We're looking for a monthly blog contributor to help parents & caregivers make sense of the realities of today: the everyday, the real, the hopeful, and the honest experience of life as a parent to a 2SLGBTQIA+ teen/young adult.

This is a once-a-month writing commitment. Topics will be developed collaboratively with our chief operating officer through a shared editorial calendar, so you'll always have a clear direction — but there's a ton of room to bring your own ideas and voice to the table.

We're open to filling this role in an inclusive way that leverages the talent within our community: either a single regular contributor or a small rotating group of writers and professional partners, each bringing a different voice and perspective to the blog. If you're interested in writing alongside others — whether you already have people in mind or would simply enjoy being part of a small contributor community — let us know!

What You'll Write About

Our blog covers the full range of what it means to be the parent/caregiver of a young 2SLGBTQIA+ person today — the hard stuff and the good stuff, side by side. Topics might include:

• Being a supportive parent through navigating identity, labels, and the freedom of not having it all figured out

• Coping through the realities of being a parent of a 2SLGBTQIA+ young person in a particularly difficult time for Queer/Trans youth

• Lessons from tough/heartwarming/real experiences and conversations with your 2SLGBTQIA+ child

• Joy, community, and the things worth celebrating

• Finding/sharing affirming resources and outlets for other parents

• Explaining concepts to other parents — like the 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym, gender identity, or mental health terms — in a way that feels like a conversation, not a textbook
  

Who We're Looking For

• A parent/loved one of a 2SLGBTQIA+ individual. Lived experience matters here — we're looking for someone who can write from a place of genuine understanding.

• A strong writer, comfortable moving between educational and personal tones — someone who can explain something clearly and make a reader feel something.

• Someone who can write for parents and caregivers who are either in the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities themselves, or those who are seeking resources and guidance who might not yet be “initiated”

• A writer who believes, like we do, that this community is just as much about celebration and connection as it is about support through hard times.
  

Time Commitment

• One blog post per month (roughly 1500+ words)

• A short monthly check-in with our chief operating officer to plan upcoming topics

• Flexible scheduling — write on your own time, within the agreed monthly cadence
  

What You'll Get

• A real platform: your writing will be read by thousands of young people looking for connection and community

• Creative collaboration with our chief operating officer on topics that matter to you

• Byline and bio (if desired) on every post you publish

• A meaningful way to give back to a community that may have given something to you

"I'm Here" Project — Website Branding & Messaging Consultant*

Estimated Hours: 4-8 hours (meet with youth 2-3 times + async feedback)

Help bring a powerful youth art project to life online. You'll advise our youth team on the look and feel of their Squarespace site — guiding decisions on templates, fonts, colors, and visual presentation — and consult on messaging strategy, including how to present youth stories. This is a chance to put your creative and strategic skills directly in service of youth voices. 

Hoping to launch at least the basics of the website by EOM August 2026.

Areas of Expertise: Brand strategy, web design, UX, visual identity, copywriting and/or content strategy 

Training Video Program — Audio Recording & Direction

Estimated Hours: 8–12 hours
Lend your audio editing expertise to content that helps youth across the country build their communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills. We need an audio professional to help us re-record audio for our updated training video program. Scripting will be provided. Your job is to help us capture the best audio recording possible for our series of training videos, with real youth voices from our community, to be set to animations. 

Hoping to launch a refreshed training program by EOM August 2026.

Areas of Expertise: Audio recording and basic editing, access to quality recording setup

Training Video Program — Animation & Editing

Estimated Hours: 20–24 hours depending on editing needed

Help give our training video program a visual upgrade! We're looking for someone to animate updated training content so they feel fresh, engaging, and aligned with our brand. You'll work closely with our team to ensure the final product meets both our quality standards and the needs of our youth audience.

This is a great project for someone seeking experience to add to your animation and/or video editing portfolio. 

Hoping to launch a refreshed training program by the end of 2026.

Areas of Expertise: Motion graphics/animation, video editing

Print Media — Graphic Design & Messaging

Estimated Hours: 4–8 hours (audit of existing materials + creating new design assets)

Help us show up better in the world with print materials that actually land. You'll design fresh flyers and brochures for Give Us The Floor and provide strategic feedback on what's working, what’s not, and what's missing from our current materials. Your work will help us reach more youth, partners, and supporters in communities across the country.

Areas of Expertise: Graphic design, print design, marketing communications

We are looking for someone who loves storytelling for impact through smart graphic design. Help us tell the story of our impact through graphics using our existing brand guidelines.

Estimated Hours: 6-8 hours

Give Us The Floor is looking for a volunteer with systems and data expertise to help us clean up and connect our core operating tools: Salesforce (donor and grant CRM), MailChimp (newsletter and email lists), and ClickUp (project management and partnership/fundraising tracking).

Right now, these three systems don't talk to/map to each other directly, which means duplicate work, inconsistent data, and gaps in how we track donors, partners, and progress toward our goals. We're looking for someone who can help us determine the right configuration to map these platforms together more effectively (Zapier, etc), and either guide us through execution or help us make it happen.

What we're looking for:

• Experience with Salesforce administration (nonprofit or NPSP experience a plus)

• Familiarity with MailChimp or other newsletter list/audience management platform

• Comfort with ClickUp or similar project management tools (If you have experience with Asana, it’s very similar)

• Experience with integration tools (Zapier, Make, or native API connections)

Time commitment: Flexible — this can be scoped as a short-term project (a few weeks of focused work) or an ongoing few hours a month, depending on what the volunteer can offer.

This is an ideal role for someone looking to gain more portfolio experience with video editing!

Give Us The Floor is looking for a volunteer video editor to help us create a promotional video for our app, aimed at teens and young adults ages 13-24.

The video will stitch together pre-recorded interview clips, along with graphics and screen recordings of key app features, to show what Give Us The Floor offers and why it matters. It will also walk through the safety features and guidelines we have in place to keep the app a secure, supportive space for young people.

What we're looking for:

• Comfort incorporating graphics, text overlays, and screen recordings alongside live footage

• An eye for pacing and tone that resonates with a teen/young adult audience

• Experience with tools like Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or similar

Time commitment: Flexible — this can be scoped as a short-term project (turnaround on a single video) or ongoing support if there's interest in future video content.