Host · Co-founder
Yusuf
Co-founder of FFPF. Hosts the podcast and runs the program intake. The same person on the show is the one who'll email you back.
About
A Canadian charity. A small team. A specific job.
Foundation for a Path Forward runs programs and a publication that help people build careers as AI reshapes work. We are not a think tank. We are not a consultancy. We are a registered Canadian charity, and most of the people running it have, at some point, sat across a desk from someone whose career was on the line.
What we believe
Three things we keep coming back to.
Training and placement aren't sequential. Most career programs train you, hand you a certificate, and then send you out to find work. People fall through the gap between those two phases. Our flagship program (PRIME) was designed around the opposite belief — training and placement happen at the same time, from day one.
The people most likely to be hurt by AI's labor effects aren't in the rooms where AI is being designed. So we work with refugees and forcibly displaced people in Canada — and we publish a free podcast and essays for everyone else trying to figure this out.
Plain language is a moral position, not a stylistic one. Hype excludes. Doom excludes. Jargon excludes. If we can't say it the way a friend would say it over coffee, we're not allowed to publish it.
The FFPF family
One charity. Several initiatives.
Careers in the Age of AI sits inside a small portfolio. The brand mark below shows how the pieces relate.
Active
PRIME
AI training + 12 months of full-time career support.
Read more →Active
Transformative AI Training
AI literacy and applied skills, delivered cohort-style.
Read more →Historical
Coding in Colour Academy
FFPF's predecessor program — career upskilling for under-served communities.
Read more →Who's behind it
A small, named editorial team.
No bylines hidden behind "Editor." Same three people writing, editing, producing every piece — and easy to email.
Editor
Sally
Writes the long-form essays and runs the editorial voice. The plain-language register is mostly hers. We argue about commas a lot.
Producer
Tariq
Books guests, produces the audio, handles the research. The reason there's a transcript at all.
Partner with us
If you fund this kind of work — let's talk.
FFPF is a registered Canadian charity. Our programs and publications exist because of granting foundations, government program funding, corporate partners, and individual supporters who believe in the work. We're always interested in partners who share the mission.
Foundations & grant-makers
Program funding for refugees and AI literacy.
PRIME (career programs for refugees), Transformative AI Training (applied AI literacy), and ongoing original reporting on AI's labor effects. Multi-year commitments preferred. We provide rigorous outcome reporting.
Corporate partners
Hire from PRIME or sponsor the publication.
Direct hiring from our refugee/newcomer talent pipeline, sponsored content collaborations on the publication (with editorial independence preserved), or in-kind support (recording infrastructure, tools licences, expertise).
Individual donors
Tax-receipted donations to FFPF.
Foundation for a Path Forward is a registered Canadian charity — donations are tax-receiptable. Get in touch and we'll route you to the right donation channel for your size + use-restriction preference.
Get in touch
We answer every email a human sends us.
Editorial · podcast pitches · corrections
support@primecareers.caPartnerships · media · grant inquiries
referrals@foundation4ward.orgFunders
FFPF is supported by the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, the DIGITAL Supercluster, and a network of foundation funders. Full roster on primecareers.ca.