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
Empowered by Power Tools: City Year Serves with Girls at Work
September 19, 2019
Impact manager Alysa Hemcher shares her City Year bucket list.
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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 Impact
Coaching Kids to Code: How FIRST LEGO League and City Year are Inspiring Future Engineers
April 23, 2019
Learn how FIRST LEGO League and CIty Year are helping to extend educational equity through engineering in this afterschool program.
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Our Impact
Learning to be Super: City Year’s Leadership Lunch Curriculum Supports Social-Emotional Growth
January 16, 2019
Starting the City Year experience, the thing I was most looking forward to being involved in was Leadership Lunch. I…
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The Corps
A Day in the Life of My Literacy Group
January 9, 2019
We’re all settling down after recess. The hands on the clock hit 12:35 p.m. and four students stand up, each…
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