Our stories

Over the last 30 years, City Year alumni, now more than 32,000 strong, have been instrumental in helping to drive…

We are encouraged by the results from the recent 2019 Building a Grad Nation report that shows the U.S. national…

There are 75,081 students in Milwaukee who need and deserve our support in order to thrive. You could be part of a…

Just as our AmeriCorps members give their all to support our students, our organization and staff strive to give our…

We were able to have a chat with Akida Azad and talk about her service with City Year. We talked…

For nearly 20 years, City Year AmeriCorps members have had the opportunity to serve in this important and distinctive city.

New Orleans is known as a city of revelry and festivals and as a resilient and diverse community. You can…

As the largest school district in the state, Little Rock School District enrolls more than 25,000 talented students.

Planning McDonough’s literacy night was the most exhilarating, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding thing I have done at City Year (or…

There’s lots to love about living in the nation’s Capital. You’ll have access to world-class museums, colleges and universities and…

At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…

In the 65 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in…