YPN Youth Future Readiness

Volunteer roles

Help rebuild YPN into a serious 20-year institution.

YPN needs governance, program, mentorship, fundraising, operations, communications, and community volunteers who can help with discipline, care, and public-benefit judgment.

Governance Board, officers, compliance, policies
Programs Curriculum, facilitation, evaluation
Community Mentors, ambassadors, schools, families
Growth Fundraising, partnerships, communications

Priority roles

The first volunteer bench YPN is actively recruiting.

Board

Independent Board Director

Provide fiduciary oversight, approve strategy, manage conflicts, and help rebuild institutional credibility.

  • Experience in education, finance, nonprofit governance, law, technology ethics, or fundraising.
  • Monthly meetings during recovery, then quarterly cadence.
  • Annual disclosure and conflict review required.
Officer

Volunteer Treasurer

Lead financial controls, bank recovery, budgets, restricted fund tracking, and CPA coordination.

  • Nonprofit finance or accounting literacy strongly preferred.
  • Supports donation readiness and stock-gift policy review.
  • Must maintain separation from affiliated ventures.
Officer

Volunteer Secretary

Maintain minutes, resolutions, board records, policy calendars, and the official document archive.

  • Organized recordkeeper with attention to governance detail.
  • Owns meeting packets and approval history.
  • Coordinates annual policy review.
Safety

Youth Safety Lead

Design safeguarding procedures before workshops, mentoring, chapters, or ambassador programs begin.

  • Background in youth programs, schools, compliance, or social services preferred.
  • Creates screening, supervision, reporting, and consent workflows.
  • Reviews all youth-facing roles.

Program volunteers

Roles that make learning happen.

AI Literacy Facilitator

Deliver workshops on AI basics, prompt use, privacy, hallucinations, and ethical judgment.

Time
2-4 hrs/session
Mode
In-person or remote
First task
Co-lead one pilot
Good for: educators, technologists, librarians, trained mentors

Curriculum Reviewer

Review lesson plans for accuracy, age fit, accessibility, bias, privacy, and public-benefit tone.

Time
2-3 hrs/week
Mode
Remote
First task
Review AI guide
Good for: teachers, instructional designers, AI practitioners

Workshop Producer

Coordinate room setup, attendance, materials, partner logistics, reminders, and post-session feedback.

Time
3-5 hrs/event
Mode
Hybrid
First task
Build run-of-show
Good for: operations-minded volunteers

Youth Mentor

Support approved youth projects through bounded, supervised mentorship and documented expectations.

Time
2 hrs/month
Mode
Supervised
First task
Complete screening
Good for: professionals with youth-safe mentorship experience

Evaluation Volunteer

Collect feedback, summarize learning outcomes, maintain impact records, and keep claims evidence-based.

Time
2-4 hrs/month
Mode
Remote
First task
Create survey draft
Good for: researchers, analysts, students, educators

Resource Editor

Turn workshops into public guides, checklists, facilitator notes, and family-friendly explainers.

Time
2-3 hrs/week
Mode
Remote
First task
Edit one toolkit
Good for: writers, editors, designers, educators

Institution builders

Roles that make YPN durable.

Compliance Coordinator

Maintain filing calendar, insurance records, charitable registration notes, and professional review queue.

Document Archivist

Tag articles, bylaws, IRS letters, filings, consents, policies, and board materials into a clean archive.

Partnership Liaison

Build school, nonprofit, civic, and corporate relationships with clear documentation and expectations.

Grant Researcher

Track aligned foundations, corporate giving programs, government opportunities, and reporting duties.

Donor Stewardship Volunteer

Help with acknowledgments, updates, recurring donor care, sponsor recognition, and impact notes.

Communications Lead

Keep public messaging accurate, calm, credible, and aligned with approved governance status.

AI Operations Volunteer

Set up AI-assisted workflows for drafting, knowledge management, board packets, and grant support.

Design and Web Volunteer

Improve public pages, resource layouts, accessibility, brand polish, and program materials.

Onboarding

A professional volunteer pathway.

YPN treats volunteers as trusted institutional contributors, not casual helpers. Each role has a clear owner, scope, time expectation, data access level, and review cadence.

  1. 1. Interest Volunteer submits role interest, skills, availability, and conflict disclosures if relevant.
  2. 2. Screening Role owner reviews fit, youth-safety needs, confidentiality, and supervision requirements.
  3. 3. Training Volunteer receives mission, conduct, privacy, safety, AI-use, and program-specific orientation.
  4. 4. Assignment Volunteer starts with a bounded task, named supervisor, and expected deliverable.
  5. 5. Review YPN checks quality, fit, risk, and whether the role expands, pauses, or ends.