Overview by the Numbers:

Currently serving: 1,580

Served to Date: 3,598

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2025):

• 2 projects with 30 pro bono consultants
• 720+ pro bono hours committed
• $151,800k+ value of pro bono consulting
• $75,000 of grant support </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Digital NEST connects youth to a skill-building community that transforms them into professionals who can create successful careers, innovative solutions, and prosperous communities.

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🤝 Partnership Objectives:

Participants will work with Team4Tech and Digital NEST staff to understand how to best support their program. Within sub teams, participants will be prototyping, iterating, and developing their deliverables with Digital NEST. Team4Tech will also support Digital NEST in their expansion plan.

Digital NEST Partnership Overview

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Digital NEST used their grant to support their CRM/LMS/SIS integration. This work represents the completion of the integration of their systems.

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Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

• June 2021: Virtual Strategic Project with Barracuda (drop down for more)
• June 2021: Design For Impact Project with Icertis (drop down for more)

Partnership Impact:

Digital NEST has made big strides through their partnership with Team4Tech.

• Through the 2021 project with Barracuda, an LMS was selected (Thought Industries), a needs analysis for expansion was completed, and a plan to set up business intelligence was created. This aligns with Digital NEST’s goals of giving them framework of opening new sites and expanding their reach.
  • As seen through their metrics, this project had a large impact on Digital NEST. For their expansion plan, Digital NEST's Growth Team continues to use the checklist built by Barracuda. In 2022, the community requirements were set and the New Center Opening Playbook were in development. Their board, however, did make the decision to slow growth for a year or two in order to stabilize systems, curriculum, and program teams to ensure growth is controlled and done in the smartest, most efficient way.
  • The Barracuda team helped identify Microsoft Azure/Tableau as a solution to help Digital NEST to create better and more efficient data visualizations for reports. This process inspired Digital NEST to further explore low-cost and free solutions. That led them to adopt Looker Studio's free data visualization to serve as an interim solution. This development was unlikely to happen without the inspiring work done by Barracuda to help Digital NEST see the potential time savings a business intelligence tool can provide.
• The Design Thinking sessions with Icertis focused on developing and enhancing corporate partnerships. The solutions explored different aspects of building corporate partnerships, including developing marketing & communications tools, cultivating ERG groups and much more.
  • Icertis's work with the Digital NEST team helped them launch the Corporate Employer Partnership efforts in 2022.
    • In 2023, Digital NEST hired an Employer Partnership Manager who is using the playbook, strategy, and messaging created during the Icertis project.

In the years following these projects, Digital NEST has continued to invest in internal capacity and infrastructure, including the development of a Salesforce-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, funded through a Team4Tech grant. The system now supports the bizzNEST and Development teams in managing clients and tracking relationships across departments.