Digital NEST

Digital NEST programs teach important 21st Century workplace skills. Our more than 3,378 members are part of a thriving community of creative teachers, professionals, peers, and mentors. They build technical and soft skills, gain experience, and make connections that help them out-compete other job seekers. Members not only acquire the skills to prepare them for the digital workforce, but they also develop the power to transform the quality of their own lives. They become architects of their own future and contributing members of stronger communities. Since 2014, we have placed more than 210 students in paid internships, career-track jobs, or post-secondary education. In the past year, our youth-led digital media production agency, bizzNEST, generated more than $185,000 in revenue from projects for local clients and created 15 jobs and over 11,000 hours of paid on-the-job training for our advanced students; more than 628 students attended our career training workshops. More than 245 young adults attended our NEST Flight Youth Workforce Conference. Furthermore, we have hired a new site manager to launch our next center to be located in Gilroy, CA. Our current scaling goal is to open two more centers over the next two years, for a total of five centers.