Learn to Create Impact

Mentor children in a diverse neighborhood afterschool program setting. Fill your days with increasing K-8 literacy skills, social-emotional development, and positive play with music, fitness, and nutrition.

Share your financial wizardry with young middle school students. Become a Financial Fellow and teach financial literacy education in a year-round program across the city.

Founded by incarcerated men at San Quentin as a healing and violence prevention program. You'll work on media campaigns, policy initiatives, youth agency programs, and reentry workshops.

Work toward a future of economic and racial equity. Advocate for transit justice, food justice, the transformation of food deserts, and economic mobility of Tenderloin residents.

Work with a grassroots organization achieving justice for low-income San Francisco and Oakland residents. You'll learn to build community through advocating for tenant and immigrant rights.

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Organize unhoused individuals and front line service providers to create solutions to houselessness. You'll work on campaigns to house San Franciscans, and halt arrests and confiscation of property.

Fight and advocate for tenant rights and threats of displacement. Organize, coordinate, and build power among tenants to mobilize against housing injustice and insecurity.

Kultivate Labs is a project within SOMCAN, connecting you to residents, artists, and movement builders to preserve culture, reclaim land, and build economic mobility for low-income communities of color.

Create solutions for environmental and economic inequities in low-income Latinx immigrants. You'll strengthen community through organizing efforts and civic engagement activities.

Join an alliance building the political power of poor, working-class, and communities of color. You'll register, educate, and mobilize others to enact initiatives that lift oppressed communities.

Build up the power of working-class, immigrant youth, and families in South-of-Market and Excelsior. You'll serve residents, by organizing, campaigning, and furthering community-led initiatives.

Nurture children to learn through play. Bring cultural humility and a playful childhood understanding to afterschool tutoring and mentoring.

Join forces with the Tenderloin Boys & Girls Club to build connections, help with tutoring, and offer mentorship with local youth.

Stand for a future where everyone, including youth, is free from the cycles of violence and incarceration. United Playaz is committed to this goal with its numerous programs, like case management, after-school programs, and in-school violence prevention.

Empower young writers by volunteering at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced youth with writing proficiency. Volunteers at 826 have the flexibility to work in shifts that accommodate busy student schedules.

Join the Japanese Youth Community Center in cultivating and enriching the lives of children from diverse and multicultural communities in San Francisco. Be a mentor in College Access, which aids students in becoming the first in their families to attend college.

Precita Eyes Muralists is a community-based inner-city mural arts organization located in the Mission District. Join in building community through mural-making art and culture.

Come work with Faithful Fools towards shattering the myths about those living in poverty by contributing through advocacy, art, and street retreats.

Join the St. Anthony’s Foundation on their mission to lift the spirits of San Franciscans in need. Be a part of this mission through engaging in the Dining Room, Farmer’s Market and Free Clothing Program.

The Richmond Senior Center provides community services in a home-like environment serving seniors and adults with disabilities. Support priority to provide safe spaces, share a healthy meal, socialize, exercise, learn to nurture happier and healthier lives.

Intern at The San Francisco Department of the Environment team, as a part of the McCarthy Fellows in San Francisco program, which offers students the opportunities to engage city’s efforts to advance environmental justice, sustainability, and climate action across multiple projects.

Join a valued partner of the McCarthy Fellows in San Francisco program, the San Francisco Public Library, for an opportunity to work under the head librarian and get hands-on experience working on various projects, outreach, and promoting resources.

Work as a McCarthy Fellow in San Francisco and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to promote community wellness, accessibility, and sustainability in the city’s parks and open spaces through policy initiatives through student internships.