Want to work in your community during the summer? Want to develop your political analysis and organizing skills? ACT has compiled a list of organizing internship opportunities that are both Bay Area-based and national in scope and placement. 

Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program

The Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) is a paid 8-week intensive national organizer training program for people of color, who are committed to learning the theory and practice of building social justice movements through direct-action organizing. Participants learn the art and science of organizing through in-the-field training and skills development with a community or labor organization.  Graduates of the program receive help finding employment as organizers with community and labor organizations fighting for social justice. Over the years, MAAP has produced hundreds of emerging organizers of color, who have continued to work for social justice and gone on to play key roles in the Movement.

SOUL Summer School

SOUL Summer School is an ten-week-long intensive introduction to community organizing and social change, designed for young activists (ages 18-25) who have been involved with social justice organizing for at least one year. SOUL is dedicated to helping young women, young people of color, young working class people and queer youth step up to lead the movement, and SOUL Summer School provides a structured time when you can work full-time to develop your grassroots organizing skills and your political analysis.