Micro-Internships

Cup of Cool Water

Cup of Cool Water (CCW) is a Spokane drop-in center serving youth and young adults ages 14-24 experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or crisis. Project focus: gain hands-on experience in nonprofit administration while helping CCW strengthen internal systems, improve operational efficiency, and support organizational effectiveness. This role offers exposure to the behind-the-scenes functions that let a nonprofit fulfill its mission and serve the community. Deliverables include process maps and documentation, improved systems, SOPs and templates, efficiency recommendations, a completed improvement project, and a final report or presentation.

Leadership Spokane · Operations & Finance

Support Leadership Spokane's Operations team with finance and bookkeeping tied to the organization's annual gala, from pre-event revenue tracking through post-event financial close-out. Runs January 5 to approximately February 19, 2027, covering the February 6 gala and post-event close-out.

Cup of Cool Water

Cup of Cool Water (CCW) is a Spokane drop-in center serving youth and young adults ages 14-24 experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or crisis. Project focus: strengthen CCW's marketing and communications so more people understand its mission, connect with its work, and find ways to get involved. On-site in Spokane, with weekly mentorship from a CCW supervisor. Deliverables include a social content calendar, marketing recommendations, promotional materials, updated messaging, and a sustainable communications plan.

Cup of Cool Water

Cup of Cool Water (CCW) is a Spokane drop-in center serving youth and young adults ages 14-24 experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or crisis. Project focus: help CCW tell the story of its work through authentic, respectful, compelling video content for social media, the website, fundraising campaigns, and the annual gala. On-site in Spokane, with weekly mentorship from a CCW supervisor. Deliverables include 1-2 polished impact videos, short-form social videos, usable B-roll, and recommendations for future content.

Cup of Cool Water

Cup of Cool Water (CCW) is a Spokane drop-in center serving youth and young adults ages 14-24 experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or crisis. Project focus: support CCW's fundraising by researching funding opportunities, telling its story through compelling writing, and strengthening donor outreach. On-site in Spokane, with weekly mentorship from a CCW supervisor. Deliverables include a grant prospect list, funding research, grant drafts or supporting materials, an organized collection of statistics and impact stories, and donor communication materials.

Cup of Cool Water

Cup of Cool Water (CCW) is a Spokane drop-in center serving youth and young adults ages 14-24 experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or crisis. Project focus: support CCW in planning and executing fundraising and community events, with a particular focus on the Annual Fundraising Gala & Silent Auction. On-site in Spokane, with weekly mentorship from a CCW supervisor. Deliverables include an event planning timeline, a task/checklist system, volunteer coordination materials, a sponsor/table-host tracker, and recommendations for future events.

Mujeres in Action · Comunidad y Acción (Government Relations)

Mujeres in Action (MiA) is a Spokane-based nonprofit providing services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, founded to close service gaps for immigrant survivors with limited English proficiency. Its framework centers trauma-informed, culturally competent services. Comunidad y Acción, MiA's government-relations wing, collaborates with partners and agencies and advocates for policies benefiting all survivors. This intern helps create materials for two projects: roll-call training materials for the Spokane Police Department and a Spanish translation of the Spokane Voter's Pamphlet. Software is provided.

Faces for Hope

Help plan and secure donations for The Hope On the Court Classic, the fundraiser Faces for Hope is putting on in November. This role offers hands-on experience in event fundraising and donor relations, with hybrid and in-person work opportunities in Spokane, WA.

Transitions

Develop a multimedia community awareness campaign that addresses misconceptions about homelessness and poverty among women and families, while showcasing the real stories, impact, and programs of Transitions. The intern will create educational, story-driven video content designed to increase community understanding, volunteer engagement, and donor support. Transitions' work with Women's Hearth, supportive housing, and New Leaf Cafe provides powerful stories of the challenges participants face and the opportunities for hope, stability, and self-sufficiency. Materials can be repurposed for fundraising, volunteer recruitment, advocacy, and community presentations well beyond the six-week internship.

KSPS PBS · Education

KSPS PBS is seeking a detail-oriented, creative intern to support the redesign and modernization of about five existing PBS LearningMedia educational collections. Working with the KSPS PBS Education Department, the intern will review current collections, update content to reflect current learning standards, migrate materials into a refreshed and more consistent design, and build a repeatable process for maintaining collections. This is hands-on experience in educational content development, content migration, research, quality assurance, and public media, resulting in a project that continues to serve educators after the internship ends.

Singularity University · Marketing - Design

Support the Singularity University marketing design team in creating compelling digital and print assets for web, email, paid media, events, sales support, presentations, and collateral. Start date March 2026. A portfolio link is requested (student work, freelance projects, and personal work all welcome). Learn more at www.su.org.

Singularity University · Marketing

Singularity University is looking for a fast, creative editor to transform hours of expert talks and course content into engaging short-form social media videos. Its programs feature leading voices in technology, innovation, and leadership; your job is to find the compelling moments and turn them into clips that capture attention and spark conversation online. Start date March 2026.

Singularity University · Research, Expertise and Knowledge

A short-term, project-based placement with Singularity University, designed to deliver meaningful, tangible outcomes for the host organization while giving you practical, real-world experience in your field. Support the team in researching emerging technologies shaping the future and their impact on society, and help shape Singularity's thought leadership on technological and ethical issues.

WestRiver Group · Investment Team

A short-term, project-based placement with WestRiver Group, designed to deliver meaningful, tangible outcomes for the host organization while giving you practical, real-world experience in your field. Support the investment team by researching emerging sectors and summarizing market trends and promising startups.

Singularity University · Marketing

Support the Singularity University marketing team in analyzing email and paid media campaigns to uncover insights that improve performance and drive additional revenue. You'll report findings to stakeholders, help draft marketing copy and briefs, and join brainstorming on how to reach key audiences. Start date March 2026. Learn more at www.su.org.

WMI Worldwide

A short-term, project-based placement with WMI Worldwide, delivering tangible outcomes for the host organization while giving the student real-world experience in marketing strategy and execution, with a focus on environmental impact.

Rev. Alyssa Bell

A short-term, project-based placement supporting Rev. Alyssa Bell in building and maintaining a custom church liturgy application that helps pastors organize and access prayers by theme, streamlining weekly service preparation. Real-world experience in software development and user-focused design.

Big Table

A strategy-focused internship evaluating whether Big Table's proprietary care-tracking database, Remember, could become a scalable product. The intern researches, analyzes, and presents findings to inform leadership's decision on whether and how to move forward.

WMI Worldwide · Technology Services Team

A short-term, project-based placement with WMI Worldwide's Technology Services Team, delivering tangible outcomes for the host organization while giving the student real-world experience in technology development and digital solutions.

Faces for Hope

A marketing internship with Faces for Hope supporting donor-child sponsorships and strengthening campaign engagement, with hands-on experience in nonprofit fundraising and outreach.