Flash Forward is a student-run nonprofit in Bellevue, Washington. We build solar study lights that cost $5.17 in parts so students without electricity can study after dark. There are simple steps you can take right now to help, and all of them start with a message or a gift.
Every light starts as a $5.17 set of parts. A class, a club or a family can cover a batch of lights together.
Write to the team and we will help you plan a community fundraiser for lights.
One light costs $5.17 in parts. Choose how many lights to sponsor, give once or monthly, and finish checkout on Every.org. Volunteers build the lights for free, so the gift covers parts.
Volunteers build lights and keep the rest of the work moving: outreach, writing, fundraising and welcoming the next person. Say what you can do and how much time you have, and the team will answer with what is open.
The internship is an unpaid student placement with one named track, a term you propose, and a person on the leadership team to report to.
Schools, nonprofits and communities that want to talk about lights should write. A message is not a promise of a shipment.
What a gift covers. One light costs $5.17 in parts: a 3D-printed case, a solar panel, a battery, a charge board, two LEDs and a switch. Student volunteers print and assemble every light for free.
Where the lights are. Volunteers have built 72 lights for three partners. 42 have shipped to Brighten Haiti. 15 are allocated to Loksadhana in India and 15 to Malaika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What a light does. It charges in daylight and gives reading light after dark. By our own estimate, a student can study about 6 hours a day with one light.
