MAKEBETTERHAPPEN Annual Report 2015
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#MAKEBETTERHAPPEN annual report 2015 Jessica Hernandez @jessicahdz_cylr “Ms.Jessica, was your goal to change someone’s life? B/c my life has changed ever since i met you. I love school now!” #makebetterhappen Drine @DrineServes My teacher & my ELL Math group has grown #MAKEBETTERHAPPEN the most on the STAR assessment in the City Year’s #makebetterhappen social whole building!! media campaign amplifies real City 92% met goal! Year stories from the perspectives of #MakeBetterHappen corps members themselves. Every #Teamwork day, corps members share inspiration and impact through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and their moving Sydney Gahnz stories ripple out through the City Year R Dubs @cypvd_rwms @sydneygahnzCYLR community and beyond. Many tell of Imagine. Recruit. Mr. Dom inspiring small steps of progress made by a Transform and Inspire. students to be student, like reading a chapter book On “Dress like a future Teacher” Day a student for the first time. Others describe a dressed up as her corps city year breakthrough moment, like making member! #spiritweek corps members. a big jump on a standardized test #makebetterhappen #makebetterhappen score. For the committed champions who help make our work possible – including donors, school partners, and board members – this campaign has Molly Mackinnon Stella Oloyede @mocoCYRI deepened a connection to the students @MsOlovesCYDC Last year, I worked and schools that City Year serves. And Student: Do you have with him every day throughout the City Year community to graduate HS to be in in math class. CY? #makebetterhappen has become a Me: Yup! this year, rallying cry – bringing us together, She: Great. See you he tested into the boosting team spirit, and motivating us next year! "on track" for the work ahead. Me: As what? level for math! she: a city year! so proud!!! #makebetterhappen #makebetterhappen Allison @APservesCYB Favorite moment of today? My RennG_CYSKC 8th grade ELL talking about how @RennGutierrez hard she was working to become And our 3rd graders are becoming a doctor or engineer one day! math detectives #makebetterhappen by cracking secret codes! #makebetterhappen City Year New York Janae Babineaux PS/MS 57 @BabineauxJanae @cyny_psms57 During a behavior activity 10:30 AM- Miss Faith makes algebra easy! #makebetterhappen students were asked to write #americorpsweek #adayinthelife things they can count on. on every paper ms. cassidy saw city year Lynnea Greene #makebetterhappen @lgreene_CYP Call your students "young scholars" and watch their attitude about education Norma Garcia @NormaG348 change #positivevibes All those beautiful stars represent the positive behavior my #makebetterhappen students have demonstrated @CityYearPhilly #makebetterhappen #CYCO Jessica Hernandez @jessicahdz_cylr Jennifer Iglesias “Ms.Jessica, was your goal to change someone’s life? B/c @jen_in_jax "I am so grateful to have you in class. G Camp my life has @gcampos_CYCO i don't know "CY has made an impact what i would with me and my child. changed do without your service is city year" invaluable." ever since – my teacher – Parent during Parent- everyday! Teacher conference . #makebetterhappen #makebetterhappen i met you @CityYearJAX I love school now!” #makebetterhappen Tahia Islam @tahiatalks My student just received a CYLA at 109th St ES 100 course avg @cyla_shine109 improved from a 65 last marking "At first I didn't get it, but then Mr. Omar period! @CityYearNewYork helped me." #MakeBetterHappen #makebetterhappen #MathMondays DEAR CITY YEAR COMMUNITY Our 2015 annual report is a tribute to the dedicated young people who #makebetterhappen every day in some of America's highest-need urban schools. We hope their service and commitment inspire you and that you enjoy reading their tweets and Instagram posts, which provide a glimpse into the tremendous impact they are having across the country and the world, at our international affiliates in the UK and South Africa. Our 2015 report is also a testament to the commitment and generosity of the individuals, families, foundations, and corporations that make possible our AmeriCorps members' service. It would be hard to overstate the gratitude that we at City Year feel for the many members of our community who give precious resources that enable City Year AmeriCorps members to serve where they are needed most. Thank you for your support, and thank you for believing in the City Year corps. Yours in Service, Michael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder Jim Balfanz, President Jonathan Lavine, Chair, Board of Trustees TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 What We Do 26 Individuals and Family Foundations 4 Alumni & Staff Member Profile: Jarvis Nash 34 National Strategic Partner Profile: New York Life 6 2014-2015 National Impact Highlights 35 National Corporate Partners 8 External Evaluation 38 Team Sponsor Profile: Staples 10 City Year's Long-Term Impact Goals 39 Team Sponsors 12 Diplomas Now 40 Corporations and Corporate Foundations 14 School District Partnerships 44 Foundations and Nonprofits 16 AmeriCorps & The Corporation for National 45 In-Kind Donors and Community Service 46 Board of Trustees 17 International Affiliates 47 Site Board Members 18 Champion Profile: Sandy and Paul Edgerley 49 Senior Leadership 20 25th Anniversary In School & On-Track Campaign 50 Welcome: City Year Dallas 22 25th Anniversary Campaign Contributors 51 Executive Directors 24 Champion Profile: Ana Mari Ortega 52 Financials 25 Red Jacket Society 1 WHAT WE DO At City Year we believe that every child has the potential to succeed and that a high-quality education can help ensure each child realizes that potential. But we also know that students, particularly those to bridge that gap by providing individualized supports living in poverty, face obstacles that interfere with their to students and schools that need them most – from ability to arrive at school every day ready to learn and elementary to high school. to succeed in school. Research shows that providing students with positive, developmental relationships, Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members serve individualized academic supports, and opportunities to full time, providing high-impact student, classroom and develop social-emotional skills can dramatically reduce school-wide support to help students stay in school and the adverse effects on students’ readiness to learn, and on track to graduate from high school, ready for college can keep students on track to graduation and adult and career success. * success. However, for schools in areas of concentrated Throughout the entire school day, corps members directly poverty, there is an overwhelming scale of need, resulting support academic achievement and student engagement in chronic absenteeism, school in and outside the classroom. City Year suspension, low achievement and Mary DuBard tutors students one-on-one; provides high dropout rates. This places an in-class supports in partnership @mdubardcy unmanageable burden on even the with teachers; coaches students on most experienced teachers, who During an after-school attendance; helps students build critical must establish caring relationships, drawing contest, kids social and emotional skills, including deliver instruction and create learning drew their favorite goal setting, persistence and teamwork; environments that meet the unique and leads after school programs and academic and developmental needs superhero. school-wide initiatives to improve student of their students. In other words, there One student drew a engagement and academic achievement. is a gap between what students need CY logo! #inspiring and what schools are designed and #makebetterhappen City Year helps schools create learning resourced to provide. City Year helps environments that are responsive to 2 Ty @tylermiguel Met with our principal and the data doesn’t lie: our students have DOUBLED in proficiency for math standards since last yr #makebetterhappen students’ developmental needs and where students feel City Year also develops its AmeriCorps members as civic capable and committed to their academic goals. Corps leaders and future educators who can drive transformative members are “near peers” trained in youth development change in schools and communities. Through our work practices, which means they can uniquely connect with with students and our alumni, City Year is ensuring that the and relate to the students they serve – old enough to next generation is prepared with the skills and enduring provide the wise guidance students need, yet young civic mindset needed to contribute to our nation’s enough to relate to a student's perspective. economic growth and prosperity and the success of our democracy. City Year regularly monitors student performance on three early-warning indicators – attendance, behavior and course performance in math and English – which research shows can identify students at risk of dropping out as early as sixth grade. Guided by these data, City Year partners with teachers and other school staff to identify which students are most at risk and our corps members are able to customize the types and intensity of support they provide students. *“The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development” (2015) http://developingchild.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ inbrief-adversity-1.pdf 3 ALUMNI & STAFF MEMBER PROFILE JARVIS NASH City Year Washington, DC, ’14, ’15 | City Year Impact Manager “‘It takes a village to raise a child,’ was the setting I was of the country’s largest historically black colleges, Florida raised in,” shares City Year alum Jarvis