Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.
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Magazine Manager (Volunteer)
PromiseVoice | Editorial Publishing, Magazine Operations & Storytelling
Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP)
Division PromiseVoice
Location Remote with NYC-based collaboration as needed
Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week
Type Volunteer Leadership Role
Minimum Commitment 6-month Commitment Required
Reports To Senior Director of Storytelling & Content
About Mentor A Promise
Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization serving children and youth ages 5–18 experiencing housing instability through mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, educational enrichment, workforce development, creative opportunity, advocacy, housing innovation, and community-centered support.
At MAP, stories help build understanding, connection, and community.
Through journalism, storytelling, photography, interviews, essays, and human-centered reporting, we seek to amplify voices, share experiences, and highlight issues affecting children and families.
About PromiseVoice
PromiseVoice is MAP's communications, public engagement, media, journalism, content strategy, and storytelling division.
The division is responsible for helping the public understand MAP's mission, impact, advocacy efforts, programs, and community stories through thoughtful and compelling content.
PromiseVoice transforms stories into awareness and awareness into action.
Role Overview
The Magazine Manager serves as the leader responsible for overseeing the planning, production, editorial coordination, and publication of MAP's digital magazine and long-form editorial content.
This role manages contributors, writers, editors, photographers, designers, and storytellers while ensuring that magazine content reflects MAP's mission, values, editorial standards, and commitment to ethical storytelling.
Working closely with PromisePages, PromiseStudios, PromiseResearch, PromisePublic, and PromiseBrands, the Magazine Manager helps create a publication that educates, inspires, informs, and elevates the voices of children, families, volunteers, partners, and communities.
The ideal candidate is an organized editorial leader with strong storytelling instincts and a passion for mission-driven publishing.
Key Responsibilities
Editorial Planning & Publication Management
The Magazine Manager provides leadership and oversight for
Editorial Publishing
Responsible for
Responsible for
Responsible for
Responsible for
Stories help people understand issues that statistics alone cannot explain.
Stories create connection.
Stories build empathy.
The Magazine Manager helps ensure that MAP's stories are told thoughtfully, ethically, and effectively, creating greater awareness and understanding of the experiences, challenges, and successes of the communities we serve.
This role helps transform storytelling into education, engagement, and impact.
Success Measures
The Magazine Manager is expected to
Interested candidates should apply directly through Idealist and include their resume, cover letter, and writing or editorial samples.
Please highlight experience involving journalism, publishing, editorial leadership, communications, content strategy, storytelling, or related disciplines.
Help create a publication that informs, inspires, and elevates the stories that matter most through Mentor A Promise.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with our organization. At this time, volunteer opportunities are limited to individuals based in the United States due to legal, safeguarding, data-privacy, and programmatic requirements. We appreciate your interest in our mission and your understanding of these constraints.
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Magazine Manager (Volunteer)
PromiseVoice | Editorial Publishing, Magazine Operations & Storytelling
Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP)
Division PromiseVoice
Location Remote with NYC-based collaboration as needed
Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week
Type Volunteer Leadership Role
Minimum Commitment 6-month Commitment Required
Reports To Senior Director of Storytelling & Content
About Mentor A Promise
Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization serving children and youth ages 5–18 experiencing housing instability through mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, educational enrichment, workforce development, creative opportunity, advocacy, housing innovation, and community-centered support.
At MAP, stories help build understanding, connection, and community.
Through journalism, storytelling, photography, interviews, essays, and human-centered reporting, we seek to amplify voices, share experiences, and highlight issues affecting children and families.
About PromiseVoice
PromiseVoice is MAP's communications, public engagement, media, journalism, content strategy, and storytelling division.
The division is responsible for helping the public understand MAP's mission, impact, advocacy efforts, programs, and community stories through thoughtful and compelling content.
PromiseVoice transforms stories into awareness and awareness into action.
Role Overview
The Magazine Manager serves as the leader responsible for overseeing the planning, production, editorial coordination, and publication of MAP's digital magazine and long-form editorial content.
This role manages contributors, writers, editors, photographers, designers, and storytellers while ensuring that magazine content reflects MAP's mission, values, editorial standards, and commitment to ethical storytelling.
Working closely with PromisePages, PromiseStudios, PromiseResearch, PromisePublic, and PromiseBrands, the Magazine Manager helps create a publication that educates, inspires, informs, and elevates the voices of children, families, volunteers, partners, and communities.
The ideal candidate is an organized editorial leader with strong storytelling instincts and a passion for mission-driven publishing.
Key Responsibilities
Editorial Planning & Publication Management
- Lead planning and production of MAP's magazine
- Develop editorial calendars and publishing schedules
- Coordinate issue themes, features, and special editions
- Manage publication timelines and deadlines
- Ensure consistent publication quality and standards
- Oversee development of feature stories, interviews, essays, opinion pieces, and community stories
- Work with contributors to strengthen content quality
- Support story ideation and editorial planning
- Ensure content aligns with MAP's mission and editorial guidelines
- Promote diverse voices and perspectives
- Manage article workflow from concept to publication
- Coordinate writers, editors, photographers, and designers
- Review content for quality, accuracy, and consistency
- Support editorial review and approval processes
- Maintain organized editorial systems and records
- Recruit and support volunteer writers and contributors
- Coordinate assignments and publishing schedules
- Foster collaboration among editorial team members
- Support contributor development and engagement
- Build a strong community of storytellers
- Support strategies that expand readership and engagement
- Help identify content opportunities that resonate with audiences
- Monitor publication performance and reader feedback
- Promote meaningful community conversations through storytelling
- Strengthen the magazine's impact and reach
- Partner with PromiseResearch on research-informed content
- Collaborate with PromisePublic on policy and advocacy storytelling
- Support PromisePages literary and narrative initiatives
- Work with PromiseStudios on multimedia storytelling opportunities
- Align magazine content with organizational priorities
The Magazine Manager provides leadership and oversight for
Editorial Publishing
Responsible for
- Editorial planning
- Publishing schedules
- Content production
- Publication management
Responsible for
- Feature stories
- Interviews
- Essays
- Community storytelling
Responsible for
- Writers
- Editors
- Contributors
- Storytelling volunteers
Responsible for
- Content standards
- Editorial review
- Story quality
- Publication consistency
- Experience in journalism, publishing, editorial management, communications, media, storytelling, or related fields
- Strong writing, editing, and content management skills
- Experience coordinating contributors and editorial projects
- Excellent organizational and project management abilities
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Passion for storytelling, journalism, and community impact
Stories help people understand issues that statistics alone cannot explain.
Stories create connection.
Stories build empathy.
The Magazine Manager helps ensure that MAP's stories are told thoughtfully, ethically, and effectively, creating greater awareness and understanding of the experiences, challenges, and successes of the communities we serve.
This role helps transform storytelling into education, engagement, and impact.
Success Measures
- Consistent publication of magazine content
- Editorial quality and content excellence
- Contributor engagement and participation
- Audience growth and readership engagement
- Successful publication of feature stories and special editions
- Advancement of MAP's storytelling mission
The Magazine Manager is expected to
- Attend divisional leadership meetings
- Conduct regular check-ins with contributors and team members
- Participate in editorial planning and content strategy discussions
- Support cross-divisional collaboration and organizational priorities
- Approximately 5–10 hours per week
- Minimum 6-month commitment required
- Maintain timely and professional communication
- Collaborate through MAP systems and communication platforms
- Support MAP's safeguarding standards, mission, and organizational values
- Foster an inclusive, supportive, and mission-driven culture
- Editorial leadership experience within a growing nonprofit media initiative
- Opportunity to shape a mission-driven publication
- Collaboration with writers, journalists, researchers, and storytellers
- Professional references and letters of recommendation
- Meaningful impact supporting children and families experiencing housing instability
Interested candidates should apply directly through Idealist and include their resume, cover letter, and writing or editorial samples.
Please highlight experience involving journalism, publishing, editorial leadership, communications, content strategy, storytelling, or related disciplines.
Help create a publication that informs, inspires, and elevates the stories that matter most through Mentor A Promise.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with our organization. At this time, volunteer opportunities are limited to individuals based in the United States due to legal, safeguarding, data-privacy, and programmatic requirements. We appreciate your interest in our mission and your understanding of these constraints.
About the company
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Mentor A Promise is a nonprofit organization that support youths and families living in temporary housing in NYC. We work directly with students and provide them with mentorship, vocational and educational support. We also work with our students after they move out of temporary housing and into the community through our online program. We work with our partners to provide our students with the tools needed to succeed.