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City Year New York honors Comcast NBCUniversal with first ‘Champion of Service’ award for improving the lives of thousands of NYC public school students

April 16, 2018

City Year New York honors David L. Cohen with the Comcast NBCUniversal Champion of Service Award

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Statement by Michael Brown, CEO and co-founder of City Year, on the increase in federal funding for AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service

March 23, 2018

Congress passed, and today the President signed, a $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations bill which funds the government for the remainder of…

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Founder and CEO of GMM Nonstick Coatings, Ravin Gandhi talks about City Year Chicago’s impact

March 22, 2018

City Year Chicago’s 230 corps members are sent into the most economically challenged Chicago public schools in teams of 8…

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City Year names David L. Cohen and Jonathan S. Lavine co-chairs of its national board of trustees

March 14, 2018

City Year names David L. Cohen and Jonathan S. Lavine as Co-Chairs of its National Board of Trustees. Tushara Canekeratne,…

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A day in the life of another City Year AmeriCorps member [Rivard Report]

December 8, 2017

I leave my house at 5 a.m., take three VIA buses, walk four blocks later, and arrive by 7:30 a.m….

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City Year service in Tulsa schools help raise graduation rates [The Hechinger Report]

December 6, 2017

City Year school partnerships in Tulsa high schools combine relationship-building with data analysis to boost graduation rates.

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City Year selected as partner in national effort to strengthen relationships across young people’s lives

November 16, 2017

BOSTON (November 16, 2017) –Search Institute has selected City Year to be one of five national partners to co-create and…

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Social-service groups fight to reverse slide in donations [Chronicle of Philanthropy]

November 1, 2017

City Year is a rising star in the nonprofit world, having climbed onto the Philanthropy 400 three years ago. AmeriCorps…

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Octavia Spencer talks about the power of education [The TODAY Show]

October 19, 2017

Octavia Spencer explains how education is important to her. She works with City Year in hopes of helping support students…

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Want to heal America? Start with national service [NY Daily News]

October 9, 2017

What if every American had the option to serve after high school or college? We would boost social trust, restore…

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Investing in relationships: how one Cleveland high school “moves the needle” for students [The Aspen Institute]

Paul Hoover, the school’s Director of Operations, Accountability and Core Instruction, says this partnership with City Year has been critical…

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City Year strives to ensure that students come to #SchoolEveryDay [Attendance Works]

September 15, 2017

In a blog post, Jim Balfanz, president of City Year, says that improving attendance is just one, though very important,…

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