CUP is committed to increasing the diversity of boards of directors at New York-based corporations, city and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations. As we help secure strategic board seats for our members, we will enhance our individual and collective capacity to develop a stronger network and become agents of transformative social change in our community. If you are interested in board service, please complete this board survey, and let us help match you with an opportunity that meets your skills and interest.
We work closely with board matching experts like United Way Linkages Program and Board Assist, as well as headhunters, to provide board training and help identify placement opportunities.
Organizations currently in search of dynamic board candidates:
BAM
Dating from its first performance in 1861, BAM has grown into a thriving urban arts center that brings international performing arts and film to Brooklyn. The first BAM facility at 176-194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, burned to the ground in 1903. In 1906, the cornerstone was laid at 30 Lafayette Avenue, and BAM performances resumed in the fall of 1908. Since then, BAM has continued to expand and update its facilities, and now includes not only the Howard Gilman Opera House, but also the BAM Harvey Theater, the Lepercq Space (BAMcafé), and BAM Rose Cinemas.
Battery Conservancy
The Battery Conservancy was created in 1994 as a 501(c)(3) not–for–profit educational corporation to rebuild and revitalize the Battery and Castle Clinton National Monument, the park’s major landmark. The Conservancy spearheads the improvement efforts in partnership on City, State and Federal Levels, and with its private donors.
Fund for Public Health
The Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc. (FPHNY) is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New York City residents. Towards this aim, FPHNY implements programs to address pressing public health needs, develops private sector support for enhancing the health of New Yorkers, and educates New Yorkers about the role they can play in protecting their own health and the health of their families and communities.
Democracy Prep
The Mission of Democracy Prep Charter School is to educate responsible citizen-scholars in grades 6-12 to succeed in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services
As a not-for-profit child welfare agency, the mission of Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services is to serve and assist children and their families in crisis and distress.
Groove With Me, Inc.
Groove With Me, Inc. is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. The program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.
Juilliard
The mission of The Juilliard School is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world, so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.
Let’s Get Ready
Let’s Get Ready envisions a time when students from all backgrounds have the support they need to reach higher education and college students, as a group, realize their tremendous potential to help the next generation step up to college. Let’s Get Ready expands access to college in America by mobilizing, equipping, and empowering a movement of college students helping high school students get to college.
Lighthouse Academies
Lighthouse Academy provides positive learning experiences and life skills to students in Kent County who are either expelled, court placed, or are special education students who would benefit from this program that weaves academics, counseling services, life skills, and career exploration services into a holistic and effective approach.
Materials for the Arts
Materials for the Arts, NYC helps artists realize their visions, provides students with a richer educational experience, and furnishes businesses with a simple and efficient way to enhance the cultural life of their city while promoting environmental awareness and reuse.
March of Dimes
Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.
NYC Opera
Since its founding in 1943, New York City Opera has been recognized as one of America’s preeminent cultural institutions, celebrated for its adventurous programming and innovative, risk-taking production style. In February 2009, George Steel, former Executive Director of Miller Theatre at Columbia University, began his tenure as the company’s new General Manager and Artistic Director. Building on the company’s core mission of artistic excellence and accessibility, Mr. Steel’s plans include broadening the company’s adventurous approach to repertory, supporting the careers of promising young singers, and continuing to develop the company’s acclaimed education and outreach programs.
New York Urban League
The New York Urban League, Inc. (the “League”) is one of the local affiliates of the National Urban League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multi-ethnic, social service organization celebrating its 85th anniversary in 2004. Through direct service delivery, advocacy, referrals, community capacity building, information dissemination and technical assistance, the League accomplishes its mission to improve social and economic conditions and opportunities for African-Americans and other people who face barriers to full participation in American society.
Nontraditional Employment for Women
Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) trains women and places them in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.
Out2Play
To provide children throughout all regions of the New York City public school system with safe, fun and developmentally beneficial play spaces by leveraging private sector resources for the building and refurbishing of school playgrounds.
Parks Foundation
The Park Foundation primarily supports scholarships in higher education that heightens public awareness of critical issues, and protection of the environment.
Prospect Park Alliance
In partnership with the City of New York and the community, the Prospect Park Alliance restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the enjoyment of all by caring for the natural environment, preserving historic design, and serving the public through facilities and programs.
Publicolor
Publicolor uses color collaboration, design, and the painting process to re-engage students in their education schools and communities; to ultimately transform them into productive members of the workforce. Publicolor engages disaffected teenage students in their education by involving them in adding color to all the public spaces in their schools. We teach the process if commercial painting to create a new community of students who work together to improve their learning environments. This not only keeps disengaged kids involved in school and off the street, it teaches them a marketable skill valuable enough to break the poverty cycle and eventually pay their way through college.
The Brotherhood Sister Sol
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol addresses the dire need for supportive programs for Black and Latino youth who are surrounded by the poverty, drugs, violence, racism and mis-education which plague America’s cities. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides these youth with the knowledge, resources, opportunities, and love necessary in order to understand and overcome these negative pressures, as well as the skills to combat them.
Starting Bloc
StartingBloc educates, empowers and connects emerging leaders to drive social innovation across sectors.
Stoked Mentoring
Stoked’s mission is to develop Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience, and Determination through action sports and mentoring.
STRIVE
The STRIVE philosophy is grounded in a commitment to find meaningful jobs for the chronically under-served and unemployed. Our mission is to place the unemployed in jobs and to keep them there, to assist others in adopting our model, and to encourage effective employment policies and practices globally.
Union Settlement
Through innovative programs in education, health, job training, senior services, youth development, childcare, counseling and economic development, we are dedicated to strengthening family life and helping to build the community.
Youth I.N.C .
Youth, I.N.C.’s mission is to improve the lives of America’s youth through a unique venture philanthropy model that empowers, develops, and educates nonprofit organizations serving young people. We improve the lives of kids by strengthening the organizations that serve them.
Board Opportunities
CUP is committed to increasing the diversity of boards of directors at New York-based corporations, city and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations. As we help secure strategic board seats for our members, we will enhance our individual and collective capacity to develop a stronger network and become agents of transformative social change in our community. If you are interested in board service, please complete this board survey, and let us help match you with an opportunity that meets your skills and interest.
We work closely with board matching experts like United Way Linkages Program and Board Assist, as well as headhunters, to provide board training and help identify placement opportunities.
Organizations currently in search of dynamic board candidates:
Dating from its first performance in 1861, BAM has grown into a thriving urban arts center that brings international performing arts and film to Brooklyn. The first BAM facility at 176-194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, burned to the ground in 1903. In 1906, the cornerstone was laid at 30 Lafayette Avenue, and BAM performances resumed in the fall of 1908. Since then, BAM has continued to expand and update its facilities, and now includes not only the Howard Gilman Opera House, but also the BAM Harvey Theater, the Lepercq Space (BAMcafé), and BAM Rose Cinemas.
The Battery Conservancy was created in 1994 as a 501(c)(3) not–for–profit educational corporation to rebuild and revitalize the Battery and Castle Clinton National Monument, the park’s major landmark. The Conservancy spearheads the improvement efforts in partnership on City, State and Federal Levels, and with its private donors.
The Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc. (FPHNY) is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New York City residents. Towards this aim, FPHNY implements programs to address pressing public health needs, develops private sector support for enhancing the health of New Yorkers, and educates New Yorkers about the role they can play in protecting their own health and the health of their families and communities.
The Mission of Democracy Prep Charter School is to educate responsible citizen-scholars in grades 6-12 to succeed in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
As a not-for-profit child welfare agency, the mission of Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services is to serve and assist children and their families in crisis and distress.
Groove With Me, Inc. is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. The program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.
The mission of The Juilliard School is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world, so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.
Let’s Get Ready envisions a time when students from all backgrounds have the support they need to reach higher education and college students, as a group, realize their tremendous potential to help the next generation step up to college. Let’s Get Ready expands access to college in America by mobilizing, equipping, and empowering a movement of college students helping high school students get to college.
Lighthouse Academy provides positive learning experiences and life skills to students in Kent County who are either expelled, court placed, or are special education students who would benefit from this program that weaves academics, counseling services, life skills, and career exploration services into a holistic and effective approach.
Materials for the Arts, NYC helps artists realize their visions, provides students with a richer educational experience, and furnishes businesses with a simple and efficient way to enhance the cultural life of their city while promoting environmental awareness and reuse.
Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.
Since its founding in 1943, New York City Opera has been recognized as one of America’s preeminent cultural institutions, celebrated for its adventurous programming and innovative, risk-taking production style. In February 2009, George Steel, former Executive Director of Miller Theatre at Columbia University, began his tenure as the company’s new General Manager and Artistic Director. Building on the company’s core mission of artistic excellence and accessibility, Mr. Steel’s plans include broadening the company’s adventurous approach to repertory, supporting the careers of promising young singers, and continuing to develop the company’s acclaimed education and outreach programs.
The New York Urban League, Inc. (the “League”) is one of the local affiliates of the National Urban League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multi-ethnic, social service organization celebrating its 85th anniversary in 2004. Through direct service delivery, advocacy, referrals, community capacity building, information dissemination and technical assistance, the League accomplishes its mission to improve social and economic conditions and opportunities for African-Americans and other people who face barriers to full participation in American society.
Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) trains women and places them in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.
To provide children throughout all regions of the New York City public school system with safe, fun and developmentally beneficial play spaces by leveraging private sector resources for the building and refurbishing of school playgrounds.
The Park Foundation primarily supports scholarships in higher education that heightens public awareness of critical issues, and protection of the environment.
In partnership with the City of New York and the community, the Prospect Park Alliance restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the enjoyment of all by caring for the natural environment, preserving historic design, and serving the public through facilities and programs.
Publicolor uses color collaboration, design, and the painting process to re-engage students in their education schools and communities; to ultimately transform them into productive members of the workforce. Publicolor engages disaffected teenage students in their education by involving them in adding color to all the public spaces in their schools. We teach the process if commercial painting to create a new community of students who work together to improve their learning environments. This not only keeps disengaged kids involved in school and off the street, it teaches them a marketable skill valuable enough to break the poverty cycle and eventually pay their way through college.
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol addresses the dire need for supportive programs for Black and Latino youth who are surrounded by the poverty, drugs, violence, racism and mis-education which plague America’s cities. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol provides these youth with the knowledge, resources, opportunities, and love necessary in order to understand and overcome these negative pressures, as well as the skills to combat them.
StartingBloc educates, empowers and connects emerging leaders to drive social innovation across sectors.
Stoked’s mission is to develop Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience, and Determination through action sports and mentoring.
The STRIVE philosophy is grounded in a commitment to find meaningful jobs for the chronically under-served and unemployed. Our mission is to place the unemployed in jobs and to keep them there, to assist others in adopting our model, and to encourage effective employment policies and practices globally.
Through innovative programs in education, health, job training, senior services, youth development, childcare, counseling and economic development, we are dedicated to strengthening family life and helping to build the community.
Youth, I.N.C.’s mission is to improve the lives of America’s youth through a unique venture philanthropy model that empowers, develops, and educates nonprofit organizations serving young people. We improve the lives of kids by strengthening the organizations that serve them.