Leadership
Run this with us
Hearts4Hands is student-led, which means these jobs belong to students. If one of them sounds like you, the form takes a few minutes.
Open positions
Pick the one that sounds like you
Every application is read by a person. You do not need experience — you need to be someone who shows up.
- Apply to be Chapter President — opens a Google Form
Chapter President
Start Hearts4Hands at your own school and run it. You recruit the volunteers, organise the card-making sessions, and keep your chapter's hours logged.
Apply on Google Forms
- Apply to be Vice President Intern — opens a Google Form
Vice President Intern
Work next to the leadership team on whatever the month needs — events, outreach, helping new chapters find their feet. The best way in if you are not sure which role fits yet.
Apply on Google Forms
- Apply to be Social Media Rep — opens a Google Form
Social Media Rep
Run our Instagram. Post the cards volunteers send in, write captions that sound like a person wrote them, and help people find us.
Apply on Google Forms
- Apply to be Fundraising & Marketing Strategist — opens a Google Form
Fundraising & Marketing Strategist
Plan the drives that pay for paper, envelopes, and stamps — and for the research money that everything left over goes to.
Apply on Google Forms
- Apply to be Editor — opens a Google Form
Editor
Read the stories volunteers send in and decide what goes on the blog. Careful, kind reading matters more than a writing background.
Apply on Google Forms
Not sure which one fits? Apply for the Vice President Intern role and say so in the form — it is the one built for that.
Current leadership
The people already doing it
Students in different cities, all of whom started by making one card.
Ira
Founder
Started Hearts4Hands with a stack of construction paper and a very long list of ideas.
Maya Ellison
Vice President
Portland, OR
Keeps the chapters talking to each other and remembers whose turn it is to buy envelopes.
Devin Okafor
Chapter President — Lincoln High
Seattle, WA
Runs a Thursday card-making session that has outgrown two classrooms so far.
Priya Raman
Story Editor
Austin, TX
Reads every submission twice and has a gift for the note that makes a draft click.
Luca Moretti
Fundraising Strategist
Chicago, IL
Turned a bake sale into the run of stamps that carried us through the spring.
Nadia Haddad
Social Media Rep
Toronto, ON
Posts the cards, writes the captions, and answers the messages that arrive at midnight.
Not ready to lead yet?
That is completely fine. Make a card, log the hour, and see how it feels. Most of the people above started exactly there.