News Articles – Page 9

Kicking off a Year of Service

October 14, 2020

City Year Orlando kicked off the 2020-2021 school year and celebrated the new class of AmeriCorps members through a week-long social media campaign called, “Opening Week.” This…

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning [EdSurge]

August 5, 2020

Learn more about City Year’s new attendance intervention strategies and the ways City Year Sacramento continues to engage students while…

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COMMUNITY VOICES: National service is a solution for job and learning loss

July 24, 2020

In this time of record-high unemployment, especially for recent college graduates, and with parents worried over the months of instruction…

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Let’s ‘Deploy This Army of Goodwill’: Congress Must Expand National Service In Response To The Pandemic [WBUR]

July 21, 2020

Right now, Congress has a chance to support local communities overwhelmed in the wake of COVID-19 by supporting the CORPS…

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City Year AmeriCorps Washington DC Morning greeting

Let’s ‘Deploy This Army Of Goodwill’: Congress Must Expand National Service In Response To The Pandemic [WBUR]

Congress has a chance to support local communities overwhelmed in the wake of COVID-19 by supporting the CORPS Act. Read…

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Black Lives Matter at City Year Seattle

June 5, 2020

City Year unequivocally condemns the kill of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, and all those…

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Help Students Succeed with City Year Boston’s Virtual Fundraiser [NBC10 Boston]

May 18, 2020

City Year Boston’s virtual Starry Night Fundraising Gala is coming up on May 21st. Latoyia speaks to Sandra Lopez Burke,…

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How You Can Help Local Students and Leaders During COVID-19 [99.1 The Mix]

May 12, 2020

In this episode of Public Affairs, Executive Director of City Year Milwaukee, Meralis Hood explains how her team is rising…

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Nonprofits see big drop in fund-raising while demand for services rise [The Boston Globe]

City Year, a nonprofit that works with children in the Boston Public Schools, is planning a 20-minute virtual event for…

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A national service response to a national disaster [Roll Call]

May 6, 2020

The crises the United States knows best — fires and floods, hurricanes and tornadoes, school shootings and mass violence —…

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Teachers & City Year Team Up to Manage Virtual Classroom Challenges [Dig Boston]

City Year AmeriCorps member and partner teacher at the Henry Grew Elementary School talk about the challenges and opportunities of…

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CORE Districts Improvement Communities

April 27, 2020

Learn how eight California districts use continuous improvement to identify disparities—and implement small, actionable changes to effectively address them.

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