City Year Los Angeles Media Kit

What is City Year?

City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. As tutors, mentors and role models, these diverse young leaders help children stay in school and on track, and transform schools and communities across the United States, as well as through international afﬁliates in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England. City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps. City Year Los Angeles was founded in 2007, inspired by a challenge grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation and a lead gift from the Hauptman Family Foundation.

To learn more about City Year Los Angeles, read the City Year LA Factsheet.

To learn more about our work nationally and internationally, click here.

This year, City Year Los Angeles’ 200 young leaders will complete more than 340,000 hours of service:

Mentoring, tutoring, and educating school children in public schools to get kids on track to graduate;
Organizing after-school programs and school vacation programs;
Engaging middle and high school students in community service and leadership development activities; and
Planning and leading physical transformative service projects to revitalize schools and public spaces.

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To learn more about the schools and neighborhoods we serve, visit our service partners page.

City Year Los Angeles Board (in formation)

Andrew Hauptman, Chair, Andell Holdings & Chair, CYLA
Jason Bateman
Rich Battista, Executive Vice President, News Corp.
Marlene Canter, LAUSD Board Member (ret.)
Brad Drummond, President, ARAMARK, Uniform Services
Laura Fox
Ben Goldhirsh, Co-Founder & CEO, GOOD
Glenn Gritzner, Managing Director, Mercury Public Affairs
Ted Harbert, Chairman, NBC Broadcasting
Hill Harper, Actor and Author
Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, Co-Chair, Andell Holdings
John Hotchkis, CEO, Ramajal LLC
Hannah Minghella, President of Production, Columbia Pictures
Kelly Mullens, Executive Vice President and Deputy Head, 42 West
Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment, The CW
Todd Owens, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Ben Sherwood, President, ABC News
Darrin Silveria, Regional Vice President, T-Mobile
Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman/ CEO, DreamWorksSKG
Arn Tellem, Principal/Management, Wasserman Media Group
Kevin K. Tsujihara, President, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group

Key Foundation Partners

The Goldhirsh Foundation
The Hauptman Family Foundation
The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation
The Lund Foundation

Corporate Team Sponsors

E! Entertainment Television
Founding Citizens
JPMorgan Chase
Sony Corporation of America

Addressing the Dropout Crisis in Los Angeles

At our National Leadership Summit in June 2009, City Year announced In School & On Track: A National Challenge, an initiative to scale City Year programs to reach at least 50% of all the youth falling off-track to graduate from high school in our 20 U.S. locations. City Year Los Angeles' long-term strategy will be to deploy teams of corps members to high schools where graduation rates are lowest, and to the elementary and middle schools that feed into those high schools which have the most "off-track" students. This will require scaling our programs to reach a set of high need zones in Los Angeles, to reach a critical mass of 50% of all the students who are falling off-track. City Year LA is working hard to meet this challenge and ensure that we are growing in a sustainable way while addressing the critical needs in our community.

To learn more about City Year's In School & On Track initiative, click here.

To learn more about our service programs in Los Angeles, visit our service programs page.

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