Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
![City Year Sacramento member and student](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CYSac-OakRidge-RND-elliothaney-0013_use1-585x332.jpg)
At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…
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As a native of Jacksonville, Allishia Bauman is City Year Jacksonville’s Chief of Staff and is involved in a number…
Read the story![Students add their handprints to the sun at McDonough's literacy night](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_8098-585x332.png)
Planning McDonough’s literacy night was the most exhilarating, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding thing I have done at City Year (or…
Read the story![AmeriCorps member talking with student on playground while other students are playing](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CYLA-93rdStElem-05.18-EHaney-0076-585x332.jpg)
At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…
Read the story![The back City year americorps member standing next to three young students all facing the white board they are writing on](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CYDC-LeckieElem-05.18-EHaney0033-585x332.jpg)
Jacksonville, the River City by the sea, has so much to offer – an exciting arts and culture scene, diverse…
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In the 65 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in…
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Educating yourself about money early on creates a foundation for financial health as your career progresses and your earnings rise.
Read the story![students attend Manchester's FIRST LEGO League Expo](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NH_FY19_FIRST-LEGO-League-group-pic-585x332.jpg)
Learn how FIRST LEGO League and CIty Year are helping to extend educational equity through engineering in this afterschool program.
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We welcomed City Year Orlando sponsors and champions to celebrate another year of service at our annual fundraising event, Ripples…
Read the story![Niagara Falls sits less than 20 miles from City Year Buffalo](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Buffalo-NiagaraFalls-0001elliothaney1440-585x332.jpg)
Where I am today began with an idea of a year of service from an unlikely place.
Read the story![City Year AmeriCorps member points to a chart as four students gathered around a table look on](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/City-Year-BNY-Melon-Coding-Event-585x332.png)
It’s a wintry, late afternoon in the Bronx, and teachers and students stream outside into the cold air at the…
Read the storyDr. Catherine Cushinberry attended a parent open house at Brownsville Road Elementary. It was an event hosted by the team…
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