Internships
UCBI is a paid internship program that places undergraduates in non-profit and public sector organizations. Students interested in public service get the chance to explore, contribute, and grow as they work in, with, and for local communities.
Beacon Food Forest
Mission
The Beacon Food Forest is a community-driven urban food forest located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. The project aims to create an edible forest garden that provides free food to the community while also promoting sustainable agriculture and community engagement. The Beacon Food Forest is a volunteer-run project that relies on community support and participation to maintain the garden and ensure its ongoing success.
Description
The Education Assistant will support the education team in organizing and implementing educational programs, including summer camps, workshops, classes, and other outreach efforts. The assistant will work closely with one of the Education Coordinators to ensure that all programs are running smoothly and that participants have an enjoyable and educational experience.
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Bloodworks Northwest Intern (Stop the BLEED Community Liaison)
Mission
Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.
Description
As the primary supplier for blood within our region, Bloodworks relies on 1,000 volunteer blood donors each day to ensure a safe, stable and adequate blood supply that is used in life-saving measures for patients. Bloodworks seeks to both increase community awareness - particularly with the BIPOC community - through education, legislative support and community engagement.
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The Bloodworks NW Intern will serve in one of two roles -- helping to expand the impact of our community education and engagement strategy with specific emphasis on communities of color as the Community Education Liaison OR helping organize education for our state and local representatives on the critical need for a diverse donor pool to support the community blood supply as the Public Policy Outreach Intern.
Canopy Scholars Intern
Mission
Canopy’s mission is to create equity in education for underserved students.
Description
Canopy provides tutoring, STEM, and community-building programs for students who are among the most ethnically diverse and economically challenged in the Shoreline School District. The Canopy Scholars intern will help coordinate and assist in leading our tutoring program for elementary students.
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Central Area Collaborative
Mission
To ensure the commercial vitality of the Central Area neighborhoods.
Description
This internship is to help magnify the past and present works of the organization. The goal is to publicize current and ongoing programs and the results of past works. This outreach should have the goal of attracting funding and inquiries on how to support various projects.
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Central Connections Nature School
Mission
Central Connections Nature School provides after-school care and summer camp experiences for kids from kindergarten to fifth grade. We promote nature connection and social emotional learning through mentorship, play and exploration.
Description
The intern will help with on-going development of programs under the leadership of the director/owner and provide mentorship for youth in the afterschool program.
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Columbia Legal Services Intern
Mission
Columbia Legal Services advocates for laws that advance social, economic, and racial equity for people living in poverty.
Description
Columbia Legal Services is developing the systems and structures that will help their organization diversify funding. The intern will work closely with their supervisor to build out the social media strategy and promotional materials to support overall communications and fund development efforts. Potential projects are focused on social media management, community connections mapping, and database management.
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El Centro de la Raza Corazoncito Youth Programs Intern
Mission
As an organization grounded in the Latino community of Washington State, it is the mission of El Centro de la Raza (The Center for People of All Races) build the Beloved Community* through unifying all racial and economic sectors; to organize, empower, and defend the basic human rights of our most vulnerable and marginalized populations; and to bring critical consciousness, justice, dignity, and equity to all the peoples of the world.
Description
The Youth Programs Intern (YPI) will gain hands-on experience in a multicultural and multilingual setting assisting in the coordination and delivery of social services programs. The intern will gain experience working for a well-established nonprofit serving Seattle’s Latino community and other communities of color, as well as the opportunity to learn about nonprofit programs in the context of youth empowerment and development. The YPI will support the operation of the Corazoncito Case Management Program (registration, database tracking & virtual program operations) with a focus on outreach and recruitment.
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Elizabeth Gregory Home Social Justice Intern
Mission
Elizabeth Gregory Home (EGH) serves single homeless women in the greater Seattle area by providing transitional housing, a Day Center and case management services. Elizabeth Gregory Home provides a welcoming and respectful refuge where homeless and at-risk women have access to compassionate care.
Description
This internship focuses on strengthening client support in the Elizabeth Gregory Home (EGH) Day Center. The intern will research, share and participate in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that enhance strength-based perspectives and practices among staff and volunteers. The intern in this role will learn about best practices in DEI and serving the unhoused community, as well as participate in EGH Equity Team meetings, gather client feedback about services and support and attend additional DEI trainings outside of EGH to further the work.
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Full Life Care Social Engagement for Healthy Aging Intern
Mission
Full Life is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for frail elders and people with chronic or terminal illnesses and disabilities. We are committed, through our program of health and social services, to the independence and well-being of all participants and to providing respite for caregivers.
Description
The intern will support two programs, ElderFriends Volunteer Companionship and Care Teams for Caregiver Respite, through phone calls to a caseload of isolated elder participants and outreach to current and prospective participants and volunteers. Additional projects may include creating social media content, developing communication strategies, event support and coordination, and/or operationalizing DEI initiatives within program services.
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Horn of Africa Services
Mission
To offer multilingual and multicultural services that can help its target low income East African immigrants and refugees attain immediate and long-term adjustment through social work, community capacity building, education and advocacy.
Description
We are looking for a detail-oriented and focused intern to serve as our Volunteer Coordinator. This person will be responsible for interacting with volunteers and connecting those volunteers with Horn of Africa Services (HOAS) opportunities, with the support and collaboration of the Youth Development Program Coordinator.
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International Rescue Committee Financial Coach Intern
Mission
The mission of the IRC is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Description
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and over 20 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people. The Financial Coach Intern will work within the Economic Empowerment Program to provide direct services to individuals who are enrolled in the Financial Literacy program. This intern will assist clients in developing plans that help the client reach their goals and achieve financial stability.
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Lifelong
Mission
Lifelong is a community health organization committed to removing barriers to health with relentless compassion so that no one faces illness and injustice alone. For 40 years, Lifelong has fought health inequities so that everyone can have the opportunity to thrive. Our comprehensive services include food and nutrition, healthcare navigation, aging and disability support, and connection to housing and other vital resources. The Food and Nutrition department provides medically tailored meals, groceries, nutritional counseling, and nutrition education to community members facing illness and injustice.
Description
The Quality Assurance Intern supports Lifelong’s Food and Nutrition Program by upholding our nutrition policy and standards under the supervision of the Community Nutritionist and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist’s. The Quality Assurance Intern supports Lifelong’s meal program by completing meal and ingredient audits, entering new recipes and ingredients into Lifelongs meal and ingredient database, and ensuring that frozen meals meet nutritional standards. The Quality Assurance Intern also supports Lifelong’s grocery program by assisting in projects such as creating flyers and reviewing food labels to determine if they meet Lifelong’s nutrition standards.
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Mercy Housing
Mission
To create stable, vibrant, and healthy communities by developing, financing, and operating affordable, program-enriched housing for families, seniors, and people with special needs who lack the economic resources to access quality, safe housing opportunities.
Description
Our intern would have a range of activities that they can choose from based on their preference. There are plenty of opportunities to do direct service with K-12th graders at sites in Kent, South Seattle, or North Seattle. Interns would be supporting the on-site work of our Youth Initiatives and School Liaisons who are providing the education programs at housing communities. Education-focused programming can be uniquely powerful when delivered onsite where a student lives as opposed to off-site at afterschool centers or other venues. It allows program staff to connect to both children and their caregivers in an integrated environment and can serve as an extension of family and home. It promotes trust, honors culture, and helps foster positive reinforcements within a wider community for both students and their families.
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NE Seattle Tool Library Intern
Mission
To create a space where tools and knowledge are accessible to Seattle residents regardless of income, while reducing our consumption of tools through sharing, repair and reuse.
Description
The Tool Library Intern will support outreach, member services, and administration at the NE Seattle Tool Library. As a small organization, we can tailor the internship experience to the specific person. No prior tool knowledge is necessary. This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in a hands-on learning experience in running and developing a small, successful nonprofit. Projects and responsibilities range from building our social media presence to learning about nonprofit management and the technical side of the tools (usage and repair).
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Neighborhood Legal Clinics Intake & Referral Intern
Mission
Neighborhood Legal Clinics program, part of the King County Bar Association, offers free, limited legal advice and referrals to King County residents and Washington State residents with legal issues in King County who might otherwise have no access to the legal system. It is a goal of the program to make the clinics accessible regardless of barriers such as income, education, language or disability.
Description
The NLC Intake & Referral (I&R) internship is focused on providing direct service to clients by scheduling them for free 30-minute legal consultations on civil legal issues, as well as making referrals to outside organizations. We have clinics specializing in family law, debt/bankruptcy, civil rights, and general clinics (that commonly handle landlord-tenant issues and employment law questions). After training, I&R interns receive a list of clients who have requested a pro bono legal appointment, call those clients, and then schedule and refer them as necessary to get help.
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OneAmerica Program Evaluation Assistant Intern
Mission
OneAmerica advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state, and national levels by building power within immigrant communities in collaboration with key allies.
Description
The intern will help compile both qualitative and quantitative data and participant feedback for purposes of program evaluation. They will also attend class regularly to build relationships with the students, assist with new student onboarding calls once a quarter, support student leadership development, and summarize program evaluation findings and success stories.
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Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Mission
Open Doors for Multicultural Families (ODMF) works with immigrants, refugees, and people of color who have developmental or intellectual disabilities and their families to increase their access to services and give them the tools to create the life they want to live. Programs in Youth Department cover:
- Transition: works to provide students ages 14 - 21 IEPs or 504 plans with the information they need to smoothly and effectively transition from high school to adult life.
- Job Readiness: provides youth and young adults ages 14 - 24 with critical pre-employment skills and college exploration opportunities.
- Engagement: self-awareness, self-esteem, and relationship development for ages 5 – 13 and 14 - 24; focusing specifically on social skills, social-emotional learning, self-advocacy and self-determination, outdoor activity, and independent living skills.
- Mentorship/Tutoring: providing academic enrichment, support, and goal setting for ages 14 – 24.
- Identity development: providing opportunities for youth to explore and discover self with an emphasis on positive cultural development and connection.
Description
The Youth Department tutor will serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) youth with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Tutors assist program staff and report to the Program Manager.
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Pike Market Senior Center Women's Programming Intern
Mission
Pike Market Senior Center strives to make each day better and safer for older adults. The Senior Center serves people age 55 and up. Membership is free and there are no fees for meals, services or regular activities. While people from all walks of life are members of PMSC, they are pioneers in offering senior center programming to elders who are homeless.
Description
The women members of Pike Market Senior Center (PMSC) are an underserved population within the membership. This internship is devised to change that reality! The intern will conduct outreach, build a communication network and work with programming staff to develop programming for women, as well as devise evaluation methods to measure outcomes of the new programming.
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Pongo Poetry Project Intern
Mission
Pongo’s core mission is to engage youth in writing poetry to inspire healing and growth.
Description
Pongo Poetry Project iuses personal poetry as a means for facilitating healing among those coping with devastating traumas, such as abuse, neglect, and exposure to violence. To accomplish their goals, Pongo runs therapeutic poetry writing workshops inside detention centers, homeless shelters, psychiatric hospitals, and other sites where trauma is a dominant theme for the residents. Pongo especially focuses on young people who have difficulty expressing themselves. The Pongo Project Poetry Intern will support in facilitiating poetry, conducting social media outreach, and supporting events, publishing, operations and community outreach.
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Puget Sound Community School Administrative Intern
Mission
PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum, student choice, accountability, and thoughtful collaboration.
Description
The PSCS Administrative Intern will work with the collaborative Administrative Team (Director of Program, Director of School Operations, Director of Community Engagement) to support our Teaching Staff, students, and families in the areas of general administrative work, social media representation, daily/long term planning, and student support. Projects and tasks may include event coordination, social media and marketing support, volunteer engagement, engaging with students, and participating in collaborative leadership processes.
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Renton Veteran Center Community Programming Intern
Mission
Compass Housing Alliance develops and provides essential services and affordable housing for homeless and low-income people in the greater Puget Sound region. The Renton Veteran Center specifically provides permanent supportive housing to formally homeless veterans and their families.
Description
This intern will support the execution and facilitation of youth and adult programming designed to support veterans and their families within the Renton Veteran Center (RVC) community. Such programming is intended to empower, aid and engage our residents and their tailored interests and needs. The intern will serve an essential role by working collaboratively with program staff, community partners and facilitating meaningful events and sessions.
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Skate Like a Girl Intern
Mission
To create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding.
Description
Skate Like a Girl values experiential learning and civic participation by providing opportunities to be involved in the skateboarding community. Projects for the Skate Like a Girl Intern may include supporting fundraising efforts, building and distributing skateboards, supporting programming and/or social media outreach.
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Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC)
Mission
SESEC’s mission is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.
Description
SESEC was founded in 2012 in response to a study showing Southeast Seattle schools’ low performance. Not willing to let students miss the opportunities they deserve, SESEC members fight everyday for equitable educational policies for our children, families, and the Southeast Seattle community.
As the Educational Justice Intern, you will have the opportunity to closely experience our coalition working towards educational justice. By completing this internship, you will gain a familiarity of Seattle’s education landscape and see first hand how movers and shakers are holding institutions accountable for serving all students. Prepare to learn different structures such as school fundraising, data incorporation and our capacity building cohorts. SESEC is experiencing a wave of growth, selecting this internship gives you an opportunity to be a part of that growth!
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Street Youth Ministries Program Intern
Mission
To provide youth in Seattle’s University District with life-skills, resources, and relationships that bring hope and healing to their lives and the community.
Description
The SYM Program Intern will be immersed in a vibrant, faith-based non-profit setting, working alongside staff to provide programs and support for youth and young-adults experiencing homelessness or unstable housing and between the ages 13-26. This internship is focused is on the SYM Drop-in Center with a specific concentration on direct-service & working with program staff. Examples of work or projects in this area include leading SYM’s Activities Program, outreach, building relationships with a number of youth and developing programs directly serving youth alongside program staff.
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Teen Feed Advocate & Dinner Coordinator
Mission
Teen Feed is a Seattle nonprofit 501c3 which works with the community to offer support to meet basic needs, build strong relationships, and ally with homeless youth as they meet their future off the streets. With the tremendous support of the community, Teen Feed responds to the most basic needs of homeless youth with three integrated programs: Teen Feed Meal Program, Street Talk Outreach Program (STOP), and Service Links for Youth Support Coordination (SLY) - a navigation resource.
Description
UCBI interns acting as Advocates are crucial members of our direct service teams who remember youth’s names, help meet the basic needs of meals and supplies, conduct entryway health screenings on youth, and join guests 1:1 to engage in socially-distanced conversation, do regular wellness checks, and hand out PPE. An intern in the Dinner Coordinator role will take on more of a leadership role, supervising operational aspects of the nightly dinner program, including floor supervision and support of dinner team volunteers. UCBI interns provide consistency and positive relationships with Teen Feed's youth guests, in addition to helping meet basic needs at the Teen Feed dinner program.
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Teen Feed Advocate & Project and Administrative Coordinator
Mission
Teen Feed is a Seattle nonprofit 501c3 which works with the community to offer support to meet basic needs, build strong relationships, and ally with homeless youth as they meet their future off the streets. With the tremendous support of the community, Teen Feed responds to the most basic needs of homeless youth with three integrated programs: Teen Feed Meal Program, Street Talk Outreach Program (STOP), and Service Links for Youth Support Coordination (SLY) - a navigation resource.
Description
UCBI interns acting as Advocates are crucial members of the direct service teams who remember youth’s names, help meet the basic needs of meals and supplies, conduct entryway health screenings on youth, and join guests 1:1 to engage in socially-distanced conversation, do regular wellness checks, and hand out PPE. The Project & Administrative Coordinator role is a key member of our small but mighty Administrative Team, assisting with and coordinating behind-the-scenes data entry, system management, and other administrative projects as needed. UCBI interns provide consistency and positive relationships with Teen Feed's youth guests, in addition to helping meet basic needs at the Teen Feed dinner program.
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The Doorway Project
Mission
The Doorway Project is an initiative co-led by the University of Washington and YouthCare to address youth and young adult (YYA) homelessness in Seattle’s University District through a lens of Healing Centered Engagement with young adults, the UW community, and direct and indirect service providers. We operate from a perspective of healing-centered engagement, amplifying the voices and experiences of YYAs with lived experience of homelessness. We seek the knowledge and guidance of young people who live, work, or learn here in this neighborhood and are experiencing housing instability by meeting them where they’re at and moving from there. The work we do is intentionally open-ended, flexible, and continually evolving in response to what we learn. Through this process we have identified three main pillars of Healing Centered Engagement: Community Engagement, Creative Engagement, and Campus Engagement. We are seeking an intern to work with us within the Community Engagement pillar, supporting our second year Transition Age Youth (TAY) support cohort and communications around TAY.
Description
By working with the Doorway Project, interns will have the opportunity to learn more about Healing Centered Engagement and how it can be applied to populations experiencing homelessness. More importantly, we will work to break down stigma and engage in critical dialogue about homelessness and the systemic drivers that continue the cycle of poverty and oppression. The only requirement we have for our staff and interns is openness to learning and an ability to be responsive to feedback. We understand that all of us enter the conversation about power, privilege, and oppression at different points; but we ask that everyone who joins our community does so with a lens of racial and social equity. Conversations about social justice will be engaged in often and respectfully both through team discussion and Doorway programming. Interns will be involved in staff meetings, as well as supervision based on their unique positions. We will structure this mentoring and supervision relationship around the UCBI intern, but it will include weekly meetings, clear and mutually agreed upon goals, and iterative feedback. The personal development of the intern is as important to our team as the projects they’ll be stewarding. We will work to foster an environment of transparency, where mistakes are part of the learning process and communication is key.
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The Light Collective
Mission
Creating a hope-oriented community where families who have a child with cancer can build resilience and share delight.
Description
The Light Collective Childhood Cancer Programs Intern will have an opportunity to experience all the aspects of running a small nonprofit, including program management, fundraising, budgeting and finance, marketing, administration, volunteer recruitment and support, and more. This internship can be tailored to meet the specific learning goals of the student, and comes with plenty of opportunities to provide front-line care for kids and families through our virtual and in-person programs. Depending on the intern’s interests, we can also arrange opportunities to connect with members of our community who have backgrounds in medicine, social work, counseling, education, pastoral training, and more to discover how those gifts and skills make an impact. More than anything, we hope this experience helps the intern grow in their empathy and compassion, and learn how to show up for people who are suffering.
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The Math Agency Intern (Community Engagement Intern & Family Support Intern)
Mission
Our mission is to close educational gaps in math for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Description
Our program is built upon research showing that small-group coaching is one of the most effective ways to increase learning. Our coaches provide excitement, motivation, and help reinforce the behaviors that turn our students into strong, independent learners. In addition working as a coach, the intern will recruit and support volunteer math coaches or work with families and the team to develop and test ways to increase how much students practice at home.
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University District Youth Center
Mission
Our Mission is to engage youth in a safe space that provides programming and connection to resources so that young people can maintain stability and achieve their self-sustaining goals. We hold monthly community meetings with our clients. We as the UDYC community collectively value connection, community, and collaboration. We believe that we are dedicated to creating a healing environment in which quality services are provided, needs are being met, goals are being reached, and community is being built. This goes for both clients and staff. Clients are welcome to engage with staff about any concerns they have about their progress and programs offered. Staff's mission is to decolonize our approaches to navigating the system, and to maintain a trauma informed, social-justice oriented community, we always challenge ourselves to actively listen, and encourage clients to engage in their own process. We strive to create a safe place where clients can engage and receive services equitably.
Description
Develop and deliver group and individual programming to foster life and social skill development. Programming provides an opportunity for youth and young adults to engage, increase knowledge and skills, and moves young people toward the agency’s four core outcomes - housing stability, financial independence, community support, and wellness.
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University Heights Center Human Resources Intern
Mission
University Heights Center promotes life-long learning, creativity, culture, community activism, and the preservation of our historic building.
Description
The University Heights Center for the Community (UHeights) serves all within and around the U-District through opportunities of arts and culture, education, civic involvement, sustainability, and the lifelong education of individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. UHeights seeks a highly motivated and self-directed intern to build out their mutual aid network and support community projects and partnerships connected with the UHeights Safe Lot, a program that provides displaced people a safe place to park and sleep while simultaneously receiving case management for housing, employment, and other services.
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World Affairs Council
Mission
The World Affairs Council has an over 70-year history of advancing global understanding and engagement throughout greater Seattle. We envision a community that is connected, actively
engaged, and inspired to create change in the world. The Council has long dedicated itself to fostering dialogue and debate about critical global issues. This is achieved through public events,
Global Classroom programming for K-12 educators and students, and diplomacy initiatives that engage international delegations with our community. Our platform ties civic, academic,
corporate, and individual members around world issues. We are part of a vibrant global city; our goal is to ensure that Seattle is visible, engaged, and globally aware.
Description
Interns are a critical part of the World Affairs Council and will contribute to its mission while gaining hands-on work experience. The Council is seeking dedicated and goal-oriented interns to work for our Global Leadership Exchange team with the prospect of completing projects that may be used in a work portfolio or for academic credit.
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YMCA Seattle Employment & Training Intern
Mission
Building a community where all people, especially the young, are encouraged to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind, and body.
Description
The Employment and Training (EaT) Team offers a robust array of workforce development programs and services, including workforce training, digital skills workshops, internship/job placements, connections to certification and post-secondary education programs, a weekly Job Club, Hot Jobs newsletter, and financial literacy classes. An intern with the Employment and Training Team will provide support in a variety of administrative duties designed to elevate the employment and training offerings to the youth and young adult community.
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YouthCare's YouthBuild Pre-Apprenticeship Program
Mission
YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential.
Description
The YouthBuild program operates as part of YouthCare’s Workforce Development team to respond to the needs of young people facing barriers to education and employment. YouthBuild is a 6-month Construction-Based Pre-Apprenticeship and GED attainment program for individuals 18-24 who are looking to get their GED or high school diploma. Through the program participants receive academic support, job-readiness training, leadership development, carpentry skill development, physical training, and case management services. The intern placed in this role will work on site with YouthBuild to provide educational content to clients, manage client data and program experience, and support the program’s operations.
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