Helping NYC Students Acquire Social Capital Through Paid Summer Internships and
One-on-One Mentorships

Our mission is to help high achieving, high potential students from some of New York City’s most underserved and underrepresented communities gain social capital and workplace readiness skills to broaden their horizons.

Our vision is to empower First Workings students to overcome many of the structural barriers that typically limit upward social-economic mobility.

We accomplish this by partnering with leaders from a wide variety of industries who provide our students with specialized training, paid internships, or one-on-one mentorships.

“I started First Workings when I saw the lack of opportunity and inequality for underserved youth able to get first internships and experience in the workforce. Those jobs most went to children of clients or affluent teens. I wanted to level the playing field and we are!”

Kevin Davis, Founder
First Workings

For Students For Partners For Schools
312

Students Served (2015-2021)

100%

of First Workings alumni apply to and attend college

90

Companies Partnered
(2015-2021)

YOUR HELP MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Your donation will support First Workings students in their workplace readiness skills summer training which ultimately helps prepare, train, and support the future workforce. We thank you for your generosity! Donations support our interns in the following ways:

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First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, Quoted in U.S. World & News

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January 14, 2022

First Workings Executive Director, Linda Nguyen, Interviewed by Business Brief

We are pleased to share Linda Nguyen’s recent appearance on Business Brief. The segment covered how the pandemic has affected...

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December 15, 2021

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, published in The American Genius

First Workings Founder and Chairman, Kevin Davis, was recently published in The American Genius! In his opinion piece, Can...

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December 10, 2021