Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, 91¶¶Òõ, 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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Give now to support AmeriCorps members’ service in virtual classrooms. Isabel Barros is the City Year Boston Alumni Board Chair…
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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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4.8.20 Update Supporting Teachers, Students, and Our AmeriCorps members During COVID-19Â 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 91¶¶Òõ in acquiring tools to better understand and navigate their…
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City Year is designed to improvise and conquer new challenges. Whether in a classroom, hallway, office, cafeteria or outdoor space,…
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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