Future@Work
Future@Work started as a career fair in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed by a group or organizations asking: what if career development were rooted in justice, care, creativity, and community?
Today, we're slowly turning it into a year round program focused on meeting the imagination that art can open up with opportunity: skill-building, strategies, and relationships to build lives that are sustainable and match our identities.
Co-Designers
3 Projects
Career Gatherings
Like career fairs to build community around work for a just transition.
Understanding Wealth
Exploring community-led wealth literacy and planning, to know systems, and change them.
Time Bank
Moving through what it takes to build a Time Bank for Queens, to liberate from economic systems that don't work for us.
Queens Wealth Literacy Working Group
We’re co-creating an open-source, justice-centered wealth-building workshop or curriculum that integrates climate education. Through community-based gatherings in Queens, we hope to process the emotional weight many of us carry around money, and help facilitate strategies to cope. Use the contact form below to express interest in co-design or participation.
Image: 2025 Street Works Earth. “Mean. Equity.” By Ernest Verrett & Anjali Deshmukh.
Job Resources
Check out this resource space, created by ALIGN and Street Works, meant for people looking to work in progressive nonprofit, social enterprise, or justice centered work.
A future that is here, now.
The future of our work.
A future that works for us, the collective.
Why
Right now, many folks — especially young ones and those growing up in communities hit first and worst by climate and inequality — are struggling to imagine stable, joyful futures. The uncertainty they face isn’t just economic; it’s emotional and existential.
We know it’s hard to think about your future — let alone plan a career — when you’re dealing with crises, overwhelmed, worried about money, navigating depression, or feel out of control of your life. Workforce development can’t exist in a vacuum. It needs to be designed with the realities of our daily lives in mind.
That’s why we think about workforce development, wealth, climate, arts, and mental wellness together. By weaving together relationships, expression, and concrete strategies that help people work towards a future that is beautiful and sustainable for them, we think agency and hope can both take root.
2025 Street Works Earth Activities
Check here for 2025 activities designed for Future@Work. And click here to see how all activities weaved together. If you have experience in New York City leading on the topic or know somebody that does, we'd love to hear from you. Please see a contact form below.
