Volunteer
We love volunteers and couldn’t
do our work without you!
Join one of our upcoming volunteer events
We are always seeking volunteers to support our regular events, including:
- College Application Intensive Days
- WHEELSUP
- College March
- Decision Day
- Passage Portfolio Presentations
- Community Conversations
- Futures Ignite Marathon Team
Connect us with your Company or Organization
Whether bringing students to visit your work site to host a professional mentoring ‘mocktail’ hour, or engaging your place of business to volunteer to support our students and work, developing partnerships with industry leaders and businesses is critical to our work.
Become a Recurring Volunteer
Some volunteers are able to invest significant time to work with our students in a range of capacities, including exploring internship opportunities, submitting applications for summer enrichment programs, writing coaching and college research. Join us!
To learn more or get involved email kimona.dussard@futuresignite.org
Join our Futures Ignite Marathon 2023 Team
We are seeking runners to join our Futures Ignite Marathon 2023 Team to run the NYC TCS 2023 Marathon on Sunday, November 5. Each runner commits to raising $4,000 that directly supports our programs and young people.
Spots filled up fast! To join the waitlist click here to submit an interest form.
Work with Us
Current openings
Youth Environmental Justice Educator
Start Date: June 2023
To Apply: Submit resume and cover letter to bright@futuresignite.org
We are seeking a talented, dynamic, and diligent professional to facilitate FI’s Urban Ecology in The Heights (UEH) Summer research internship for 15 WHEELS high school students. The Youth Environmental Justice Educator will utilize a positive youth development framework and environmental justice approach in their work with young people and coordinate our growing community summer research program that aims to make students feel comfortable and build confidence in understanding:
- using science to advocate for equity in access to safety and green spaces;
- research methods to address environmental injustices and communicate how scientific findings to community stakeholders to take action against injustice
Through UEH, student participants learn how to use community science research as a strategy to engage community members of Washington Heights on the urgency of a community response to climate change, displacement, and racial injustice in our local parks. UEH runs 6 hours per day for 6 weeks in the summer and includes a mix of hands-on STEM instruction and environmental monitoring at Highbridge Park, Sherman Creek, and 182nd Street. This is the third summer we’ve provided this program in collaboration with Columbia University’s Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Department. The Youth Environmental Justice Educator will report to the Leadership and Enrichment Manager (LEM) and be an essential part of supporting young people and our community to build and sustain our local environmental justice work.
Post-Secondary Pathways Manager (IN-Tech Academy)
Start Date: August 2023
To Apply: Submit resume and cover letter to bright@futuresignite.org
Futures Ignite is seeking a dynamic, diligent, and enthusiastic professional to help spearhead our first new partner site beyond WHEELS, our founding school partner and homebase school site. This position will lead our postsecondary planning and counseling efforts for IN-Tech Academy students, in collaboration with the school’s DOE College Counselor, as well as administration, 11th & 12th grade teachers, additional guidance counseling staff, and students and families. This position will play a critical role in supporting our partnership with IN-Tech Academy and ensuring fidelity to our program and model. This role is a key role in the organization’s strategic plan and will work closely with our Senior Director of Programs, their supervisor, and a Leadership Enrichment Coordinator, who will report directly to this position and be based for 80% of their time together at IN-Tech.
Post-Secondary Pathways Manager (WHEELS)
Start Date: August 2023
To Apply: Submit resume and cover letter to bright@futuresignite.org
Futures Ignite is seeking a dynamic, diligent, and enthusiastic professional to help spearhead our first new partner site beyond WHEELS, our founding school partner and homebase school site. This position will lead our postsecondary planning and counseling efforts for Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) students, in collaboration with the school’s DOE College Counselor, as well as administration, 11th & 12th grade teachers, additional guidance counseling staff, and students and families. This position will play a critical role in supporting our partnership with WHEELS and ensuring fidelity to our program and model. This role is a key role in the organization’s strategic plan and will work closely with our Senior Director of Programs, their supervisor, and a Leadership Enrichment Coordinator, who will report directly to this position and be based for 80% of their time together at WHEELS.
Post-Secondary Pathways Counselor
Start Date: August 2023
To Apply: Submit resume and cover letter to bright@futuresignite.org
Futures Ignite is seeking an enthusiastic, diligent, and equity-minded professional. The ideal candidate for this position has excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and a high degree of flexibility in serving the varied and diverse needs of individual students. The Postsecondary Pathways Counselor is an integral part of our Postsecondary Pathways (PSP) team and will work closely with both the Postsecondary Pathways Manager and Senior Director of Programs. The person in this role will work closely with students to develop academics plans, advocate for individual students with college administrations, and college and career access programs to ensure that students within their caseload have the tools, resources, and support they need to identify, apply and get into a best-fit college or career pathways. The PSP Counselor shall possess a high degree of sensitivity, warmth, and empathy while maintaining consistency with program expectations to encourage academic, social, and personal growth.
If interested in an internship, email bright@futuresignite.org