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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

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Happy Earth Day from First Workings! What are you doing to celebrate? Comment below! #earthday #environment

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Alumni, join us today @ 4PM for an exciting workshop hosted by @TheNewSchool 's @WriteOnNYC! Come learn best tips and tricks for in-person and virtual presentations! If you have a final project,... interview, or presentation coming up, we encourage you to attend! #presentationskills

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Beyond thrilled to announce our partnership with @Sci_Diversity! https://firstworkings.org/first-workings-partnership-with-mount-sinais-center-for-scientific-diversity/ #diversity #stem

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Our monthly WaterCooler Talk with the Advisory Board is back! Alumni, join us for an informal networking event about Generational Diversity in the Workplace tonight, at 5PM. @Mintz_Law @Tradeweb ...@MorganStanley @HATCHcollection
#networking #watercooler #generationaldiversity

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We were honored to have FW Alumni from 2018, 2019, and 2020 volunteer to speak to our juniors about their experiences networking and keeping in touch with connections during this week's ...Workplace Readiness Training, Thank you #alumni! #networking #socialcapital #firstworkings

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This week, First Workings students attended our April Workplace Readiness Workshop, Fundamentals of Networking.
What tips do you have for high school students as they begin to network? ...#networking #workplace #socialcapital #firstworkings #worksadream

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Alumni, join us tonight for an exciting workshop hosted by @WriteOnNYC! For all creatives, writers, poets, story tellers, this workshop is for you!
#creative #writing #publishing

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Ramadan Kareem, we hope you have a generous Ramadan, to all of those who observe this holy month!

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Congratulations to 2020 First Workings Alumni who are working with Harlem based community partner, Hit the Books as Teen Tutors! We're thrilled to partner with Hit the Books and offer alumni ...paid work opportunities! #communitypartnership #alumni #tutoring

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First Workings
Work's a Dream

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

YOUR HELP MAKES A DIFFERENCE

First Workings News

First Workings Partnership with Mount Sinai’s Center for Scientific Diversity

OpEd: How to Diversify Hiring Pools published in Entrepreneur

Kevin Davis interviewed in MarketScale’s Knowledge is Power Podcast

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First Workings Work's a Dream

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

YOUR HELP MAKES A DIFFERENCE

First Workings News

First Workings Partnership with Mount Sinai’s Center for Scientific Diversity

OpEd: How to Diversify Hiring Pools published in Entrepreneur

Kevin Davis interviewed in MarketScale’s Knowledge is Power Podcast

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First Workings
Work's a Dream

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