Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alumni.

Cadence Pentheny, City Year New Hampshire ‘17, ‘18, awarded the 2022 Alumni Leadership Award for their dedication to social justice.
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Happy New Year from City Year Greater Boston’s Team Tobin! We hope you’re having a happy and healthy 2023 thus…
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I spent most of my college career studying social justice. To bring about change, we must learn about past injustices…
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As an organization committed to continuous learning, the ways in which we and our partners seek to make an impact…
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For many City Year Philadelphia (CYP) AmeriCorps members, the relationships formed through their year of service can have a lifechanging…
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Impact Managers are an integral part of the City Year experience and offer Corps members support and build trusting relationships…
Read the storyWhen you join City Year, you work alongside a team to create learning environments where all students can succeed. As…
Read the storyThere are nearly 700,000 open computing jobs in the US, but only 80,000 computer science students graduated into the…
Read the storyMartin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service emphasizes the importance of a cause greater than self. This Martin Luther…
Read the storyCity Year Seattle/King County’s plan to support students’ pandemic rebound and how they will strengthen the AmeriCorps experience.
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Back to the Basics- 2023 In the first week of January, Little Rock AmeriCorps Members took it Back to the…
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First-Year ACM Taryn Painter (back row, second from left) with her Kensington High School team. To support AmeriCorps members, City…
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