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Our summer internships have come to an end, and we are honored to have hosted our interns this summer to get real world experience to apply to the start of their own future careers. We’d like to recognize Muhsin Mohamed and Violet Xiong for the great work they’ve accomplished in their roles this summer. Muhsin…

The Greater Twin Cities United Way hosted Action Day this past July in which they managed putting together 50,000 backpacks for local Twin Cities kids! The event was held on July 21st at the US bank stadium with the Vikings. Local volunteers helped put together backpacks filled with school supplies and over 100 organizations including…

New Vision Foundation participated in this year’s Youth Career Exploration Event on July 14, 2022, hosted by East Side Employment Xchange. The event included over 20 employers and nonprofits across the metro area and was open to youth from the organizations that participated. Employers set up booths and provided information regarding their organization and they…

As a part of the NVF summer program, our students from St. Cloud were invited by St. Thomas University to tour its campuses and learn more about the university. The students that attended were made up of middle schoolers who are currently taking the Intro to Web Design summer course.   While at St. Thomas,…

Dr. Sadaf Rauf Shier is the Muslim Chaplain at St. Thomas University. NVF students went on a field trip to St. Thomas to learn more about the campus and its educational opportunities and Dr. Shier co-led the tour with her colleagues. For students, representation is very important and Dr. Shier herself connected to the students…

We are excited to be partnering with Greater Twin Cities United Way on their new Purpose Driven Paychecks initiative. Purpose Driven Paychecks (PDP) is a funding opportunity to catalyze school-business partnerships to fill the gaps that exist in our current school-to-employment ecosystem. The vision is that all students in Minnesota can access wealth-building, purpose-driven work…

NVF students at Higher Ground Academy were tasked with constructing a website as their final project. Prior to our coding classes most students had either very little or no prior coding experience and to see them create such advanced and interactive sites is very impressive. New Vision Foundation’s web development classes provide students the knowledge…

Summer Internships have begun, and New Vision Foundation is among one of the several organizations that will have internship placements for students from Best Buy teen tech centers. The students in the internship program this summer will be placed at a total of seven employer partners including Accenture, 3M, Cargill, General Mills, Best Buy, Xcel,…

Due to the wide array of professions in the modern-day world, there are many different opportunities for youth to participate in a variety of programs to keep themselves occupied over the summer and craft their skills and expertise in fields they enjoy learning about. Mohamed Abdullahi, a NVF student from St. Paul Public Schools has…

Meet Fardowso! Fardowso Mohamed, a 10th grader is currently a student in Ileys’ Intro to Programming course at Thomas Edison High School. She’s been in this course since the beginning of the school year and currently working on finishing up her final project before summer break. When asked what she likes about the course, Fardowso…