Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
This year, our country has gone through many events that make it hard to remember there is light behind the…
Read the storyQ4 Partnership Highlight The end of our 2020 service year presented us with unimaginable challenges, from a global pandemic to historic civil…
Read the storyAt City Year Philadelphia, we are always amazed at the passion our corps members have for the schools…
Read the storyIn this final installment of our series “Leading Through Tough Times: An Interview with City Year Philly’s Executive Director, Darryl Bundrige,”…
Read the storyIn Part I of our series “Leading Through Tough Times: An Interview with City Year Philly’s Executive Director, Darryl Bundrige,” the…
Read the storyFor Michael Harding, life since graduating from City Year Philadelphia in June of 2019 has been a continued pursuit of…
Read the storyNo one could have predicted it. A health pandemic so severe it brings the entire globe, the entire international community,…
Read the storyIn 1988 Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, founders of City Year, established the organization on the idea that one person…
Read the storyQ3 Partnership Highlights Year in and year out the work that City Year can accomplish is made possible by a strong…
Read the storyFor City Year “Mid-Year” AmeriCorps members, the City Year experience can be tough. Joining in the middle of the service…
Read the storyQ2 Partner Highlights City Year Philadelphia’s work is made possible thanks to organizations and community partners across the city who often…
Read the storyFor Nolan Tully, a City Year Philadelphia (CYP) Associate Board member and a Partner at Philadelphia headquartered law…
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