Community Service Database: Arts & Culture
Brooklyn Museum
What is the Brooklyn Museum?
Their Mission: To create inspiring encounters with art that expand the ways we see ourselves, the world, and its possibilities.
Their Vision: Where great art and courageous conversations are catalysts for a more connected, civic, and empathetic world.
How can I get involved?
From paid internships to exciting free events, our teen programs support youth leadership, critical thinking, and creative expression. We’re committed to representing marginalized voices within the arts, putting young people of color and LGBTQ+, working-class, and immigrant youth at the center of everything we do. Through teen-led programming, we activate art to promote social justice and imagine new futures.
Teen Public Program: Join us year-round for free, teen-led community programs centering art and activism.
Paid internships:
Creative Practice: Explore art, education, and museum careers, and work with our teaching artists to assist in art classes for students of all ages.
Teen Night Planning Committee: Produce free monthly events for other teens that connect art and social justice.
InterseXtions: Gender & Sexuality: Explore gender and sexuality through art and activism, and organize programs for other LGBTQ+ youth.
Museum Apprentice Program: Learn about art history, the Museum, and museum education while teaching audiences of all ages.
Contact information:
www.brooklynmuseum.org
Monica Marino: 718-501-6201, monica.marino@brooklynmuseum.org
Harlem Children’s Zone
What is the Harlem Children’s Zone?
The Harlem Children’s Zone has transformed what it means for children to grow up in a high-poverty community. HCZ’s unprecedented success is a result of a seamless pipeline of programs that optimize the development of children at each level, from birth through college. In our 97-block Children’s Zone we strengthen the families around the children and have created a culture of success, where college- going is the norm. We serve 12,500 children and 12,500 adults among our 30+ programs, all guided by a commitment to continuous improvement and driven by data. We run two K-12 charter schools, early childhood programs, afterschool programs, social-work offices, community-building efforts and a college support program. We have graduated more than 700 students from college since 2011.
How can I get involved?
Reach out an ask!
Contact information:
www.hcz.org
Grace Madeja
212-360-3255
Creative Time
What is Creative Time?
Over the past four decades, Creative Time has commissioned and presented ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world— and now even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression. We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned, from Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated lower Manhattan six months after 9/11, to bus ads promoting HIV awareness, to Paul Chan’s production of “Waiting for Godot” in New Orleans, and much more. In
partnership with a variety of well-known cultural institutions and community groups, we have commissioned art in unique landmark sites from the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Governors Island, and the High Line, to neglected urban treasures like the Lower East Side’s historic Essex Street Market, Coney Island, and New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.
How can I get involved?
Intern! Their interns gain hands-on experience developing research, producing projects, and contributing to organizational goals. Interns are invited to apply to a specific department including Development & Events, Programming, and Marketing & Communications. Their interns participate in internal and external planning meetings, attend staff presentations, and travel to local cultural institutions.
Contact information:
creativetime.org
Matthew McCardwell: 212-206-6674 x220, matthewm@creativetime.org
Email: internships@creativetime.org
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
What is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation?
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $2.4 billion, through more than 4,000 grants to nonprofit organizations in 120 nations around the world.
The SNF funds organizations and projects, worldwide, that aims to achieve a broad, lasting and positive impact, for society at large, and exhibit strong leadership and sound management. The Foundation also supports projects that facilitate the formation of public-private partnerships as an effective means for serving public welfare.
How can I get involved?
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation offers a limited number of paid internships to qualified candidates interested in exploring the world of philanthropy and not-for-profit organizations. The internships provide the opportunity to gain insight into the operations of a philanthropic organization and to experience and understand the philosophy and work of different grantees/organizations that offer a variety of services and programs in the areas of arts & culture, social welfare, education, and health and sports. The SNF Internship Program involves interns in many different aspects of the Foundation’s activities and treats them as an integral part of the organization, allowing them to learn and acquire various skills as they participate in the Foundation’s work.
Read more about internship opportunities here.
Contact information:
Panos Vazaios
+302108778363
The 52nd Street Project
What is The 52nd Street Project?
The 52nd Street Project is a community-based arts organization that has been in Hell's Kitchen since 1981. The Project brings kids from the neighborhood (between the ages of 9 and 18) together with adults (volunteer professional artists) to create art, as equal partners, and to establish and sustain long-term mentoring relationships. By building on the core experience of accomplishment and collaboration, the Project fosters a sense of inclusion in a place where the kids belong, and where their creative work is the driving force.
How can I get involved?
Apply to volunteer here. Read more about the opportunities here.
Contact information:
www.52project.org
Gus Rogerson: 212-333-5252, rogerson@52project.org
Program Director Garrett Kim (gkim@52project.org) or Associate Artistic Director Kat Almiranez (almiranez@52project.org)
Time In
What is Time In?
Time In is a groundbreaking opera and visual arts initiative that for the past 14 years has been bringing some of New York’s youngest, most at-risk public school children out of underserved classrooms, and into the world of the living arts every week of the school year as part of their normal school day. Every child, every classroom. No exceptions.
How Can I get involved?
Reach out!
Contact information:
director@timeinkids.org,
or directly by phone at +1 917-318-9499
