Fall 2026 Undergraduate Intern, Nationwide Prospect Development and Portfolio Strategy
About the role
The Team
The ACLU's Nationwide Portfolio Strategy and Prospect Development (NPSPD) team focuses on a number of prospect development efforts to support major gifts fundraising, including prospect identification, prospect research, and portfolio management.
What You’ll Do
The intern will be part of the Development department, learning about fundraising operations at a large civil rights nonprofit organization. The intern will report to the Associate Director, Prospect Development, focusing on prospect identification, prospect research, business intelligence, and portfolio management. The intern will learn about prospect development in addition to the range of other work within NPSPD. They will also be exposed to the work of other teams within the ACLU’s Development Department. By involving the intern in an array of work within our unit, the internship expands the capacity of our team while contributing to a pipeline of potential nonprofit professionals.
Your Day to Day
- Conduct prospect research to deepen our knowledge of donors’ capacity and inclination to make a major gift to the ACLU.
- Learn about enterprise-wide fundraising tools, including data analytics and resources to support prospect segmentation and analysis. Assist in vendor screening data uploads.
- Assist in prospect identification through an ongoing calendar of internal and external prospecting reviews including upgrade reports and assessments of vendor screening data.
- Make recommendations for assigning prospects to national and affiliate portfolios and communicate those recommendations to nationwide fundraisers.
- Other duties potentially include Salesforce CRM data entry, business intelligence reporting projects, writing event bios, and assisting with other NPSPD department projects.
What You’ll Bring
- Qualifying applicants must currently be matriculated undergraduate students or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience and must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.