5,000 Minutes
Elementary School Students will read 5,000 minutes.
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Your investment today opens the door to successful futures for FYI participants.
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Every gift in every form helps FYI surround youth and families with opportunity.
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Corporate sponsorship packages that engage your team and highlight your brand.
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Grow your impact in our community by working directly with our students and families.
View Opportunities ↓FYI 5000 Program
Our FYI 5000 program merges volunteership, sponsorship, and student experiences together creating incredible opportunities for our partners and our participants.
5,000 Minutes
Middle School Students will complete 5,000 minutes of physical activity (jumping jacks, laps, basketball drills, etc.) as they focus on physical health and wellbeing and learning through recreation.
5,000 Minutes
High School Students will receive 5,000 minutes of mentoring, training, workshops and experiential learning that prepare them for college and careers after graduation.
Corporate Partnerships & Sponsorships
Through our FYI 5000 program, FYI partners with organizations across New York City and the United States to raise funds for our year-round programs and turn your CSR goals into hands-on meaningful experiences.
Sponsorship Options
Custom Corporate Volunteer Experience
Work with our education staff, volunteer coordinator and executive team to design a custom volunteer experience for your company to engage with our participants in a meaningful way that enhances our programs and creates learning and team-building opportunities for your staff as a part of FYI 5000 or our summer camp programs.
Spirit Week Sponsorship
Be a part of our summer or in-school spirit weeks that are focused on career and college readiness. Sponsor one day of our spirit week programs and your team can join us to celebrate (up to 15 people).
Mentoring & Literacy Programs
Participate in our 5,000 MENTORING MINUTES program with our high school students (all mentors must be fluent in English and Spanish), volunteer with our rec programs or join us as a MYSTERY GUESTREADER with Elementary students.
Student Career & Exhibit Booths
Showcase your company and future opportunities that exist for our bilingual, talented, well-educated committed students. Exhibit booths are free but sponsorships of $500-$1000 are appreciated.
Volunteer and Mentor
FYI changes lives every day. Grow your impact in our community by working with our participants and their families directly.
We are actively seeking volunteers interested in:
Practicing literacy skills and reading with our elementary school students. (We’ll train you!)
Mentoring our high school students
Supporting our recreation programs on the weekends and after school
Hosting Interns and Site Visits for a day or a semester by providing shadowing opportunities and internships
Have a great idea or are interested in volunteering in another capacity? We want to hear it!
Reimagining Our Physical Space
20 Years in Washington Heights
Following our founding in 1993, we built our permanent home to house our afterschool programs in 2006.
Our community center is in the Heart of Washington Heights. We need to update our physical space to better meet expanded community needs.
A Safe Place Built on Love & Trust
FYI is a safe place that local families have come to love and trust.
We provide young people living in Washington Heights and Inwood tools and supports, but we also provide them with a physical space filled with people who care about their success.
Our programming is designed to uplift, teach self-efficacy and self-advocacy, and create leaders. But our building needs upgrades in its design to meet those same goals.
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El Centro
First-of-Its-Kind Mental Health Clinic
El Centro is a dynamic mental health clinic offering free and insurance-paid mental health services including counseling, medication prescription and monitoring, and urgent needs assessment.
This project builds on the last decade of mental health-informed programs that included individualized and family-centered supports embedded in schools and youth-serving spaces. Over time, we have developed trusted relationships with young people, caregivers, and educators—laying the foundation for more accessible, culturally responsive care.
El Centro is the next step: a centralized clinic rooted in community needs and shaped by everything we’ve learned from direct service, systems advocacy, and collaboration. We’ll integrate clinical care with holistic supports like case management, psychoeducation, and wellness programming—all within a space where community members feel safe, seen, and affirmed.
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Learning Lab
Multi-Use Academic & Tech Space
Our new Learning Lab will be a multi-use space for academic enrichment, career and college readiness, and engaged learning.
This space will feature a multi-lingual library, technologies, and space for our participants to gain academic supports, explore their creativity, and gain technology skills.
This investment will offer young people and their families a place to learn together and set themselves up for long-term success.
Will you donate to our capital campaign today to make FYI’s growth a reality?
TOTAL COST
$2.49 MILLION
TOTAL RAISED TO DATE
$839,000
WE ARE HERE!$839,000 Raised
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Phase 1
$2.49M Goal
TOTAL COST$2.49 MILLION
RAISED TO DATE$839,000
LEFT TO RAISE$1.65 MILLION
Campaign Phases
El Centro opening Fall 2026
Total funds left to raise
$763,000
Learning Lab opening Spring 2027
Total funds left to raise
$890,000