintain campaign media lists. The role also drafts and edits blog posts, pitches, press releases, social posts, and Executive Committee and Board media reports while supporting ad hoc communications research.
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
The intern will manage a backlog of website maintenance and enhancement tasks focused on accessibility compliance, SEO/GEO optimization, content quality, and UX. They will update website content and designs, research improvement opportunities, and may assist with wireframes and page layouts in Figma.
The HALO Trust (USA)
The intern will support congressional engagement and grassroots advocacy related to humanitarian mine action. Responsibilities include drafting briefings and digital communications, tracking legislation and hearings, arranging and documenting congressional meetings, supporting events, maintaining advocacy databases, and researching current events.
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.
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.
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.
MOVE Texas
The Campus Organizer will lead a campus chapter by recruiting and supporting student members, conducting weekly outreach, and facilitating monthly chapter meetings. The role also organizes campus events and campaigns, implements statewide voter-engagement and advocacy priorities locally, and connects chapter members with training, staff, and statewide resources.
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
The Finance Intern will prepare research for member fundraising call time and help ensure donor records in NGP remain accurate and useful. Day-to-day work includes researching prospective donors, verifying contact details, reviewing giving histories, assigning asks, and supporting other finance-team needs. The position is part time at 10–15 hours weekly through November 3, 2026, with expected statewide travel.
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.
ACLU Foundation of Florida
The Miami Field Intern supports grassroots organizing and volunteer leadership development across civil-liberties campaigns. Day-to-day work includes community and campus outreach, protests and legal-observing support, Know Your Rights trainings, canvassing, phone and text banking, event support, data entry, and creation of flyers and digital content.
The Good Food Institute
The intern will research alternative-protein companies, update internal databases and Salesforce records, and track products, brands, investments, and engagement history. They will also prepare case studies, stakeholder briefs, tailored talking points, and polished presentations while assisting with ad hoc research and resource-development projects.
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.
Bread for the World
This intern supports the development department's event and fundraising work, spending approximately two-thirds of their time on events and one-third on philanthropy. Responsibilities include event logistics, vendor coordination, digital communications, donor stewardship support, grant prospect research, database maintenance, and general administrative assistance.
After School Matters
The intern supports high school program operations, including student recruitment, application assistance, enrollment updates, attendance tracking, and collection of stipend-related documents. They communicate with teens and parents, help coordinate field-trip procedures, and provide occasional classroom and small-group support.
Bread for the World
The intern will support the international portfolio of a policy and research team, with emphasis on hunger, malnutrition, and international assistance policy. Responsibilities include policy research and analysis, writing, scheduling Capitol Hill meetings, participating in advocacy coalitions and appropriations meetings, and assisting with additional projects.