With more than 300 days of sunshine each year, Denver is a place that makes your future look bright. Our AmeriCorps members help students feel welcome and connected to their school community, develop their strengths, and persist through challenges.
While Denver is widely known for being a vibrant center for academia, business, tech and medicine, some students in Denver face significant challenges every day. As the largest school district in Colorado, the Denver School District serves more than 93,356 students across 207 schools.
City Year helps students succeed in school and that’s why I love this organization. No matter who you are or where you come from, I am a pair of listening ears and helping hands. I serve as a mentor to my students and have successfully helped build positive relationships and strong coping skills.
Morgan Oliver City Year Denver, '19–'20
Your corps experience
City Year is a key partner to the Denver School District in creating equitable learning opportunities for all students and develop the city’s future leaders. AmeriCorps members support teachers and staff in delivering instruction that serves the development of the whole child and is responsive to the diverse racial, cultural and linguistic needs of Denver youth.
With more than 76% of students tutored by AmeriCorps members last year improving their test scores, AmeriCorps members are truly making an impact. A close-knit community with ample opportunities to develop meaningful personal and professional relationships, Denver is an ideal place to serve. By engaging students, families and community organizations, City Year helps DPS ensure that there are great schools in every neighborhood throughout Denver. For both City Year and DPS, this starts with schools that focus on the whole child and that cultivate environments where students can be healthy, supported, engaged, challenged, safe and socially and emotionally intelligent.
Serving in Denver schools
Serve in one of 11 elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Denver area. Located throughout the city, our school partnerships span from the northwest, southwest, near northeast and far northeast parts of Denver. This geographic diversity allows AmeriCorps members to learn about the rich history of our city while making a difference in the lives of its young people.
Work with a committed and diverse team of City Year AmeriCorps members who share your passion for service and personal growth.
While here, you and your teammates will be supported by a thoughtful, diverse and experienced Impact staff. Collectively, City Year Denver’s Impact staff has a vast amount of previous AmeriCorps, teaching, youth development and international service experience in programs including City Year, Reading Partners, Mile High Youth Corps, Teach for America and Peace Corps. Most importantly, the entire staff at City Year Denver is united by their belief in the power of AmeriCorps members and the positive benefits they are able to drive at schools throughout Denver and the country.
Professional development
AmeriCorps members serving with City Year Denver receive professional development aimed to strengthen their skills to work with students in schools. Additionally, AmeriCorps Members are provided with training and other opportunities to promote the acquisition of tangible, transferable skills that they can use beyond their year of service.
Community involvement
Through their service with City Year, AmeriCorps members create a positive climate of high expectations and engagement that ripples throughout the greater Denver community. In addition to providing excellent service and support to schools throughout DPS, AmeriCorps members engage in other service projects with local organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Food Bank of the Rockies, GrowHaus, etc. AmeriCorps members also work throughout the year with local businesses in order to garner targeted supports for their partner schools.
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Over the last 30 years we have built a robust relationship with Denver Public Schools, teachers, families and the community at large. We can’t wait to welcome you.
Only 4 more days until Colorado Gives Day! City Year Denver has been working with North High School since our site was founded 11 years ago. Check out our graphic to learn more about the school and our AmeriCorps team currently serving there, and consider making a gift to City Year Denver this Colorado Gives Day. Your support goes a long way in ensuring continued academic success for our local public school students! Donate today through the 🔗 in our bio!
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5 days until Colorado Gives Day! Today we are highlighting our team at DCIS at Fairmont, check out our graphic to learn a little bit more about them. We hope you will consider making a tax-deductible gift to City Year Denver this giving season 🎁 Your gift will help our AmeriCorps members support integrated academic & social-emotional skill development for over 3,000 students in Denver Public Schools! Head to the link in our bio to donate today 📣
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6 days until Colorado Gives Day, and today we're sharing a little bit about Compass Academy. Our team at Compass is doing amazing work with their students and school community, and we could use your support this Colorado Gives Day to help them finish the '22-'23 school year strong! Check out the link in our bio to donate today!
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The 7-day countdown to Colorado Gives Day begins! For the next 7 days we will be highlighting our seven incredible partner schools that we are so proud to serve this year. Today's school is Abraham Lincoln High School located in Southwest Denver. Check out the graphic to learn more about the school, and what a day in the life looks like for our amazing AmeriCorps members. And remember, a gift of any size can go a long way in supporting the Lincoln team and the students they serve! Head to the link in our bio to schedule your donation for Colorado Gives Day today!
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The month of November is National Native American Heritage Month and tomorrow (Friday, November 25th) is National Native American Heritage Day. Today, City Year Denver gives thanks to all of the Native American leaders working on behalf of their communities to create a more equitable future for all. Please follow the link in our bio to learn more.
City Year Denver would also like to honor and acknowledge that we reside on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute nations.
"This area [Denver], specifically the confluence of the Platte and Cherry Creek Rivers, was the epicenter for trade, information sharing, planning for the future, community, family and ally building, as well as conducting healing ceremonies for over 45 Indigenous Nations, including the Lakota, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Shoshone, Paiute, Zuni, Hopi among others.
We must recognize Indigenous peoples as the original stewards of this land and as these words of acknowledgment are spoken and heard, remember the ties these nations still have to their traditional homelands. Let us acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory and pay our respect to the diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land. Let us also give thanks to all Tribal Nations and the ancestors of this place.” (Gracie RedShirt Tyon, Lakota, 2021)
As the practice of gratitude is amplified around the country today, we encourage you to take time to reflect on how you and your loved ones can do more to support and uplift our indigenous communities.
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We are just under two weeks away from Colorado Gives Day, happening on December 6th. Will you join us in supporting our AmeriCorps members who are serving as student success coaches in Denver Public Schools? Our corps members and students need us now more than ever! Help spread the word and give if you can. No tax-deductible gift is too small to change a life! Head to the link in our bio to give today!
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