Corporate Partnerships

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At The Cooper Union, we bring together companies, faculty, staff, students, and alumni to create partnerships that advance shared goals and generate meaningful impact. Our Corporate Partnerships team works with organizations to develop customized, mutually beneficial opportunities that connect industry with Cooper Union’s exceptional talent, rigorous professional education, and culture of innovation.

Whether you’re looking to establish a new partnership or build on an existing relationship, we invite you to connect with us and explore what we can accomplish together.

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Recruitment

Cooper Union’s Center for Career Development is dedicated to working with companies and organizations to provide seamless access to exceptional talent while empowering students as they explore and pursue their personal, academic, and professional aspirations beyond the classroom.

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Event Sponsorships

Partner with The Cooper Union to support events and programs that bring together students, faculty, alumni, industry leaders, and the broader community. Event sponsorships provide companies with opportunities to build visibility, engage with the Cooper Union community, and support experiences that enrich the educational and professional development of our students.

Opportunities include:

  • All Cooper Weekend
  • Guest Lectures and Exhibitions
  • Career Development Workshops & Programs
  • Cooper Together Regional Alumni Events
  • Alumni Industry Gatherings
  • End of Year Show
  • Cooper Union Spring Benefit
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Matching Gift Programs

Matching gift programs offer employees an opportunity to amplify their support for The Cooper Union while strengthening your organization’s connection to our community. We work with companies to facilitate matching gift opportunities that extend the impact of employee contributions and help advance Cooper Union’s educational mission. Check to see if your employer participates to double your impact.

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Applied Research

Partner in supporting applied research opportunities that connect Cooper Union faculty and students with real-world challenges and innovative problem-solving. Through charitable, non-exclusive funding, supporters help advance research, address emerging issues, and move ideas toward meaningful impact. Contributions are recognized through acknowledgment and recognition only and do not provide exclusive access, rights, or material benefits.

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Student Competitions

Support student competitions that challenge Cooper Union students to apply their creativity, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills to real-world opportunities. Corporate partners can engage with students through sponsorship, mentorship, and challenge development while helping cultivate the next generation of innovators and leaders.

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Employee Engagement & Volunteerism

Create meaningful opportunities for your employees to connect with The Cooper Union community through mentorship, speaking engagements, workshops, portfolio reviews, career programming, and other volunteer activities. These experiences enable employees to share their expertise while supporting student learning, professional development, and career exploration.

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Equipment and In-Kind Donations

Help equip Cooper Union students and faculty with the tools, technologies, materials, and resources they need to learn, create, and innovate. Equipment and in-kind donations provide tangible support for hands-on education and research while giving companies an opportunity to contribute directly to the academic and professional environment.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.