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This year, all City Year Milwaukee high school teams are focusing on the same goal:  the promotion promise. The promotion…

Walking through the streets of Memphis, the visual history of the Civil Rights Movement is ever-present. A short walk from…

The District Learning Network gathers several times throughout the year, both in-person and virtually, discussing shared challenges and surfacing strategies,…

    This school year, the City Year Philadelphia AmeriCorps team serving at Alexander K. McClure Elementary School saw a unique opportunity to address two…

When I remember my childhood, I see the reading nook in my first-grade classroom, my mom helping me to pick a book in…

Taking a gap year, whether it’s between high school and college, during your undergraduate years or after college, is a…

Inside Rhode Island’s largest elementary school, four fifth-grade students gather around a small table scattered with worksheets and dice.

There is so much to love about living and working in Philadelphia. Between the scenic parks, accessible art, delicious food and the…

As communications professionals, we oversee many powerful levers that influence why someone would want to work with an organization (including donors, volunteers,…

We’re excited that City Year will be presenting in Chicago this week at CASEL’s first Social and Emotional Learning conference,…

If you’re interested in positively shaping your community through policy, you’ll want to check out some of our University Partnerships….

Through City Year’s University Partnership with the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, Walker took advantage of…