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Spring 2013 internships at PortSide NewYork
Event planning… fundraising…community outreach…
graphic design… social media… research…
Help change NYC’s waterfront!
Help us transition to a new home!
Work on a ship!
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Join the innovative non-profit PortSide NewYork, a leader in waterfront advocacy and programming.
Our programs are a mix of maritime, preservation, forward-thinking urban planning, arts, education and community revitalization.
During the first month after hurricane Sandy, PortSide ran a pop-up Red Hook aid center, and we plan to have our cultural tourism programs support the area’s recovery from the storm.PortSide’s offices are on a historic ship the MARY A. WHALEN, which we use as a museum, mobile cultural platform and teaching tool. The only oil tanker cultural center in the world, the MARY A. WHALEN is on the National Register of Historic Places and is docked in the Red Hook, Brooklyn container port. Late December, PortSide announced that our seven-year search for a site looks to be ending with a prospective home at GBX•Gowanus Bay Terminal across Columbia Street from IKEA. Map See our program video below
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Join the innovative non-profit PortSide NewYork, a leader in waterfront advocacy and programming.
Our programs are a mix of maritime, preservation, forward-thinking urban planning, arts, education and community revitalization.
During the first month after hurricane Sandy, PortSide ran a pop-up Red Hook aid center, and we plan to have our cultural tourism programs support the area’s recovery from the storm.PortSide’s offices are on a historic ship the MARY A. WHALEN, which we use as a museum, mobile cultural platform and teaching tool. The only oil tanker cultural center in the world, the MARY A. WHALEN is on the National Register of Historic Places and is docked in the Red Hook, Brooklyn container port. Late December, PortSide announced that our seven-year search for a site looks to be ending with a prospective home at GBX•Gowanus Bay Terminal across Columbia Street from IKEA. Map See our program video below
With the transition to a new home in
2013, PortSide will create fundraiser events, launch an on-line campaign, and engage
in community outreach. Interns will wear
many hats during this exciting time.
We seek dependable, organized workers for a small and social office. Enthusiasm for PortSide’s mission, and good research and writing skills are essential. Familiarity with Photoshop, Illustrator and/or InDesign and website/blog maintenance is highly desirable. A knowledge of boats or waterfront issues is a decided plus, but not required.
We seek dependable, organized workers for a small and social office. Enthusiasm for PortSide’s mission, and good research and writing skills are essential. Familiarity with Photoshop, Illustrator and/or InDesign and website/blog maintenance is highly desirable. A knowledge of boats or waterfront issues is a decided plus, but not required.
Positions are unpaid. Send resume and availability via email.
The ideal candidates will be able to contribute to several of the tasks outlined below.
Fundraising and program planning
Interns need to be organized and capable of tracking communication between many people over time.
Programs are likely to include regular ship tours, some cultural events, and the creation of a new guide to Red Hook in both hard copy and web versions.
Design Intern:
Our 2013 transition
to a new home and related fundraising means we will produce a lot of news,
flyers, brochure updates and invitations.
We seek a graphic designer to make those and to create a new version of
our guide to Red Hook (PDF) which will aid
Red Hook’s recovery from Sandy. An
essential project is to help transition our website to an on-line design
platform such as WordPress or Squarespace with better integration of our blog
and Twitter feed.
Social Media
Intern will do pre-production work to help maintain PortSide’s blog, Facebook, and Twitter by researching some content, distributing Sandy recovery updates from the Mayor’s office, downloading and resizing photos. We would love an intern who has advanced Twitter skills. Intern will do some maintenance of our constituent database on Constant Contact.
Grant Research and Applications
Social Media
Intern will do pre-production work to help maintain PortSide’s blog, Facebook, and Twitter by researching some content, distributing Sandy recovery updates from the Mayor’s office, downloading and resizing photos. We would love an intern who has advanced Twitter skills. Intern will do some maintenance of our constituent database on Constant Contact.
Grant Research and Applications
Tasks include research sources of funding for general
support for PortSide (funding for capital, program and operating costs) conservation
of MARY WHALEN logbooks, and our BoatBox project;
updating our extant grant list; assisting staff in completing funding applications.
