ARAMARK became a City Year National Leadership Sponsor and a Gold Team Sponsor as part of the company's commitment to engaging its employees in meaningful volunteer service to enrich communities. The partnership leverages the shared dedication of ARAMARK and City Year to increase the positive role community centers play for children and their families as part of ARAMARK Building Community, the company's signature community involvement program. This initiative involves thousands of ARAMARK employees in large-scale, high-impact service projects to strengthen community centers.
As City Year’s Official Apparel Partner, ARAMARK provides their experience and uniform apparel to enhance the professional services that corps members perform in schools, as well as uniform components dedicated exclusively for physical service.
For more information, please visit www.aramark.com.
Bank of America is a Silver Team Sponsor and National Lead Partner for the Young Heroes program, which engages middle-school students nationwide in learning activities to understand the social issues facing their community and how they can be part of the solution.
Since City Year’s founding 20 years ago, Bank of America and its legacy institutions have provided millions of dollars in grants and sponsorships to support City Year’s youth and the communities they serve. In 1988, predecessor institution Bank of Boston became a founding sponsor of City Year, Inc. and was the first company in the nation to sponsor a City Year team. Bank of America served as Presenting Sponsor City Year’s annual convention and its 15th anniversary, and played a pivotal role in the purchase and development of City Year’s Headquarters for Idealism by supporting tax-exempt bond financing and bridge financing for the project.
For more information, please visit www.bankofamerica.com.
Cisco first partnered with City Year in 1993 when it became a founding sponsor of City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley. As a National Leadership Sponsor, Cisco has been instrumental in the launch of many City Year locations. Cisco has served as a founding sponsor of City Year Seattle/King County and Washington, DC and supported the founding of City Year New York after 9/11 and City Year Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Cisco has also generously donated essential equipment over the years to build computer networks across the country, including at City Year Louisiana and Headquarters, helping City Year better equip its sites and mobilize its corps members and supporters.
In 2007, at the culmination of nearly 15 years of working together, Cisco renewed its commitment as National Leadership Sponsor to support the development of the first standardized City Year service model for school-based service and after-school programs, Whole School, Whole Child. Together, Cisco and City Year help students stay on track – and get back on track – to graduate by building an effective, data-driven service model and facilitating collaborative training and communication across City Year’s network. Whole School, Whole Child is just one example of Cisco and City Year working together to prove what a leading technology company and dedicated social entrepreneurs can accomplish together.
For more information, please visit www.cisco.com.
Comcast’s initial involvement with City Year came in 2001 when The Comcast Foundation funded the City Year Detroit Leadership Development and Training program. Building on this successful collaboration, Comcast committed to become City Year’s National Leadership Development and Training partner in 2003. Today, the Comcast partnership supports all of City Year’s leadership development programs and dedicates communication and broadcasting resources to raise awareness about City Year by reaching more young people across the country.
At all of City Year’s U.S. locations, The Comcast Foundation supports corps member leadership development and training programs, ensuring that incoming corps members receive the basic training and ongoing leadership development they need to help children across the country develop as successful, confident, caring, and active citizens. In addition to being a Platinum Team Sponsor, Comcast is the presenting sponsor of City Year’s annual training academies for corps and staff. Comcast was a Presenting Sponsor of City Year’s 2009 National Leadership Summit, where it presents the Comcast Leadership Awards to City Year alumni who have continued their dedication to community service and led sustainable solutions for social change.
For more information, please visit www.comcast.com.
City Year Boston’s 1994 Opening Day was CSX’s first introduction to City Year and provided the initial inspiration for what has become a long-term partnership. Within weeks, CSX signed on as a team sponsor and is now a Platinum Team Sponsor supporting multiple teams of corps members, City Year vacation camps and service days across the nation. Today, CSX is City Year’s Lead Safety Partner promoting safe practices and providing safety training programs such as first aid and CPR training for corps and staff members.
Since 2003, CSX has been a National Leadership Sponsor leveraging City Year’s Care Force® service initiative to directly impact communities across the country by engaging CSX employees, customers and community members in transformative service days. CSX donated Care Force® One and Care Force® Two, tractor-trailers designed to transport City Year’s Care Force® staff and equipment to service events across the country.
The continued partnership between City Year and CSX, demonstrates a shared commitment to service, the belief that we must be a positive influence on neighborhoods and communities, and the understanding that through teamwork, we can accomplish great things.
For more information, visit www.csx.com.
Pepsi and City Year share a deep commitment to promoting youth empowerment, volunteerism and diversity. Our partnership collaboration began in 2001 with community service projects that engaged PepsiCo employees in transforming communities across the country in which they live and work. After years of collaborative annual events, City Year spearheaded PepsiCo's expansion of its Global Week of Community Service to cities in Mexico & South Africa, which energized the spirit and dedication of more than 1,500 PepsiCo employees.
Pepsi became a National Leadership Sponsor in 2007, dedicating resources toward increasing awareness among young adults of all backgrounds about the power of City Year to change lives. Through joint marketing initiatives, Pepsi supports City Year by promoting recruitment efforts, increasing outreach and awareness, and enabling more young adults to make a difference in their community and their world.
For more information, please visit www.pepsi.com and www.refresheverything.com.
In 1989, City Year’s co-founders approached The Timberland Company and Jeffrey Swartz, now CEO, with a practical request. They needed 50 pairs of boots for City Year corps members who were preparing to serve in the neighborhoods of Boston. What began with that donation has since developed into a much deeper partnership: Timberland was the first company to become a National Leadership Sponsor; Swartz served as Chair of City Year’s National Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2002; and the company is now City Year’s Official Outerwear and Footwear Provider.
Every step City Year has taken has literally been in Timberland boots. Timberland helped found City Year New York by sponsoring a team and several service initiatives and City Year New Hampshire is housed in Timberland’s global headquarters. In addition, Timberland is a Gold Team Sponsor and has engaged Care Force®, a business division of City Year, to lead service days with Timberland employees, and supports City Year Boston through an endowment used for special projects like curriculum development for spring camp. Timberland is City Year’s Official Green Partner, working together to strengthen environmental stewardship. In partnership with City Year, Timberland continues to redefine what a company and a nonprofit organization can do together.
For more information, please visit www.timberlandserve.com.
The T-Mobile and City Year partnership is part of T-Mobile Huddle Up, an innovative community outreach program that connects local mentors and support resources with kids from single-parent families in high-need, urban communities. As City Year’s Lead Afterschool Partner and a Gold Team Sponsor, T-Mobile and City Year are improving after-school opportunities across America to help children, families and schools succeed.
A National Leadership Sponsor since 2006, T-Mobile is working with City Year to make important after-school connections. T-Mobile is also City Year’s Official Wireless Communications Partner, improving corps members’ communications by offering real-time delivery of resources and information as they work with kids in after-school programs and serve their communities everyday. In partnership with City Year’s Care Force®, the company has also engaged its employees in T-Mobile Huddle Up service days across the country.
For more information, please visit www.t-mobile.com\huddleup.
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Deloitte LLP believes the business community has a powerful role to play in response to the call for service and community involvement is an important part of Deloitte’s commitment to corporate responsibility. Since 2002, Deloitte has supported City Year locally through financial resources along with the intellectual capital of its professionals to strengthen City Year’s ability to address strategic and operational challenges.
Now, as a National Leadership Sponsor, Deloitte will focus its investment to support City Year’s In School and On Track Initiative, aimed at helping 9th grade students successfully transition to high school, keeping more students on track to graduate. Deloitte’s intellectual capital will play a critical role in supporting the design and delivery of City Year service in high schools through pro bono services, mentoring for corps members and capacity-building volunteer projects for City Year’s staff members. This year alone, 200 Deloitte professionals have signed up as City Year mentors nationwide to support corps members as they improve their communities and set personal education and career goals. Together, Deloitte and City Year will build the nation’s graduation pipeline today to help create the business and civic leaders of tomorrow.
For more information, please visit www.deloitte.com.