Each Spring, Summer, and Fall, CHSA accepts interns to support the projects and mission of our organization. Read more about the responsibilities of each department intern:
Development-support CHSA’s development team and fundraising efforts through
- Assisting the Development team with researching and applying for grant opportunities
- Maintaining donor and operations databases
- Providing general administrative support including generating reports
- Writing sample: a writing sample demonstrating customer service and/or grant writing skills
Communications-learn about social media and messaging strategies. Responsibilities include:
- Maintaining CHSA’s communication channels on a regular basis
- Creating social media toolkits to promote upcoming CHSA programs
- Drafting CHSA’s weekly and members newsletters
- Writing sample: a sample social media post, including a write-up and design
Public Programs-learn about program planning and project management by
- Providing online event support for public programs and managing programs
- Creating program timelines to prepare for future events
- Available some Saturdays or evenings for CHSA programs
- Writing sample: a sample featuring marketing skills. Check out our event page for ideas
Collection-work with CHSA’s online collection database and share with the public. Responsibilities include:
- Create a digital strategy for sharing the CHSA collection
- Enter records into the collections management database, Catalogit
- Learn how to manage a collection
- Writing sample: a short paragraph about a CHSA collection item
Research-Support the upcoming Chinese in the Richmond exhibit through
- Independent research (qualitative and quantitative)
- Transcription and interpretation
- Content analysis
- Writing sample: a research paper that demonstrates writing and research skills
Education-Undertaking one educational project:
- Researching historical Chinese American anniversary dates and designing infographics
- Digitizing CHSA’s traveling exhibits on Google Arts and Culture
- Writing sample: a sample of a project proposal for a 4-6 week project
Additionally, the Chinese Historical Society of America is developing the We Are Bruce Lee exhibition and is seeking interns in the following positions:
- Research-conduct research for the upcoming We Are Bruce Lee exhibition that will help create the narrative for the exhibition. Responsibilities will include:
- Identifying quality resources for research
- Reading through and process large quantities of information
- Extracting themes related to the We Are Bruce Lee exhibition
- Marketing-work with the We Are Bruce Lee development team to create a marketing strategy for the exhibition. Responsibilities will include:
- Crafting communication messages with the development team
- Design visual assets
- Developing a marketing (social media) strategy promoting the exhibition
- Development-manage donations and identify grant opportunities for the We are Bruce Lee exhibition. Responsibilities will include:
- Managing donations using Salesforce
- Identifying grant opportunities for the development of We are Bruce Lee
- Writing grant proposals for the exhibition
