ANNUAL REPORT 2013
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4 Dear Friends,
very day, City Year AmeriCorps members and high schools where often a majority of are demonstrating that national service students need extra support. The City Year is a powerful way to support students, corps – 2,500 strong in the 2012-2013 school Eteachers and schools. City Year is fully focused year – provides one-on-one support for students, on dramatically improving America’s high supports teachers in their classrooms, and leads school graduation pipeline by bringing much- before and after-school programs and school- needed people power – idealistic, highly wide initiatives to improve student academic motivated young adults in national service – to achievement and school culture. our nation’s highest-need urban schools. We are pleased, in our 2013 annual report, to Our City Year AmeriCorps members are highlight the exciting role that national service providing solutions that work for our country’s can play to help keep students in school and on urban schools, including championing track to graduation, to profile some of the people early warning indicator and intervention and champions at the heart of City Year, and systems, investing in student social-emotional to recognize and thank the generous donors, development, helping to differentiate instruction dedicated sponsors, and committed public for each student in a classroom, and expanding education and AmeriCorps partners who make the learning day. our work possible. Through our Whole School, Whole Child We are deeply grateful to everyone who enables service model, trained, committed City Year City Year to harness the idealism and energy AmeriCorps members serve as full-time of dedicated young adults to help students and tutors, mentors and role models throughout schools succeed. the school year, in urban elementary, middle
Sincerely,
Michael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder Jim Balfanz, President Jonathan Lavine, Chair, Board of Trustees
1 Table of Contents
7 Powering Proven 28 school district Education Strategies partners
Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems 6 30 Q+A Expanded Learning Time 8 AnnMaura Differentiated Instruction 10 Connolly Social-Emotional Development 12
32 National Service 14 Diplomas Now Partners and state service Commission Partners 16 PROFILE Rashid Perkins 34 International Work 20 PROFILE David Jones
36 Q+A 22 Impact highlights Einhorn family charitable trust
26 Q+A Alberto Carvalho
2 38 profile 54 donors michael and kim TEam sponsors ward
56 donors 40 Q+A COrporations ben walton and and corporate michael johnston foundations
42 profile 58 donors david and marion In-kind supporters mussafer
60 media highlights 44 donors Individuals and family foundations 62 board of trustees
46 donors 64 site boards Foundations and non-profits 68 Senior Leadership & Executive 48 profile Directors microsoft
70 financials 50 Donors NAtional leadership sponsors
3 Education researchers have identified a number of evidence-based strategies that are getting positive results for students attending high-poverty schools. In schools across the country, City Year is providing the critically needed, additional people power to effectively implement these practices. In the following pages, we describe several of the proven practices that City Year AmeriCorps members deliver during their year of full-time service in nearly 250 of America’s highest-need schools. Through City Year’s school-based service model, Whole School Whole Child, committed City Year AmeriCorps members serve as tutors, mentors, and role models throughout the school year, in urban elementary, middle and high schools where often a majority of students need extra support. Every corps member receives more than 300 hours of professional training on topics including, data-informed instructional planning, intervention strategies for math and literacy, and effective coaching and mentoring. As near-peers, younger than teachers but older than students, corps members are uniquely positioned to form a strong bond with students to help them succeed. Across the country, City Year’s young people— through their year-long commitment to full-time national service—are helping to transform some of our most troubled schools, at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
4 National service powering proven education strategies highlights from the field 5 Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems
Research indicates that three early warning indicators—poor Attendance, poor Behavior, and Course failure in English or math – the ABCs – are valid predictors of whether or not a student will drop out of school. If a sixth grader in a high-poverty school has even one of these indicators, he or she has less than a 20 percent chance of graduating from high school on time. Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems (EWS) centralize data in a single location so that educators can frequently review this data, determine what interventions are needed to meet each student’s unique needs, and monitor the interventions’ effectiveness. Absence of enough people power in schools can often stand in the way of effective use of EWS, but City Year AmeriCorps members help make EWS possible. Corps members partner with teachers and administrators to identify students with an early- warning indicator pointing to a need for extra attention, then work together to ensure that the right students receive the right supports at the right time. For chronically absent students, for example, corps members aim to uncover issues at the root of a student’s absences and help to put the proper supports in place to improve his or her attendance, whether it’s providing a wake-up call or helping to coordinate a ride to school. City Year corps members implement the research-based Response to Intervention framework (RTI) to provide student supports. The RTI framework includes three tiers of support: Tier 1 – school-wide supports, Tier 2 – targeted extra help for struggling students and Tier 3 – intensive interventions for the most at-risk students. Using the RTI framework, City Year teams provide school-wide (Tier 1) supports as well as collaborate with educators at the beginning of the school year to analyze early warning indicator data to determine a “focus list” of up to 20 students per City Year AmeriCorps member who require evidence-based, individualized interventions to achieve their full potential (Tier 2 supports).
6 THE RESEARCH: Why National Service is EWS in Action at City Year Needed to Implement EWS and RTI systems: At Clinton Middle School in the Los Angeles Unified According to a 2010 survey by the American School District, a Diplomas Now partnership school, Association of School Administrators, 81% an EWS team of teachers, counselors, and City Year of school leaders report lacking the trained, and Communities in Schools personnel monitor dedicated individuals needed to consistently and students’ progress at least every two weeks. Together effectively implement RTI systems. they have generated impressive outcomes: the school improved substantially on California’s Academic Performance Indicator Scale and significantly decreased the number of students exhibiting an early warning indicator.
7 Expanded Learning time
Research has shown that consistent participation in high-quality expanded learning programs can help close the achievement gap that divides low-income students from their more affluent peers. Ideal extended learning time activities build upon, clarify, and explore topics covered in class, giving students the opportunity to go deeper with materials and unearth any problem areas that prevent them from moving forward. The challenge is that many schools and school districts lack the financial and staffing resources to run robust expanded learning programs. City Year provides schools with additional capacity to run expanded learning activities, at a low cost. As a consistent presence in the classroom, City Year AmeriCorps members are familiar with the curriculum and are already helping teachers provide extra support to students who need it. In addition, corps members commit hours before and after school providing one-on-one tutoring, ensuring that students are grasping key concepts. They also plan and lead enrichment activities, such as science club, improvisation groups and sports activities, that can reinforce daily lessons and help students connect to school in rich, meaningful ways.
8 THE RESEARCH: Why Expanded Learning Expanded Learning Time in Action at City Year Time Matters In 2013 City Year San José corps members serving “Both research and practice indicate that in the Alum Rock School district worked to expand adding time to the school schedule can have the learning day for the sixth grade in two high- a meaningfully positive impact on student need middle schools. Corps members made it achievement and, indeed, upon a child’s entire possible for schools to extend the day by three educational experience.” hours, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. – the equivalent of increasing the number of school days by 90 days – The National Center on Time and Learning or 50%. In less than a year, the percentage of 6th graders in these two schools who achieved the proficiency/advanced level of English Language Arts increased from 13% to 36%.
9 Differentiated INstruction
Research clearly demonstrates that individualized learning opportunities help fuel student success. But the way America’s schools are organized hasn’t always kept pace with what research has shown about how students learn. When public schools were designed a century ago, they were expected to provide extra support to 15 percent of students. But in an average high-poverty school today, as many as half or more students require more than a strong lesson every day. City Year calls the gap between what students need and what schools were designed to provide, the implementation gap. Given the current structure of most of the nation’s urban schools, it is very difficult to meet—even for the most experienced, most dedicated, most talented teacher—the individualized learning needs of every student in their class. City Year AmeriCorps members help bridge the gap: helping schools provide additional individualized attention to students. Because corps members are a constant presence throughout the school day, they can provide a variety of supports: one-on-one tutoring and helping to facilitate small group work during class time, and reinforcing key concepts before and after school, or during lunch. This individualized attention benefits not only students who might be struggling, but also the entire class, because it allows a teacher more flexibility; a teacher can instruct at a pace that’s comfortable for the majority of students and differentiate instruction for students who are either more advanced or in danger of falling behind.
10 Differentiated Instruction in Action at City Year “Students have such a range of skills and abilities that it is imperative that teachers differentiate their instruction to meet the students where they are. Having a City Year corps member in the classroom makes this so much more possible. The teacher can plan small group instruction and know that the City Year can helpTravis manage Holloway and instruct @THolloway_CY one of the groups, or the City Year corps member24m can manage the whole classMost doing kids who independent drop out workthink whilethey havethe teacher no other conferences option. with students one- on-one at his or her desk.I help Therethem findare manyone. #makebetterhappen ways to differentiate but having another adult in the room makes it so much more doable and successful.” – Sean Shirley-Davidson Head of Middle School, Neighborhood House Charter School, Boston, MA11 Social-Emotional Development
Research demonstrates that social-emotional development, the process of developing self-management and interpersonal skills in the context of safe, well-managed and engaging environments, is an important contributor to student success. Not only does a systemic focus on social-emotional development better prepare individual students to meet their academic goals, but it also helps transform the whole school by promoting school-wide cultural norms and standards related to student responsibility and efficacy, and interactions between peers, students and adults. In school climates with trust, respect and support, students are much more likely to connect with the adults in the building and their school as a community. This is particularly important because the student-school connection leads to engagement on many levels. For example, students are more likely to work hard and to be involved with positive activities inside and outside of school time if they feel strongly connected to school. City Year AmeriCorps members contribute to the creation of a safe, positive learning environment where students feel connected to school and can focus their energy on their academic goals. Corps members, who conduct school-wide climate and culture activities and mentor students, are relatively close in age to students and are a constant presence before, during and after school. Because of this, corps members are able to relate to students in a way that’s different from teachers. The rich, trusting relationships corps members forge with students they mentor encourages students to share openly, which can help corps members uncover the root of a student’s struggles and help to explain disruptive or distracted behavior. Corps members communicate this insight to teachers and administrators, making for a more fully informed school community that can address students’ individual needs.
12 THE RESEARCH: Why Social-Emotional Social-Emotional Development in Action at Development Matters City Year: “A growing body of research shows that social- A comparison field study—conducted by Brett emotional learning is an important part of Consulting Group—of behavior, climate and student development. It facilitates academic culture activities in 31 City Year schools found growth, positive school climate, and caring significant positive differences in the impact communities, and prepares students to become of City Year AmeriCorps members on school responsible citizens.” climate. In test schools, teachers gave corps members significantly higher assessments related – Yael Kidron, Ph.D. and David Osher, Ph.D., to improving: overall student focus and order in American Institutes for Research the classroom; reducing the number of conflicts between students; and improving student focus and readiness at the start of day.
13 Diplomas Now
ATTENDANCE Cardozo High School in Washington, DC had the highest student attendance increase of any public high school in the district, improving its overall attendance rate by 20 percentage points from the prior school year. Percentage point Increase
REPEATING THE NINTH GRADE South High School in Columbus, OH increased the number of students matriculating to the 10th grade by 32 percentage points and reduced the number of students repeating ninth grade by 93%.
MATH PROFICIENCY Rhodes Middle School had the highest math proficiency rate of all San Antonio Independent School District middle schools for the 2012-13 school year.
14 Diplomas Now is an innovative school turnaround model Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant that unites three nonprofit organizations – City Year, Communities In Schools and Talent Development – to In August 2010, the U.S. Department of Education work with the nation’s most challenged middle and high awarded Diplomas Now a $30 million Investing in schools. Innovation (i3) Validation Grant. Diplomas Now was the only secondary school-focused turnaround model Diplomas Now partners with the school community so with national reach to receive an i3 award. As a result each student at risk has the support of caring adults, of the grant, Diplomas Now has recruited 62 schools and those adults have the tools to improve student to participate in a rigorous third-party randomized success. An early warning system identifies struggling control study of the model. Thirty-two of these schools students, and the Diplomas Now team creates a plan for are implementing the Diplomas Now model, while each student. 30 schools are participating in the study as control schools. Working with administrators and teachers, Talent Development Secondary organizes and supports The PepsiCo Foundation, the founding investor of schools to strengthen achievement and engagement Diplomas Now, generously provided the $6 million while providing curriculum, teacher coaching and match funds required by the Department of Education student support. City Year AmeriCorps members for the i3 grant to be formally awarded. implement the Whole School, Whole Child service model. They welcome students to school (and call students when they don’t show up), provide tutoring in math and English, and celebrate positive behavior. After school, City Year provides homework help and engages students in service and enrichment programs. For the neediest students, Communities In Schools provides case management and connects them with community resources, such as counseling, health care, housing, food and clothing.
During the 2012-2013 school year, Diplomas Now was being implemented in 12 cities:
Baton Rouge Boston Chicago In March of 2013, Broadmoor Middle School, a Columbus Diplomas Now school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was Detroit featured on PBS NewsHour as part of the American Los Angeles Graduate series. Miami New York City Said principal Denise Charbonnet: "We have lowered Philadelphia our suspension rate from 50 percent to 15 percent, Seattle which is below the national average. We have San Antonio lowered the failure rate to 7 percent and improved Washington, DC attendance for each and every grade level."
15 Profile
Rashid Perkins City Year AmeriCorps Member City Year New York
On a typical school day, Rashid Perkins rises well before William Smith College in upstate New York. dawn. He’s out of bed at 5 a.m., early enough to make the hour-and-a-half commute from his home in Jamaica, Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Queens to Public School Queens, Rashid thinks his 75, an elementary school life could have gone in a in the South Bronx. After a different direction without a full day in the classroom, few critical opportunities. Rashid stays to help run When he was seven years programming in the after- old, he first participated school program at P.S. in the Fresh Air Fund, an 75. By the time he arrives organization that provides home at 8:30 p.m., he’s city kids with opportunities been going full-steam for to experience nature 15 hours. through home stays with The most amazing thing families in rural settings. about Rashid’s exhausting Each summer, all the day? After a year of way through high school, committing himself to this Rashid spent a few weeks demanding schedule he with a host family in signed up to do it again. Massachusetts. The open Rashid is a second space and tranquility there year City Year AmeriCorps member, spending his engaged his imagination and sparked a desire to learn second year serving at a school in the Hunt’s Point and explore. The summer became his motivation to stay neighborhood (last year he served at M.S. 434, a middle on track in school during the year. school down the block from P.S. 75). “When I was in high school, I had this moment where I “The kids are what really excites me and keeps me up realized a lot of my friends weren’t even thinking about and going,” he said. college. The Fresh Air Fund was my outlet,” he said. “With the kids I work with now, I can talk to them about A New York City native, Rashid came home to work those outlets that they can find to truly succeed.” with students in 2012 after graduating from Hobart and
16 That ability to relate based on personal experience has “We just practiced, practiced, practiced. It really made helped Rashid forge connections with students at P.S. me feel amazing inside, thinking that something I’m 75. doing is making a measurable difference.”
Median household income in the neighborhood around Rashid has long been interested in a teaching career, the school was just $21,562 in 2012, making it the and City Year has provided the opportunity to build his poorest district in the city according to an annual survey confidence in the classroom and hone his skills. of New York neighborhoods conducted by New York University. And 2013 state test results showed that When his service as a City Year AmeriCorps member students at P.S. 75 ranked well below state averages in ends next spring, Rashid is considering graduate school reading and math. or Teach For America as opportunities to continue in the field of education. For those corps members who follow Though the need is high, Rashid says he can see the in his footsteps, he has some insightful advice. impact of his efforts on a daily basis. A breakthrough with a student named Michael helped Rashid see how “You go through a lot of trials, but at the end of the day you realize that you did something positive and touched
“We just practiced, practiced, practiced. It really made me feel amazing inside, thinking that something I’m doing is making a measurable difference.” he could make positive change in a student’s life. somebody,” he said. “It’s your year. It’s going to be a challenging year, but you can make it one of the best Michael struggled in language arts, with a reading years of your life.” level several grades below his peer group. Through persistent tutoring, Rashid worked with Michael to build his vocabulary and improve his writing skills.
They compiled lists of words Michael struggled to understand and, together, researched their meanings. When Michael struggled with writing assignments, Rashid engaged him in narration exercises to organize his thoughts, transitioning to the written word once Michael felt more confident.
Rashid remembers clearly the day when he helped Michael – who initially resisted composing a single paragraph – complete a five-paragraph essay during his English period.
Rashid Perkins The kids I work with every day have potential. I help them believe they can achieve it. #makebetterhappen
17 In School and On Track: A Plan for Transformational Impact
July 30, 2012
In 2013, at City Year's In School and On Track National Leadership Summit, we released our Plan for Transformational Impact, our prospectus, which provides a detailed analysis of the national graduation crisis, City Year's Long Term Impact plan to help students and schools succeed, the capacities the organization is building to achieve our impact and scale goals, and the philanthropic capital we seek to attract to support this work. For more information on City Year's Plan for Transformational Impact or its 25th Anniversary Campaign, please contact Allison Graff Weisner, Chief Development and Alumni Officer, at [email protected].
18 Students who reach 10th grade with their peers are four times more likely to graduate.
City Year’s Long-Term Impact strategy is a ten-year plan to nearly double the number of students who reach tenth grade on track and on time in the schools we serve
By 2023:
We will serve in the cities We will Serve that account for 80% 50% 2/3 of the students in the schools of the off-track students of the nation’s City Year serves will reach 10th in City Year communities urban dropouts grade on track and on time
At full scale, City Year will reach nearly 800,000 students every day in more than 1,100 schools.
19 Profile
David Jones CITY YEAR Americorps Alum and Boston Public School Teacher
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, David Jones reflected University of Kansas, many of his friends and peers on his experiences first as City Year AmeriCorps struggled with a deficit of support and opportunity. member and now as a teacher. David is a City Year alum and a teacher at Young Achievers Academy in the Mattapan Neighborhood of Boston. City Year Boston currently serves at Young Achievers, so David is now working alongside corps members every day.
The second-year teacher works intentionally to build a culture of mutual respect among the sixth, seventh and eighth grader students in his history classes.
Jones’ sense of purpose and calm presence are clear: “I haven’t had a lot of issues with behavior from my kids, and I think that’s in part because they respect me as a person, and they respect the work that I’m doing with them,” Jones said. “My school was focused more on college prep. It had less of the problems that you would deal with in the David grew up in Kansas City, Kansas and attended an city’s struggling schools,” Jones said. “I had friends elementary school where a majority of his peers were, who were going to those schools, and I was able to like him, students of color. When he was admitted to a see firsthand the divergent trajectories of achievement college prep magnet school for high school, he began between those two groups.” to grasp the scope of the inequity of opportunity in his own community. At KU, David studied political science, spurred on by an interest in the experiences of his community in As David joined a culture with an intense focus on Kansas City. He landed a summer internship in his academic success and carved out a path toward the Congressman’s office in Washington D.C. after his junior
20 David Jones City Year trains you to think about what can be done to address issues, and not just accept the status quo. #makebetterhappen
year in college, where he worked on legislation related master’s degree in education and build experience as to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). a classroom teacher. Now in his second year teaching That program provides health care to low income social studies at Young Achievers Academy, David has children, often through services delivered in schools. further developed his skills and his goals for the future. The experience brought him into contact with children in Washington-area schools and further brought to life the He’s working now with a group of other African inequality in our country’s education system. American male teachers to establish a summer camp program for young men of color in the Boston area. The After graduation, David took the advice of his aunt, a camp would help participants build confidence and life City Year alumna, and applied to be a corps member. skills, while also teaching them to work together and He travelled to Boston, where he spent a year working develop the leadership skills within their peer group to with students at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in help all succeed. Dorchester. “I guess the camp is like my baby. If I had had an The experience was a challenge. In addition to experience like that as a young person, I think it would adjusting to life in a new city, David sought to help his have given me opportunities to know people with other
“The work that I was doing at the Burke really inspired me. It gave me direction for what I wanted to do next,” he said.
students live up to the high expectations they held for tastes, other ways of being. Maybe my freshman year themselves. in college wouldn’t have been the culture shock that it was,” David said. Despite the challenges, David said his City Year corps year helped galvanize his interest in teaching, while “The camp is also, I think, a spin-off of what City Year providing the skills and experiences – organization, provided me: idealism and social entrepreneurship. City working on a diverse team, managing tasks from Year trains you to always think about what can be done beginning to end – required in his profession. to address issues, and not just accept the status quo.”
“The work that I was doing at the Burke really inspired me. It gave me direction for what I wanted to do next,” he said.
After completing a year of service at the Burke, David was admitted to the Boston Teachers Residency, which provided him the opportunity to earn his 21 Impact Highlights
82% of students in grades 3-5 improved scores on literacy assessments1
1 n=2,206; data only reflects students that were enrolled in City Year literacy/ELA programming for at least 30 days, received at least 15 hours of T2 literacy/ELA interventions
2 n=2,929
3 n=1,407
4 22n=411 14,600
Approximate number of additional hours students were in school as a result of
City Year’s attendance programs.2 86% % of teachers who agreed or strongly agreed that corps members helped improve the overall academic performance of their students3
% of principals/liaisons who were satisfied or 96% very satisfied with the overall experience of working with City Year4
23 city year is taking on some of the toughest work in education, including turning around the lowest-performing schools and ensuring that every student in this country is on the path to lifelong success.
These challenging efforts require all of us to play a part – from teachers, administrators, and counselors; to business leaders; philanthropies; and community members. Those who serve can fill the gap by providing services to schools and communities who need additional resources the most and by giving critical support in ways that no one else can. when you partner with communities and with schools to serve our country’s children, you are creating opportunities for thousands of students to pursue their dreams.
Arne Duncan U.S. Secretary of Education City Year’s 2013 In School and On Track National Leadership Summit 24 25 Q+A
Alberto Carvalho Superintendent Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Alberto Carvalho was appointed the Superintendent of How does the partnership between City Year and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest Miami-Dade County Public Schools improve student school district in achievement, and help the United States, the district achieve its goals? in 2008. City Year began its service City Year plays an in Miami that same integral part in increasing year. A nationally student achievement recognized expert here in Miami-Dade. on school reform Corps members are the and finance, freedom fighters that Superintendent meet our students before Carvalho won the the first bell, they’re the Broad Prize for last hug students get Urban Education after the last bell, and in 2012, and was in between, they are named the National helping miracles happen Superintendent in classrooms. They of the Year in are the most masterful February 2014, curriculum interventionists among several other alberto carvalho delivered the keynote address at city year’s I’ve ever met. When I talk national leadership summit in 2013. awards. about improvements in graduation rates, when A native of Lisbon, Portugal, Carvalho immigrated to the I talk about proficiency in reading, math, and science United States after high school, and initially worked as a improvements, I credit a lot of these good things to dishwasher in New York City to earn a living. “Education teachers and those who support them – that includes City saved me; it’s made me who I am,” Carvalho says. “If you Year AmeriCorps members. have any doubt that this is still the nation of opportunity, the nation of innovation, look at me. And as you look at me, look at 360,000 children in Miami-Dade – a reflection of the new America – who are looking for that same opportunity.”
26 So many students face serious obstacles before they even get to school. What role do you think City Year plays in helping students overcome these obstacles?
It’s my fundamental belief that the classroom is a place of learning, but the reality is that not every child arrives to school with the same readiness to learn: they arrive with today: varying degrees of readiness, with varying degrees of proficiency, and most often facing incredible challenges from a social perspective. Corps members help to level 45% 80% the playing field. They boost opportunity. They bring hope. graduation graduation They bring energy. They bring compassion. They bring rate rate skill. They bring will. And, above all, they bring a belief that every single child can actually succeed if they’re just given the intellectual hug they all deserve.
What do you think the relationship is between opportunity and achievement? In September 2008, the state Opportunity gaps lead to achievement gaps and of Florida had decided to close achievement gaps invariably lead to social and economic nine Miami high schools for poor gaps that persist over a lifetime. It’s a vicious cycle that performance. The list included Edison ensures a slave-like poverty element that is generational in many communities across America. If you do not have Senior High School, which five years access to a great teacher, to a great leader, to a great ago, had a graduation rate of just school, to a great support system, to a great mentor, 45% and was considered to be one to a great tutor: that’s an opportunity gap. Our ability as educators, our ability as caring people in the private of the lowest performing and most sector, our ability as government, our ability as teachers to dangerous high schools in the entire ensure that we invest and intervene in that cycle is critically country. Superintendent Carvalho important. I believe City Year corps members, the red jackets, the freedom fighters of our generation, the builders and his team took several actions, of democracy, the cogs of inspiration and motivation stand including partnering with City Year as an enabler of opportunity. Miami. In just one year, Edison moved Why is City Year a worthwhile investment for school from an F-rated school to a C, and district leaders and others? today is an A-rated school with an 80%
I’m inspired by City Year because your approach is graduation rate. Every one of the other research-based. You know what works, you invest, you eight schools – which also partnered replicate it, and you scale it up. We invested in 80 corps with City Year Miami – also improved members during the first year, 100 or so corps members in the second year, and now we have 200 corps members in from an F to an A or B. 17 schools, including nine schools that were once in line to be shut down by the state for poor performance. The fact that City Year is working so well for thousands of kids here in Miami-Dade, should inform the rest of the nation and continue to inform the practice here in our community. It’s a best practice that must be scaled up and amplified across the nation.
This Q+A is excerpted from Superintendent Carvalho’s remarks at City Year’s 2013 National Leadership Summit and from an interview provided for City Year’s ‘Blueprint’ video. 27 School District Partners
City Year locations 25 U.S. Locations Baton Rouge New Hampshire Boston New Orleans Chicago New York City Cleveland Orlando Columbia Greater Philadelphia Columbus Rhode Island Denver Sacramento Detroit San Antonio Baton RougeJacksonville San José/Silicon Valley International Affi liates Denver Little Rock/N. Little Rock Seattle/King County East Baton RougeLos Angeles Parish SchoolTulsa Board Johannesburg, South Africa Denver Public Schools Miami Washington, DC London and Birmingham, England – Dr. BernardMilwaukee Taylor, Jr. – Tom Boasberg Superintendent Superintendent
Boston Detroit Boston Public Schools Detroit Public Schools – Dr. Carol R. Johnson – John Telford, Superintendent Superintendent Harper Woods School District – Todd Biederwolf, Superintendent Chicago River Rouge School District Chicago Public Schools – Darrick R. Coleman, Superintendent – Barbara Byrd Bennett Taylor School District Chief Executive Officer for Chicago Public Schools – Diane Allen, Superintendent Educational Achievement Authority of the Cleveland State of Michigan Cleveland Metropolitan School District – John Wm. Covington, Ed.D, Chancellor – Eric S. Gordon Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland Metropolitan Jacksonville School District Duval County Public Schools – Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti Columbia Superintendent Richland County School District One – Percy A. Mack, Ph.D Little Rock/N. Little Rock Superintendent Little Rock School District Lexington School District Four – Dr. Morris Holmes International Affiliates – Dr. Linda G. Lavender Superintendent Superintendent
Columbus Columbus City Schools – Dr. Gene T. Harris Superintendent/CEO, Columbus City Schools
28 Los Angeles Sacramento Los Angeles Unified School District Sacramento Unified School District – Dr. John E. Deasy – Jonathon P. Raymond Superintendent Superintendent Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS) – Marshall Tuck San Antonio Chief Executive Officer of the Partnership for North East Independent School District Los Angeles Schools – Brian G. Gottardy, Ed.D Superintendent Miami San Antonio Independent School District Miami-Dade County Public Schools – Dr. Sylvester Perez – Alberto M. Carvalho Interim Superintendent Superintendent San José/Silicon Valley Milwaukee Alum Rock Union Elementary School District Milwaukee Public Schools – Stephen Fiss – Dr. Gregory E. Thornton Superintendent Superintendent Seattle/King County New Hampshire Seattle Public Schools Manchester School District – José Banda – Dr. Thomas J. Brennan Superintendent Superintendent Washington, DC New Orleans District of Columbia Public Schools First Line Charter Schools – Kaya Henderson – Jay Altman Chancellor of DC Public Schools Co-Founder and CEO
New York New York City Department of Education – Dennis M. Walcott Chancellor
Orlando Orange County Public Schools – Barbara M. Jenkins Superintendent
Greater Philadelphia Scholar Academies – Lars Beck, CEO The School District of Philadelphia – William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D Superintendent Universal Companies – Janis C. Butler, Ed.D EVP Education Mastery Charter Schools – Scott Gordon Chief Executive Officer
Providence Providence Public School District – Susan F. Lusi, Ph.D. Superintendent
29 Q+A
AnnMaura Connolly Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President, City Year President, Voices for National Service
AnnMaura Connolly’s call to service began with her own Anselm’s Immigrant and Refugee Center in Garden Grove, year of service after graduating from the College of the CA and worked with refugee families who were struggling Holy Cross, when she served with the Jesuit Volunteer to adapt to life in the United States. I lived with six other Corps in Southern California. AnnMaura has been a volunteers in a tiny house in the neighborhood we served. leader in the national service movement for more than It was a tremendously challenging and exciting year, and 25 years. She has served when I finished, I knew I in senior positions with wanted others to have the Youth Service America same opportunity that I did. and the Corporation for National Service. Today, Today, I believe we need AnnMaura is both Chief national service more Strategy Officer and than ever before. As a Executive Vice President country, we are faced of City Year—directing City with increasingly difficult Year’s public policy, public choices. How can we affairs, communications, meet the growing need for and international work— services in a challenging and President of Voices economy? How can we for National Service—a improve the lives of people coalition of hundreds of in our communities and service organizations that help them thrive when we work together to advance can barely afford to provide citizen service policy. them with the basic services they need to survive? That’s Why are you so where national service can dedicated to advancing national service? make a huge difference – it is a cost-effective strategy for public problem solving that leverages the most powerful Since my experience as a Jesuit Volunteer, I have been resource we have: the American people. committed to the idea that every person should have the opportunity to do a year of full-time service. National service gives you the opportunity to work with people of different backgrounds to get big things done and to change the lives of the people you serve. My year of service was a game changer for me. I served with St.
30 You were at the White House 20 years ago when At City Year, one of your responsibilities is President Clinton swore in the first class of leadership of the organization’s international AmeriCorps members. What did you imagine was work. What inspires you about working to expand possible then? What makes you optimistic about service overseas? the future? My passion is that every young person–wherever they That was an inspiring and thrilling moment—looking out at live–be asked and given the opportunity to serve. I have all the young people who had stepped forward and raised had the honor of working with committed leaders in South their hands to serve. I knew young people would respond Africa and the United Kingdom to establish City Year to AmeriCorps, and indeed they have. affiliates in their countries. Those experiences have shown me that this idea that young people can change the world I continue to be optimistic about the future of national through a year of full-time national service is not uniquely service. At City Year, I see first-hand the results that American. The values that are the essence of City Year are national service can achieve. City Year AmeriCorps universal. Young people across the world are resources members are having a tremendous impact in some of the just waiting to be tapped. They want to be part of creating country’s highest-need schools. At the same time, through a better future for their communities, their countries and the my work with Voices, I see great work happening on many world. different issues because of the power of national service. Tell us about the ongoing role that President What does Voices for National Service do? Clinton has played in expanding national service:
Though more than 830,000 young people have served President Clinton was the driving force behind AmeriCorps, in AmeriCorps so far, hundreds of thousands more want and that has been the engine behind City Year’s expansion the opportunity to participate. And despite the surging across the country. But many people don’t know that he is demand, national service is often under threat. Voices also the reason there is a City Year affiliate in South Africa for National Service, for which I am honored to serve and he has stayed involved over the years, often visiting on as President, was born out of a collective effort to save his regular trips to Johannesburg. Secretary Clinton and AmeriCorps from devastating cuts in 2003. Chelsea have also been powerful advocates for national service and City Year. Secretary Clinton was a vocal From there it has grown to be a powerful force for champion for national service in the Senate and was the expanding national service. The coalition is led by a founding Co-Chair of City Year New York, and Chelsea has volunteer Steering Committee made up of leaders from joined City Year New York for service days and their annual state service commissions and national and local service gala. In addition, Chelsea has made service a key focus programs, and together, we work to build the case for the for her work with the Clinton Foundation and founded the federal investment in national service, educate our nation’s Day of Action program to help inspire communities across leaders and the American people about the tremendous the country to expand service opportunities. value proposition that national service represents and honor and thank leaders who take action to grow national service. In 2009 we worked together as a field to help craft and build support for the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which put forth a plan to grow AmeriCorps to 250,000 members serving annually. We haven’t achieved that goal yet but we are confident that by working together, engaging decision makers and building the strongest possible case, we will not only achieve that goal but also our vision for one million people serving every year. Time and time again, members of congress, governors, mayors, and presidents who see young people serving their country–making a difference–agree that AmeriCorps and national service are worth investing in.
31 national service partners
Established in 1993 by President Clinton, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is a federal agency that engages more than 5 million Americans in service through its core programs – Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Social Innovation Fund – and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve. As the nation’s largest grantmaker for service and volunteering, CNCS plays a critical role in strengthening America’s nonprofit sector and addressing our nation’s challenges through service. CNCS harnesses America’s most powerful resource – the energy and talents of our citizens – to solve problems. CNCS believes that everyone can make a difference and that all of us should try. From grade school through retirement, CNCS empowers Americans and fosters a lifetime of service.
For more information, visit www.cncs.gov
32 state service commission partners
State Service Commissions are governor-appointed Commissions that work with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to oversee the annual grant competition that awards funding to AmeriCorps programs such as City Year. These Commissions annually manage more than $250 million in federal national service grants, along with more than $100 million from local sources. Beyond grant stewardship, they determine social needs in their states, set policy and program priorities, provide training and assistance, support national days of service, and promote service and volunteering. Across the country, over 1,000 private citizens serve as commissioners, setting priorities for service and volunteerism, and acting as catalysts and ambassadors for service, creators of sustainable infrastructure for service and volunteerism, and developers of resources for the state. In 2013, City Year received AmeriCorps funding directly from:
California Volunteers Serve DC: The Mayor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism Volunteer Florida Serve Illinois: Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service Volunteer Louisiana Louisiana Serve Commission Massachusetts Service Alliance Michigan Community Service Commission Nevada Volunteers: The Governor’s Commission on Service Volunteer NH New Yorkers Volunteer: New York Commission for National & Community Service Serve Ohio: Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism PennSERVE: The Governor’s Office of Citizen Service United Way Association of South Carolina OneStar Foundation
33 International Work
city year uk graduation president bill clinton and chelsea clinton visit city year south africa
city year uk corps members in service CLINTON FOUNDATION 2012 ANNUAL REPORT 34 Updated 10.02.2013 The City Year red jacket is worn by idealistic youth serving in their communities through City Year international affiliates in South Africa and the United Kingdom. city year south africa The roots of City Year’s international work stem from the deep commitment to citizen service as a means of strengthening democracy shared by former Presidents Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton. In 2002, City Year was invited to join a U.S. delegation attending the Civil Society Conference in South Africa at the request of President Clinton and Mandela, to speak to the powerful role young people in full-time service could play in helping to address pressing social problems. This conference ultimately led to the launch of the Clinton Democracy Fellows program, which brought rising young civic leaders from South Africa to Boston to learn from and build connections with national service leaders and social entrepreneurs in the United States, and then the founding of City Year South Africa in 2005.
Since then, City Year South Africa has graduated more than 1,400 young service leaders and provided nearly a million hours of service to the children and families of Johannesburg. This year, more than 130 young South Africans proudly served in ten schools in Johannesburg and Soweto, providing afterschool programming and classroom support to primary and secondary students.
For the second year in a row, President Bill Clinton returned to visit City Year South Africa with his daughter, Chelsea, as part of his annual trip to Africa with the Clinton Foundation. They joined a service day with City Year South Africa, where they helped repaint playground equipment, plant a new vegetable garden, and work with children in the after-school program at the Together Action Group. President Clinton and Chelsea’s visit was highlighted on the Clinton Foundation blog, and was the cover photo of the Clinton Foundation 2012 Annual Report.
city year south africa service leaders
city year uk In 2010, City Year UK became our second international affiliate. City Year UK has quickly become a leader in education and national service. In 2013, 113 City Year UK corps members served in 12 schools across London, reaching more than 6,000 students regularly. Corps members also provided extra intensive help to more than 600 focus list pupils to improve behavior, literacy and numeracy. A teacher in one of City Year UK’s primary schools reports on the impact of the corps:
“Just thinking about the table my corps member sits at with her target children, I know they’re a lot more focused because she is there. And students are producing a higher level of work, which I’m sure is almost a direct result of working with their corps member. It’s a massive improvement.”
While continuing its growth in London, City Year UK was met with such widespread support and demand across the country that, in addition to its London site, City Year UK launched City Year Birmingham in September 2013 with 56 corps members serving in five teams, reaching a total of 4,372 students.
35 Q+A
Einhorn FAMILY Charitable Trust Investors in the Expansion of City Year’s Whole School Whole Child Initiative
The Mission of the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust is to help people get along better. What does that mean and how is it reflected in the work of the Trust?
The Trust’s mission comes from our founders and trustees, David and Cheryl Einhorn, who created the Trust with the vision of building a more harmonious and civil society – a society in which the norm is for people to get along.
Research shows that the best ways to help people get along better is by nurturing the development of necessary skills and behaviors such as empathy, kindness, cooperation, and respect, from the earliest stages of life through adulthood, for people to have the proclivity to proactively choose to engage positively and productively with those around them.
david einhorn, city year trustee, and his wife cheryl To do this well, we need to provide the opportunities strauss einhorn. to regularly practice and develop these skills, and also ensure that the environments, such as one’s home and Since 2007, City Year has been honored to partner school, and primary relationships, such as with parents, with the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust. In 2013, teachers, and peers, are consistently positive and David and Cheryl Einhorn – the Trust’s founders and nurturing. trustees – made a significant investment in City Year’s Long Term Impact strategy. Their multi-year gift, given How is that mission and those priorities put into at the highest level in City Year’s history, is catalyzing action through the grantmaking of the Trust? the organization’s ability to deepen its impact in more schools in more cities across the country. The Trust’s grantmaking philosophy emphasizes research-based programs that are developmentally We spoke to Jennifer Hoos Rothberg, the Trust’s appropriate and that integrate all three facets: Executive Director about this recent investment. relationships, environment, and experiences. In an educational context, we are looking for organizations
36 that provide students with the opportunities to practice Why does the trust believe now is a good time to and develop these skills on a regular basis, integrated expand its investment in City Year? into the core curriculum and pedagogy, whereby everyone in the building becomes an active participant The Trust seeks to partner with organizations that are in establishing a caring community and positive school positioned for that next stage of growth and provide culture. When done well, students thrive in both learning the resources to help them get there. We are proud and life. to have partnered with City Year over the past several years of their journey. The organization has identified How does City Year fit into this philanthropic a rigorous growth plan, laying out what the next level strategy? of impact will look like, and with resources, are poised to get there. We recognized this as an unprecedented City Year is one of the best examples of incorporating opportunity to help City Year reach its transformative these attributes – developing strong relationships, goals. The Trustees feel privileged to be able to provide providing formative experiences, and creating a resources that will help City Year achieve its innovative nurturing environment – and making sure they and ambitious plan to become a powerful, sustainable are mutually supportive of one another. City Year force for change in education. It is an ideal investment AmeriCorps members build supportive and trusting for the Trust. relationships with students, especially those who need it most. You can’t go into a City Year school and not feel that the environment has been transformed by the corps members’ presence. The environment is safe and nurturing, but also energetic, exciting, warm, and welcoming. Corps members not only model these positive behaviors, but actively provide students with experiences and opportunities to practice and develop their social and emotional skills on a daily basis, helping young people become their best selves.
City Year believes strongly in the power of young people to make a difference. How do you think young people can help solve some of our most intractable problems?
Young people are the special sauce of City Year. Corps members bring an incredible sense of idealism with them into the classroom. We need this insurgence of energy and positivity, warmth and creativity in our schools – and no one is better at delivering that than idealistic millennials. The genuine, trusting relationships that corps members build with students and the tireless positivity that they bring into the school building: that’s the transformative power of City Year. Corps members are transforming these schools and we are confident City Year’s “human capital solution” will transform education. This is a perfect example of the power of young people making difference in the world.
37 Profile
Michael and Kim Ward The michael and kim ward foundation
Michael J. Ward “My father told me, ‘You have to get a quality college President, Chairman and CEO, CSX Corporation education. But you’re going to have to pay for it, Trustee and Development Committee Chair, because I can’t,’” Michael remembers. He didn’t take City Year Board of Trustees the advice lightly. Michael worked summers at an Board Member, City Year Jacksonville asphalt company to cover his undergraduate tuition at the University of Maryland. Then, when Michael Kim Ward decided to apply to business school, Michael’s father Chair, City Year Jacksonville Board said to him: “Try Harvard. See what happens.” And he handed Michael $25 dollars to cover the application fee. Michael and Kim Ward are no strangers to hard work. A strong work ethic was common to their upbringings Harvard’s acceptance letter followed soon after, and — Michael’s in Baltimore and Kim’s outside of Michael entered the program that fall. Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was seeing that same commitment in City Year AmeriCorps members, along Work hard. Aim high. Get that degree. Decades later, with the resulting impact, that inspired the Wards’ Michael recognized these values among an enthusiastic tremendous commitment to the organization. More crew of City Year AmeriCorps members when a CSX recently, it was their own no-nonsense approach to colleague brought him to a City Year event. a challenge that enabled them to found, fund and launch City Year Jacksonville in record time. “The absolute best gift you can possibly give someone is an education,” he says. “If you give someone an education, you not only enable them to change their life, you enable them to make a positive difference in the lives of people around them.” Michael helped nurture a partnership between City Year and the CSX Corporation, where he is now President, Chairman and CEO, which has grown over nearly two decades. CSX became a National Leadership Sponsor in 2003 and today sponsors 15 teams of City Year AmeriCorps members serving in high-need schools in every community where CSX operates.
Three years ago, Michael introduced Kim to the organization at City Year’s National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. Kim saw City Year in action, studied the numbers and understood the significant return
38 “I can’t go in and create the outcome, but I can be their biggest supporter, their biggest cheerleader.” on investment City Year communities were seeing. founders of City Year Jacksonville. They invited the “We’re all about the numbers,” says Kim, who had an “founding team” in Jacksonville to their home at the end accomplished career in business before taking on of the 2012-2013 school year and gave each of them a duties for the Michael and Kim Ward Foundation full- personalized yearbook. time. “And all the data was there.” Her only question was why City Year wasn’t operating in their adopted Michael offers corps members the same advice he hometown. “We need to bring City Year to Jacksonville,” gives to other young people. “I have found over the she said. And she committed herself and the couple’s years that people who focus on the success of the foundation to making it happen. organization versus their own personal success have a lot more personal success,” he says. “Surround yourself The Michael and Kim Ward Foundation supports with great people, give them room to run and give them educational opportunities for wounded veterans, aims to credit when they succeed.” eradicate relationship violence through technology and education, and helps increase the graduation pipeline in As for the Wards’ future with City Year, they’re in it for the urban schools through City Year. long haul. “It’s more than writing a check, establishing a group and then watching someone else do the hard When it came to Kim’s promise to launch City Year work,” Kim says, speaking with admiration of the corps Jacksonville, the result was unprecedented because of members she has come to know personally. “I can’t go the Wards’ deep personal commitment. A process that in and create the outcome, but I can be their biggest normally takes two-and-half years was completed in supporter, their biggest cheerleader.” less than six months.
The Wards’ enthusiasm for taking on a tough task is shared by employees at CSX who are known to show up for a City Year service day two hours early and stay well past the designated end time, whether they’re planting trees or refurbishing a school playground.
That work ethic is the precise quality the Wards recognize, support and celebrate in the City Year AmeriCorps members they’ve come to know as
Michael Ward The absolutely best gift you can possibly give someone is an education. #makebetterhappen
39 Q+A
Ben Walton AND Mike Johnston Co-Chairs, City Year Denver Board
Ben Walton we’re still seeing only 40-to-50-percent proficiency rates Trustee, Walton Family Foundation in subject areas at grade level. Co-chair, City Year Denver We have true clarity about where we need to improve. Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston And we know it’s possible, with City Year demonstrating Senate District 33 success in some of the toughest schools in the city. Co-chair, City Year Denver How did you first hear about City Year? What made Architect-philanthropist Ben Walton and Colorado State you think that corps members might be one of the Senator Mike Johnston are galvanized by numbers — solutions that Denver schools could invest in? specifically, pinpointing where policy and investment yield real results. The City Year Denver co-chairs are BW: City Year reached out knowing that my family’s national thought-leaders on education reform. foundation [the Walton Family Foundation] is very focused on early childhood education. The numbers Can you both talk a little bit about the challenges City Year shared demonstrated an amazing impact facing the Denver community and public schools? across the board: academic success, increases in attendance and violence prevention. It was clear that the MJ: There’s a tremendous opportunity in Denver, corps members had become part of the fabric of these which is one of the state’s fastest-growing and schools. fastest-improving school districts. We’ve seen a real commitment to reform at the district level and an Although City Year’s mission is outside the focus of expansion of partnerships, with organizations like City our foundation work, we connected the City Year team Year that are leading the way. There’s real optimism that with people in three districts where our foundation was Denver could become the city that leads the country on heavily involved — Milwaukee, Louisiana and Arkansas reform and results for all kids. — and I was very excited by the idea of bringing City Year to Denver. In 2008, City Year presented The challenge? We still face difficult problems and at our mayor’s conference, and [then] Mayor John achievement gaps at the K-12 level and in college Hickenlooper expressed interest. Then I spearheaded attainment. We’re struggling with the highest gaps in the effort to launch City Year here in Denver. the country on college attainment for kids of color, and
40 Senator Johnston, what got you interested in education reform? Why did you decide to make it Ben Walton AND your defining issue? MJ: I’d been a student of the civil rights movement and felt like I’d missed the chance to be a part of this powerful movement in American history. And then the Mike Johnston more you read, the more you research, the more you spend time in the community, you realize that while all of those former barriers to equality may have been lifted, Co-Chairs, City Year Denver Board what remains in our education system is a profound inequality and lack of access to opportunity.
Sixty years after Brown vs. Board of Education, I can ben walton predict with startling accuracy any kid’s likelihood of graduating college if I know three variables: income, zip code and race. The fact that those are still predictive in 2013 means there’s something deeply broken. I came to believe, like many folks, that K-12 education is the civil rights issue of our generation.
What results are you seeing in Denver’s schools as a result of City Year’s engagement?
BW: We’re in our third year in the schools here. Principals understand how to realize their relationships with corps members and how to integrate them into the classrooms so City Year’s impact can be maximized.
MJ: Particularly in northeast Denver, we’ve placed senator mike johnston (craig f. walker, the denver post) corps members in what are historically some of the lowest-performing schools in the district and the state. Ben, you’re known as being a smart philanthropist With City Year’s involvement over the last two years, who does his due diligence and studies they are now some of the fastest-improving schools. every investment. What do you look for in an You see results in the data. You’ll also see those results organization when you are considering investing? in the stories of the kids when they talk about their BW: City Year has outstanding leadership. The relationship with City Year AmeriCorps members who organization is results-driven and accountable to those helped them through the separation of their parents or results. You’re able to adapt to what you’re seeing in the the incarceration of their mom. It’s not just the data that numbers, which is something that really excited me. You tells the story. also have the anecdotal, day-to-day impact that’s part Jeff Park [City Year Denver’s Executive Director] is the of each corps member’s experience through the training reason City Year Denver is as successful as it is. He and culture. Those are qualities you don’t see often in has worked as a teacher and as a principal, has led not-for-profit philanthropy, but it goes right to the core of charter schools and district schools, and knows how to City Year. That really drew me in. generate success and outcomes in a school every day.
He’s a force of nature.
41 Profile
David and Marion Mussafer
city year champions
David Mussafer David Mussafer first learned about City Year while Founding Chair, City Year Boston Investment pursuing a MBA at the University of Pennsylvania. There, Community Breakfast he came across a profile of the organization in an issue Managing Partner, Advent International of Inc. magazine. After moving to Boston in 1990, David Board Member, City Year Boston Board (2004-2012) and Marion were looking for volunteer opportunities, when a friend invited David to a City Year service event. Marion Mussafer Founding development team leader, City Year London David and Marion quickly recognized that City Year had Founding Chair, City Year Boston Seven Generations Board impressive leadership and great potential for success. The organization also met the couple’s criterion of At the center of City Year’s culture is a collection of having a community or education-based focus, so it felt Founding Stories, observations and reflections that like a good fit. speak to the organization’s ideals and identity. It’s no surprise that Marion Mussafer, who, with her husband “City Year is an experiential organization,” Marion says. David, has been involved with City Year for two “You don’t just contribute as an outsider. You become decades, often talks about the “ripples” that City Year actively involved on a much deeper level.” creates, citing the “ripples” founding story, a quote by Robert F. Kennedy from 1966: “Each time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” For Marion and David, there are many ripples when it comes to their family’s long-term connection with City Year.
from left: marion mussafer, dorothy magill (marion’s mother), david mussafer 42 The Mussafers have since taken on leadership roles Both he and Marion admire the organization’s with City Year and provided significant philanthropic understanding of how complicated the challenges are support. Their commitment extends in many directions in the urban schools where corps members serve. “The and across multiple continents. Marion has led trips to organization bridges the issues in the most elegant South Africa and was part of the founding of City Year way,” David says. “It’s not the only solution, but it’s part London. She is also the inaugural chair of City Year of the tapestry — the idea of really high-impact young Boston’s Seven Generations Board, a new entity that professionals going into the most challenged schools gives active supporters another way to engage with and working with kids is attacking the toughest, deepest our work. A founding member of City Year Boston’s part of the problem. The model works, and you’ve got a Investment Committee, David recently shared his scorecard to measure it.” insights as an investor at the National Executive Leadership Conference, a bi-annual event for City Year’s Marion and David aren’t the only family members who senior leadership team and executive directors from dive into the work. Their four children, two in college and across the country. two in high school, have come to see City Year as an “It’s exciting to think about the potential impact that City Year can have on the dropout crisis in America,” David says. “It’s not just the right thing to do. When you are having that kind of impact on children, creating opportunity, you are strengthening the country. It’s really moving the needle in a big way.”
David talked about seeing City Year’s successes and integral part of family life. The children have joined in on challenges through his own lens as an investor. “Both of everything from serve-a-thons to international trips. us have to go out and raise money to stay in business,” he laughs. “But the subtlety of that is that you have “We grew up with City Year,” Marion says. “It’s part of to continuously demonstrate why you are the best our family culture now. Our kids have learned that you alternative for people’s money. More broadly, with City have to do more than just make your own way in the Year’s model comes the challenge of how to centralize world; you have to find something you care about and best practices and share them broadly across the make a difference.” organization – that’s something I think City Year does “It’s exciting to think about the potential impact that very well.” City Year can have on the dropout crisis in America,” The couple has stood with City Year for all these years David says. “It’s not just the right thing to do. When for many reasons. They laud the friendships they’ve you are having that kind of impact on children, creating built and their admiration for the people involved. But opportunity, you are strengthening the country. It’s really they also speak of City Year’s changing focus as an moving the needle in a big way.” important development. “When City Year refined the mission around education, that was spot-on,” David says. “The leadership asked, what are the things that we do well? And the answer was that they inspire, lead and create role models.”
43 Donors
Individuals and Family Foundations Gifts from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.
Million Dollar Circle Champions Circle Jeff and Jana Galt The David Geffen Foundation $1,000,000+ $50,000 – $99,999 The Marc Haas Foundation Anonymous The Jeffrey H. and Shari L. Aronson Family Steve and Diane Halverson Einhorn Family Charitable Trust Foundation Christa and Jeffrey Hawkins Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine Mrs. Teresita I. Blanca and Mr. Francisco J. Robert Hill Juncadella Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Julie and Kevin Callaghan Beth and Michael Jones Founders Circle The Crown Goodman Family Keiben Foundation Anne and John A. Herrmann, Jr. The Patricia Kind Family Foundation Geraldine and John Cerullo Dianne and Bill Ledingham $500,000 – $999,999 Carolyn and Jeffrey Leonard Anonymous (2) IF Hummingbird Foundation Floyd Udell Jones Family Foundation Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family The Edgerley Family Foundation Foundation Hauptman Family Foundation The Kaplen Foundation Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation Loeb Family Charitable Foundations The Michael and Kim Ward Foundation Lubar Family Foundation The Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Sobrato Family Foundation Brad Meltzer and Cori Flam Charitable Trust Alexis Makris Harvey Najim Family Foundation Chris and Melody Malachowsky $250,000 – $499,999 The Rosenthal Family Foundation Sandy McArthur The Goldhirsh Foundation Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. Katie McGrath and J.J. Abrams Family Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation Robert and Mary Stein Foundation The Poses Family Foundation Alan and Elaine Weiler Shyamli and Robert Milam The Rapier Family Foundation Lisa and Todd Owens/GS Gives TOSA Foundation Thomas and Elizabeth Petway David and Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation $25,000 – $49,999 The Reilly Family Foundation Anonymous The Walton Family Foundation Jennifer Eplett and Sean E. Reilly Fund Anthony R. Abraham Foundation, Inc. Gregg Rogowski and Ellen Fitzsimmons Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc. The Siemer Family Foundation $100,000 – $249,999 Kristen and Jim Atwood Michael and Ellen Alter Social Venture Partners of Sacramento John and Anne Baker The Anschutz Foundation David and Linda Stein J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Bloomberg Philanthropies Hap and Brooke Stein Brenda and Richard Battista Amy and Ed Brakeman Robert and Mary Stein Arthur and Janice Block Charina Endowment Fund Nancy and Arn Tellem Braman Family Charitable Foundation The Crown Family Kristine and Joe Trustey Holly and David Bruce Diane and Neil Exter Laura Fox and Bennet Van de Bunt Barbara and Bill Burgess Merice “Boo” Johnston Grigsby Foundation Peter Whitehouse and Lisa Mancini David and Barbara Caplan The Horning Family Foundation Missy and Mike Young Carter Family Charitable Trust Jane’s Trust Letitia and John Carter Medina Family Foundation Gary and Nancy Chartrand $10,000 – $24,999 David and Gail Mixer David and Rhonda Cohen Anonymous Brooke and Will Muggia Barbara and Bertram Cohn Daniel Abraham Marion and David Mussafer Stephanie and John Connaughton Achieving America Family Foundation Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Thomas and Patricia Cornish Andreeff Family Foundation Foundation David and Victoria Croll, The Croll Joseph R. and Julie Angileri Lesli and Phillip Scott Foundation The Apatow-Mann Family Foundation Tony and Sandra Tamer Lois G. Roy Dickerman Charitable Melora and Andrew Balson Susan and Matthew Weatherbie Foundation Barton Family Foundation DuBow Family Foundation Susan Bazett and Rom Watson Daniel M. and Cynthia G. Edelman S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation Greg Becker Corinne and Tim Ferguson Mr. Henry W. Bedford, II Joseph Flynn Dale and Max Berger Meredith Berger & Melanie Ferris 44 Susan and Sandy Berger Shelly London and Larry Kanter Thomas Werner Steven Berglund J. Thomas and Diana Lewis Fund Graham Weston Andi and Tom Bernstein Ian and Isabelle Loring Tona and Robert White Mrs. Charlotte L. Berry Ellie and Philip Loughlin Scott and Lisle Whitworth Ragu and Sangeeta Bhargava Dominic Mariani Wiener Family Future Foundation Tricia Black and Patrick Brogan Lisa and Robert Markey Dr. Karie Willyerd Jessica and Kenneth Blume Jean Martin and Warren Weinstein Woldenberg Foundation John Bolte Sharon Matthews and Jim Tabasz Mariann and Andrew Youniss Tushara Canekeratne Fred Maynard Neil Zola The Carol & James Collins Foundation Sarah Maynard William Carr and Lynn Miller Carr Josh and Alexandra McCall Christine and William Carr Robert and Elisabeth McGregor Charles Lamar Family Foundation Dianne McKeever and Shreyas Gupta The Chernin Family Foundation Daniel F. and Patti McKeithan For more information about individual giving, Gary and Judy Clare Randy and Rebecca Mehl please contact Jeremy Cramer at General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark and The Mesdag Family Foundation [email protected] Getrude Clark Sarah and Jeremy Milken Lee and Priscilla Cockerell Matthew Miller Evan and Tammy Cohen Roberta and Colin Moore Kenneth Cohen Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Barry Stein Jeffrey and Suzanne Cohodes Stephanie Mudick Teresa Cooper and Jay Hamilton Oscar and Cathy Muñoz Mary and William Copeland The Murphy Family Foundation Kent and Elizabeth Dauten Elin and Larry Neiterman Dana and Stuart Davies David and Suzu Neithercut Kelly and George Davis Sue Nokes Aart De Geus and Esther John Virginia and John Noland Beth and Gerard du Toit Keith and Jane Nosbusch Edmond and Holly Eger Alan and Marsha Paller Sally Fassler Lynne and Timothy Palmer Nancy Folger and Sidney Werkman Randa and Michael Pehl Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Fowler Pennington Women and Girls Fund Foo-Ming Fu Gregg and Julie Petersmeyer Granholm Mulhern Family Fund Andy Plews Geoffrey and Martha Fuller Clark Pritzker Foundation The George Family Foundation The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation Carol and Stephen Geremia Randall and Cynthia Pond Robert and Ann Gillespie Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly, Jr. Fund Anne Helgen and Michael Gilligan Jamie and Nick Renwick Goldring Family Foundation Clare and Gerard Richer Gordon Hartman Family Foundation David and Gwenn Rosener Katie and Eric Green Roth Family Foundation Beth and Lawrence Greenberg Henry M. Rowan Family Foundation, Inc. Robert Greenblatt Rohini and Ravinder Sakhuja Amy and John Griffin Foundation Jorge and Maybel Salgueiro Doug and Ann Grissom Lesa Scott and Philip Jackson Lisa Gutierrez Chuck and Rhonda Sekyra Gillian and Jason Haberman Carin and Scott Sharp Suzanne and David Hamm James Simmons Michael Hatch and Cathy Wallach Brian and Johanna Snyder Barbara and Brian Haymon Elizabeth and Thomas Sorbo The Higley Fund Fred and Winnie Spar Julie and Jordan Hitch Anne and Bernard Spitzer Regina and Joseph Hitchery Harrison and Lois Steans Melanie and Stephen Hoffmeister Jennifer Steans and James Kastenholz Willow Bay and Robert Iger Thomas C. Sullivan, Sr. Ilene and Richard Jacobs Sunset Cove Foundation Jacobson Family Foundation Trust Sandra and Robert Taylor Joel P. Johnson Glenn and Jacqueline Tilton Vikas and Priyanka Kamran Kathy and Ted Truscott John and Elaine Kanas Family Foundation Glen and Trish Tullman Casey and Donna Keller Lee and Cynthia Vance Foundation Joseph Kelly Richard Von Feldt Andrea Kirstein Terry and Robert Wadsworth Kathryn and Luke Kissam Gail and Lois Warden Danette Knudson Ware Foundation Evelyn and Ronald Krancer Louise and David Weinberg 45 Donors
Foundations & Non-Profits Gifts from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.
$1,000,000+ The Philip L. Graham Fund Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Anonymous Herzfeld Foundation Foundation M&I Foundation, Inc. Eva L. & Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation Cavaliers Youth Fund $500,000 – $999,999 The Philadelphia Foundation Clark Charitable Foundation Windsong Trust Polk Bros. Foundation College Summit Leo M. Shortino Foundation Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation $250,000 – $499,999 Silicon Valley Community Foundation DC Public Education Fund Anonymous Sisters of Charity SC Foundation Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Barr Foundation Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Easton Community Foundation The Children’s Trust ThursdayNights GPOA Foundation The Eisner Foundation David V. Uihlein Sr. Foundation Granite United Way The Ford Foundation United Way of Central Ohio The Highley Fund The Johns Hopkins University United Way of Greater Los Angeles Ingram-White Castle Foundation Pinkerton Foundation United Way of Northeast Florida Edith and Jules Klein Fund UCLA Dream Fund Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation KPAI - Korean American Professionals in United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County Yawkey Foundation II Automotive Industry United Way for Southeastern Michigan Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. $25,000 – $49,999 The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback $100,000 – $249,999 The Abington Foundation Foundation Anonymous Norwin & Elizabeth Bean Foundation William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc. The Annenberg Foundation Arthur F. Blanchard Trust Meyer Foundation Anschutz Foundation The Solomon and Sylvia Bronstein Foundation The Miami Foundation Baptist Community Ministries Burberry Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. Communities in Schools Powell Group Fund The Charles Hayden Foundation The Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Pro Bono Publico Foundation Heart of Florida United Way Memorial Fund Providence After School Alliance The Lenfest Foundation CVS Caremark Charity Classic, Inc. San Antonio Area Foundation Robert R. McCormick Foundation Fred Darragh Foundation Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation New Schools for Baton Rouge DC Children and Youth Investment Trust The Schrafft Charitable Trust NoVo Foundation Corporation The Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Entertainment Industry Foundation Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation Flamboyan Foundation The Barbra Streisand Foundation The Piton Foundation The Foundation to Be Named Later Sun Times Foundation, a Fund of the Chicago The Rhode Island Foundation Give an Hour Nonprofit Corporation Community Foundation The Rose Hills Foundation The George Gund Foundation The Treu-Mart Fund Sacramento Region Community Foundation Evan and Marion Helfaer Foundation United Way of Greater Cleveland The Skillman Foundation Leonard and Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation United Way of Miami-Dade Universal Orlando Foundation The Lynch Foundation United Way of Southeast Louisiana United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Impact New Hampshire Charitable Foundation United Way of The Midlands Fund, a McCormick Foundation Fund Ocean Reef Community Foundation The Thomas H. White Foundation United Way of Greater Milwaukee Philadelphia Education Fund Thomas P. Winn Foundation United Way of Greater Philadelphia and The Reinberger Foundation Edward Wisner Fund Southern New Jersey The Seattle Foundation United Way of the National Capital Area The Share Fund For more information about Foundation USA Funds Tupperware Brands Foundation giving, please contact Duke Guthrie at United Way of Greater Cleveland [email protected] $50,000 – $99,999 Anonymous (2) $10,000 – $24,999 The Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation Anonymous Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Angel Foundation Capital Area United Way The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation Arata Brothers Trust The Case Foundation Beim Foundation The Ellison Foundation The Herb Block Foundation
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MICROSOFT City Year National Leadership Sponsor
“Today’s generation of young people are active in Year AmeriCorps members serving at a high school understanding the challenges ahead of them and are in Queens, New York. With the launch of YouthSpark, using their voice to advocate for change,” says Lori Forte Microsoft’s investment has grown and the company Harnick, Microsoft’s General Manager of Citizenship became one of City Year’s National Leadership Sponsors and Public Affairs. “We’re inspired by today’s youth and in 2012. To date, the company has donated more than believe we have a responsibility not only to create thriving $23.4 million through financial and in-kind support. economies that they can be a part of, but listen, Microsoft invests in two areas inspire and encourage of City Year’s work. First, it them to harness their supports City Year teams own passion, innovation serving in four schools in New and aspirations for their York City, Washington, DC, futures. It’s a belief that Chicago and Seattle. Every animates our fourteen- team Microsoft sponsors year commitment to City is part of Diplomas Now, Year.” a collaboration between City Year, Johns Hopkins YouthSpark, Microsoft’s Talent Development and signature corporate Communities In Schools, citizenship program that is helping to turn around launched in September some of the nation’s most
2012. The company- lori forte harnick, microsoft’s general manager of troubled schools. Microsoft’s wide global initiative is citizenship and public affairs support helped generate aiming to provide 300 improved results in student million young people – that’s nearly the entire population attendance and course performance, in addition to of the United States – with opportunities in education, providing engaging service opportunities for Microsoft employment and entrepreneurship, by 2015. City Year is employees. The company has also invested in City one of 186 youth-centered nonprofit organizations that Year’s mathematics curriculum, helping City Year’s have received YouthSpark support. program team build a research-based instructional framework and provide professional development Microsoft began partnering with City Year in 1999, trainings for corps members. As a result, the number donating more than $500,000 in software. Direct of students who will receive math interventions will investment in City Year’s work in schools started in increase from 8,500 to 14,000 during the 2013-2014 2011, when the company sponsored a team of City school year.
48 microsoft $15,000 The amount Microsoft will match in charitable employee donations per employee annually giving $1.1 billion Overall dollars Microsoft employees have donated over the last 30 years
Math and other STEM subjects (science, technology, stepping into a leadership role was a natural next step. engineering and math) are obviously important to “As a parent and a professional, I understand how Microsoft. “In today’s society, STEM education and important it is for all young people to be nurtured and computer science skills are key components of a supported in their journey to adulthood,” she says of 21st century education and are becoming a larger her new, on-going commitment. Maybe most important, requirement for employment in most workplaces around though, to our partnership are the values Microsoft and
“Our investment in City Year’s math curriculum is intended to help expand opportunities for all students to be prepared to pursue even more advanced training that will contribute to their personal and professional success.” the world,” Forte Harnick says. “Our investment in City City Year share: both believe in the power of young Year’s math curriculum is intended to help expand people. “Our future success as a society, across the opportunities for all students to be prepared to pursue U.S. and throughout the world, will largely depend on even more advanced training that will contribute to their the knowledge and capacity of today’s youth to drive personal and professional success.” innovation and address increasingly complex global challenges,” Forte Harnick says. “An investment in youth Microsoft’s increasing engagement with City Year has reflects our belief in the potential and promise of the also had an impact on Forte Harnick’s personal life, as world’s 1.4 billion young people.” she began to think about how she could have a more direct, personal commitment to empowering young people in Puget Sound, where she lives. One result? She joined City Year Seattle’s board (Justin Spelhaug, Microsoft’s General Manager of the Operations Service Group is also a member of the board). She says
49 National Leadership Sponsors
AT&T City Year and AT&T have teamed to help keep students in school and on track to succeed. AT&T supports City Year’s year-round work in schools, including the organization’s role in an innovative partnership designed to help turn around the nation’s most challenged schools. City Year’s Diplomas Now partnership includes City Year, Communities In Schools, and Johns Hopkins Talent Development Secondary. Diplomas Now is reaching over 1,500 students in five markets and supporting innovative solutions to help students achieve high school graduation.
Aramark The City Year and Aramark partnership leverages their shared dedication to enrich communities through engaging employees in high impact volunteer service as part of Aramark Building Community, the company’s signature global philanthropic and volunteer program. Aramark and City Year also work together to build strong school partnerships and recruitment campaigns leveraging relationships on college campuses to recruit young adults join City Year for a year of service. As City Year’s Official Apparel Partner, Aramark provides uniform apparel to our corps members serving in schools, as well as uniform components dedicated exclusively for physical service.
Bank of America As City Year’s National Student Leadership Development Sponsor, Bank of America supports programs focused on helping underserved middle and high schools students graduate with the education and life skills needed to access post-secondary educational opportunities. Bank of America has supported City Year and young people who make positive change in their schools and communities for more than 20 years. In 1988, predecessor institution Bank of Boston became a founding sponsor of City Year, Inc. and was the first company in the nation to sponsor a City Year team. Bank of America has served as Presenting Sponsor of City Year’s annual convention and its 15th anniversary, and played a pivotal role in the purchase and development of City Year’s national headquarters by supporting tax-exempt bond financing and bridge financing for the project.
50 Cisco Cisco first partnered with City Year in 1993, and has been an instrumental supporter of City Year’s Whole School, Whole Child model for school-based service and after-school programs. This partnership is an example of what a leading technology company and national non-profit organization can accomplish together. The partnership has allowed City Year to further its mission of keeping students in school and on track to graduation by using Cisco’s technologies to facilitate collaborative training and communication nationwide.
Comcast and NBCUniversal Comcast and NBCUniversal serve as City Year’s official Leadership Development and Training Partner. Comcast and NBCUniversal support City Year’s leadership development programs and recognize the accomplishments of City Year alumni who have continued their dedication to community service through the conferring of the annual Comcast and NBCUniversal Leadership Awards. The company is also recognized as the National Opening Day Sponsor, Presenting Sponsor of our National Leadership Summit and Presenting Sponsor of City Year’s annual training academy, as well as a multi-site team sponsor. Comcast and NBCUniversal donate significant communication and broadcasting resources to help City Year raise awareness about its mission and focus areas by reaching more young people across the country through cable and Internet.
Comcast and NBCUniversal’s investment in City Year makes it possible for thousands of corps members to help improve the lives of students while creating sustainable solutions for social change.
CSX Transportation As City Year’s largest team sponsor, CSX demonstrates a shared commitment to service and the positive role it plays in transforming neighborhoods and communities. CSX partners with City Year’s Care Force® team to engage employees, customers and community members in service days throughout the year. To support Care Force® service days across the country, CSX donated two tractortrailers to transport tools and materials to service events across the country. CSX is also a co-sponsor of City Year’s National Leadership Summit, and as City Year’s Lead Safety Partner, CSX provides first aid and CPR training for all corps and staff members.
51 Deloitte Deloitte invests financial resources along with the intellectual capital of its professionals to strengthen City Year’s capacity and reach nationwide. Deloitte’s pro bono services help City Year transform, scale and support the design and delivery of its services nationwide. Beyond pro bono, Deloitte professionals play a leadership role at the local and national level through their participation on City Year’s boards and as mentors to corps members. Together, Deloitte and City Year are building the nation’s graduation pipeline to help create the business and civic leaders of tomorrow.
Microsoft Microsoft is one of City Year’s newest National Leadership Sponsor, but we are long-time partners. Microsoft has been one of City Year’s National In-Kind Sponsors for the past 13 years and Microsoft will continue its in-kind support of City Year by providing over $12.3 million worth of software to enhance our IT infrastructure. As a result of Microsoft’s support, City Year will be able to expand its math tutoring program to reach nearly 8,500 students, and City Year’s math curriculum designers will be able to carry out key activities, including preparing online content, field-testing activities, packaging site-specific best practices for national distribution and creating a framework for our resource library. Microsoft also sponsors City Year teams in four Diplomas Now schools in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.. Microsoft will help City Year reach an unprecedented number of youth in high- poverty schools nationwide, ensuring the right students receive the right interventions at the right time.
PepsiCo Foundation PepsiCo and City Year share a deep commitment to education, diversity and inclusion. The collaboration began in 2001 with community service projects that engaged PepsiCo employees in transforming communities across the country, and continued with spreading the City Year message on millions of Pepsi cans around the country. In 2008, the PepsiCo Foundation provided the initial seed funding to support Diplomas Now, and has been the driving force behind the growth and impact of its collaborative school turnaround model in the years since. PepsiCo played a critical role in Diplomas Now being awarded a prestigious federal Department of Education (DOE) Investing in Innovation (i3) grant in 2010, and has helped catalyze the program into a national network of 40 schools in 14 cities, reaching more than 31,000 students each year. Today, PepsiCo’s involvement comes back full circle to the community level, with employees mentoring Diplomas Now students to a brighter future.
52 53 Team SPonsors
The Team Sponsor Program is a unique opportunity for our partners to engage with City Year AmeriCorps members. Through their generous support, Team Sponsors partner with a team of eight to 12 corps members for an entire school year and make a difference in their community by investing time, resources and talent. Team Sponsors further the critical work of City Year AmeriCorps members to keep students in school and on track to graduate.
Throughout the service year, Team Sponsors join their team of diverse young men and women, who proudly wear their sponsor’s logo on their uniform, to participate in high-impact service projects, transform schools and contribute to the individual leadership and professional development of the corps members they sponsor.
Multi-Team Sponsors Alcoa Foundation (2) The Aramark Charitable Fund (2) AT&T (2) Bain & Company (2) Bank of America Charitable Foundation (3) Cisco Systems Foundation (2) Comcast and NBCUniversal (11) Credit Suisse Americas Foundation (3) CSX Transportation (15) Deloitte Services LP (4) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6) ® MFS Investment Management (2) Microsoft (4) National Grid (4) Towerbrook Foundation (3) United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Impact Fund, a McCormick Foundation Fund (2) United Way for Southeastern Michigan (2) Walmart (3) Wells Fargo (2)
Single Team Sponsors AAR Corporation The Acacia Group Albemarle Foundation Allstate Foundation
54 The Alter Group Miami-Dade Transit Applied Materials, Inc. Morgan Family Foundation Bain Capital Children’s Charity Morgan Lewis Ballard Spahr LLP New Schools for Baton Rouge Barclays Northern Trust Baton Rouge Area Foundation NVIDIA BMO Harris Bank OneWest Foundation The Boston Foundation Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Brewers Community Foundation PTC Capital Area United Way Rackspace Foundation Capital One The Red Sox Foundation CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Robert R. McCormick Foundation Chicago Transit Authority Rockwell Automation Chicago White Sox Charities RPM International Inc. City of Little Rock RSF Endowment The Community Foundation for the National San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation Capital Region SAP Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation Schneider Electric David’s Bridal The Seinfeld Family Foundation DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson ServeDC DISPATCH Silicon Valley Community Foundation Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Silver & Black Give Back Foundation Duane Morris Social Venture Partners Eagles Youth Partnership Sony Corporation of America Entergy Corporation Sony Pictures Entertainment Entergy Louisiana State Street Foundation EY Summit Partners Exelon Foundation The Sunoco Foundation Firstrust Bank TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ford Motor Company Fund TriMix Foundation Foundation for New Education Initiatives, Inc. The Timberland Company Foundation To Be Named Later T-Mobile USA Glenmede David and Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation Goldman Sachs Gives David V. Uilein Sr. Foundation Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. United Way of the National Capital Area Hasbro Children’s Fund Universal Orlando Foundation Heart of Florida United Way Univision Management Company Heinemann USA Funds Henry Ford Health System Walt Disney Company Horning Family Fund Warner Bros. Studios Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Westfield Capital Management HSBC Wiener Family Future Foundation Hyatt WLRN Jewish Communal Fund Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Lincoln Financial Foundation MAPP Construction For more information about the Team Sponsor Program, please contact Kaitlin Sprong at [email protected] M&I Foundation, Inc.
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Corporations and corporate Foundations Gifts from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.
$1,000,000+ Rackspace Foundation Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Comcast and NBCUniversal Rockwell Automation Beaumont Foundation CSX Transportation San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger, & Grossmann LLP Walmart Foundation SAP America, Inc. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina Social Venture Partners Caterpillar Foundation, Inc. $500,000 – $999,999 Sony Corporation of America & Sony Pictures Catholic Medical Center The Aramark Charitable Fund Entertainment CBS Television Network AT&T Inc. State Street Foundation CIGNA Bank of America Charitable Foundation The Sunoco Foundation Clifford Chance US LLP Cisco Systems, Inc. Synopsys, Inc. Comerica Charitable Foundation Deloitte Services LP TEVA Pharmaceuticals Compuware Corporation JPMorgan Chase & Co. T-Mobile USA Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Microsoft Corporation The Walt Disney Company Davis Polk & Wardwell PepsiCo Foundation Warner Bros. Studios Dechert LLP Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. Westfield Capital Management Discovery Communications $250,000 – $499,999 DreamWorks Animation Alcoa Foundation DTE Energy Foundation Capital One $50,000 – $99,999 Duane Morris HSBC AEG Fox MetLife Foundation Albemarle Foundation Goldman Sachs Gives MFS Investment Management® Anonymous The Haskell Company National Grid Ballard Spahr LLP HBO NVIDIA Corporation Blanca Commercial Real Estate, Inc. Heinemann The Starbucks Foundation BNY Mellon HTC America, Inc. Towerbrook Foundation Brewers Community Foundation Independence Blue Cross Wells Fargo Foundation CEB Centerbridge Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP $100,000 – $249,999 Johnson KeyBank Foundation The Acacia Foundation DIRECTV Limited Brands Foundation The Alter Group Entergy Corporation - New Orleans Macy’s Corporate Services, Inc. American Express Foundation EY Miami Marlins Foundation Applied Materials, Inc. Firstrust Bank People Magazine Bain & Company The Garden City Group, Inc Presto Maintenance Supply, Inc Bain Capital Children’s Charity Glenmede PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Barclays Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Raising Cane’s The Baupost Group, L.L.C. Hasbro Children’s Fund Revel Consulting BMO Harris Bank Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Safeco Insurance Foundation CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield JCPenney San Jose Sharks Foundation Chevron Corporate Headquarters Lincoln Financial Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Chicago White Sox Charities Man Investments Social Venture Partners Sacramento Cisco Systems Foundation ManpowerGroup State Farm Insurance Companies Compulink Business Systems/Link Wilson Morgan, Lewis & Bockius State Street Corporation Credit Suisse Americas Foundation Northwestern Mutual Foundation Technicolor Inc. Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation Northrop Grumman Third Federal Foundation David’s Bridal PTC United Airlines Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP RiverStone Resources LLC Univision Eagles Youth Partnership RPM International Inc. Valero Energy Foundation Entergy Louisiana Schneider Electric Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Exelon Foundation Sun Life Financial Wintrust Financial Corporation Ford Motor Company Fund The Timberland Company WME Heart of Florida United Way The TJX Companies, Inc. Hyatt US Bank Liberty Mutual Foundation $10,000– $24,999 AARP Foundation Lincoln Financial Foundation adidas Northern Trust $25,000 – $49,999 Akerman Senterfitt, LLP OneWest Foundation Aegis Media Americas, Inc. The Amgen Foundation All Star Automotive Group Fund 56 AMC Networks Jack Morton Worldwide American Eagle Outfitters Foundation Jenner & Block LLP American Financial Warranty Corp K2 Intelligence Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation Arnold & Porter Keker & Van Nest LLP Assurant, Inc. Keystone Mercy Health BAC Florida Bank KPMG LLP Baird Foundation, Inc. Lamar Advertising Company Banco Sabadell Legendary Pictures Entertainment Bank of New Hampshire Loeb & Loeb LLP BankUnited Madison Dearborn Partners Baptist Health System McDonald’s Corporation Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. McGlinchey Stafford PLLC Bernstein Management Merrill Lynch BJ’s Charitable Foundation Miami Dolphins Foundation Bloomberg MillerCoors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and BNSF Railway Popeo P.C. The Boeing Company Morgan Stanley Brady Sullivan Properties Motorola Solutions Foundation Buck Consultants Nordson Corporation Caliber Collision Centers Nordstrom Calling All Crows Northeast Delta Dental Cardinal Health O’Melveny & Myers, LLP Cargill - New Orleans Omnicom Media Group Inc. Cavender Auto Family The Oxford League Inc. Centrix Bank Participant Media Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Pearlmark Real Estate Partners Chevron Pepco Chicago Cubs Pepper Hamilton LLP Citizens Bank Foundation - New Hampshire The Providence Journal Company City National Bank Quicken Loans Clark Construction Group, LLC R.J. Finlay & Co The Cleveland Browns RealNetworks, Inc. CN Rail Reserve Telecommunications Collette Vacations Foundation SAFE Credit Union Con Edison Safra National Bank of New York Creative Artists Agency Salem Partners, LLC Crowell & Moring LLP SanDisk CTIA SGS Petroleum Service Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine LLP SMG, Verizon Wireless Arena Dimension Data SunTrust Bank DLA Piper Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Electronic Arts Inc. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Energy BBDO Textron Charitable Trust Enterprise Holdings Foundation TIAA-CREF FairPoint Communications Time Warner Cable Florida Blue Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing Florida Power & Light Company North America, Inc. Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Transwestern GCS-SIGAL, LLC TRUECar The Gillette Company United Talent Agency Glover Park Group Venable Foundation, Inc. Goldman Sachs & Co. Walbridge Grainger Waste Management of New Hampshire Gravestar, Inc. Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Greenlight Capital Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P. Woodcock Washburn Guthy | Renker Zausmer, Kaufman, August & Caldwell, P.C. The Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc. Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, & Fischer Henry Crown and Company Henry Ford Health System For more information about corporate giving, Hiscox Foundation USA please contact Chris Mann at Honest Tea, Inc. [email protected] Horning Brothers Corporation Huawei Huntington National Bank IMA Foundation IMAX Corporation ING Financial Services Corporation J Brand Jeans, Inc. 57 In-Kind Supporters
Major in-kind donors
EMC EMC provides the technologies and tools that can help organizations release the power of their information. EMC helps design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. EMC donated equipment and consulting valued at $600,000 to allow City Year to scale and create a more robust and secure infrastructure. EMC’s investment in City Year and donations of storage units and project management is crucial in City Year’s plan to scale and ability to keep more students in school and on track to graduate.
KPMG KPMG is an international firm that specializes in audit, tax and advisory services. For KPMG, community involvement is an integral part of its corporate mission. The firm has developed successful global strategies for working with clients and its employees and is now developing a global approach to community activities that builds upon the active local involvement of its member firms. City Year is privileged to have KPMG prepare our financial audits and provide tax review counsel at a discounted rate.
Lamar Advertising Company Lamar Advertising is the nation’s leading out-of-home advertising company offering clients innovative solutions in the form of billboards, digital, transit and highway logo signs for over 100 years. Lamar operates with honesty and integrity in every aspect of their business, and is committed to giving back. Lamar has been a loyal partner of City Year for many years. Lamar donates advertising space on both static and digital billboards nationwide for City Year’s public service announcements. Lamar also provides banners and design expertise for activities and events all across the City Year footprint. Lamar’s commitment to City Year extends beyond in-kind donations alone. Their employees are dedicated to helping the City Year family by committing their time and ideas, serving their communities through City Year service days and in City Year schools, and helping the organization make a difference in local communities year after year.
WilmerHale WilmerHale offers unparalleled legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of their clients. Community service and pro bono representation have been long traditions at the heart of WilmerHale and City Year is grateful to be one of their pro bono clients. The firm generously donates its time and expertise, providing critical legal services to City Year on an ongoing basis. In 2006, WilmerHale was officially named City Year’s “National Legal Counsel” and in 2010, WilmerHale received a “20th Anniversary Leadership Award” for its extraordinary, long-standing partnership with City Year.
58 In addition to their generous investments as National Leadership Sponsors, these companies provide City Year with in-kind donations:
The Aramark Charitable Fund Aramark’s uniform division partners with City Year to provide City Year branded uniform components, including the iconic red jacket, to City Year’s staff and corps members.
Cisco Cisco generously donated essential equipment to build computer networks across the country to better equip our sites staff and corps members.
Comcast and NBCUniversal Comcast and NBCUniversal and Telemundo combined donate significant communication and broadcasting resources to help City Year raise awareness about its mission and focus areas by reaching more young people across the country through cable and internet.
CSX Transportation CSX donated Care Force® One and Care Force® Two, co-branded rail containers that transport City Year’s Care Force® equipment to service events across the country.
Deloitte From helping City Year to design its operating model to assisting the organization in refining its approach for selecting new sites, Deloitte’s pro bono contribution continues to help City Year shape its strategy and build the organization’s capacity to achieve it.
Microsoft The Microsoft Corporation is committed to serving communities and working responsibly. Through partnerships, Microsoft technology innovations, people and resources help solve societal challenges and create economic opportunities on both a global and a local scale. Microsoft has been a critical partner of City Year since 1999. Their software and technology helps connect the national City Year network through standardized communications tools and interconnected Web-based information systems. Additionally, Microsoft employees volunteer with City Year and provide leadership development and technical trainings to corps members across the country. Thanks to Microsoft’s investment, City Year AmeriCorps members have the technical resources they need to help students learn.
Additional In-Kind Supporters local gifts of $10,000 or more from july 1, 2012 through june 30, 2013.
Baker & Hostetter, LLP People Magazine Chicago Transit Authority Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Clinton Foundation SEPTA - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority COTA The Timberland Company Gensler T-Mobile Greater Cleveland RTA TIME Magazine Henry Ford Health System Universal Orlando Hulu Univision Radio Lynx VIA Metropolitan Transportation Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Miami-Dade College
For more information about donating in-kind products or services, please contact Allie Clarke at [email protected]
59 Media Highlights
National Service Can Ignite School Turnaround Efforts September 18, 2012
City Year mentors are tutors, friends to Orange’s neediest students September 23, 2012
City Year unveils ‘crowd-sourced’ Twitter ad campaign with help from Allen & Gerritsen November 15, 2012
It Takes a Village: City Year’s Role in Dropout Prevention December 7, 2012
60 AmeriCorps proves its worth in urban classrooms February 4, 2012
Seeking passion for City Year’s mission February 1-7, 2013
Video! Celebs Attend City Year Fundraiser to Support Education April 23, 2013
Heroes in our own backyards April 25, 2013
More than 1,500 volunteers beautify area April 27, 2013
Anti-dropout program offers graduation-like ceremonies May 29, 2013
Leaders Unite for a Bold National Service Plan: A Civic Rite of Passage for One Million Strong June 24, 2013
Service Organizations Give Grads Fulfillment, and a Job out of College June 27, 2013 Where will you give your year of service? June 27, 2013
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62 1. Jonathan Lavine 13. David Gergen † Chair of the Board Professor of Public Service and Director Managing Partner and Chief of the Center for Public Leadership 24. Jennifer Eplett Reilly Investment Officer Harvard Kennedy School Co-Founder, City Year, Inc. Sankaty Advisors, LLC Co-Chair of the International 14. Andrew Hauptman Committee 2. Kristen Atwood Chair, City Year Los Angeles Co-Founder of City Year Louisiana Co-Chair of the International Board Founding Chair Committee Chairman New Schools for Baton Rouge Founding Staff Member Andell, Inc. City Year, Inc. 25. Shirley Sagawa 15. Carol Johnson Co-Founder 3. Joe Banner Former Superintendent Sagawa/Jospin Chair of the National Leadership Boston Public Schools Council (Site Board Chairs) 26. Jeff Shames Chair of the Site and Program 16. Ilene Jacobs Chair of the Audit Committee Committee Vice Chair of the Board Executive in Residence Chair of the Finance Committee MIT Sloan School of Management 4. Josh Bekenstein Executive Vice President, Human † Chair of the Investment Committee Resources (Retired) 27. Secretary Rodney Slater Managing Director Fidelity Investments Former U.S. Secretary of Bain Capital, LLC Transportation 17. Hubie Jones † Partner 5. Jessica L. Blume Senior Adviser and Social Justice Patton Boggs, LLP Vice Chairman, U.S. Public Sector Entrepreneur-in-Residence † Leader and State Sector Leader City Year, Inc. 28. Jeffrey Swartz Deloitte Consulting, LLP Dean Emeritus Former President and CEO Boston University School of Social The Timberland Company 6. John Bridgeland Work President and CEO 29. Michael J. Ward Civic Enterprises 18. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Chair of the Development Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor Committee 7. Michael Brown Harvard Business School Founding Member, City Year CEO and Co-Founder Chair & Director Jacksonville Board City Year, Inc. Harvard University Advanced Chairman, President and CEO Leadership Initiative CSX Corporation 8. Michele Cahill Vice President, National Programs and 19. Alan Khazei † 30. Tom Ward, Clerk Program Director, Urban Education Co-Founder of City Year, Inc. Partner Carnegie Corporation of New York Founder and CEO WilmerHale, LLP Be the Change, Inc. 9. David L. Cohen* 31. Stephen G. Woodsum Vice Chair of the Board 20. Andrea Encamacao Martin Chair Emeritus Chair of the Governance City Year Alum ‘02 Founding Managing Director Committee Guidance Counselor Summit Partners Executive Vice President Boston Latin School Comcast NBCUniversal 21. Rick Menell 10. Manny Diaz Chairman Former Mayor of Miami The Carrick Foundation Partner Lydecker Diaz, LLP 22. Susan Nokes Senior Vice President, 11. Sandy Edgerley Customer Solutions Trustee Asurion The Edgerley Family Foundation 23. C. Gregg Petersmeyer 12. David Einhorn Vice Chair President America’s Promise Alliance Greenlight Capital Chair and CEO Personal Pathways LLC
†Charter Trustee 63 Site Boards
City Year Baton Rouge Robert O’Brien Nicole Hunt Strange Laura C. Poché (Chair) Andy Plews Tracy James Rudy Aguilar Stephen R. Quazzo Darla King Ross Barrett Kristen L. Saranteas Ervan Rodgers Lori Bertman John Sirek Steven D. Smith Dan Gardiner Jeffrey J. Smith Susan Steinman Gwen Hamilton Shoshana M. Vernick Kate Stucke Barbara Haymon Belinda Taylor Luke Kissam City Year Cleveland Tricia Taylor Jennifer Eplett Reilly Robert W. Gillespie (Chair) Ben Tyson Tricia Sanchez Honorable Bruce Akers (Vice-Chair) Qiana Williams Robert Schneckenburger Jennifer Ansberry Chrisy Wright Tommy Teepell Chip Chaikin Erin Monroe Wesley Elizabeth Evans City Year Denver Collin Knisely Ben Walton (Co-Chair) City Year Boston Betsy Lambert Mike Johnston (Co-Chair) Dianne Ledingham (Chair) David Landever Suzanne Arkle Josh McCall (Vice-Chair) Richard Manoloff Gregory Bante Jim Atwood Peggy Mikes Christine Benero Anita Bekenstein Christopher Miree Jeff Dolan Barbara Burgess Joseph Nanni Allison Farish David Cahill Melissa Pozniak Tom Hilb Diane Exter Monyka Price Richard Lewis Corinne Ferguson Jan Roller Nina Lopez Michael Gilligan Keith Silvestri Jaqueline Lundquist Steve Hackley Karen Thompson Melanie Melcher Adrian Haugabrook Gareth Vaughan Joe Miklosi Beth Jones John Zitzner Neyeska Mut Michael Kineavy Danielle Vaughan Fred Maynard City Year Columbia Will Muggia James T. Irvin III (Chair) City Year Detroit Marion Mussafer Montrio Belton Daniel Little (Chair) Larry Neiterman Charlotte Berry N. Charles Anderson (Vice-Chair) Marcy Reed Kenneth L. Childs Tim Bannister John Reilly John Dillard Julia Cooney Samip Shah Stephen Fitzer Larry Givens Aaron von Staats Jennifer Harding Jason Gumbs James Ward Danielle R. Holley-Walker Elliott S. Hall Susan Weatherbie Danielle Holliday Boysen Pancho Hall Moryah Jackson Veronica Hall City Year Chicago Tommy Johnson Mary Beth Halprin Casey Keller (Chair) Chris Koon Tracy Joshua Michael J. Alter Edward W. Laney, IV David K. Page Steve Birchard Amy Larkin Ralph Safford Jeffrey D. Cohodes Gail Morrison Karen Sosnick Schoenberg John Crowley Dwayne Mazyck Rick Sperling Lisa J. Cunningham Lula Thompson Albert Taylor Nelson, Jr. John Cusack Gail L. Warden (Founding Chair) Eva-Dina Delgado City Year Columbus Mark Zausmer Robert J. Dow Rusty Orben (Chair) Nikki Drake Jeremy Ball City Year Jacksonville Doug Grissom Nick Barnes Kim Ward (Chair) Drew Horowitz Jen Bowden John Baker Randy M. Joseph Joy Bronson Betty Burney Tom Livingston Scott Campbell Gary Chartrand Phyllis Lockett Tanya Crawford Poppy Clements Rebeca Nieves-Huffman Stefphanie Harper Cindy Edelman
64 Bill Ferry City Year Miami Lesa Scott Jennifer James Soto Tere Blanca (Chair) Scott Tranchemontagne George Lawrence Cori Flam Meltzer (Founding Co- Justine Vogel Janet Owens Chair) Alexander Walker Kelly Smith Brad Meltzer (Founding Co-Chair) Nikolai Vitti Thomas G. Abraham City Year New Orleans Michael Ward Ivette Arango Diana Lewis (Chair) Tony Argiz Ivy Barney City Year Little Rock/N. Little Rock Jorge L. Arrizurieta Ronald Carrere, Jr Bruce T. Moore (Co-Chair) Jeff Bartel Michael Connolly Stephanie S. Streett (Co-Chair) Michelle Azel Belaire Allen Eskew Kirk M. Bradshaw Senator Dwight Bullard Eli Feinstein General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark Particia Castellanos-Cornish Donna Klein (Founding Chair) Jaret Davis Norma Jane Sabiston Leila Dockery Manuel Diaz Taifa St. Julien Melinda Faubel Carlos Dominguez Kyle Wedberg Catherine Grunden Antonio Ellek Kevin Wilkins Scott Hamilton Alex Fernandez Tim Williamson Corey Jennings Luis Andre Gazitua Mario Zervigon Haley Keenan-Gray Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez Robert McLarty Sandy Grossman City Year New York Mica Strother Mojdeh Khaghan Jeremy Kroll (Co-Chair) Hon. Maurice Taylor John L. Kitchens Stephanie Mudick (Co-Chair) Judy K. Tenenbaum Christina Kolbjornsen David Caplan (Vice Chair) Grant Tennille Angel Medina Rob Basso Mike Wilson Heather Monahan Brian Berger Madeline Pumariega Tom Bernstein City Year Los Angeles Monica Rabassa Kristine Brown Andrew Hauptman (Chair) Jorge I. Salgueiro Gary Clare Jason Bateman Tadd Schwartz Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton Rich Battista E. Roe Stamps (Honorary Co-Chair) Marlene Canter Evan Cohen Brad Drummond City Year Milwaukee Terri Cooper Giselle Fernandez Julia A. Uihlein (Chair) Jennifer Glassman Laura Fox Dennis Connolly Jason Haberman Ben Goldhirsh Chris Didier Terr y Hayes Robert Greenblatt Darienne Driver Anne Herrmann Glenn Gritzner Kathy Feucht Regina Hitchery Hill Harper Michael Kogelis Peter Hong Ellen Bronfman Hauptman Jean Maier Jerry Silk JD Heyman David Marcus John Hotchkis Laura G. Perez City Year Orlando Michael Lawson James M. Rauh John Sprouls (Chair) Sarah Milken Robert Rauh Kate Byrne Hannah Minghella Marsha Sehler Debbie M. Carswell Kelly Mullens Brown Brother Bob Smith Marcia Goodwin Dawn Ostroff Jesús Jara Todd Owens City Year New Hampshire Patti Johnson David Shaheen Beth Roberts (Chair) Scott Justice Ben Sherwood Joyce Anderson Merewyn “Libba” Lyons Stacey Snider Ken Clark Graciela Noriega Jacoby Arn Tellem Larry Klane Diane O’Dell Kevin K. Tsujihara Michael L’Ecuyer Bob O’Malley Kevin Wescott Mel Myler Pam Peters Thomas Obrey John Pisan Teresa Rosenberger Reginald B. Riley Richard Samuels Joseph Terry
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City Year Greater Philadelphia City Year San Antonio Daniel Horgan Arthur Block (Co-Chair) Craig Berkowitch (Chair) Ronny B. Lancaster Karen Keating Mara (Co-Chair) Rick Cavender Nisha Mehling Phil Behr (Chairman Emeritus) Mark Cirinna Donna Rattley Washington Kim Allen Amy Contreras David S. Rosener Neil Batiancila Skip Cox Jit Singh John Beilenson Lyle Flom Tom Sugrue Eve Biskind Klothen Jeff Galt Stefanie Vestal Brad Brubaker Sylvia Gaona Robert M. Willis William Copeland Jr. Grant Herbon Senator Harris Wofford Matthew Cross Joan Kearl Missy Young Charles Greenberg Gregory MacMillin Mark Harrell Darnell McLaurin Honorable Kenyatta Johnson Karen Pitcher Frances M. Jones Stephen Romero Ted Kapnek Stuart Schlossberg David Lincoln Anne Walker Marciene Mattleman Timothy Wells Mark McCarthy Honorable Theodore A. McKee City Year San José/Silicon Valley Michael Miller Sharon Matthews (Chair) Honorable Michael A. Nutter Todd Achilles (Vice-Chair) Tony Payton Jr. Ragu Bhargava David Stark Erin Brennock Kerri Strike Mark S. Davis (Chairman Emeritus) Ed Eger City Year Rhode Island Carl Guardino Alan Harlam (Chair) Jennifer Johnson Guy Abelson Kyle Krpata Kathie Andrade Vangie Maynard Lynn Bowman Linda Shelby Andrew J. Capalbo Karie Willyerd Stephanie Federico Barbara Haynes City Year Seattle/King County Andrew Horwitz Sarah Bryar (Co-Chair) Heather Hower Jennifer Wells (Co-Chair) Chris Johnson Amy Barnes Lane H. Jost Bree Dusseault Lori Forte Harnick City Year Sacramento Steve Holmes Kathy McKim (Chair) Vikas Kamran Kathie Sowa (Vice Chair) Danette Knudson Nancy Brodovsky George Meng Ray Burnell Kim Spalding Linda Cutler Justin Spelhaug Rick W. Cywnar, Jr. Katie Wallace Gordon Fowler Jason Young Koua Franz Sharon Gerber City Year Washington, DC Lisa Gutierrez Jeffrey Leonard (Chair) Harold Levine Susan Berger Phil MacDougall Timothy Cornell Amelia McLear Charles Dickerson Alice Perez Josh Edelman Mariah Sheriff Garrick Francis Darrell Teat Anjali Gupta Henry Wirz Salene Hitchcock-Gear
66 67 Senior Leadership
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1. Michael Brown 11. Alice Markowitz Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder Senior Vice President of Communications
2. Jim Balfanz 12. Christine Morin President Senior Vice President, Site Growth & New Site Development 3. Evelyn Barnes Executive Vice President & Chief Financial and 13. Mithra Irani Ramaley Administrative Officer Senior Vice President, Regional and Site Operations
4. Sandra Lopez Burke 14. Charlie Rose Vice President & Executive Director of City Year Boston Senior Vice President & Dean
5. AnnMaura Connolly 15. Nancy Routh Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer
6. Allison Graff-Weisner 16. Gillian Smith Chief Development and Alumni Officer Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
7. Welles C. Hatch 17. Stephanie Wu Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer Senior Vice President & Chief Program Design and Evaluation Officer 8. Sean Holleran Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
9. Jeff Jablow Senior Vice President, Strategy & Operations
10. Hubie Jones Senior Adviser and Social Justice Entrepeneur-In-Residence
68 Executive Directors
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1. Laura Hamm 11. Mary Jane Stevenson 21. Paul Garro Baton Rouge Los Angeles San Antonio
2. Sandra Lopez Burke 12. Saif Ishoof 22. Toni Burke Boston Miami San José/Silicon Valley
3. Lisa Morrison Butler 13. Jason Holton 23. Simon Amiel (2013) Chicago Milwaukee Seattle/King County
4. Phillip Robinson 14. Pawn Nitichan 24. Lisa Chick (Interim 2014) Cleveland New Hampshire Seattle/King County
5. Gail Wilson-Giarratano 15. Peggy Mendoza 25. Neils Ribiero-Yemofio Columbia New Orleans Tulsa (Start-up Director)
6. Todd Tuney 16. Erica Hamilton 26. Jeffrey Franco Columbus New York Washington, DC
7. Jeff Park 17. Jordan Plante Denver Orlando
8. Penny Bailer 18. Ric Ramsey Detroit Greater Philadelphia
9. Jay Thompson 19. Jennie Johnson Jacksonville Providence
10. Sarah Roberson 20. Jake Mossawir Little Rock/North Little Rock Sacramento
All Executive Directors are also Vice Presidents of City Year, Inc. 69 2013 Financial Summary
Statement of Financial Position Year ended June 30, 2013
Assets Cash and equivalents $ 17,418,726 Government grants receivable, net 13,776,902 Contributions receivable, net 6,287,579 Other assets 1,133,840 Investments, at fair value 10,846,729 Property and equipment, net 20,124,525 Total Assets $ 69,588,301
Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 3,741,275 Accrued payroll and related expenses 2,308,105 Interest rate swaps 1,058,476 Bonds payable 8,100,000 Total liabilities 15,207,856 Net Assets: Unrestricted 33,039,673 Temporarily restricted 15,559,119 Permanently restricted 5,781,653 Total net assets 54,380,445 Total liabilities and net assets $ 69,588,301
Statement of Activities Year ended June 30, 2013
Operating Revenue and Other Support Contributions and private grants $ 59,760,594 Federal grants – Corporation for National and Community Service 31,765,259 School districts and other local government grants 23,520,875 Investment return utilized for operations 371,531 Other income 626,463 Total operating revenues and other support $ 116,044,722
Operating Expenses Program services $ 90,288,546 Support services: Organizational support 12,678,141 Fundraising 10,368,616 Total operating expenses $ 113,335,303
Increase in Net Assets Unrestricted net assets from operations $ 2,709,419 Unrestricted net assets from nonoperating transactions 467,458 Temporarily restricted net assets 944,760 Permanently restricted net assets 350,000 Net assets 4,471,637 Net assets, beginning of year 49,908,808 Net assets, end of year $ 54,380,445
70 20% School Districts and other local government grants 26% Foundations
2% In-Kind Revenue $116 million 7% Individuals
27% 18% AmeriCorps Corporations
9% Fundraising Expenses Expenses 80% $113 million Program Services 11% Organizational Support
Charity Navigator Highest Ranking
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Baton Rouge New Orleans Boston New York Chicago Orlando Cleveland Greater Philadelphia Columbia Providence Columbus Sacramento Denver San Antonio Detroit San José/Silicon Valley Jacksonville Seattle/King County Little Rock/North Little Rock Tulsa Los Angeles Washington, DC Miami International Affiliates Milwaukee Johannesburg, South Africa New Hampshire Birmingham and London, United Kingdom
cityyear.org
City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate. This innovative public-private partnership brings together teams of young AmeriCorps members who commit to a year of full-time service in schools. Corps members support students by focusing on attendance, behavior, and course performance through in-class tutoring, mentoring, and after school programs.