Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
In 1988 Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, founders of City Year, established the organization on the idea that one person…
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Q3 Partnership Highlights Year in and year out the work that City Year can accomplish is made possible by a strong…
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ALL ABOARD THE SANTA TRAIN! Team Care Force (TCF) traveled to Jacksonville, FL this past November to assist our…
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For City Year “Mid-Year” AmeriCorps members, the City Year experience can be tough. Joining in the middle of the service…
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4.8.20 Update Supporting Teachers, Students, and Our AmeriCorps members During COVID-19 As we enter the fourth week of Boston Public…
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City Year is more than a gap year; City Year is a growth year. During my year of service, I grew in many…
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With the announcement on Saturday, March 14th that Manchester schools would be closed for several weeks to prevent the spread of the COVID-19…
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Social-emotional learning is a way that City Year can support students in acquiring tools to better understand and navigate their…
Read the storyThese are very uncertain times for each of us, but what we at City Year know for sure is that our belief in…
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City Year Jacksonville AmeriCorps member Ray Van Allen chose to serve to spend time after college and before graduate school…
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From the desk of Dr. Catherine Cushinberry: Many of us were thrown for a loop a few weeks ago when…
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Due to COVID-19, City Year San Antonio’s annual Ripples of Hope dinner, planned for April 1, 2020, was canceled. While…
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