Our stories

Destiny Harden, City Year Jacksonville AmeriCorps member, shares how she helped one of her fourth-grade students make significant progress in…

Explore seven cities where we have a need for extraordinary young people to serve and mentor students.

“I know what it felt like to get left behind,” says Colby, a Service Leader serving his second year with…

City Year Jacksonville alum Chelsea Sanders is now a teacher at the same school she served in. Read how she…

Working in schools can push you to a breaking point, but there will be progress.

City Year Jacksonville alum Emily Wasek shares when she knew that she was responsible for great change in her students’…

City Year Jacksonville AmeriCorps member Ray Van Allen chose to serve to spend time after college and before graduate school…

The safety and well-being of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, staff, partners and broader communities we serve is always…

For three hours, City Year marched the streets of downtown Jacksonville calling out, “We get to serve today and every…

The District Learning Network gathers several times throughout the year, both in-person and virtually, discussing shared challenges and surfacing strategies,…

One of our guiding stories, “The Starfish Story,” is used to describe a student our AmeriCorps members know they made…

As a native of Jacksonville, Allishia Bauman is City Year Jacksonville’s Chief of Staff and is involved in a number…