Our stories

Longtime supporters of City Year and AmeriCorps gathered on Capitol Hill this spring in support of national service programs that…

Since 2005, Comcast NBCUniversal has recognized 77 City Year alumni with our highest alumni recognition–the Comcast NBCUniversal Leadership Award. 

In the spring of 2017, Jessica Butay, a Hawai’i native who was about to graduate from college in Colorado, had…

Thirty years ago, when I was 17 years old, I was part of an idealistic experiment, a summer pilot program…

Nikolai Vitti has an ambitious vision for student success in Detroit Public Schools Community District.

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…

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.

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

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