City Year

ACTIVITIES: Tutor and mentor students. We seek to: help students and schools succeed, build stronger communities, break down social barriers, develop young leaders, and foster active citizenship.

CONTACT:
Stephanie Chavez
312-423-7179
schavez@cityyear.org

COMMITMENT: 11 months

OVERVIEW: City Year works to bridge the gap in high-poverty communities between the support that students actually need and what their schools are designed and resourced to provide by enlisting full-time Americorps volunteers to serve as tutors and mentors. AmeriCorps members are deployed on teams at the same school; all day, every day for the entire year. City Year AmeriCorps members work alongside teachers with students 1-on-1 and in small groups. We hire 3,100 City Year AmeriCorps members annually and have 28 US locations–you get to choose your location when applying! City Year has 80 graduate school partners that offer our alumni exclusive scholarships (valued at $3 million dollars).