On this page will find local and regional organizations that offer community engagement internships or volunteer opportunities. There are separate tables for internship and volunteer opportunities that include the name of the organization, a description or mission statement from the organization, and a link that will bring you to the organization's volunteer or internship webpage. All organizations are listed in alphabetical order. You will also find information on interning with elected officials, additional resources, and an opportunity to suggest organizations below the tables.

Organizations Offering Internship Opportunities

Organization	Description/Mission Statement of Organization	Organization Website Link
Advocates	We partner with individuals, families, and communities to shape creative solutions to even the greatest life challenges. First, we listen. Then, together, we do what it takes to help people thrive	https://www.advocates.org/careers/internships
Asian Community Development Corporation	The Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) works in underserved and immigrant Asian American communities in the Greater Boston region to create and preserve affordable, sustainable, and healthy neighborhoods. We achieve this by building affordable homes and vibrant spaces, empowering families with asset-building tools, and strengthening communities through resident and youth leadership	https://asiancdc.org/intern-at-acdc
Beverly Bootstraps	Beverly Bootstraps was first established in 1992 as a Food Pantry in the basement of the First Baptist Church. With the generous support of our donors, volunteers and the community at large, we have grown to be a leading social service agency on the North Shore. We are unique in our approach to the issues of hunger. While recognizing that people need food in hand to stem immediate hunger, our clients also need the opportunity to be embraced by the community, educated about the resources available and empowered to improve their own lives. As we continue to grow, our commitment to the community remains the same: to provide critical resources to families and individuals so that they may achieve self-sufficiency. We accomplish this while maintaining our commitment to fiscal responsibility and serving as trusted stewards of the organization	https://www.beverlybootstraps.org/about-us/#careers
Bridgewell	Bridgewell strengthens communities by providing an unmatched range of social and human services that empower people with disabilities and other life challenges to live safe, self-directed and productive lives.	https://bridgewell.org/careers/work-at-bridgewell/internships-career-fairs/
The Boston Center for the Arts	We are an incubator of new work; a celebration of process; progress in motion. We believe inequitable access to resources, opportunities, and experiences. We serve Boston’s working artists; patrons; neighbors—living, learning, and thriving together.	https://bostonarts.org/about/work-with-us/
Creative Collective	Creative Collective is a business program that provides opportunities for small businesses, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, organizations and individuals that are looking for a more modern and creative approach to business growth and brand awareness.	https://www.creativecollectivema.com/
City of Boston Youth Engagement and Employment Internships	We hire college-aged young adults to support the Department's goals.	https://www.boston.gov/departments/youth-engagement-and-employment/internships
Forest Foundation	Forest Foundation was started in 1993 as a grant making foundation focused on new, small, and emerging non-profits supporting under-resourced youth and families in Essex County, Massachusetts. It has evolved into a regional grant maker with a sharp focus on the leadership development of undergraduate college students in the non-profit sector. We currently support 65 summer non-profit internships in Greater Boston, make venture grants to young leaders and their initiatives in New England and New York State, and continue to make regional grants to new and emerging social service agencies in Greater Boston.	https://forestfoundation.net/summer-internships/
Greening Youth Foundation	The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults, while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural based environmental education programing engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.	https://gyfoundation.org/Partner-Internships
Human Rights Campaign	By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.	https://www.hrc.org/about/careers/internships
International Institute for Justice and Development	Founded in 2001 to promote the principles of democratic governance and the rule of law for all people nationally and internationally, IIJD focuses on the underlying causes of Africa’s development crisis and persistent poverty, and seeks to address the startling weaknesses often found in the development field.	http://iijd.org/index.php/about/iijd-internship-and-volunteer-opportunities/
The Learning Center for the Deaf	The mission of The Learning Center for the Deaf is to ensure that all deaf and hard of hearing children and adults thrive by having the knowledge, opportunity and power to design the future of their choice.	https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiim7TdF_b_PzWXenOSDKosm-NFIzGmJdg2pLMc9GxCRCifg/viewform
MassCareers Job Opportunities	Through this website, students can search for current state internships in Massachusetts. This is an official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts	https://massanf.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program	The Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program helps prepare the next generation of clean energy workers by funding internships for students and recent graduates at Massachusetts clean energy and water innovation companies.	https://www.masscec.com/employer-0
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health	There are four separate internship programs which places volunteers and graduate students in local and regional health departments throughout Massachusetts as well as within DPH.	https://www.mass.gov/service-details/internships-at-dph
Massachusetts Department of Transportation	MassDOT provides the exposure, experience, and preparation for interns to leverage their passions through professional development and service to the Commonwealth.	https://www.mass.gov/service-details/massdot-internship-descriptions
Massachusetts Legislative Intern	Legislative interns gain practical experience working for a State Senator, State Representative or a Committee. Interns come from a varied spectrum of academic backgrounds, but internships are typically only available for students pursuing an undergraduate degree or higher. The intern program provides students with a better understanding of public service and the legislative process in Massachusetts. Interns are unpaid volunteers; however, students may be eligible to earn academic credit for their participation by making arrangements through their advisors and professors.	https://malegislature.gov/StateHouse/EducationalOpportunities/Internships
Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition	MTPC works to ensure the wellbeing, safety, and lived equity of all trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community members in Massachusetts. We educate the public; advocate at the state, local, and systemic levels; and through collective action, we mobilize community, engage in capacity building, and advance community wellness and prosperity.	https://www.masstpc.org/volunteer/
Matahari Women Workers' Center	Matahari Women Workers' Center (“Matahari”) is a Greater Boston organization where women of color, immigrant women, and families come together as sisters, workers, and survivors to make improvements in ourselves and society and work towards justice and human rights. Our goal is to end gender-based violence and exploitation.	http://www.mataharijustice.org/jobs-fellowships
North Shore Alliance of GLBTQ Youth	Our Mission is to honor, respect, educate, and empower GLBTQ youth.	https://www.nagly.org/n-tale
Open Door Immigration Services	Our mission is to love and serve our immigrant neighbors by providing affordable immigration legal services and, together, opening the door to full community engagement.	https://www.odisma.org/opportunities
Political Research Associates	A social justice think tank, PRA holds a unique position in studying the entire spectrum of the U.S. Right–secular, religious, economic, and xenophobic–including its influence both domestically and overseas. Our thirty-five years of expertise helps journalists, advocates, educators, scholars, and the public to understand and challenge the right-wing.	https://www.politicalresearch.org/pra-internship-program
Root	Root’s mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through foodservice training and employment. By developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave Root prepared for success in the workplace.	https://rootns.org/our-curriculum
Salem Arts Association	To bring art, in all its forms, to the community and bring the community, in all its diversity, to the arts in Salem, Massachusetts.	https://salemarts.org/Internships

Organizations Offering Volunteer Opportunities

Organization	Description/Mission Statement of Organization	Organization Website Link
AmeriCorps	To improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.	https://americorps.gov/serve
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts	The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts is to partner with under-resourced families to provide their children with transformational, one-to-one professionally-supported relationships with caring adult mentors, so that their children will thrive.	https://emassbigs.org/volunteer-inquiry/
Boston Partners in Education	Boston Partners in Education enhances the academic achievement and nurtures the personal growth of Boston’s public school students by providing them with focused, individualized, in-school volunteer support.	https://bostonpartners.org/causes/volunteer-2/
Bridge Over Troubled Waters	Bridge Over Troubled Waters provides effective and innovative services to runaway, homeless and high-risk youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to transform their lives and build fulfilling, meaningful futures.	https://www.bridgeotw.org/volunteer
Citizens’ Climate Lobby	Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address climate change.	https://citizensclimatelobby.org/join-citizens-climate-lobby/
Citizen’s Inn	For 38 years, Citizens Inn, Inc., now merged with Haven from Hunger, has worked toward ending homelessness and hunger across the North Shore. Our mission calls us to support everyone with dignity and respect, as they live in our emergency shelter, Citizens Inn Between; our sober living transitional housing shelter, Citizens Inn Transition; our affordable housing units, Citizens Inn Homes; or join us for meals as part of our Citizens Inn Haven from Hunger program.	https://citizensinn.org/give-to-citizens-inn/volunteer-donate/
Citizen Schools	Citizens Schools helps all students thrive in school and beyond through hands-on learning and career mentors.	https://www.citizenschools.org/volunteer
The Clubhouse Network	The Clubhouse mission is to provide a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop new skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology. In support of that mission, The Clubhouse Network supports community-based Clubhouses around the world by providing start-up support, professional development, new technology innovations, evaluation and assessment, partnership opportunities, and access to an online community for youth, mentors, and staff.	https://theclubhousenetwork.org/get-involved/mentor/
Coalition for Social Justice	The Coalition for Social Justice is dedicated to building a grassroots movement for progressive social change viewed through a race and gender lens, rooted in communities that have been excluded from the economic benefits of the current system. We have a dual focus: to recruit and develop leadership, especially from low income communities, and to build effective campaigns that address the economic survival issues that our constituency faces.	https://coalitionforsocialjustice.org/get-involved/
Easterseals Massachusetts	Easterseals Massachusetts provides essential programs and services to children and adults with disabilities throughout the state. Our mission is to ensure that children and adults with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play.	https://www.easterseals.com/ma/get-involved/volunteer/
Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley and North Shore	To ensure that choices of programs and services are available and accessible to meet the diverse needs and changing lifestyles of older adults.	https://www.esmv.org/volunteer/
The Food Project	The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system.	https://thefoodproject.org/volunteer/
Grateful Friends	We provide support and unexpected joy to adults living with or being treated for cancer.	https://www.gratefulfriends.org/about-us/volunteering/
Harborlight Community Partners	Harborlight Community Partners (HCP) is a non-profit, Massachusetts-certified Community Development Corporation. HCP develops, manages and advocates for quality, service-enriched housing that is affordable and inclusive, collaborating with communities to cultivate just, equitable and sustainable housing opportunities vital to the health and strength of our entire region. HCP strives to make homes available to all, because everyone deserves a home.	https://harborlightcp.org/get-involved/
Healing Abuse Working for Change	Our mission is to create social change by taking action personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression.	https://hawcdv.org/give-help-now/volunteer/
Hyde Square Task Force	We amplify the power, creativity, and voices of youth, connecting them to Afro-Latin culture and heritage so they can create a diverse, vibrant Latin Quarter and build a just, equitable Boston.	https://www.hydesquare.org/volunteer/
LEAP for Education	LEAP for Education empowers underserved students to achieve social and economic mobility by cultivating personal, educational, and career growth. We do this by teaching students academic and life-skills needed to perform at higher levels in middle school and high school.	https://www.leap4ed.org/volunteer/
Lifebridge Northshore	For more than three decades, Lifebridge has been working to meet the most urgent needs of the homeless and under-housed on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Lifebridge has locations in Salem, Beverly, and Gloucester.	https://lifebridgenorthshore.org/support/volunteer/
MassEquality	MassEquality is the leading statewide grassroots advocacy organization working to ensure that everyone across Massachusetts can thrive from cradle to grave without discrimination and oppression based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We partner across identities, issues, and communities to build a broad, inclusive, and politically powerful movement that changes hearts and minds and achieves policy and electoral victories.	https://massequality.org/volunteerform/
Northeast Arc	The Northeast Arc helps people with disabilities become full participants in the community; choosing for themselves how to live, learn, work, socialize and play.	https://ne-arc.org/get-involved/volunteer/
North Shore Community Action Programs	NSCAP provides social services that enable low-income families and individuals to obtain the skills and knowledge they need to become economically self-sufficient, civically engaged, and to live in dignity and decency.	https://www.nscap.org/volunteer/
Pathways for Children	Our comprehensive, all-inclusive educational programming offers meals, nutrition assessment, health and developmental screenings, referrals for special education services, family support, enrichment programs and transportation when necessary.	https://pw4c.org/how-you-can-help/volunteering/
Plummer Youth Promise	Plummer’s mission is to set a standard of excellence that improves outcomes for young people in or at risk of entering state care by deeply engaging youth, families, and the systems that impact them to develop permanent family relationships, skills, and community connections.	https://plummeryouthpromise.org/get-involved/volunteer/
Reach Out & Read	At Reach Out and Read, we believe all families should have the tools and information they need to make reading aloud a daily routine. We help integrate reading into pediatric practices, advise families about the importance of reading with their children, and share books that serve as a catalyst for healthy childhood development.	https://www.reachoutandread.org/get-involved/volunteer/
Sail Beyond Cancer	Honoring those who are challenged by cancer through harnessing the healing powers of wind, water and sail.	https://www.sailbeyondcancer.org/volunteer
The Salem Education Foundation	SEF is a non-profit that provides grants for student experiences that go beyond the school budget. Teachers propose creative projects in the arts, STEM, literacy, leadership, health and wellness, and SEF gives out approximately $25,000 each year to fund 20 to 30 grants for district schools and Salem Academy Charter School.	https://www.salemeducationfoundation.org/volunteer
Salem Main Streets	Salem Main Streets' mission is the continued revitalization of downtown Salem as a vibrant, year-round, retail, dining and cultural destination through business retention, recruitment, and promotion of the downtown district.	http://salemmainstreets.org/volunteer-opportunities/
The Salem Pantry	The mission of The Salem Pantry is to eradicate hunger in the Salem community by providing residents in need with nutritious foods in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.	https://www.thesalempantry.org/volunteer
Salem Sound Coastwatch	Our Mission is to protect and improve the environmental quality of Salem Sound and its watershed.	https://www.salemsound.org/volunteer.html
SPUR	Cultivating a Community of Doers through an array of multi-generational volunteer opportunities and youth enrichment programming.	https://www.spur.community/volunteer
The Trustees of Reservations	For more than a century, The Trustees has been on the ground in communities across Massachusetts, working to protect special places, providing loving care of our reservations, building creative new programs to engage people, and sharing our expertise with neighbors and partners across the state.	https://volunteer.thetrustees.org/
Voices Against Injustice	The lessons of the Salem Witch Trials compel Voices Against Injustice to celebrate today’s champions of human rights by presenting the annual Salem Awards, stewarding the Salem Witch Trials Memorial and inspiring members of our worldwide community to confront fear and social injustice with courage.	https://voicesagainstinjustice.org/get-involved/volunteer/
The Woman's Friend Society	The Woman’s Friend Society has been a positive and often pioneering force in the charitable life of Salem, Massachusetts, since the society’s founding in 1876. Through Emmerton House, providing affordable housing for women, and the outreach work of its committees, the Woman’s Friend Society continues to contribute actively to the Salem community.	https://womansfriendsociety.org/get-involved/

Intern with Elected Officials

The following link will allow you to find both your Massachusetts state and U.S. Representatives and Senators. Each state Representative and Senator should have at least an email listed to contact them at. Some have a website where you can search for internship opportunities they provide. If a website is provided for the official you should always check there first for an internship application page before emailing them. Each U.S. Senator and Representative should have a website with an internship section.

https://malegislature.gov/search/findmylegislator

Below you will find a table of elected officials and a link to their internship pages. The officials listed below are local and some have had Salem State University interns in the past.

Elected Official Internship Opportunites

^{Elected Official}	Link to Internship Page
U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton	https://moulton.house.gov/services/student-internships/
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren	https://www.warren.senate.gov/services/internships
Massachusetts Senator Joan Lovely	https://www.senatorjoanlovely.com/constituent-services/
U.S. Senator Ed Markey	https://www.markey.senate.gov/services/internships
U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley	https://pressley.house.gov/services/internships

Additional Resources

It is sometimes possible to receive academic credit for completing an internship. If you are interested in receiving academic credit for an internship please reach out to your academic advisor, intern coordinator, or department chairperson prior to beginning an internship for more details on the requirements for your department. You can find your department chair or intern coordinator by going to the Salem State Directory https://directory.salemstate.edu/ finding and clicking on your department/major. Once on your department's page, you can scroll through the faculty to find the chairperson and their contact information. You can also find more information on internships and credit on your department's website. https://www.salemstate.edu/academics/majors-and-programs

If you need assistance with things like resumes, cover letters, or interview skills you can reach out to Career Services which is a free resource for all Salem State University Students.

https://www.salemstate.edu/campus-life/student-services/career-services/career-services-students

How to Submit Additional Opportunites or Suggestions

If you have an organization or opportunity you would like to be added to this page please send an email to CCE@salemstate.edu Thank you!