For 20 years, City Year AmeriCorps Members have positively impacted Philadelphia’s schools through student academic achievement, decreasing absenteeism, access to positive mentor relationships, and driving school-wide improvements. Since 1997, City Year Philadelphia has:
Deployed more than 3,400 AmeriCorps Members
Given more than 5.5 million hours of service
Supported over 150,000 individual students
Engaged over 62,000 volunteers
Generated more than $5,000,000 in education awards
What Teachers Say:
“The City Year team that I worked with this year helped me infinitely. They were ready and willing to do everything possible to make sure the students had a great year. That included helping me and pushing the students to do their best work. I would thoroughly recommend their services to anyone else.”
— Anonymous teacher
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