Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
Our Impact
Moving Up: City Year New Hampshire’s New Partnership with the Middle School at Parkside
November 5, 2019
This year City Year New Hampshire has made its debut at its first middle school in ten years! The Middle School…
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Education
A Promise to Our Students: Including Diversity in Literature
October 17, 2019
When I remember my childhood, I see the reading nook in my first-grade classroom, my mom helping me to pick a book in…
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Education
Planning a Literacy Family Engagement Night
May 16, 2019
Planning McDonough’s literacy night was the most exhilarating, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding thing I have done at City Year (or…
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Our Alumni
Running with Sherry Leung: an Alumna’s Commitment to #makebetterhappen
December 17, 2018
Believe or not, I used to really hate running. Running was a constant reminder for me of all the things…
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Education
Build Literacy, Build Civic Leaders
September 25, 2018
There’s a picture of me in my mother’s battered “First years in America” album where I’m sipping a Coke from…
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National Strategic Partners
National Partners
