Monthly Archives: February 2011

Five Things Friday: SAVE…

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1. Save Americorps – Take Action. Save AmeriCorps by calling your Representative NOW.
Right now the U.S. House of Representatives is debating legislation that would cut $100 billion from the federal budget. The bill, H.R. 1, eliminates funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps. This drastic act will immediately remove all AmeriCorps members from schools, after-care programs, health centers, food banks and thousands of other community and faith-based organizations. This is very serious news.
AmeriCorps helps to provide solutions to some of our most pressing social problems. With essential support from AmeriCorps, City Year engages more than 1,750 young adults in full-time service to help turn around high-need schools and get students back on track to graduation. These diverse young City Year AmeriCorps members help to close the education achievement gap by working directly with at-risk children throughout the school year.

Contact your Members of Congress:

  • Visit www.congress.org and use the zip code search function to find contact information for your elected officials.
  • You can call the House Operator to be connected to your Congressmember at 202-225-3121. It takes 2 minutes.

Our partner, Voices for National Service, has put together a comprehensive list of talking points that you may use to address this issue with your local representative in Congress. You may access talking points here.

(from cityyear.org)

2. Save the Date -

3. Save Kids from Boredom -

CYNY is doing just this next week as we host Camp City Year for elementary school students in four locations and Heroes Summit for middle school students in three locations during NYC students’ winter breaks. This is just one way we can make sure our students are engaging their minds and staying active in a positive environment, even when school is out. Stay tuned for updates all next week, and if you’d like more information on volunteering for either, please contact Allison Szutu (aszutu10@cityyear.org) for Heroes Summit information and Leah Hoffman (lhoffman10@cityyear.0rg) for Camp City Year information.
4. Sav(or) The Memories 

The CYNY Alumni Board hosted a successful and classy first fundraiser of the season with their Wine-Tasting event at Moore Brothers Wine Company on Wednesday evening.  Over 60 alumni, staff, family and friends attended, and to accompany the delicious wine donated by Moore Brothers, they ate delicious foods donated by Almond Restaurant, L’artusi, and Bep. Click on the photo below to see more pictures from the evening, taken by talented Alumni Board member Kristi Brown:
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5. Save Room For Fun –

Communications Manager Ian Rees visited his buddy school, PS/MS 57 in East  Harlem, for their Valentine’s Day Event complete with a  face painting station, a freeze dance station, an appreciation station, a make-a-vase station, and to accompany the last, a make-a-flower station, among other activities. Fantastic work, team!

We Can All Do Little Things In A Great Way

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Today we hosted a Breakfast Discussion on the Roles of Women in Service and Education in New York City, hosted by Credit Suisse and attended by more than 200 guests.

Featured speaker Caroline Kennedy shared her passion and dedication to helping students in New York City; she also asked those in the room to join her by investing their time, knowledge and resources to bettering education. Caroline also spoke about her experience visiting a City Year afterschool program in the South Bronx years ago. Click below to hear about that visit.

Next was our a panel discussion moderated by Tina Brown, Editor in Chief of The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. Our panelists included: Adrianne Edmunds, City Year New York corps member; Anne Marie Fell, Director of Grant Making and Communications for the Credit Suisse Americas Foundation; and Diahann Billings-Burford, Chief Service Officer for the City of New York. Tina asked questions that inspired our panelists to share their experiences about giving back and being in careers that promote social change.

The goal of today’s event is to inspire the women in New York  to get involved with service and education. Caroline Kennedy shared with us the Dorothy Day quote, “We can’t all do great things, but we can all do little things in a great way,” and we would like to share with everyone a few examples of little things that we can all do to support the schools and students we work with everyday.

We would like to thank everyone who attended today’s event and for their continued support of City Year.

Thank you Caroline Kennedy for all that you have done to promote service and support City Year New York.

Thank you Tina Brown for leading an inspiring discussion on the roles of women in service and education.

Thank you to our panelists for sharing your insight and experiences.

Thank you Credit Suisse for providing us a great space.

And a special thank you to our Woman’s Breakfast Planning Committee:
Cathy Cramer
Catherine Curley
Anne Marie Fell
Emily Griset
Anne Herrman
Regina Hitchery
Jill Iscol
Cynthia King Vance
Diana Koshel
Jennifer Lindenauer
Stacey Maites
Sharon Meadows
Stephanie Mudick
Jamie Renwick
Katherine Soll