Fall 2026 Internship with Uptown Stories

Thank you for your interest in becoming an intern at Uptown Stories!

We're a growing nonprofit with a small but mighty staff, and we could genuinely use your help. We’re looking for people who are passionate about words, and who believe in supporting young people as they find their voices and write their stories.

Our usual administrative schedule is Monday-Friday from 10:00AM-4:00PM. We ask our interns to work for a minimum number of hours each week during this window so they can co-work with other staff members. We can be flexible, if interns are not available the entire semester, or if they need to shift their hours somewhat, but we require clear expectations and consistency. All of our interns receive a stipend of $500.

Winter: January - March (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)

Spring: April - June (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)

Summer: July - August  (25 hrs/week for 8 weeks)

Fall: September - December  (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)

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The Publishing Intern works alongside our Programming Coordinator to organize and edit our students' work and help publish our printed anthology books. They will also have an opportunity to learn CMS tools and publish pieces onto our student literary website, UptownInk.org. (This role can be completely virtual)

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collect and edit student writing
• Use a style guide to ensure consistency throughout the anthology book
• Select and develop excerpts of students' stories
• Publish work onto our student website
• Research publishing opportunities for young writers
• Review anthology manuscript PDFs
• Assist in Uptown Ink newsletter
• Other publishing tasks as needed

Ideal Skills: Adobe InDesign, Slack, Google Docs, Google Sheets, WordPress, Writing, Editing, Journalism

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The Programming Intern works alongside our Director of Programs to help schedule and support our community and partner workshops. They will organize teacher schedules, update our program calendar, and support the team in summer workshops as well as prepare for the fall semester.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Update Google Calendar with events and workshop dates
• Order snacks and classroom supplies
• Create Slack channels and schedule attendance reminders
• Other programming tasks as needed

Ideal Skills: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slack, Writing, Editing

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The Teaching Intern works alongside our Director of Programs to support our community and partner workshops. They provide classroom support, offer feedback to students, and help prepare student work for publication. (In person)

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide classroom support in summer workshops
• Distribute snacks and classroom supplies
• Assist teacher in class prep and clean-up
• Keep track of student attendance
• Share photos and updates on Slack
• Provide one-on-one feedback on student work
• Other programming tasks as needed

Ideal Skills: Slack, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Classroom Management, Writing, Editing

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The Development Intern works alongside the Executive Director and the Development Associate to raise the funds required to operate the organization. They will learn and practice researching, writing, and reporting on grants, stewarding major donors, and partnering with foundations and local businesses. They may do analysis or visualization of our registration data, or research studies that support Uptown Stories’ theory of change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Look through relevant research for information we can use in future grants
• analyze registration data; explore new grants our organization can apply for funding
• write and submit grants
• other development tasks as needed.

Ideal Skills: Grant writing; Data Visualization; Google Drive, Sheets, and Docs; Analytics; Research Skills; AirTable

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The Data Intern works with both the Development and the Marketing departments to help our organization clean, update, analyze, and visualize data to support our operation.

Our two CRM platforms are Airtable (participant data) and Give Butter (individual donor data). We also use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. We are interested in deepening our understanding and use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to support our organization as well.

Key Responsibilities/Goals:

• Support transition from previous Donor CRM (Bloomerang) to new CRM (Give Butter).
• Integrate Airtable, Bloomerang, Give Butter, and Mailchimp to automate processes and communicate with each other.
• Gather, analyze, and interpret datasets (especially student and parent surveys)  to aid in improving our programming and operations. This includes both qualitative and quantitative values.
• Research and identify new potential metrics and avenues to consistently track in order to measure our impact and success.
• Create automations and Dashboards to make data analysis more efficient in future.

Data Interns must be highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to document and systemetize processes. You must be able to manage your time effectively—learning and working independently. We appreciate those with the ability to have creative approaches to problem solving, 

Ideal skills: Familiarity with the following platforms (or a willingness to learn): Airtable, Bloomerang, Mailchimp, Zapier; Experience with LMMs (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity); Data computation and visualization skills via platforms such as Excel or R; Solid understanding of research methods.