Spring 2027 Climate Justice Internships will be offered at the following orgs (scroll down to learn more about each):
- Goldman Foundation (Goldman Environmental Prize)
- People’s Solar Energy Fund
- Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project
- PODER SF
- Frontline Catalysts
- Reclaim Our Power
- Climate Justice Alliance
- University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources/San Mateo County 4-H
Goldman Foundation (Goldman Environmental Prize)
- Organization Mission: "Honor ordinary people who take extraordinary actions to protect our planet."
- Project Descriptions: 2 different internships available.
- The Communications Intern will gather and organize Prize winner quotes, maintain contact records in Salesforce, assist with database updates, support administrative tasks, prepare Prize winner images, support outreach (drafting emails, tracking responses, following up on outreach), and capture social media content during the 2027 Prize Ceremony. The ideal intern would have strong organization, writing, and communication skills.
- Internship Location: Hybrid. Interns will be expected to work in-person for 4-5 hours/week on Tuesdays or Wednesdays in Goldman Foundation’s San Francisco office.
- The Program Intern will support the Program team with coordination and logistics for the 2027 Prize Tour and Ceremony, including maintaining records in Salesforce, cross-checking invite requests, conducting research, helping support events and meetings, preparing recipient materials, and supporting communications and outreach. The intern may also be able to participate in the nomination and docket process for the 2028 nomination cycle. The internship provides hands-on experience within an international environmental nonprofit organization while helping build professional skills in communication, organization, event coordination, research, and tools such as Salesforce and Mailchimp. The ideal intern would have strong professional communication and time management skills.
- Internship Location: Hybrid. Interns will be expected to work in-person for 4-5 hours/week on Tuesdays or Wednesdays in Goldman Foundation’s San Francisco office.
- The Communications Intern will gather and organize Prize winner quotes, maintain contact records in Salesforce, assist with database updates, support administrative tasks, prepare Prize winner images, support outreach (drafting emails, tracking responses, following up on outreach), and capture social media content during the 2027 Prize Ceremony. The ideal intern would have strong organization, writing, and communication skills.
People’s Solar Energy Fund
- Organization Mission: "The People's Solar Energy Fund is where BIPOC and low income community leaders work together to build community-led solar projects with a path to community ownership in low and moderate-income communities and communities of color across the US. ...These nonprofits, cooperatives, tribal and municipal organizations share knowledge, financing solutions and technical assistance to reduce the cost of financing, improve each project's financial performance, reduce risks, and ensure PSEF's success."
- Project Descriptions: 2 different internships available. Both interns would be invited to shadow Communities Building Solar Capacity training sessions and participate in practice activities facilitated through the program.
- The Program Monitoring Intern will support staff in monitoring the fourth cohort of the Communities Building Solar Capacity, a virtual program that provides community-based organizations with foundational education in solar project development through live, practitioner-led workshops. Intern activities may include collecting, analyzing, and using data to track participant and program progress toward goals. Interns will develop skills in data management, data analysis, and program and training evaluation and will help create a program evaluation and impact report.
- Internship Location: online
- The Region-specific Engagement Research Intern will support staff in researching and developing strategies and best practices for meaningful community outreach and engagement to grow PSEF’s impact in specific geographic regions. Potential activities include identifying and creating briefs on organizations with analogous experience, supporting key informant interviews, and aiding the development of outreach and engagement plans. Interns will develop skills in landscape analysis, design thinking skills (e.g., research synthesis, prototyping), and stakeholder engagement and will help create a research brief and outreach and engagement plan.
- Internship Location: online
- The Program Monitoring Intern will support staff in monitoring the fourth cohort of the Communities Building Solar Capacity, a virtual program that provides community-based organizations with foundational education in solar project development through live, practitioner-led workshops. Intern activities may include collecting, analyzing, and using data to track participant and program progress toward goals. Interns will develop skills in data management, data analysis, and program and training evaluation and will help create a program evaluation and impact report.
Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project
- Organization Mission: Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation of land, labor and culture. MG supports grassroots organizing and movement building for a Just Transition away from extractivism, exploitation and enclosure to economies based on cooperation, care, commons and consent.
- Project Descriptions: 2 types of internships are available.
- Movement Building Team Interns will work on the Frameworks Evolution Organizer’s Gathering. In March of 2027, MG will host a gathering of over 30 grassroots organizers, movement building and climate justice leaders to support the evolution of the Just Transition Framework, which MG developed 10 years ago; and to create new strategy tools, frameworks and interventions to meet the moment. Interns will work with the Movement Building team to prepare for the five day gathering (including document preparation, retreat logistics); attend the gathering (during SFSU Spring Break) to support documentation, logistics, and participation (attendance is not mandatory, but is encouraged and will be a very rich experience); and support post-retreat follow-up (organizing materials, evaluations and follow-ups).
- Internship Location: Hybrid. In-person work will take place in Oakland and the retreat will take place in Sonoma County.
- Movement Building Team Interns will work on the Frameworks Evolution Organizer’s Gathering. In March of 2027, MG will host a gathering of over 30 grassroots organizers, movement building and climate justice leaders to support the evolution of the Just Transition Framework, which MG developed 10 years ago; and to create new strategy tools, frameworks and interventions to meet the moment. Interns will work with the Movement Building team to prepare for the five day gathering (including document preparation, retreat logistics); attend the gathering (during SFSU Spring Break) to support documentation, logistics, and participation (attendance is not mandatory, but is encouraged and will be a very rich experience); and support post-retreat follow-up (organizing materials, evaluations and follow-ups).
- MG Land Team Interns will work on Meadowlands Restoration. MG stewards a 44 acre site in the East Bay Hills that is part of the Sogorae Te Land Trust, including working on restoration of native plant and animal populations. As is the case with most grasslands in the Bay Area and the country, these grasslands are overgrown with exotic and often invasive plant species that make it very difficult for the native plants that have cultural significance to thrive. MG aims to steward a land-backed, BIPOC-led ecological restoration site to practice & demonstrate bioregional governance by remembering our way forward as part of a land-based movement. Restoring the local plant and associated animal, reptile & insect species is a major part of this work. Interns will be a part of a process to restore this beautiful site’s indigenous medicine through hand weeding non-native species; restoring and nurturing native species; engaging with MG collective and community members to learn the cultural, culinary, medicinal and ecological significance of different species.
- Internship Location: In-person in the East Bay hills. Meadowlands restoration work happens on Monday 3-5pm and Thursdays 10:30am-12:30pm. Schedule may be flexible for interns.
PODER SF
- Organization Mission: "Organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power."
- Project Description: Interns will support PODER’s stewardship of Hummingbird Farm and the Urban Campesinx program to build climate justice and community resilience. Students will be supporting youth and intergenerational programming at Hummingbird Farm, including school tours, native history and plant walks. Students will also help with garden/farm maintenance and support young people in engaging with the farm. In addition, interns will also work on the campaign to protect the natural, native and ancestral beauty of the farm from the threat of destructive development through the “Keep Crocker Real” campaign. Campaign activities can include creating multi-media outreach and educational materials, attending campaign events, organizing community to participate in the campaign and advocacy through public forums.
- Internship Location: In-person in San Francisco
Frontline Catalysts
- Organization Mission: "Empowering frontline youth in Oakland to lead the movement for transformative climate justice."
- Project Descriptions: 2 types of internships are available.
- CALI Interns will support our Catalysts Action Leadership Institute (CALI). CALI is designed to build a network of youth leaders engaged in climate action through participatory research & ethnic studies. Our youth leaders meet weekly to explore adaptation and sustainability projects hands on, analyze data and research to address local environmental issues, and engage in action, advocacy, and community engagement initiatives with the goal of building a resilient and liberated Oakland for the future. The interns will learn valuable skills in facilitation, curriculum development, and campaign development.
- Internship Location: In-person in Oakland, including weekly in-person Saturday sessions from 10am-3pm.
- The CJYLD Intern will support youth climate leadership development through mentorship and facilitation in Frontline Catalysts’ Climate Justice Youth Leadership Development (CJYLD) program. CJYLD is designed to cultivate youth skills in advocacy and climate resilience building while developing foundational knowledge of environmental justice and the origins and inequities of climate change. The intern will join CJTLD in leading weekly hands-on learning and advocacy activities with youth in grades 6-12 in the Oakland Unified School District. This role includes skill development in curriculum design and facilitation, as well as an end-of-term creative project determined by the intern with guidance from staff.
- Internship Location: In-person in Oakland (plus some online meetings)
- The Frontline Voices/Communications Intern will explore how storytelling is integral to the environmental justice movement, creating projects that increase community awareness of local environmental hazards and deepen understanding of climate resiliency. The intern will research and collect stories from community members to create digital content to be shared across various communication channels; use photography to document community events and programs hosted by Frontline Catalysts; and research local environmental issues and create strong narratives to move people to climate action.
- Internship Location: In-person in Oakland (plus some online meetings)
- CALI Interns will support our Catalysts Action Leadership Institute (CALI). CALI is designed to build a network of youth leaders engaged in climate action through participatory research & ethnic studies. Our youth leaders meet weekly to explore adaptation and sustainability projects hands on, analyze data and research to address local environmental issues, and engage in action, advocacy, and community engagement initiatives with the goal of building a resilient and liberated Oakland for the future. The interns will learn valuable skills in facilitation, curriculum development, and campaign development.
Reclaim Our Power
- Organization Mission: The Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Campaign was born in 2019 out of the resilience, vision, and strength of communities most impacted by California’s dangerous and consolidated energy system. Our coalition of over 90 organizations builds collective power to abolish PG&E and replace it through a just transition to a safe, reliable, affordable People's Utility. Reclaim Our Power (ROP) is advancing a transformative vision for an energy system rooted in community ownership, energy security, and solidarity.
- Project Description: The City and County of San Francisco in occupied Yelamu has been working to municipalize their energy system for decades, and to break away from PG&E. However, they have lacked the community mobilization and power building to make this possible. In 2027, ROP aims to ramp up organizing in the SF region. Interns may organize and facilitate at least one People’s Policy workshop for Utility Justice for students and SF community at large; collect stories from community in SF around their experience of PG&E and their hopes for a new utility; researching SF’s history of municipalization and creating popular educational materials such as one-pagers, zines, or infographics; and contribute to Reclaim Our Power’s Justice-Centered Utility report that outlines policies a utility could implement to ensure utility justice within its service territory
- Internship Location: Hybrid. In-person work will take place in SF and the East Bay, and online work will be synchronous.
Climate Justice Alliance
- Organization Mission: Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing member alliance of over 100 urban, rural and indigenous frontline communities, organizations and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. Established in 2013, CJA’s translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. Member organizations lead CJA by anchoring major Just Transition projects focused on the social, racial, economic and environmental justice issues of climate change.
- Project Description: Coming soon…
- Internship Location: Primarily online, with opportunities for in-person work.
University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources/San Mateo County 4-H
- Organization Mission: San Mateo County 4-H is a youth development program on a mission to engage youth to their fullest potential through hands-on learning and supportive relationships with caring adults and it emphasizes equity, racial justice, and trauma-informed practices.
- Project Descriptions: Interns will help lead ResilientRoots, an afterschool climate justice program for middle school youth. Interns will be trained and co-lead the curriculum during afterschool classes and support youth to develop and implement a climate action project. Interns will also help facilitate a field trip to a local outdoor space where youth can learn about climate impacts and action through first-hand experience. Interns will have the opportunity to apply for a paid position with San Mateo County 4-H after successful completion of the internship.
- Internship Location: In-person at various sites in San Mateo County, including Half Moon Bay, on weekday afternoons (around 3-5pm). Interns must have reliable transportation to the sites (although they may be able to carpool), but transportation costs will be covered.
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Click HERE to view the Spring 2026 partner organizations.