Alumni
WElcome Alumni!
Reconnect with the VISIONS tribe, share memories and access resources from our vast family across the globe.
35 years and counting
VISIONS has worked in communities around the world since 1989. Thousands of teenagers, leaders, community members and other hard-working individuals have been part of our service adventures. As a VISIONS alum, you’re a part of that family.
You’ve helped build schools, community centers, homes, irrigation systems, tribal ceremonial structures, playgrounds and wheelchair ramps. And this is only a fraction of the service accomplished by VISIONS alumni, all while living, laboring, laughing and exploring together.
Our alumni have continued to forge impressive paths in the world and local partners continue to impact their communities in noteworthy ways.
Montana Blackfeet Reservation, late 90s
Connect with the alumni network
In a world where genuinely connecting can get sidelined by busy schedules and digital engagements, our yearning to preserve bonds with those who have shared life-changing moments grows stronger.
Here’s how to connect with the VISIONS community:
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- Submit a story to our Alumni Spotlights
- Get on the list for upcoming Alumni Custom Programs
- Contact us for a roster of who was on your program to find your old friends!
- Donate to VISIONS Foundation to support local communities & our scholarship fund
- Connect through social networks
Keep reading for more information and please be in touch!
Montana Farm, 2021
Appalachia, 1989 or 1990
If you’re on LinkedIn, you can connect with the VISIONS page. While you’re there, add VISIONS to your professional experience if you were a leader or local partner. If you were a teen participant, then add VISIONS to your profile’s “Volunteer Experience.”
And, despite our mixed feelings about social media, you can follow us on Instagram and check out our Facebook albums of programs from over the years. If you have photos to share, please tag us from your own social accounts, upload pics to our albums, or send us an email and we’ll get the pics uploaded. Thank you!
Montana Blackfeet, August 2013
Visions foundation
VISIONS Foundation is our nonprofit that further supports communities around the world and also offers scholarships for kids who would like to be included in service programs, but who would not otherwise have the financial resources to attend. For example, Rebecca Edwards is from the Blackfeet Reservation, where we allocate a number of scholarships.
Several VISIONS alumni have gone on to do fundraising and other follow-up activities related to their program experience. Olivia Coward, for example, support folks in Peru through her artistry online business, and Daniel Shamah started a program for providing baseball supplies to his host community in the Dominican Republic.
We invite you to make a tax deductible donation to VISIONS Foundation to support our work and expand upon your VISIONS impact!
Rebecca Edwards, Scholarship Recipient
Help spread the word
Peru, 2016
VISIONS alumni have worked in 25 program locations around the world and we continue to work in four of our longest-standing sites: D.R. and Montana Blackfeet Reservation (since 1991), British Virgin Islands (1992), and Peru (1999). Our mission remains steadfast and service is our way of thanking communities for sharing their lives with us.
Helps us stay focused on our mission and delivering powerful programs by sharing information about VISIONS to people in your life who might be interested. We appreciate any connections you can share in terms of press releases, parent and student networks, or simply giving our information to friends who you think might be interested in VISIONS. Please also consider writing a review on google or TeenLife about your experience, even if it was years ago!
Share your story
Alaska, 2001 or 2002
We regularly post Spotlights of alumni, leaders and local partners. If there is an update or something you’d like to share about your life, please submit here or reach out to us! We publish spotlights on our website and some also make it to our newsletters!
Spotlights can also recount connections that you made while on the program, a life path that got altered, or other VISIONS stories, such as this one in Alaska, about an Elder-Youth Center we constructed in the early 2000s that ended up serving as a refuge when almost all other local infrastructure collapsed during a record-breaking earthquake.
Whatever your story may be, we’d love to hear from you
Custom Programs
Announcing Alumni Custom Programs!
Dominican Republic 2025: Exclusive alum-only programs for former leaders and participants, ages 18+.
Labor Day: August 28th – September 2nd.
Pre-Thanksgiving: November 22nd – 27th. Optional add-on through the 29th to enjoy a group Thanksgiving meal, outings and some additional service time ($300 extra).
Program Overview
- We typically end the workday by 2 pm and then jump into fun cultural and recreation activities.
- Dates include arrival and departure—preferred arrival by 1 pm and departure after 10 am.
- We can put people in touch who want to extend the dates to share ideas and plans for additional travel.
- $1500, which includes airport transportation, lodging, meals at homebase, service projects, activities, and local staff. Not included: optional restaurant outings, airfare, travel insurance. Limited financial aid may be available, and donations will be welcomed from folks who can contribute extra (tax deductible donation through VISIONS Foundation).
Dominican Republic, 2013
programs & years
Alaska
1993 – 2019
Appalachia
1989 – 1995
Australia
2001 – 2005
British Virgin Islands
1992 – 2024
Cambodia
2012 – 2015
Costa Rica
2006 – 2008
Dominica
1996 – 2013
Dominican Republic
1991 – Current
Ecuador
2004 – 2019
Ghana
2011 – 2013
Guadeloupe
1996 – 2019
Hungary
1991 – 1992
Jamaica
1989 – 1991
Mississippi
2006 – 2016
Montana Blackfeet
1991 – Current
Montana Crow
1991 – 1999
Montana Farm & Ranch
2020 – 2021
Montana Flathead
1991 – 1997
Montana N. Cheyenne
1992 – 2019
Myanmar
2014 – 2016
Nicaragua
2007 – 2016
Peru
1999 – Current
South Carolina
1997 – 2003
Trinidad
2004
Vietnam
2008 – 2011
We love VISIONS alumni!
