Make your imprint on the world of tomorrow by partnering with Cooper Union today.

The world doesn’t stand still. New advancements and challenges emerge every day. As a world-class institution and leader in educational excellence, Cooper Union not only keeps pace, but is often one step ahead, evolving and growing through entrepreneurial leadership and academic rigor. As we go forward, we seek collaborators to join us in moving the needle on critical issues of today.  

 "...I desire to make this institution contribute in every way to aid the efforts of youth to acquire useful knowledge, and to find and fill that place in the community where their capacity and talents can be usefully employed with the greatest possible advantage to themselves and the community in which they live."  

Peter Cooper, Letter To The Trustees, April 29, 1859 

We have never wavered from this founding commitment to social justice, equitable educational access, and community investment set by Peter Cooper more than 160 years ago. Our small institution is recognized the world over for the outsized impact of our alumni, faculty and students as innovators in their fields. Our academic programs are the standard bearers of excellence in engineering, architecture, and arts education. 

 

Learn how you can benefit from the exceptional resources we have to offer – the talent of our students, the intellect of our faculty, transformative outreach to communities in need, and the eclectic, diverse, and inspiring free public programming in our historic Great Hall. Together, we’ll explore how combining our strengths can result in mutual gain. 

 

We look forward to hearing from you.  

Siri Comeau McDonald

Director of Institutional Giving and Sponsored Projects

Siri.mcdonald@cooper.edu 

Discover Ways We can Work Together: 

Whether it’s getting to know our students as prospective interns or employees, bringing our faculty a research question you’d like help with, or engaging your employees in meaningful volunteer opportunities, Cooper Union can help you get where you want to be.  

Invest In The Leaders Of Tomorrow with Scholarship Support:  

At The Cooper Union, exceptional students achieve personal and professional excellence and advance society in remarkable ways, regardless of their socio-economic status. We are committed to making Cooper Union affordable to all students and we are on a fast trajectory to provide full-tuition scholarships for every undergraduate. Your gift of scholarship support will connect your organization with remarkable students and a visionary commitment to free education.  

Join Our Commitment to Social Justice and Advance Opportunities for NYC’s Marginalized Youth and New Americans 

Cooper Union prepares students to become tomorrow’s leaders and agents of change, including those of greatest need within our New York City community. Our institution’s focus on openness and accessibility extends to underrepresented and underserved NYC youth with extensive outreach programs in engineering and art for area high school students. We also offer a one-of-its-kind free program for refugees and immigrants who have engineering degrees from their home countries but are unable to get jobs in the U.S. workforce. Ask us about these programs and how you can give back to the community to make a world of difference. 

Promote Civic Discourse: The Great Hall and Public Programs  

Since 1858, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has stood as a destination for free speech and civic engagement, and a witness to the flow of American history and ideas from Abraham Lincoln to Barak Obama, Lucy Stone to Gloria Steinem, and Mark Twain to Wynton Marsalis. The Great Hall is our greatest asset and a unique treasure in the heart of our City cherished by New Yorkers. We have reinvigorated programming at The Great Hall and seek partners to support the continuation of this inspirational tradition.  

Help us Tackle the Important Social Issues in our Community and Beyond. 

It’s in the Cooper Union DNA to leverage academic learning into civic action for social good. Cooper Union faculty has increasingly developed courses that position academic learning within the context of the greater good and social impact. Team projects, research studies, and class initiatives partner with not-for-profits to take on issues of food scarcity, social justice, equitable housing rights, and more. In the process, our students gain direct experience being agents of change.  Contact us to find out how you can be a part of these transformative initiatives to make our city and our world a better place. 

Join Other Leading Organizations Making Change Happen 

For years, Cooper Union has been a silent partner with local, national, and global partners to address industry challenges and society’s pressing problems. At heart we are an incubator for new ideas and creative minds and your partnership will provide reciprocal access to each others’ resources and facilities – advancing our academic impact and your goals and objectives.  Together we can collaborate to raise issues of concern, provide pertinent data, and advise industry and academia to move fields forward.  Our small size enables us to be nimble, entrepreneurial, and ready to respond quickly to changing needs. Let us know your needs and find out how you can put our resources to work for you.  

 

Recent partners include leading hospitals such as Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, the Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute; private funders such as the Starr Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Robin Hood Foundation; and federal funders such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and others.  

Sponsorship Opportunities  

Sponsorship of academic programming and institutional events at Cooper Union demonstrates to the community you are investing in making the world a better place. Sponsorships range in levels with varying benefits listed below. Contact us today at to find out what sponsorship opportunities are available.

Discover the Benefits of a Strategic Partnership With Cooper Union 

Partnerships with Cooper Union provide you and your organization with special access to our events and our campus, and the level of benefits grows with the level of partnership.  

 

Examples of different partnership benefits include: 

• Access to students for recruitment 
• Program collaboration  
• Faculty and student research collaboration 
• Recognition onsite and across communications channels 
• Naming opportunities 
• Volunteer opportunities including Advisory Board participation, outreach program presentations, mock interview events, and tours of your organization for students 
• Continuing Education and Professional Development opportunities 
• Great Hall Membership for your organization 
• Invitations to private receptions throughout the year  
• Invitations to private exhibition openings throughout the year  
• Use of Cooper Union event spaces, including the historic Great Hall 
• Bespoke benefit packages to meet your organization’s goals 

 

Contact us for more information about what strategic partnership and benefits will work best for you.