Our stories

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…

In the 65 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in…

Whether it’s taking over a failed project or building new skills, Ellen approaches every challenge as a learning opportunity–an attitude…

A battle of mathematical wits is playing out in a cramped but colorful classroom. Ruben*, an outgoing fourth-grader with dark…

Where I am today began with an idea of a year of service from an unlikely place.

It’s a wintry, late afternoon in the Bronx, and teachers and students stream outside into the cold air at the…

For Black History Month, City Year Philadelphia is honoring people and institutions that are African American pioneers in education, such as…

Believe or not, I used to really hate running. Running was a constant reminder for me of all the things…