Founded in 1999, Cool Culture is a citywide nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income families access New York City arts and cultural institutions, in order to provide educational experiences for children and to strengthen the capacity of parents as their child's first educator. Cool Culture's programs address the absence of low-income families, especially people of color, in the audiences of New York City's great museums and other cultural institutions by providing free admission to families and working in partnership with early childhood education, and other parent support programs. We help our program partners to meet their goal of supporting families and allow cultural institutions to broaden the reach of their educational programs by connecting them with new, more diverse audiences. Most importantly, we enable low-income children and families to experience and enjoy the rich educational and cultural programs available at the city's cultural institutions.
Cool Culture serves over 50,000 families throughout the five boroughs and has developed partnerships with over 90 of the City's best-known cultural institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, AmericanMuseum of Natural History, Museum of Modern Art, BrooklynBotanic Garden and Central Park Zoo.
Cool Culture is seeking full-time and part-time interns. We offer a flexible work schedule. Positions available immediately.
Projects include:
- Assist in coordinating Cool Culture's annual Cool Culture fair (planning and logistics)
- Prepare materials and activities for annual Cool Culture fair and a large-scale family event
- Seek sponsorships for families for a large-scale family event
- Outreach to volunteers for event assistance
- Conduct market research and a literature review for technological equipment used for tracking museum visitors
- Assist in maintaining partnerships with 90 cultural institution partner contacts, including phone and email correspondence in order to track quarterly Cool Culture visitation
- Solicit and collect information from cultural institution partners for our publications and website
- Assist with graphic design projects
- Assist with miscellaneous administrative tasks as needs arise, including assembling press materials
Qualifications:
- Detail oriented and a good project manager is a MUST!!!
- Knowledgeable researcher and willingness to conduct literature reviews
- Proficient managing long terms projects
- Flexibility and initiative to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong presentation, writing and communication skills
- Graphic design skills very helpful (not required)
- Familiarity with Word and Excel
