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Wish to support marginalized youth? Become a "General Volunteer!"
ORGANIZATION: BETTER FUTURE PROGRAM, INC.
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
Better Future Program is searching for passionate, global marginalized youth to volunteer to expand access to political education, community care, and intersectional justice for all. General volunteers, in particular, simply help with any of the tasks given to other youth leadership roles when needed. Duties may include but are not limited to:
- Data entry and organizing a multitude of free and easily accessible social justice, mental health, and academic resources. Links may be:
- Articles and essays, including academic papers and dissertations
- Novels and novel chapters
- Films and podcasts
- Audiobooks
- Other organizations to support
- Social media posts
- Brainstorming workshop ideas
- Advertising through social media
- Proofreading
What's gained?
- Volunteer hours
- Experience in data entry
- Experience in forming client relations
- Professional connections with leading academic professors, activists, and authors
- Peer mentors in college admissions, career readiness, and homework help, if needed
- Peer-run mental health support
- A safe space to interact with marginalized youth
This volunteer role is open to anyone, but bonus points if you meet the following criteria:
- Identify with at least one of the following marginalized communities:
- Black, Indigenous, People of Color
- Women
- Queer and/or non-cis
- Physically disabled and/or chronically ill
- Developmentally or intellectually disabled, neurodivergent, mad, and/or otherwise characterize as "mentally ill"
- (Im)migrant
- Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, or a part of any other historically oppressed religions/spiritualities
- Support of or willingness to learn more about the following ideals:
- The right to organize
- Intersectionality
- Educational equity
- Anti-racism
- Religious liberty
- Disability justice & mad studies
- Climate action
- Decolonization
- Gender equity
- Queer liberation
- Bodily autonomy
- Body neutrality
- Abolition
- Anti-capitalism
- Anti-authoritarianism
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About BETTER FUTURE PROGRAM, INC.
Location:
7240 CROWDER BLVD STE 300, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70127, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to build a better and brighter global future for marginalized youth through education, awareness, and unity. Here at Better Future Program, we recognize that all forms of oppression are intrinsically interconnected, therefore our liberation is tied as well. All power to ALL the people. But for this to be possible, youth need access to revolutionary education, to not only learn about the systems actively working against them, but the dual power, the new structures, we are already innovating, together. It's easy to feel hopeless in these trying times but with the right tools, we can build an inclusive, informed, and intersectional future like no other.
Description
Founded by Reagan Peters-Roussell (she/they), Better Future Program (BFP) is a 501(c)(3) youth-run nonprofit headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, alternatively known as Bulbancha on Chahta Yakni and Chitimacha land. We envision a future in which youth are not only empowered to challenge oppressive hierarchies each day, but to create new, innovative, and inclusive frameworks of community care and intersectional justice.
Since 2016, our team has been dedicated to educating the masses on various academic subjects, mental health, and most importantly, social injustices that affect today's youth. We even offer over 3,000 free novels, movies, podcasts, and more just to fulfill this goal!
Through our outreach on Instagram, Tumblr, and now Twitter @bfpnola, BFP has gained an international community ranging from the U.K. to Brazil and even to Indonesia and Malaysia. We are so proud to call them our family.
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Community,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
March 16, 2023
SKILLS
- Event Design & Planning
- Data Entry
- Advertising
- Networking
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- These volunteers should have access to technology, preferably a laptop, but tablets and phones work too, as well as a willingness to learn how to navigate Notion for data entry purposes.