City Year
Boston
While Boston’s nickname is The Hub, known for being a vibrant center for academia, business, tech and medicine, some students in Boston face significant challenges every day. Together we can help students build on their strengths and thrive.
Support students in Boston
We are City Year. We are challenging the educational status quo with tenacity, passion and empathy. We create environments where young people feel like they belong, so they can fulfill their potential.
With a strong culture and rich history, Boston has evolved into a welcoming and energetic city that is full of young professionals.
There are 250 highly-skilled AmeriCorps members working with students throughout Boston.
We partner with educators while supporting, mentoring and lifting up our students so that they are able to fully take advantage of their drive and skill sets.
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Great! We are excited to work together to grow our communities, while you learn valuable skills for the future.
Start application Connect with a recruiterGo into your City Year with resources and information from classroom environments to housing, and some hidden gems to help you feel like a part of the community during your City Year Boston experience.
Boston is considered a world leader in innovation, education and the arts and is an ideal place to spend a year making an impact, growing as a leader and pursuing unique career opportunities.
Read about the local benefitsWe’ll walk you through how to use the MBTA to get across the city, how and where to find roommates and housing, and some hidden gems to make you feel like a local during your City Year Boston experience.
See our Boston city guideCity Year Boston’s virtual Starry Night Fundraising Gala is coming up on May 21st. Latoyia speaks to Sandra Lopez Burke,...
Read more about Help Students Succeed with City Year Boston’s Virtual Fundraiser [NBC10 Boston]City Year AmeriCorps member and partner teacher at the Henry Grew Elementary School talk about the challenges and opportunities of...
Read more about Teachers & City Year Team Up to Manage Virtual Classroom Challenges [Dig Boston]City Year, a nonprofit that works with children in the Boston Public Schools, is planning a 20-minute virtual event for...
Read more about Nonprofits see big drop in fund-raising while demand for services rise [The Boston Globe]More than 200 volunteers filled the halls of Excel High School in South Boston to paint murals, office spaces, lounges,...
Read more about More than 200 volunteers spruce up high school in South Boston in honor of MLK [7 News]Connect with us
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Happy Monday CYB community! What did you do over the weekend? Some of our @AmeriCorps spent their weekend hiking. 🥾🌲We hope you had a restful weekend and are ready to conquor whatever this week throws at you!💪🏽😊
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[photo description: An AmeriCorps member on a hiking trail with his back facing us. The @CityYear backpack is fully shown.]
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#YoungAchievers #Weekend #Plans #Exercise #AmeriCorps](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
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Happy Monday CYB community! What did you do over the weekend? Some of our @AmeriCorps spent their weekend hiking. 🥾🌲We hope you had a restful weekend and are ready to conquor whatever this week throws at you!💪🏽😊
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[photo description: An AmeriCorps member on a hiking trail with his back facing us. The @CityYear backpack is fully shown.]
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#YoungAchievers #Weekend #Plans #Exercise #AmeriCorps
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Hello Timilty Middle, we are your City Year team members, and we are so excited to be working with you this year! 🤗✏️Swipe ➡️ through the photos to learn more about the people you’ll be seeing in your classes each week.😄🖥
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[photo description: different graphic of the @cyb_timiltymiddle team of @americorps members sponsored by @fidelity. The graphics state their name, hometown, hobbies, and what they do when they are not in the classroom.]
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#MeetYourTeamFriday #AmeriCorps #CityYearBoston #School
How it started... ➡️➡️How it’s going... 😄📚
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[Photo description: 1) A black and white photo of first CYB AmeriCorps in 1988, with about 50 Corps members. 2) A colored photo of our in person graduation in 2019 with an AmeriCorps class of about 250 members.]
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#TBT #growth #nationalservice #makebetterhappen #service #boston #cityyearboston
✏️WHY I SERVE WEDNESDAY✏️
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“I serve because in these times of social unrest, I strive to love and protect our students. 💛And to forge a future they wish to see, along side them. I continue to serve because these students deserve to see the opportunity to see their dreams come to fruition. I continue to serve because, I want to be a part of the solution for our young people. 😊 I continue to serve because our young people continue to inspire me!💫” – Henry Le, Team Leader a part of the @fidelity team proudly serving at @cyb_timiltymiddle
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Henry is a Vietnamese-American who grew up in Malvern, Pennsylvania and graduated from Shippensburg University as an English major. 🤓📚 He proudly served on the @bnymellon Team at the Washington Irving Middle School last year and has continued his City Year journey by coming back for a second year as a team lead on the @fidelity team proudly serving on the Timilty Middle School.
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[Video description: Team Leader Henry Le wearing his red jacket in the comfort of his living room, saying his Why I Serve statement.]
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Our Civic Engagement Team is in full swing with all their *safe* and outdoor service projects. 🍂🍃In the last couple of weeks our Service Leaders have packed 500 bags full of different crafts for 3rd-5th graders. 🖍✏️🎨As well beautifying the outdoor classroom for Otis Elementary school! They planted bulb that will bloom into gorgeous tulips when the spring comes. 🌷✨But what's a service project without a little bit of fun and shenanigans with your fellow teammates? 😋We love seeing all these ~fierce~ group shots, as well as the silly ones!😄
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#ThrowBackThursday #BostonCivicEngagement #CityYear #Boston #Gardening #makebetterhappen
⭐️WHY I SERVE WEDNESDAY⭐️
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“Each student and community member has a voice that can and will empower others. 🗣These voices are a heartbeat of a community, and as long as the heartbeat exists the community will thrive. 🤍 I serve to be the person to listen to those voices as they lift up their communities and people around them. This year my teammates and I will embark on a journey to listen to the Boston community and create projects such as murals that reflect both them and their ideas.” – Sophia Paarz, Senior AmeriCorps a part of the @bostoncivicengagement Team sponsored by @nationalgrid.
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If you would like to see her full speech please visit our YouTube channel to hear her “Why I Serve”, statement – along with other incredible AmeriCorps members.
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[Photo description: a graphic with her why I serve statement and Sophia’s headshot.]
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