Communications & Strategy - New Hampshire Toy Library Network

Summer 2024 COLA Fellowship Program 

The College of Liberal Arts (COLA) Global Racial and Social Inequality Lab (GRSIL) is hosting summer fellowship program for students enrolled in COLA majors. Rising COLA Juniors and Senior students with a passion for sustainable social justice and skills to promote positive change will be paired with a local organization to work for 6 weeks (dates may vary by host site). APPLY FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE  FELLOWSHIP HOST SITES. 

DESCRIPTION

Modality: 

15 hours a week. The work will be hybrid

Job Title:

 Communications & Strategy Fellow

 Fellowship Host Overview:

New Hampshire Toy Library Network (NH Toy) www.hntoy.org 

We are a student-founded Toy Library Network. Our goal is to support healthy child-development, equity, sustainability, and fun.

We provide developmentally-appropriate toy loans at no-cost to the individual by partnering with local libraries. This is important, as U.S. families spend an average of almost $500 a year on toys, creating economic inequities in who can access enriching play material.

Additionally, adapted toys for children with disabilities can be 2-4 times the cost of conventional items, and 90% of parents of children with disabilities feel that their child lacks consistent access to play - creating yet another disparity. Our goal? To level the playing field (and provide service learning opportunities, webinars, and fun play days while at it).

Fellowship Project Overview: 

This Fellowship would focus on two areas: 

• NH Toy’s Communications: managing NH Toy’s Instagram, Facebook, and website content for the summer. This includes multiple weekly posts, informative/fun short reels, as well as brief blogs on child-and-family oriented topics for our website.
• Strategic Planning: This would include combing time-room pages of UNH, and other partner colleges, for courses that could aid in volunteer recruitment via guest talks in the fall semester, and clubs/student orgs that may be interested in partnering. The fellow would also work with the Director of NH Toy to apply to grants and other funders, and do outreach to community partners/featured speakers for a Celebrating Childhood in NH Conference.

Deliverables:

• They would get first-hand experience with communications, philanthropy, and more.
• The director would be aiding them in this work, but the experience would be theirs.

Have any questions? Email PJ.Lassek@unh.edu