Futures and Options, Inc.
Futures and Options, Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Futures and Options empowers New York City's youth, particularly youth of color and students from historically underrepresented communities, to acquire transferable professional skills, pursue higher education, and successfully compete in a global 21st century economy. We collaborate with New York City employers to provide transformative career development opportunities to young people, enabling them to succeed in college and inspiring them to pursue meaningful careers.
About
Futures and Options provides career development programs to New York City's underserved youth. Career essentials, an after-school work-readiness and career exploration program, reached 248 middle and high school students in FY2019. The internship program provides paid, mentored internships and career development workshops for high school students; it reached 625 students who worked at 251 businesses in New York. High school success and college success allows career essentials and internship program graduates to stay connected to Futures and Options through ongoing networking and career exploration events throughout the year. 91 high school and 89 college-aged alumni participated in these events. On the road takes Futures and Options original career development workshops to youth across the city. Through partnerships with nonprofits and high schools, 860 young people benefited from on the road workshops in FY19.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is listed in the filing as “Through career development and paid, mentored internships, futures and options enables youth to gain needed access to the economic mainstream, work readiness training and support from caring adults. at the same time, private and nonprofit businesses are connected to a pipeline of promising, motivated and diverse youth. we reach out to teens at a formative time of their lives, guiding them to further their education and become contributing citizens. the organization serves over 1,400 students.”.
When discussing its operations, they were characterized as: “Empowers nyc's underserved youth to explore careers, guides them to further their education.”.
- The non-profit's legally reported state of operation is NY.
- The filing states that the non-profit's address in the year 2020 is 120 BROADWAY NO 1019, NEW YORK, NY, 10271.
- The form submitted by the non-profit for 2020 shows a total of 370 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $285,493.
- The organization has 28 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1999.
- The organization pays $2,206,995 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $170,214 in fundraising expenses.