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CITY YEAR MAR
OSTON
A
THEM
A
CI
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
th Anniversary
Inspire
City Year
is a national youth service organization that unites young
adults, ages 17-24, for a challenging and rewarding year of full-time community
service, leadership development and civic engagement. Founded in Boston in
1988, City Year has grown from a 50-person pilot program to more than 900
corps members in sites across the country including: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland,
Columbia, Columbus, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, San Antonio, San Jose/Silicon
Valley and Seattle/King County.
Corps members represent diverse racial, cultural and socio-economic
backgrounds with a range of educational experiences, and include college and
high school graduates and GED candidates. The corps is selected based on their
demonstrated interest and commitment to service.
City Year's primary focus is children. Through partnerships with
elementary and middle schools and community organizations, City Year Boston
serves thousands of children every year. Teams of corps members mentor and
tutor in schools, and develop and teach domestic violence prevention and
HIV/AIDS education. City Year's commitment to children has expanded to after
school initiatives. For example, the LEFTY program (Learning Environments for
Today's Youth) is a resource for youth during afternoon and evening hours,
providing safe out-of-school activities. Young Heroes is a leadership program
developed and run by the corps for 6th-8th graders on weekends and during
the summer.
Corps members also participate in physical service by renovating
elderly and homeless housing, and beautifying urban spaces, community
gardens and playgrounds.
Through volunteer service and leadership training, City Year corps
members are able to excel in future endeavors. Corps development includes
GED classes and college/career support. There is a weekly stipend, and upon
graduation, corps members receive nearly $5,000 for college or career training.
City Year is a private-public partnership supported by the AmeriCorps
National Service Network, many large and small corporations, foundations and
private donors committed to youth and the future of national service.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
COPY
DLOUD
PRISEN VATION
B o BO S ST T o N
285 Columbus 285.Columbus Avenue Avenue
911.19
(617) 927-2500
www.city-year.org
C
S
City Year's Mission is to put idealism to by work by tapping the
civic power of young people for an annual campaign of idealism.
City of the annual campaign. of idealism are to are to
Year's Goals
generate trans mative transformative, community service, break down social
barriers inspire citizens to CIVIC action, develop new leaders for the
common good, and and improve and promote the concept of voluntary
City Year's Vision is that one day, one day, the the most commonly asked
question of an11 8 year fold is: fold is: Where are you going to our do your
national service.
service year?
Young enough to want
to change the world -
old enough to do it
an annual convention of idealism
'99
Howard University, May 25-28, 1999
AMERICOR
A
AmeriCorps
CIT
AR
THE
Getting Things Done
PLACE
POSTAGE
HERE
Come celebrate the power and potential
of diverse young leaders united in service at cyzygy '99
on May 25-28, 1999. Hosted at Howard University, cyzygy '99
will celebrate City Year's Tenth Anniversary while
building national service for the 21st century.
cyzygy '99 will feature four action-packed days of service,
enrichment and inspiration. Our nation's capital provides an
ideal forum to celebrate citizen service as a powerful resource
to strengthen our communities and unify our nation.
Inspirational speakers, challenging workshops, leadership
development, transformational service and fun are all part
of cyzygy '99! To learn more, please call
(617) 927-2300.
HOTOCOPY
ESERVATION
National Founding Sponsors
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Timberland
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COMPAQ
Clinton Presidential Records
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This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative
marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff.
This marker identifies the place of a publication.
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of digitization. To see the full publication please search online or
visit the Clinton Presidential Library's Research Room.
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[City Year - The Courge, the passion,
the power]
F
CI CITY YEAR CITY YEAR
the
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Providence Journal-Bulletin
DAILY SINCE 1829 http://www.projo.com
THURSDAY
JUNE 5, 1997/50 CENTS
'WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE ANOTHER'
Journal Bulletin/S VE SZYDI OWSKI
HEARTFELT: Michael Mandel, a City Year member from Chicago, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Jackie Daluz, from
City Year in Rhode Island, during the national anthein in front of Providence City Hall yesterday.
First lady
By SCOTT MacKAY
posed largely of the 750 volunteers
Journal-Bulletin State House Bureau
from the City Year national youth ser-
PROVIDENCE - Invoking the
VICC program, which is holding its
American tradition of helping your
annual convention III the city this
celebrates
neighbor and the magnanimous spirit
week.
of the Marshall Plan, First Lady
"Citizenship has always been
Hillary Rodham Clinton told a nation-
more than paying taxes, or going to
al convention of young community
work 01 obeying the law or casting a
vote
citizen
volunteers yesterday that citizens
Citizenship is built on the
need to help each other to meet the
idea that we are all responsible for
nation's future challenges
one another," said Mrs. Clinton.
"America and Americans have 10
City Year IS a volunteer organiza-
understand how we are interdepen-
tion that links teenagers and young
volunteers
dent," said Mis Clinton, speaking on
adults with community projects and
the steps of City Hall to a crowd com-
Turn to VISIT, Page A-9
IN IT
TOGETHER:
City Year
members from
around the
country chat near
Kennedy Plaza
yesterday.
CITY
YEAR
Journal Bulletin/
JOHN FREIDAH
More pictures,
Page A-8.
A6 THURSDAY JUNE 5. 1997
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN
Indial Bullein/CONNIE GROSCH
NOW THAT'S ITALIAN: Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to Providence wouldn't be complete without the traditional presentation of the mayors mannara spuce. Here Mayor Vincent A Cianci Ji presents the first adv with a a telling
her to give the cher a night off and open it for her and the president At right IS Jackie Datuz of Pawtucket
FIRST LADY GIVES LESSON IN CITIZENSHIP
RJONTREIDAR
AN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD. Brangi Powell of Columbia S.C. above
cheers when ner City Year constituency is announces. as Elizabetn Sherwood
also 0: Columbia listens At left City Year memners from around me country
snowed UD in iron; o: City Hall for the ceremones.
Journal Bulleur/CONNIE GROSCH
MEETING THE PEOPLE: Hillary Bodnam Clinion works the crown after addressing the City Yea: rally at Kennedy Plaza vesterday
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1997
A 9
FROM PAGE ONE
Visit
in the world before. We had men
Reporters were granted no inter-
and women working hard to make
views, allowing the first lady to
a good living for themselves and
avoid nettlesome questions about
Continued from Page One
their families in a free-market
such topics as the Whitewater in-
focuses on urban schools. It is part
economy."
vestigations and the sexual-harass-
of the AmeriCorps national service
But neither the nation's demo-
ment allegations leveled against
program started by President Clin-
cratic form of government nor the
her husband by Paula Corbin
economy that has created material
Jones.
ton as a sort of domestic Peace
Corps.
wealth is "what made America spe-
Before the speech, Mrs. Clinton
cial," Mrs. Clinton said. "It was the
Mrs. Clinton cited last month's
appeared at a private reception at-
Presidents' Summit for America's
space between our government and
tended by about 150 guests in the
Future in Philadelphia, the huge
our economy, what is sometimes
ornate Alderman's Chamber inside
national pep rally for volunteerism
called civil or civic society, the
City Hall. The state's political hier-
attended by Mr. Clinton and former
space that is occupied by families
archy was well-represented at the
and churches and associations and
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald
event, which included City Year
Ford and George Bush.
groups of all kinds, and that is fu-
officials and representatives of the
eled by a sense of service and obli-
local corporations that raised the
Of all the national volunteer pro-
gation."
$150,000 needed to hold the con-
grams highlighted at the summit,
"America is great because
vention in Providence, including
Mrs. Clinton said, "none of those
America is good. We are good
the Bank of Newport, the Journal-
examples was more important than
because we understand that we do
Bulletin, Textron, CVS and Hospi-
City Year."
not make it alone, we make it by
tal Trust.
Speaking on a sun-splashed
helping other people as well to
Some in the throng said poor
afternoon tinged with a chilling
[reach] their potential." said Mrs.
acoustics and echoes off buildings
wind, Mrs. Clinton was flanked on
Clinton.
made understanding her speech
stage by Governor Almond. Sen.
Citing the recent 50th anniversa-
difficult. The speakers were set up
Jack Reed, and Mayor Vincent A.
ry celebrations for the Marshall
behind the crowd, amplifying to a
Cianci Jr. Attendance was sparse;
Plan that helped rebuild Europe af-
vast empty downtown space. Still,
few came to hear the first lady
ter World War II. she said: "What
most were pleased to glimpse the
except for the 750 City Year volun-
other country would have reached
first lady. After her speech, she ap-
teers, local political figures and
out to help rebuild its enemies?"
proached the crowd, shaking hands
people associated with the conven-
"If we intend for the United
and saying hello.
tion.
States to continue to lead the world
Journal-Bulletin/JOHN FREIDAH
Ellen O'Donnell, 20, from Provi-
In a 15-minute speech that sport-
by example and model, then we
dence, had never seen her before
ed as many cliches as a commence-
have to serve in order to build the
IN THE MOOD: City Year members from Rhode Island dance following the ceremony on the steps of City Hall in
and called her visit "impressive,"
ment address, Mrs. Clinton urged a
kind of country that we will be
Providence yesterday afternoon during First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit.
even more so because City Year
return to a Tocquevillian America
proud of, that will be strong and
members organized it. She liked
- the country described by Alexis
will give the hope to others that you
de Tocqueville, a French political
have seized for yourselves." Mrs.
concept of an activist federal gov-
many of the special interests -
ernment's responsibility to help the
the speech, to a point. "Her points
thinker in the 1830s. as egalitarian
Clinton said.
ernment that helps those who can-
insurance companies most promi-
nation's have-nots, sort of liberal-
were good - making the streets
safe and so on - but she didn't
and decentralized, marked by small
Those themes are underscored
not help themselves seems a relic
nently - that profit from the cur-
ism on the cheap. Conservative
government, individual initiative
in Mrs. Clinton's book It Takes a
of a bygone era. With Republicans
rent health system.
opinion has ranged from parodying
give any specifics."
and volunteer associations.
Village to Raise a Child, in which
in control of Congress, there is
So instead of taking on one big
the "mandatory volunteerism'
Although Mrs. Clinton didn't
"He wrote what is still one of the
she argues that that while parents
scant support for federal social pro-
issue, the Clinton administration
aspect of the movement to lam-
mention it, yesterday's speech was
most perceptive analyses of what
have the prime responsibility for
grams.
shifted gears to a strategy of trying
poorfing the need for political fig-
given from the steps facing Kenne-
kind of people and country we
raising children, the larger commu-
With Mrs. Clinton playing a lead-
to address many small issues.
ures urging people to do what they
dy Plaza, named for John F. Kenne-
are," said Mrs. Clinton. "One of the
nity and the government have to do
ing role, Mr. Clinton tried in his
AmeriCorps and the volunteerism
have been doing for years on their
dy, who famously challenged
things that he noted was how
their part to raise healthy, happy
first term to resurrect traditional
movement do just that. The volun-
own - freely giving their time to
Americans in his inaugural address
America was unusual. Yes, we had
and well-educated children.
Democratic programs by proposing
teerism initiative provokes no real
worthy causes.
to "Ask not what your country can
a government that had been
The Clinton administration's ap-
a universal health-care program. It
controversy, but has drawn sneers
The speech on the City Hall
do for you, but what you can do for
formed by a revolution, that was
proach mixes idealism with the po-
met defeat, beaten back by wary
from skeptics on the left and right.
steps was the only public event yes-
your country."
committed to ideals that had never
litical realities of the 1990s, when
conservatives in Congress and a
Some liberals see it as Clinton's
terday during Mrs. Clinton's rough-
- With staff reports from Jona-
been taken seriously anywhere else
the New Deal and Great Society
massive lobbying campaign by
cop-out, an abdication of the gov-
ly two hours in Rhode Island.
than D. Rockoff.
THE PLAIN DEALER
OHIO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
35c
NEWSSTANDS
& MACHINES
FINAL
CLEVELAND, THURSDAY. JUNE 4, 1998
President
salutes
U.S. youth
volunteers
Casey Hunt's letter
that he had never imagined. Not
only was he seated next to Clinton
moved president to
on the stage, but the president
also told the convention how
come to Cleveland
much he had been moved by
Hunt's letter.
By OLIVERA PERKINS
"I thank Casey for what he
PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
said," said Clinton, "When he
started talking about his mother,
Casey Hunt was one of 600 City
I almost started to cry, too."
Year Corps members who wrote
City Year is a national service
President Clinton several weeks
organization in which 17- to 24-
ago asking the president to speak
at the national convention of
young volunteers at John Carroll
Clinton means well. but doesn't
University.
measure up to his idols, writes
Hunt, 24, really wanted Clinton
Elizabeth Auster. 2-A
to address the group, but he said
that he didn't focus on that when
Couple angered after being
he wrote his letter. He saw it as a
forced to take down anti-abor-
chance to tell the president how
tion sign. 12-A
tutoring school children and help-
ing elderly residents at Kethley
House, an assisted-living and
year-olds spend 10 months volun-
nursing facility in Cleveland had
teering in 10 cities, doing things
given new direction and meaning
like tutoring students, helping
to his life - a change that didn't
nursing home residents and turn-
go unnoticed by his mother, Max-
ing weed-choked lots into inviting
ine.
green spaces. It is part of Ameri-
"I heard the words, 'I'm proud
Corps, the federal service pro-
of you, son, from my mother for
gram. Participants receive a
the first time," said Hunt, his
weekly stipend of $135 and qual-
voice breaking with emotion as he
ify for a $4,725 grant for school-
spoke to the crowd of more than
SCOTT SHAW PLAIN DEALER PHOTOGRAPHER
ing or job training after complet-
900
ing the program.
President Clinton basks in the applause of City Year Corps volunteers at John Carroll University.
Yesterday Hunt got a response
SEE VOLUNTEERS/ 12-A
THE PLAIN DEALER
NATIONAL
THURSDAY. JUNE 4. 1998
Clinton salutes citizen service of youths
VOLUNTEERS
larger numbers - with a GI edu-
cans engage in service efforts
ally gave the presidential candi-
$685 million; and Clinton is re-
FROM 1-A
cational bill for citizen service,"
that address health, education
date the shirt off his back as a
questing that the figure be in-
Clinton said.
and other issues relating to young
show of appreciation.
creased by $96 million, said
During the president's 25-
The president said that in four
people.
"I want you to know that I still
Harris Wofford, the corps' chief
minute speech, which was met by
years, nearly 90,000 people had
Hunt said Clinton was so unas-
have Stephen's sweatshirt, and
executive officer.
an exuberant crowd that often in-
served in AmeriCorps, including
suming and friendly that he was
I'll have it with me forever to re-
Clinton also urged the conven-
terrupted his remarks with wild
those in City Year; and nearly
more anxious about addressing
member when I first met him and
tioneers to support pending legis-
applause and cheers, he repeated
50,000 had been eligible for edu-
the convention than meeting the
I first met City Year," said Clin-
lation aimed at curbing tobacco
the theme that national service
cation benefits. He said that last
president.
ton.
use among young people. He ad-
programs had the potential to
year, AmeriCorps members had
"I've never spoken in front of a
Responded Spaloss, 29, who has
mitted that request had little to do
transform America.
taught or tutored 500,000 stu-
crowd that large before, but he
only seen Clinton a few times
with volunteerism. However, he
"Out of the national service of
dents, helped immunize 64,000
said I did a good job," said Hunt.
since their first meeting: "He
was moved to make the request
our soldiers in World War II
children and renovate 5,600
Much of Clinton's address had
treats me the same way now as he
because he had just come from
came the GI Bill, which educated
homes.
the feel of a homecoming. He said
did then, even though he is the
Stephen E. Howe Elementary
a whole generation of [our] par-
The president told the conven-
his fondness for City Year dates
president. It was like having a re-
School in Glenville, where a
ents and created the great Ameri-
union with a friend.
tion that he had just learned that
to 1991, when as a presidential
dozen City Year corps members
can middle class," he said. "Out
While much of Clinton's speech
1,000 colleges and universities
candidate he visited a fledgling
are assigned.
of the all-too-short service of
focused on AmeriCorps' success,
"Ninety percent of all smokers
around the country had joined the
City Year group in Boston. The
President Kennedy came the
he also urged them to lobby legis-
started before they were 18, even
America Reads Challenge by
president was so impressed with
Peace Corps, which took the idea
lators to support the program in
though it's illegal to sell ciga-
committing to send college work-
the group, he vowed to help it ex-
of citizen service around the
order to keep it successful. Clin-
rettes to children under 18," Clin-
study students to tutor children in
pand should he be elected.
ton has recommended to Con-
ton said.
world.
reading.
Yesterday, Stephen Spaloss
gress that funding for the Corpor-
At an afternoon forum on pub-
"Out of AmeriCorps has come a
Increasing literacy is among
presented Clinton with the Life-
ation for National Services, the
lic policy and service programs,
blending of the two, taking the
the goals of the Presidents' Sum-
time of Idealism Award. Now CO-
entity Congress created in 1993 to
speakers discussed ways of get-
idea of service and the idea of ed-
mit for America's Future, an ef-
director of City Year Philadel-
oversee AmeriCorps and other
ting the private sector more in-
ucation - it's almost like the
fort by Clinton and the surviving
phia, Spaloss was then a corps
national service programs, be in-
volved in service programs, so
Peace Corps comes home, in
former presidents to have Ameri-
member in Boston when he liter-
creased. The current budget is
that they could share the costs.
CHUCK CROW PLAIN DEALER PHOTOGRAPHER
President Clinton dives into a crowd of City Year AmeriCorps volunteers after giving his speech at their national convention at John Carroll University yesterday.
COMMENTARY
U.S.News
Sweating to the oldies
Toiling together will do as much for race relations as talking together
BY STEVEN WALDMAN
ting killed by an opposing linebacker. Similarly, although
there's no statistical proof, it sure seems that most interracial
he topic was supposed to be race, but the conversation
friendships in high schools are forged on sports teams.
T
quickly turned to music. As alumni of the national serv-
The other widely cited example of black-white cooperation
ice program City Year gathered at a conference in Bos-
is the military-where, again, the goals toward which soldiers
ton, one panel of young people convened to discuss how
strive have nothing explicitly to do with racial harmony. In-
their ethnic backgrounds had affected their experiences with
deed, if the goal of the Army were race mixing instead of de-
the program.
fending our shores, it might do neither job well.
More than one former team of workers described how,
By contrast, college students spend a great deal of time talk-
whenever they would arrive at a work site to do graffiti remov-
ing about racial issues-and yet it doesn't seem to translate into
al or housing renovation, conflict would arise over what music
better relations. A recent study by the Corporation for National
to play on the boom box. Black corps members (and some ur-
Service on diversity in civilian service programs included this
ban whites) would generally
ROBERT TAIPPETT-SIPA FOR USN&WR
telling passage: "A white fe-
put on hip-hop or rap-mu-
male
commented that the
sic that some of the white
college she had attended was
suburbanites found annoy-
very diverse but the students
ing. When a white City Year
there 'hung out in groups
participant would change it
where everyone was the
to heavy metal or grunge, the
same.' In contrast, at her
black corps members would
AmeriCorps program, mem-
be insulted. The daily deci-
bers truly served and social-
sion of what music to play
ized across racial, ethnic, and
became a constant issue of
class lines."
"respect," a proxy for what-
Why the contrast between
ever insecurities and anxi-
college and national service?
eties each group had about
Primarily, it's a question of
working with the other.
individual goals versus
One team of corps mem-
group goals. While the col-
bers hit upon a comical, yet
lege student's grades reflect
poignant, compromise. In-
only on her, a service corps-
stead of listening to rap or
like an army or a sports
grunge, they agreed to listen
City Year corps members warm up before starting a project.
team-measures success col-
to oldies-a musical genre
lectively. (At the end of the
that no one there particular-
day, are the graffiti gone, the
ly liked but which no one felt
Racially loaded arguments about music
hill taken, the other team de-
threatened by. The key to the
feated?) Few things force
compromise, the alumni
sometimes erupted at the work site.
you to take an honest meas-
agreed, had been the mutual
ure of people as much as
trust they'd gradually devel-
having to rely on them to ac-
oped through working together toward common goals.
complish an objective. You don't have the luxury of your prej-
Colorblind huddle. Usually when critics recommend that Γa-
udices. Young people in City Year didn't learn that everyone
cial dialogue be accompanied by action, they mean acts such
worked hard or was pleasant company; they learned that
as appointing more minorities to important positions or pro-
there wasn't a correlation between those qualities and race.
moting affirmative action. But there is also a need for people
So how could Clinton improve his race initiative? Perhaps
of different races to work jointly toward goals that have noth-
by no longer thinking of it as a race initiative. He should pick a
ing to do with race. The failure to recognize this reality is one
goal largely unrelated to race and create opportunities for
reason President Clinton's race initiative has been such a dud.
people of different backgrounds to work together toward that
The same dynamic described by the City Year alumni is typ-
goal. The president could help organize a partnership be-
ical of team sports. Republican politician Jack Kemp, for exam-
tween black churches and white churches to fight drug addic-
ple, has often talked about how his experience as a pro football
tion, or between Hispanic high schools and non-Hispanic
quarterback made him more understanding of African-Ameri-
ones to renovate low-income housing. There would be a lot
cans. As John Mackey, a former football buddy of Kemp's, ex-
less time for talk and perhaps more time for progress.
plained, "The huddle is colorblind." Whatever Kemp's precon-
ceived notions, he was far less concerned with the race of his
Steven Waldman is national editor of U.S. News. In 1996, he
offensive linemen than with their ability to keep him from get-
worked as an official at the Corporation for National Service.
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, DECEMBER 8, 1997
35
The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1993
Abroad at Home
ANTHONY LEWIS
Making a Difference
BOSTON
Then she helped 225 school kids train
The Mason School in Roxbury, a
at the Boston Ballet. Now the team is
largely black area of Boston, has prob-
at a school in East Boston, giving an
lems typical of an inner-city school:
environmental curriculum It helped
not enough money, an old building,
design: "basics like what to do with
children who speak different lan-
litter."
guages. But it has a determined princi-
"One of the people on my team was
pal in Mary Russo, respected teachers
a rich white girl," Daina Sutton said.
and 10 young men and women helping
"I thought, I don't want to be her
out as aides. They come from a serv-
welfare case. But we got really close."
ice group called City Year.
Diversity is a major theme of City
One of the City Year aides, Lucius
Year. Teams are mixed in race, class,
Graham, is in the first-grade class-
education. About a quarter of the 220
room. Three children - Andrea, Sha-
young people in the corps are drop-
mekia and Alvin - hang on to him,
outs, a third in college or on the way.
hugging his legs. He talks with them,
Black and white, rich and poor
then goes to the corner and helps
spoke of how daunting it had been at
three girls paint T-shirts with colors
first to be with different people.
that glow in the dark.
"It was not just skin color," said
Lucius, 18 years old, dropped out of
Andre Berry, 20, a black corps mem-
high school in the 11th grade, last
year. "The school had too many prob-
lems," he said. "You were labeled as
part of a gang. I went every day with
a weapon to protect myself."
A service corps
How did he end up in City Year,
helping in the Mason School? "There
that works.
was a City Year group building a
little park in our neighborhood. The
more I watched, the more I liked it."
ber who is now on the staff as a team
Now he is in high school equivalency
classes that City Year offers its corps
leader. "One girl on my team had a
members. If he keeps up with the work,
parent who was a brain surgeon! It
and most do, he will get a diploma.
was weird to me: Someone who's got
Stephen Noltemy, 21, got his diplo-
money - what's she doing here? But
ma that way, as a City Year corps
she became one of my close friends.".
member, and now teaches in the di-
Lisa Schorr, 22, of Washington, D.C.,
ploma program. He comes from
a graduate of Sidwell Friends School
South Boston, the white stronghold of
and Harvard, is a corps member this
working-class Boston. He was in trou-
year. "I started out skeptical," she
ble, in a halfway house, when he
said. "I thought the diversity would be
joined City Year.
forced and superficial. But it isn't."
"I didn't care about too many things
Alan Khazei and Michael Brown
then," Steve said. "I was angry, preju-
had the idea of City Year and founded
diced, negative. I was less than zero.
it five years ago, after they graduated
"City Year saved my life. I don't
from Harvard Law School. Alan Kha.
want to sell anything to you, but there
zei said to me:
it is. I like to wake up in the morning
"The common ground is service.
- know what I mean?"
People have lost the sense that they
One day last week I watched City
can make a difference. Everything is
Year at work and talked with staff
so imposing: the homeless problem,
and corps members. Like Steve Nol-
drugs, the ghettos. What can I do as
temy, I feel 1 should discount it and
one person? This shows people that
say I am not trying to sell anything.
they can make a difference: bring life
But what I saw was impressive, even
to a community under siege, build a
moving - and quite without what I
playground, improve a school, rehab
had been half afraid I would find, the
housing for the homeless.
aroma of do-goodism.
City Year is a model for the nation-
Daina Sutton, 19, had a baby in 1991
al service program proposed by Pres-
and dropped out of school. The father
ident Clinton. I had expected to write
was arrested in June 1992.
about the structural qualities that
"I really didn't want to do any-
make it such an appealing model: the
thing," she said. "Except I wanted to
lack of bureaucracy, the mix of pri-
do something for my son. City Year
vate and public funding, the entrepre-
wasn't a big deal at first. Now it's
neurial spirit. But that will have to
everything."
wait for a second column. The young
The team Daina was on started by
men and women of City Year could
making a garden in a run-down area.
not be put aside.
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A model for activism
City Year's national convention this June in
get something in return. Alan Khazei, the other co-
Boston should inform Congress' national service
founder, calls City Year not a think tank but "an
debate and, beyond that, suggest possible new di-
action tank" - and what action there has been.
rections for civic action on a large scale.
Beginning with a 50-member experiment in
Coming two months before the party political
1988, City Year is now in seven cities - Boston,
conventions, City Year's gathering, if it replicates
Chicago, Columbus, San Jose, San Antonio, Provi-
last year's event in Columbus, Ohio, will also dis-
dence and Columbia, S.C., with Cleveland planning
play energy and optimism that the presidential
to join in the fall.
candidates will be hard-pressed to match.
Although it is part of AmeriCorps, President
The two are not unrelated. With President
Clinton's national service program, City Year
Clinton declaring an end to big government and
beats its own path. While AmeriCorps requires
Republicans intent on devolving many federal
functions to the states and localities, members of
programs to raise at least 15 percent of their funds
both parties are exploring ways local citizen orga-
from local and private sources, for instance, City
nizations can fill a significant part of the breach.
Year has kept its figure above 50 percent.
Michael Brown, cofounder and chief philos-
The convention, called "Cyzygy" (taken from
opher, offers City Year as a model. This is not
syzygy, a word for celestial balance), will attract
volunteer charity work, he notes, but a full-time,
bipartisan participation, including Gov. William
(modestly) paid corps of workers who accomplish
Weld and Sen. John Kerry. City Year is infectious-
much in schools and neighborhoods and who grow
ly candid about the range of its goals: to "spread
in the process. They work with peers from a vari-
idealism to every corner of the globe" and to build,
ety of backgrounds and develop a sense of civic
in a single day this June, a school playground in
reciprocity, giving to the community in order to
Charlestown.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Monday, April 6, 1998
Youths striving to keep themselves, and their community, healthy
morn, sunny, breezy and a tad too
T
he Japanese have the right
brisk, frankly, for the short-sleeved
idea. They punctuate the work-
sport shirt I was wearing. But I was
day with exercise breaks to in-
surrounded by so much youthful
vigorate deskbound bodies, flush
verve and enthusiasm, I hardly no-
stagnant minds, and build esprit de
ticed the chill.
corps.
"Formation!" shouted project
I'd like to see this practice take
leader Jay Robertson. "Good morn-
root here, and not only in
ing. City Year!"
offices and factories. For
"Good morning!" the
example, cocktail parties
corps members shouted
would be much more
back, their reply reverber-
bearable if they featured a
ating off the skyscrapers.
push-up contest or gung-
"I can't hear you.
ho round of tossing the
"Good morning!"
medicine ball.
Then Robertson and
Given this bias, you can
several others led us
imagine how delighted I
through the exercises: leg
was when a friend told me
stretches and "slap-
about a community serv-
Art Carey
happys" and jumping
ice program called City
jacks and traveling side-
Year. Maybe you've seen
Body
jack jumping jacks and
some of these kids down-
Language
torso twists and bends.
town in their bright-red
"Can do! One. two,
jackets. Three mornings a
three!" the corps ex-
week, they gather at JFK Plaza. in
claimed.
the shadow of the LOVE statue, to do
Like Marine recruits at Parris Is-
calisthenics.
land, we had to count in unison and
The Philadelphia Incrirer TOM GRALISH
The other day. I joined them at
parrot cadences that. in our case,
Volunteers with City Year Philadelphia, a youth community-service program, begin each
8:15 for PT ("physical training," for
were strictly G-rated. To wit: "Spirit!
day with calisthenics - three of those mornings at the very public JFK Plaza.
you civvies). It was a lovely spring
See ART CAREY on C4
For them, health, strength, total fitness isn't just physical
ART CAREY from C1
National Service Network and gets 51
"One of my biases is that I didn't
So here's the deal: If you live in
Discipline! Purpose and Pride!"
percent of its financing from Uncle
think I could learn anything from
the 'burbs and you think the city is
That mantra, combined with the
Sam. This 10-month adventure in
somebody who hadn't finished high
decaying and doomed, and that ra-
flowing endorphins. had the in-
"putting idealism to work" (the corps
school," said Nelson, who is African
cial harmony is an impossible
tended effect. Volunteers who min-
motto) is open to ages 17 to 24. Some
American and in her second City
dream, stop by Love Park some Mon-
utes before were sluggish and sleepy
are high-school dropouts pursuing
Year tour of duty, specializing in
day, Wednesday or Friday at 8:15
now were fully awake, beaming.
GED's; some are Ivy League grads
civic engagement. "Being on a team
a.m. and join the City Year kids in
brimming with vitality.
wondering what next. Some are tak-
with people from the inner city and
calisthenics.
"11 gives you that special kind of
ing a break from college; others are
all different backgrounds. I learned
The exercise will get your body
energy in the morning, like drinking
taking a year off before heading to
that I could."
moving and your heart pumping.
a cup of coffee." said Marcus Bruton,
college.
Behr, a preppie-looking invest-
The experience will confound your
20. an Overbrook High grad. "It gets
"I was the first person from my
ment banker, is positively giddy
prejudices. and treat your soul to a
you fired up and pumped up. (It also
high school in 26 years not to go di-
about City Year's potential; it's a
healthy dose of hope.
teaches such prized professional
rectly to college," said Fiona Mason.
surefire way to bridge city and sub-
traits as responsibility and punctuali-
"I wasn't ready. I had no idea what I
urb and topple racial barriers. "My
For more information about City Year
ty: arriving on time is imperative.)
wanted to study. I figured my first
daughter's in college, and they have
Philadelphia and how you can get
"We do PT for three reasons." said
year would be wasted."
diversity there, but it doesn't really
involved in community service, call
Jim Balfanz, 28, codirector of City
So Mason, 19, put off entering Bos-
work," he said. "The races sit sepa-
215-988-2118.
Year Philadelphia. "To get our minds
ton University to give herself time to
rately and don't mix. City Year does
and bodies ready for a great day of
ripen in the real world while pursu-
work because it puts people from di-
service; to build community by giv-
ing what for her is not just another
verse backgrounds in a task-orient-
ing corps members from all across
extracurricular activity on a college
ed environment."
Philadelphia Online
the city a chance to come together
The Philadelphia Inquirer TOM GRALISH
application, but a true passion: com-
The tasks include serving as role
For a Web Video version of
and inspire each other about the
Members of Philly's youth
munity service. (By the way, a lot of
models, mentors and tutors for
this column, visit Philadelphia
work they're doing; and to inform
college admissions deans love City
other young folks, and giving them
Online, The Inquirer's site on
the public about the power of young
community service program
Year; it's the kind of life-experience
goals, direction and a sense of pride;
the Internet: http://
people to make a difference and to
start each day with exercise.
credential, they say, that can put a
running after-school literacy pro-
www.phillynews.com
encourage citizens to become in-
candidate over the top.)
grams for tots and teens; removing
volved in their communities."
"Action begets action," said Phil
City Year itself is a community,
graffiti and beautifying the city-
These City Year folks are crafty.
Behr the other day.
one devoted to harnessing the
They perform their calisthenics in a
scape with murals; restoring aban-
Behr. 56, of Gladwyne, is cochair of
power of unity fueled by diversity.
public place in the heart of the city
doned houses and transforming va-
for a reason: to attract attention. It
City Year Philadelphia's advisory
It's e pluribus unum in practice. a
cant lots into community gardens;
works. Many passersby stop and gape.
board. Truth to tell, he's also why the
barrier-breaking, stereotype-bust-
They smile, they ask questions
program is here. Several years ago,
ing, assumption-shattering melting
and collecting more than a million
books from the suburbs and redis-
he was running in Boston when he
pot of young Americans - there are
("What's this? Some kind of paramili-
saw a couple of hundred City Year
upper-middle-class blacks from the
tributing them to public schools
lary cult?"). Some even join in, as do
volunteers doing their morning PT.
suburbs, for instance, and lower-
and literacy workers in the city.
homeless habitues of the park in
middle-class whites from the city
City Year calls itself an "action
warmer months, and even some of
His reaction: "Wow!" Later, he saw
who come in more flavors and col-
tank" - when it comes to commu-
the paper-pushers who watch from
the same spectacle in Chicago.
ors than Baskin-Robbins ice cream.
nity service, these kids walk the
neighboring office towers.
"We've got to bring this to Philadel-
"I came from a fairly sheltered ho-
talk. They're also learning, and
I like the way Bruton phrased it.
phia," he thought.
mogeneous background," said Kim-
teaching, an important lesson:
It's all about spreading the can-do
In September, with the help of local
berly Nelson, 23, who attended pri-
Health is about wholeness. To be a
spirit of City Year and the gospel of
businesses and foundations (Safe-
vate school before enrolling at
truly healthy, totally fit human be-
community service through "word of
guard Scientifics Inc., CoreStates
Swarthmore and the University of
ing means more more than doing
eye."
Bank, Philadelphia Lawyers, Pruden-
Rhode Island, where she's majoring
yoga, running marathons or pump-
The rationale behind City Year PT
tial Preferred Properties, Wawa, Inc./
in political science. "Everyone had
ing iron. It means escaping the nar-
(which corps members also do on
PNC Bank and the Pew Charitable
the same education level and socio-
cissistic self-absorption of the gym,
Tuesdays and Thursdays at their re-
Trusts), it happened; Philadelphia
economic level, SO we all had the
helping others, giving something
spective service sites) is simple: Rev
became the ninth city in the nation
same politics and way of looking at
back, making a contribution to the
up the body and you'll also rev up the
to launch a City Year program.
the world.
common good.
brain and spirit
City Year is part of the AmeriCorps
FOR ONE NDRED.AND.FIFTY YEARS
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Tribune photos by Patrick D. Witty
Anthony James, 10. grabs for a gardening shovel (above, center)
nelley Youth Center. Organizer Michael Mandel (below) rallies the
as students took back a rubbish-strewn garden at the Elliott Don-
kids, including Michael Smith, 11, (left) and Sushmere Martin, 12.
Students dig into volunteer spirit
By Heather Lalley
TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
They lugged shovels taller than themselves
and wore gardening gloves hanging from
their fingers. but nobody seemed to mind.
The 1st- through 1th-graders were too busy
on Friday shoveling gravel. pulling weeds
and examining earthworms in the
Bronzeville community garden they helped
spruce up.
While many of their peers spent this past
week's spring break camped in front of the
TV, 250 Chicago public school kids partici-
pated in Camp City Year, a weeklong service
learning project in the North Lawndale and
Bronzeville communities, Sponsored by City
Year, a national youth service organization
that is part of the AmeriCorps program, the
free camp was organized and led entirely by
corps members, ages 17 to 23.
Participants pledge nine months of service
to this "domestic peace corps" in exchange
for a $4,725 college scholarship, said the
group's director of marketing. Elinor Jan-
notta. The camp is the culmination of their
work, Jannotta said.
"It's a great leadership opportunity and a
way for them to integrate what they've
learned throughout the year." she said. "It's
an opportunity for them to be young role
Back at the cleanup site, at 3947 S. Michi-
the soil to divide the garden plots.
models for children."
gan Ave., kids dumped orange wheelbarrows
"It's fun to do this because it feels like
Earlier in the week, campers visited the
full of pebbles onto paths they had created in
grown-up stuff." 10-year old Eboni Henderson,
Shedd Aquarium, attended environmental
the community garden.
a 5th grader at Washington Irving Elementary
workshops. learned about art and poetry, and
Residents near the Elliott Donnelley Youth
School, said as she gripped a garden shovel
played games at a carnival
Center have used the garden for several years.
with fuzzy gloved hands.
"We're trying to make this camp like a
Recently, though, weeds and rubbish have
Her dad won't let her shovel snow, she said,
mini-City Year for them." said Michael Man-
beaten out the vegetables for space.
so this was her chance to get to shovel And
del. 23, who was in charge of recruitment for
And that's where the kids come In
besides getting to use grown-up tools, Hender-
the program "We wanted to create a project
Over the past several months, City Year
son learned a grown-up lesson: "I wanted to
where they could all get a little taste of ser-
participants pulled weeds and picked up the
be here to help the community. It's to help us
vice."
trash. They ve hammered railroad ties into
breathe better."
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San Antonio spirit
Texas launches City Year, a youth corps in
San Antonio enabling young people to commit to a
year of community service.
by Susan Finegan
MAY 1996 TEXAS BUSINESS 63
CITY YEAR
CITY YEAR: Putting Idealism to Work
NATIONAL
City Year, an AmeriCorps program, is a national service organization which unites young adults,
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
ages 17 to 24, from diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding year of full-
Boston, MA 02116
time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
Tel 617 927 2500
City Year corps members represent a cross-section of their communities--male and female; inner city
Fax: 617.927 2510
and suburban; African-American, Asian-American, Caucasian, Latino and Native American; and low,
www.city-vear.org
middle and upper income. The corps includes college graduates, high school graduates, and young
people without high school diplomas.
City Year was designed as a workshop or "action tank" for national service. From a 50 person sum-
mer pilot program in 1988, City Year has grown to 900 corps members in Boston (MA), Chicago (IL),
Cleveland (OH), Columbia (SC), Columbus (OH), Philadelphia
(PA), Rhode Island, San Antonio (TX), and San Jose (CA). Our
tenth and newest site will open fall of 1998 in Seattle/King
County.
BOSTON
CHICAGO
City Year corps members begin each weekday morning with a
regimen of high-spirited calisthenics to prepare themselves for a
CLEVELAND
day of excellent service. After their "community huddle", corps
members - in distinctive red, tan and black uniforms - fan out in
COLUMBIA
teams of 10 to 12 to serve their community. Corps members serve
as teachers' aides in public schools, renovate housing for the homeless, turn
COLUMBUS
vacant lots into community gardens, operate recreational programs for senior
PHILADELPHIA
citizens, teach health and public safety curriculums, and run after-school pro-
grams. Through their service work and coordinated Leadership Training Days,
RHODE ISLAND
City Year corps members learn the value of community, realize their potential to
improve the lives of others, and develop the skills necessary to excel in educa-
SAN ANTONIO
tional and professional endeavors.
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
City Year is an innovative and multifaceted service organization which seeks to
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
address unmet community needs, break down barriers of class and race, inspire
citizens to civic action, and strengthen the bonds of community. By tapping the
energy and commitment of young people, City Year is "putting idealism to work."
The Presidents' Summit for America's Future
The City Year Commitment
By 2000, City Year's national corps of diverse 17-24 year olds will lead
NATIONAL FOUNDING SPONSORS
250,000 community partners, youth and corporate citizens in 5,000,000
hours of service. Together, their idealism and energy will strengthen
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neighborhoods, schools and communities. City Year will also convene
CYZYGY, an annual training, service and policy summit for youth. Next
year's convention will be held in June in Washinton DC and will feature
AMERICORPS
youth forums on the goals of the Presidents' Summit and a day of
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PUTTING IDEALISM TO WORK
CITY YEAR
PERSPECTIVES ON CITY YEAR
"City Year restored my faith in myself and my generation."
- Terese Gibson, City Year corps member
NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
"Many corps based in urban centers acknowledge that they have been unable to
Boston, MA 02116
draw a wide demographic mix of participants
The boldest exception to this is
Tel-617 927 2500
Fax 617 927 2510
Boston's City Year."
- Michael Morriott, The New York Times
www.city-year.org
"One of our best home-grown products, and now it is one of our leading
exports."
- Governor William Weld
"The most cost effective grant in the history of philanthropy at the Bank of
Boston."
BOSTON
- Ira Jackson, Vice President, Bank of Boston
CHICAGO
"One of my goals is to increase the level of teamwork at Keyport. City Year has
CLEVELAND
been a lightning rod for getting our people to work together. At the same time,
COLUMBIA
it has helped focus our desire to be a good corporate citizen. City Year gives
employees throughout the organization a sense of really being involved with
COLUMBUS
the community. It is far more tangible than writing a check."
PHILADELPHIA
- John Rosensteel, CEO, Keyport Life Insurance
RHODE ISLAND.
"The City Year experience offers solid evidence that national service --
contrary to what its critics say -- can appeal to all youths, not just the poor and
SAN ANTONIO
disadvantaged; that it can operate without intrusive and wasteful bureaucracy;
SAN JOSE:SILICON
VALLEY and that volunteers can be assigned to tasks of genuine value to their
communities. It offers Congress a well designed prototype for replication in
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
communities across the nation."
- The Progressive Policy Institute
"I'm aware of no other youth corps in the country that has drawn from
such a diverse groups of participants for such intense programs."
- Gregg Petersmeyer, former Director, White House Office of
National Service
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"City Year's presence in the Mason School has translated into more for the
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kids The partnership is a synergistic relationship. Both the Mason School and
City Year brought particular strengths to the partnership. The two coalesced
and produced something even better than the original plans. Every group in
the school has been impacted. We're extremely positive. We have a lot of
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hope."
- Mary Russo, Principal, Mason Elementary School
PUTTING IDEALISM TO WORK
CITY YEAR
Visit CITY YEAR
National Service at Work
NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
The concept of voluntary national youth service has captivated the American civic imagination
Boston, MA 02116
for generations. City Year is making it happen. Created in 1988 as a uniquely successful public
Tel. 617 927 2500
Fax. 617.927.2510
and private partnership, City Year is an "action tank," or workshop, for voluntary national
service.
www.city-vear.org
City Year inspires people throughout the community by showing them that idealism and civic
commitment are both practical and rewarding. City Year is making the concept of national service
real, and contributing to the development of national policy. City Year continues to break new ground in
youth service-and expand beyond local boundaries:
The strength of City Year lies in its strikingly diverse youth corps. An extraordinary group of 900
young people representing a cross-section of their communities - male and female; low, middle,
and upper income; African-American, Caucasian, Latino, Native American, and Asian-American;
BOSTON
urban and suburban; college graduates, high school graduates, and young people without
diplomas -finds common ground in the full-time improvement of their communities.
CHICAGO
City Year has nine years of experience serving the community. With policy makers, youth
CLEVELAND
advocates, and interested citizens, City Year can share practical innovations and catalytic ideas.
Perhaps more importantly, we want to learn from you. City Year has begun ambitious national
COLUMBIA
expansion and currently has nine sites stretching from coast to coast. A visit to City Year presents
an invaluable opportunity for everyone involved to learn.
COLUMBUS
PHILADELPHIA
THE VISITORS PROGRAM
"I have never seen such a well prepared program for visitors."
RHODE ISLAND
-Ann Maura Connolly, Youth Service America
SAN ANTONIO
We believe City Year is a program that must be witnessed first-hand. By inviting individuals to
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
visit City Year we are hoping to accomplish three main goals:
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
First, we hope that City Year's experience will help others in the service field
develop their own initiatives.
Second, City Year hopes to gain the varied perspectives of many constructive,
objective observers, especially those involved in the youth policy, media, and
corporate fields.
Third, we want to share the energy and excitement of young people engaging in
citizenship and putting idealism to work.
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City Year designs visits to best fit the interests and needs of the prospective visitor. Visits range
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from one hour to a full day or more. They can include a roundtable discussion with City Year
corps members, meetings with City Year staff members, and visits to service project sites.
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City Year tries to schedule visits on days that will be mutually convenient. However, we are
especially interested in focusing visitors towards "Visitors Days" on which visitors can partici-
pate in a half day of orientation on the program. "Visitors Days" include attending the morning
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program, a site visit, meetings with staff in your field of interest, and a roundtable discussion.
"Visitors Days" are every Monday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
For more information about visiting City Year, please contact Candace Coakley at (617) 927-2313.
PUTTING IDEALISM TO WORK
CITY YEAR
NATIONAL
Bringing CITY YEAR to Your Community
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
City Year began in 1988 as a summer pilot program in Boston. In 1989, Boston
Boston, MA 02116
Tel 617 927.2500
expanded to a full year program for 75 diverse young people. In 1993, City Year
Fax: 617.927.2510
opened a summer program in Columbia, SC, and a second full-year program in
Providence, RI. In September of 1994, City Year grew significantly by adding four
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new full-year programs in Chicago, IL, Columbia, SC, Columbus, OH, and San Jose,
CA. In September of 1995, City Year opened its seventh site in San Antonio, TX,
and the following year launched an eighth site in Cleveland, OH. 1997 brought City
Year Philadelphia, PA, as the ninth site. Most recently, City Year has identified
Seattle/King County as its tenth site to open in the Fall of 1998.
City Year's new site development process was designed to insure the maximum
investment of the local community and the most effective utilization of City Year's
BOSTON
limited resources. Listed below are City Year's "Seven Guideposts" for new site
development. These guideposts are a checklist for a community that wants to build
CHICAGO
a local City Year program. City Year works closely with local community leaders to
reach each guidepost. In the Fall, City Year's National Board of Trustees votes to
CLEVELAND
grow to a city based on that city's progress in meeting each guidepost. For more
COLUMBIA
information on how you can bring City Year to your community, please contact
Teresa Polhemus at (617) 927-2418. Thank you for your interest in City Year!
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PHILADELPHIA
City Year's "Seven Guideposts" for New Site Development
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1.
A delegation of local community leaders - public, private, nonprofit and
municipal - visit City Year in Boston for meetings with senior staff, corps,
SAN ANTONIO
and corporate and community partners. This provides the interested city
with a deep understanding of the organization, its mission, as well as
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
parameters for new site development partnership. This delegation should
ultimately act as the core of the local City Year Advisory Board.
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
2.
Private sector champion is identified as lead advocate for expansion site.
"Champion" serves as integral partner with City Year for a successful launch.
3.
Planning grant of $100,000 is committed for start-up effort (January - June).
4.
Letters of endorsement from a broad-based coalition of community leaders
sent to City Year. In particular, written endorsement from Mayor of
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proposed site is strongly encouraged.
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5.
A significant portion of first year program dollars is secured from private,
public and municipal sources (Goal: $500,000). In addition, multi-year
financial commitments are identified.
6.
Donated or inexpensive office, living space and transportation are secured
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for start-up effort (January - June).
7.
Strong support is received from AmeriCorps on both the national and state
levels.
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tions, foundations, individuals, state and local municipalities, and the AmeriCorps
National Service Network. Sponsors invest in City Year not only by financially
backing teams of corps members, but also by joining the corps members in their
service projects, and by offering full-time employment opportunities for City Year
graduates.
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Since the founding of City Year, individuals and private sector organizations have
invested more than $30,000,000 in cash, through a multitude of means-including
CHICAGO
the Serve-a-thonᵀ team sponsorships, foundation grants, individual contributions,
and employee initiatives. In addition, companies have made extensive and creative
CLEVELAND
in-kind investments-from jackets and boots to computers, fax machines,
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headquarters space, consulting support, legal and audit services.
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CITY YEAR TEAM SPONSORS ACROSS THE NATION
PHILADELPHIA
National Founding Sponsors
RHODE ISLAND
Digital Equipment Corporation
The Timberland Company
SAN ANTONIO
SAN JOSE-SILICON VALLEY
Boston
Johnson & Johnson
Chicago
Professional, Inc.
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
Bain & Company
Keyport Life Insurance Company
Founding Chicago Sponsor:
Bain Capital
Massachusetts Bay
The John D. and Catherine T.
BankBoston
Transportation Authority
MacArthur Foundation
Boston Lawyers:
Massachusetts High
Foley, Hoag & Eliot
Technology Council:
The Alter Group
Goodwin, Procter & Hoar
Biogen
Bain & Company
Hale & Dorr
Genzyme Corporation
Chicago Bulls
Hill & Barlow
Thermo Electron Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
NATIONAL FOUNDING SPONSORS
Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
The Massachusetts Service
First Chicago NBD Corporation
Ferris, Glousky & Popeo
Alliance
Harris Trust and Savings
Timberland
Palmer & Dodge
Media One
Joseph J. Freed & Associates
Ropes & Gray
Millipore Corporation
North Lawndale: Learning
Sherin & Lodgen
Monitor Company
Community/Steans
Central Artery /
Reebok Foundation
Family Foundation
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Third Harbor Tunnel
The Timberland Company
The Timberland Company
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Conrail, Inc.
TheTJX Companies, Inc.
Digital Equipment Corporation
The United Way
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Cleveland, OH
Philadelphia
Founding Sponsor:
Founding Partner:
CAVS
Pew Charitable Trusts
The Breuning Foundation
CoreStates Bank
City of Cleveland
Philadelphia Lawyers Consortium:
The Cleveland Foundation
Ballard,Spahr, Andrew & Ingersoll
Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners
Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley
The George Gund Foundation
Commolly, Epstein, Chicco, Foxman
KeyBank
Englemyer & Ewing
Pioneer Standard
Cozen & O'Connor
Progressive Insurance
Dechert, Price & Rhoads
RPM, Inc.
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish &Kauffman
TRW
Drinker, Biddle & Reath
The 1525 Foundation
Duane, Morris & Heckscher
Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel
Columbia, SC
Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin
Hoyle, Morris & Kerr
City of Columbia
Kohn, Swift &Grat, PC
Columbia Housing Authority
Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young
Nations Bank of South Carolina
Luke B. Hanccock Foundation
RCBA:
Morgan, Lewis & Bocklus LLP
Childs & Duff
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheet
Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson & Greaves
Philadelphia Bar Association
Lewis Babcock & Hawkins
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis
McDonald, McKenzie, Rubin,
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen
Miller & Lybrand, L.L.P
Prudential Preferred Properties
McNair Law Firm
Safeguard Scientifics Inc.
Wawa Inc.
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough
Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard
Sinkler & Boyd
Rhode Island
Suggs & Kelly
Utility Consortium:
Bank Boston/Hospital Trust Bank
Santee Cooper
Bank of Newport
SCANA
Fleet Bank of Rhode Island/
Bell South
Providence Journal Bulletin
UPS
San Antonio, TX
Columbus, OH
National Federal Sponsor:
Foundation Consortium:
Texas Commission for Volunteerism
Borden Inc.
and Community Service
Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation
City of San Antonio
OSU Medical Center
H-E-B Grocery Co.
Grant/Riverside Hospitals
Levi Strauss Foundation
Honda of America Mfg., Inc.
Partner
United HealthCare of Ohio, Inc.
SouthWestern Bell
Excel Management Systems
Columbus Youth Foundation
San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA
Renny Tyson, Attorney at Law
Adobe Systems
Cisco Systems
Comerica Bank/Tandem
GreenTeam of San Jose
San Jose Mercury News
Sobrato Family Foundation/Therma
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HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Tel 617 927 2500
Fax 617.927 2510
Jeffrey Swartz, Chair, Chief Operating Officer, The Timberland Company
www.city-year.org
Kristen Atwood, Former Vice-President, City Year, Inc.
Michael Brown, President and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
Farai Chideya, Political Analyst, ABC News
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George Gendron, Editor-in-Chief, Inc. Magazine
CHICAGO
Susan Hammer, former Mayor, City of San Jose, CA
CLEVELAND
COLUMBIA
Deborah Jackson, Sr. Vice President for Network Development and Community
Service, Children's Hospital
COLUMBUS
Ilene Jacobs, Executive Vice President Human Resources, Fidelity Investments
PHILADELPHIA
RHODE ISLAND
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Business Administration
SAN ANTONIO
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
Alan Khazei, CEO and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
SEATTLE,KING COUNTY
Roger King, Organizational Development Consultant
Li Lu, CEO, Himalaya Capital Partners
Gary Orren, Professor, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of
Government
NATIONAL FOUNDING SPONSORS
Mitt Romney, Managing Director, Bain Capital
Timberland
Eli Segal, President, Welfare to Work Partnership
Bill Shore, Founder, Share Our Strength
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City Year: National Expansion Strategy (A)
"People, people have you heard? City Year is the word!," called 200 voices from Boston's
City Hall Plaza. It was 8 a.m. on a wet, February morning in 1993. As the commuters rushed
by, the young people of City Year, uniformed in bright red jackets, completed their daily physical
training. Soon, they would break into teams and move out into Boston's neighborhoods to serve
in community centers, shelters, and schools.
Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, City Year's founders and executive directors, could not
see "P.T." from City Year headquarters, an old warehouse along the wharf. But they knew it was
happening and were tremendously proud of the youth corps' commitment and accomplishments.
In its fourth year as a demonstration program for national youth service, City Year had surpassed
nearly everyone's expectations. Parents, teachers, community leaders, the media, CEOs of large
corporations, even the President of the United States, had praised the program's ability to bring
together youth from diverse backgrounds, to contribute substantively to the Boston community,
and to start up and sustain operations through largely private sector investment.
This morning, however, Khazei and Brown were focused on the future. Pressure had
been building since 1991 to grow City Year beyond Boston. By January 1993, hundreds of
politicians, businesspeople, and citizens had asked to start "a City Year" in their town. Youth
service was on the presidential agenda. And, Khazei and Brown's vision had always been national
service.
The questions facing Brown and Khazei were when, where, and how to expand. Chicago;
Providence, Rhode Island; and Columbia, South Carolina were possible choices for the next
academic year, now eight months away. Other cities were under consideration for opening in
1995, when both founders hoped to have 8 to 10 sites in operation. All options, however, would
require substantial resources and organizational commitment in the coming months. To open the
first expansion site in September, Brown and Khazei knew they had to act now.
Background of National Service
The idea that U.S. citizens should perform nonmilitary service for the nation had existed
since philosopher William James called for "a moral equivalent of war" in 1910. 1 During the
Research Associate Nicole Sackley prepared this case under the supervision of Professor Jeffrey L Bradach as the basis
for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation.
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Great Depression, the federal government experimented with national service by creating the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program to put jobless Americans to work building
infrastructure and improving national parks. In 1964, President Johnson inaugurated Volunteers
in Service to America (VISTA), a domestic Peace Corps for college graduates to serve in rural
America. Over the years, however, VISTA received limited funding; other proposals for national
service during the 1970s and 1980s failed to attract wide-scale support. Federal programs focused
instead on job training and employment for low-income and unemployed youth.
In the absence of federal initiative, advocates of national service began in the 1970s to
amass political support for youth service corps at the local and state level. By 1984, 27
unaffiliated programs had been established as government agencies or government-funded non-
profits. The new programs had two goals: they were seen as a way to accomplish meaningful
service and as an answer to rising youth unemployment, crime, and dropout rates. The majority
were 100- to 1,000-member conservation corps, patterned after the CCC of the 1930s. Youth
worked full-time for the minimum wage in supervised teams of 8 to 12 people. Participants were
typically, male, high school dropouts, and from low-income households. Depending on the region,
corps were either predominantly Caucasian, Hispanic, or African-American. Most corps
performed physical service such as building repair, trail clearing, and environmental cleanup in
urban and wilderness areas.
In 1984, New York City budgeted $10 million for a new youth corps, designed to innovate
the established model of youth service. First, in contrast to past efforts, the City Volunteer Corps
(CVC) would engage its volunteers in human service such as tutoring children and working with
elderly. Second, it planned to attract a diverse corps, both racially and socio-economically. The
program achieved its first innovation, but not its diversity goal. According to an independent
evaluation conducted in 1987 by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) and the Ford Foundation: "CVC
members have successfully accomplished important human service work in the community.
Like most youth corps, participants are high school dropouts from low socioeconomic
backgrounds." A 1987 P/PV assessment of all U.S. youth corps concluded:
Youth corps are challenging programs to operate, requiring substantial
commitments of political leadership and funding.
Most produce a large
volume of work of good quality and considerable value.
Many corps
members, [however], require close supervision and could benefit from remedial
education and career guidance.
A tension exists between the youth corps'
roles as a service program and a program for at-risk youth. 3
Revisioning National Service
It was 1980. Michael Brown and Alan Khazei were college roommates, concerned about
community disengagement and racial polarization in the United States. When Brown took a year
off from college to work on Capitol Hill, he was assigned to research national service, became
intrigued by the idea, and convinced Khazei to join him in Washington. National service, it
seemed, might be the means to common ground. Explained Khazei:
2. Public/Private Ventures. Youth Corps Case Studies: The New York City Volunteer Corps Fall, 1987.
3. Public/Private Ventures. Assessment of Youth and Conservation Corps, 1987.
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It was the "missing link" of American democracy. The Civil Rights Movement
ended discrimination within the law, but not in the hearts and minds of citizens.
By uniting diverse Americans to work side by side for a common purpose, national
service could show that there is more that unites us than divides us.
Khazei and Brown vowed to help build voluntary national service. In 1984, Brown took
a position at the CVC in New York, attracted by the promise of a diverse corps working together
to provide direct service to the community. A year later, he joined Khazei at Harvard Law
School, where they began to identify three components of what they thought would be an ideal
national service program: diversity, citizenship, and private sector investment.
Diversity National service would unite Americans, by bringing them together in service teams
of 10 to 12 young people. Each team would include African-Americans, Asians, Latinos, and
Caucasians; city dwellers and suburbanites; men and women; college graduates and high school
dropouts. Serving together for one year, they would learn from and about one another. At the
CVC, Brown had discovered how difficult such diversity was to achieve: "The CVC truly wanted
a diverse corps, but it didn't insist upon it from the very beginning. We learned that how you
start is how you end up, because new recruits want to see themselves in the corps." In the end,
the CVC did not achieve its diversity objectives. Ensuring a diverse corps, vowed Brown and
Khazei, should be the first priority of national service.
Citizenship National service would train young people for "the highest office in a democracy"-
that of a citizen. Physical service such as cleaning graffiti or building gardens would engender
responsibility for a shared environment. Even more important, service that required direct work
with others of different backgrounds would build commitment among citizens. A national service
program, they believed, should also provide tools for citizenship, including a high school
education, first aid skills, voter registration, and practice in public speaking.
Private sector investment Fostering citizenship, believed Brown and Khazei, was the
responsibility of all social sectors-public, non-profit, and private. "It takes a village to raise a
child," reminded an African proverb they often recalled. In the 1980s, youth corps operated with
largely government funding. When Brown attempted to generate private investment while at the
CVC, he was told, "You have $10 million in city funds. Why do you need other support?" To
Brown and Khazei, national service needed the private sector's resources and skills. Government
restricted use of funds to particular constituencies such as "at-risk" youth or city residents; private
funders had no such constraints. Government placed priority on regulation; the private sector
of the 1980s seemed to emphasize entrepreneurship and innovation. And the absence of public
funds allowed for financial and policy independence from political decision-makers. They
concluded, "national service had to be founded in the private sector, on private sector principles.
Government would then come in as an investor."
When Brown and Khazei explained their vision to others, most responded skeptically.
"Everyone told us it couldn't happen," remembered Khazei. "Or, they said it was a great theory,
but how did we know it would work? We realized, then, that people first had to experience the
idea. We resolved to create an 'action tank'-combining a think tank and a pilot program to
demonstrate on a small scale what national service could be. If we could show the future, then
maybe, we could hasten the future." The action tank would enlist 50 Boston youth, ages 17 to
23, in a year of service. They would call it City Year.
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Start-up
In June 1987, Brown and Khazei-aided by their friends Neil Silverston, a Harvard
Business School student, and Jennifer Eplett, an EF Hutton analyst-began developing City Year.
With the exception of Brown's year at the CVC, no one had experience implementing a service
program. "We were making it up as we went along. We were running on ideas and inspiration,
commitment and vision. We didn't know what we couldn't do," explained Khazei. Together, the
four estimated that start-up would take two years: a year of planning for a summer pilot to test
the model in 1988, followed by another year of fundraising and program development before
opening a full year program in September, 1989 (see Exhibit 1 for timeline).
Funding presented the most immediate challenge. Brown and Khazei decided that each
corps member would need a $100 weekly stipend to help with food and transportation. As well,
they wished to demonstrate the value of service by providing participants who completed the
service year with $5,000 scholarships or $2,500 cash service awards ($1,000 for the summer pilot).
City Year would also require office space, uniforms, and salaries for staff. All would be raised
through the private sector. For a 50-person corps, they would need $200,000 for the summer
pilot and over $800,000 in the first year.
For seven months, they raised nothing. Recalled Khazei, "We lived off savings and second
jobs. It was a long process of meeting someone who introduced us to someone, until finally, in
January, we met with Ira Jackson of the Bank of Boston. It was a real turning point. When they
contributed $25,000, it gave us a stamp of legitimacy and helped bring in other funders." The
Bank of Boston became the first "team sponsor"-agreeing to support one City Year team. One
by one, Bain & Company, General Cinema, NYNEX, and Equitable Financial Services
contributed $25,000 towards the summer pilot. In March 1989, Echoing Green Foundation's 90-
day $100,000 challenge grant galvanized three corporations to return with funding for the first
year. Finally, in August 1989, City Year had sufficient funds to open its doors. Concluded
Brown, "We succeeded, I think, because we were so tenacious. We believed absolutely in what
we were doing. It was City Year or bust."
Early on, Brown and Khazei began to tackle the question of how City Year would achieve
a diverse corps. "Diversity," stated Brown, "was always our highest priority. At every stage in
planning, we asked ourselves how decisions were affecting our goal." A service year of September
to June was chosen, because most young people were accustomed to an academic calendar. Early
efforts targeted public and private schools, as well as community centers and playgrounds for
those not in school. After the summer pilot, recruitment director Kristen Atwood was the only
full-time employee of City Year. Noted Khazei, "a long time before Michael, myself, or any
fundraisers, Kristen went on the payroll."
Though challenging, funding and diversity were clear goals during start-up. More
ambiguous was the question of what City Year's day-to-day organization would look like.
Recalled Brown, "How, we wondered, do you take people from all different backgrounds, bring
them together, and develop high quality service? How do you develop an organization?" Brown
and Khazei sensed that the answer lay in a strong culture. Corps members and staff would need
shared ideals, symbols, and traditions. Explained Brown, "We began to invent a way of doing
things."
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The City Year Model
By 1992, City Year had developed a distinct "way of doing things." The City Year culture
was idealistic, energetic, entrepreneurial, and disciplined. Guided by a deep commitment to
diversity and service, it was-in the words of one staff member-"run like a political campaign."
Inspirational stories, shared vocabulary, bright uniforms, morning calisthenics, and team-building
exercises created the City Year "look and feel." The corps and staff called these "power tools"
and used them to communicate core values through every activity. "We are a values-based
organization, and that's good," reminded Brown and Khazei. Of the 150 inspirational stories
presented in the City Year handbook, the most repeated and shared was a Robert Kennedy
quotation:
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is
shaped. Each time a man 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, and
crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.⁴
At heart, the culture was inclusive. Meetings followed the rule of NOSTUESO ("No One
Speaks Twice Until Everyone Speaks Once") and corps members were encouraged to "moccasin"
their ideas, which alluded to a Native American prayer, "Grant that I not criticize my brother until
I have walked a mile in his moccasins." (See Exhibit 2 for excerpts from City Year Handbook).
City Year exuded high energy. Training included dramatic skits and service projects; every day
began with calisthenics, cheers, and raps created by the corps.
City Year encouraged entrepreneurism and pushed corps members to uncover the "best
virtues" from a diversity of American institutions including the military, the government, the
university, the political campaign, and the family. Exhorted Brown, "Mine the military's esprit de
corps, business' accountability, the urgency of the political campaign, and the mutual regard of
the family." Corps members responded by developing their own service projects, while staff
members initiated a leadership training curriculum for the entire corps.
Yet, the culture was also pragmatic. Every idea was piloted by one team before being
presented to the entire corps. Staff provided written documentation of all events and
presentations. And, it was disciplined. Every staff and corps member wore the same red jackets
and khaki pants. Tardiness, drugs, violence, or other disruptive behavior resulted in dismissal
from the corps.
From these values, a City Year model developed for managing (1) recruitment, (2) the
corps, (3) service, (4) fundraising, and (5) staffing and organization.
Recruitment
Corps recruitment began every November and continued throughout the year. Brown and
Khazei set two goals: enlist young people who showed promise of enthusiasm and initiative, and
4. Guthman, Edwin and C. Richard Allen, eds. RFK: The Collected Speeches. New York: Viking, 1993, p. 243-4.
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recruit a diverse corps. Diversity-of gender, ethnicity, education, family income, and
geography-was meant to reflect the demographics of metropolitan Boston (see Exhibit 3 for City
Year demographics). To all, City Year gave a highly energetic presentation. Recruiters described
how corps members had made a difference in the Boston community, while corps members led
audiences in calisthenics and spoke about their own experiences.
No one presentation, however, addressed every audience. By 1991, recruiters had learned
from experience to pursue different strategies with different groups. For college graduates, they
posted descriptions at career placement offices and emphasized the direct leadership and
management experience City Year could offer over entry-level positions elsewhere. By contrast,
recruiters found high school dropouts at community centers and neighborhood playgrounds, and
spoke with them informally about the chance to find a direction through City Year. Middle-class
suburban youth were among the hardest to recruit. These students, along with their parents and
guidance counsellors, had to be convinced that the City Year experience merited a year off before
college. Recruiters had to reach students months before college acceptance letters. To do so,
they sent literature to high schools and made presentations at Parent-Teacher Association
meetings a year in advance.
The Corps
Beginning with an intensive five-day orientation, corps development emphasized teamwork
and leadership. A sense of "one corps," united for a common purpose was reinforced through
uniforms, morning calisthenics, and common stories such as "ripples" and "moccasins." Division
into teams, however, was also critical to the experience. Each corps member spent his or her
entire year as a member of one team. Serving in a small group of 10 to 12 was designed to
encourage leadership and build long-term bonds between those of different backgrounds. Corp
members were expected to exemplify City Year's values. Each young person signed a contract
promising full effort and participation, a positive attitude, and professional behavior. As one
team leader noted, "City Year holds the corps to high expectations. Understanding what City
Year is about and following the rules are just a given."
To each team, Brown and Khazei assigned a staff leader who managed team dynamics,
oversaw service quality, and provided counseling to individual corps members. Early team leaders
were typically Boston-area college graduates, attracted to City Year by community service and
leadership opportunities. In later years, many corps members stayed with City Year to become
team leaders.
Service
The corps' experience and City Year's value to the community depended on the creation
of quality service projects. The first two years were a struggle to keep five corps teams in full-time
service by finding and developing dozens of two- to four-week projects. Relationships had to be
developed with local not-for-profits and schools. Brown, Khazei, and senior staff grappled with
what kinds of service would allow City Year teams to make the most significant contributions in
the Boston community. Response from schools had been particularly strong; as one elementary
school principal explained, "The corps members give our children hope and a vision of how to
live." By the second year, Brown and Khazei decided to focus City Year's efforts on children.
They also, remembered Khazei, "determined that we could have a bigger impact if we maintained
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longer-term relationships with schools and other service organizations. Each year's work would
build on the last."
Regular innovation became central to development of City Year's program of service.
Staff members who documented service initiatives began in 1990 to create a list of best projects
completed in schools. Activities such as tutoring, leading field trips, teaching violence prevention,
hosting parents' nights, and painting classrooms became part of a detailed curriculum package that
City Year could train corps members for and offer to schools as a "service product." Also
instrumental in the development of service were individual corps members. In 1990, one team
piloted a one-week day camp for children. Later, another team designed a program called
"Young Heroes" which introduced eighth graders to public service through projects planned and
led by corps members on weekends.
By 1992, service at City Year had become a highly organized and demanding program.
Each year began with a two-week "start-up" project, generally physical service to foster team-
building and achieve tangible results. Service continued with a four-month "flagship" project,
designed to build continuous improvement at a school, community center, or homeless shelter.
Teams performed service from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Fridays were devoted.
to organized workshops which addressed corps members' ability to lead effectively in service and
as citizens. To graduate, a corps member had to register to vote, write a resume, learn tax
preparation, become certified in first aid, and-if not a high school graduate-study toward a
general equivalency diploma (GED). Once a month, the entire corps came together for a one-
day "Signature Service" such as the building of a playground or the cleanup of a local beach. (See
Exhibit 4 for highlights of one team's schedule).
Fundraising
City Year's fundraising strategy followed its philosophy of civic engagement. "Our goal,"
explained Brown, "was never to just get a check. From the beginning, we asked sponsors to get
involved, come out and do service, and begin seeing service as a vehicle to bring people together.
We sought partnerships with the private and public sectors to engage their resources and
commitment to the community." In its first three years, City Year focused exclusively on
partnerships with the private sector. (See Exhibit 5 for selected financial information).
Executives were invited to observe and participate with teams in service and attend roundtable
talks with corps members. City Year valued in-kind donations, pro bono consulting or legal
advice, but when possible, sought deeper partnerships. When Jeff Swartz, COO of the
Timberland Company, donated work boots to the corps, Brown and Khazei invited him to a
service event, and Swartz found himself moved by the experience: "Once I participated, I had
a new, very different feeling of commitment." Timberland became a team sponsor and
announced a multi-year $1 million commitment in 1992.
By 1991, a growing number of firms had become "team sponsors," an innovation Khazei
and Brown borrowed from the 1984 Olympics where companies sponsored athletic teams. Each
City Year sponsor contributed up to $100,000 and established a unique relationship with one
team. Corps members wore T-shirts with their sponsor's name, lunched with the CEO, presented
to the board of directors, and hosted service projects for company employees. Sponsoring firms
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encouraged employees to attend City Year events like Opening Day, Graduation, and the Serve-
a-thon. TM An annual day of service organized by City Year for the community, the Serve-a-thon™
was another way City Year linked fundraising and service. In 1992, 8,000 people participated,
raising $700,000 for City Year. The five original team sponsors returned to sponsor a team in
1990, 1991, and 1992, along with 20 other Boston-area firms (see Exhibit 6 for list of team
sponsors).
With private sector support, City Year grew from a 50 to 100 corps members, while
continuing to provide $5,000 graduation awards. By 1991, Brown and Khazei felt the private
sector had committed to City Year, and that the organization was ready to grow. They decided
to bring the public sector into City Year's coalition. Federal funding for national service had
become available when President Bush signed into law the Community and National Service Act
of 1990. City Year applied for support, and in June 1992, became one of eight National
Demonstration Projects, receiving a combined $7.2 million for 1993 and 1994. In accepting public
funds, Brown and Khazei imposed the condition that City Year remain at least 51% privately
funded.
Staffing and Organization
"We are all in service, both corps and staff. Together, we make up a single City Year
work force for idealism," declared Brown. The staff of City Year reflected the diversity and
energy of the organization. Like the corps, they varied in experience, background, and ethnicity.
Some had heard about City Year and called Brown and Khazei asking to join. Others were
actively recruited by the co-founders for the value they could add to the organization.
Community service veterans, high school graduates, several consultants and investments bankers,
and a former assistant vice president of the Bank of Boston served as directors of fundraising,
service, and corps development. All were attracted by the mission of "making a difference" and
the power of directly influencing the lives of others.
Most of the team leaders were in their mid- to late twenties, and several had been with
City Year since its founding. Many had begun as corps members and moved into leadership roles
in the organization. Noted Khazei, "Because we believe in empowering young people and giving
responsibility, nearly 20% of our staff are former corps members." A Harvard professor, an ex-
Marine, and several ex-teachers also served as team leaders.
Reporting relationships and specific job descriptions for City Year's young staff remained
loose and fluid (see Exhibit 7). Staff moved from one area to another and new positions were
created as needed. Although the top level comprised seven to ten key people who reported to
the co-directors, nearly everyone in the organization interacted daily with Brown and Khazei. It
was through these interactions-sometimes in meetings, but often informally-that decisions were
made. The frequent analogy of City Year to a political campaign referred to both a campaign's
energy and its chaotic, sometimes ad hoc management processes.
City Year's strong culture and an intensive training program glued this diverse and
growing set of people together. Week-long summer retreats were designed to inculcate the
vision, values, and culture of City Year in new staff. Program director Stephanie Wu described
these retreats as, "a total immersion experience in what it means to live in the City Year
community. It is an important place where the wisdom of the organization is housed and shared."
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For 1993, City Year planned to initiate a "Summer Academy" which added sessions on leadership
and management skill development.
Brown, Khazei, and the City Year staff were advised by a 14-member board of directors.
Both co-founders were adamant about selecting board members who were not only prominent
in government, business, or the not-for-profit world, but also on record as supporting national
service and "genuinely excited by the vision of City Year." Board members included a former U.S.
senator, the president of Radcliffe College, a bank senior vice president, and several not-for-profit
directors. Because of the speed of change at City Year, board meetings were devoted mainly to
updates on new developments.
Leadership
The driving force behind City Year was and continued to be the combined leadership of
co-directors Brown and Khazei. "In our vision," commented Khazei, "we have always been
partners. We sometimes disagree, but we discuss and make all decisions together." Though
different in personality-Brown was described as "deeply thoughtful" while Khazei preferred
"spontaneous action," even casual observers noted that they shared the same idealism, dynamic
energy, and seemingly tireless commitment to national service. It was this energy, which in the
words of one senior staff member, "converted people to City Year. They wear their passion on
their sleeve, and it draws you in."
Many found themselves "drawn in" by the co-founders's participative and informal
management style. Brown and Khazei performed service along with corps members, wore the
City Year uniform, and were known as "Michael and Alan" to everyone. One senior staff member
commented, "They care deeply about the people at City Year. They welcome everyone's energy
and ideas." Another added, "Alan and Michael give staff members and corps members the chance
to make decisions. They stay in the background while the corps and staff lead public events."
Still, Brown and Khazei participated in all key decisions at City Year and were highly visible
players in the national service movement.
Described by many as "classic entrepreneurs," Khazei and Brown could be very hands-on
and directive. They insisted on close guidance over all strategic decisions affecting City Year and
the vision of national service. They placed a high value on innovation and would, "freely throw
out plans and processes if they or someone else thought they had a better way to accomplish the
task." New concepts and ideas were seen by Khazei and Brown as means of promoting the vision
of national service. Yet, it created a constant challenge for the organization, and sometimes
caused frustration among the staff. One senior staff member concluded, "Alan and Michael are
visionaries. They push ahead, and the organization struggles to keep up with them."
Developing a National Strategy
By 1991, City Year had begun to develop a national reputation. Its position as a national
demonstration project and its success in attracting corporate support brought political and media
attention. City Year encouraged those interested to visit, observe teams in service, and speak
directly with corps members. Over a thousand came to Boston. Corps members told them:
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I never realized how sheltered I was, how I used to stereotype people who
were different from me. When you work with people, really work hard together,
your attitudes change.⁶
I didn't care about too many things. I had dropped out of school. I was
angry, prejudiced, negative. City Year saved my life. I don't want to sell anything
to you, but there it is. I now like to wake up in the morning-know what I
mean?⁷
When the kids I work with start learning, I can see the smiles on their faces.
I know then that I became part of their lives. I made a difference.⁸
"Once they saw it for themselves," explained Brown, "once they talked to corps members,
people got it. They were hooked." Many praised the fact that over 80% of the corps completed
the service year. A 1991 survey of all City Year graduates found 65% pursuing higher education,
69% working, 19% parenting, 2% unemployed, and 14% unknown. The New York Times
declared, "If it can get more funds, City Year will expand.
That would mean a welcome
flowering of what is already the pride of Boston-and could be the pride of the nation."⁹
Brown and Khazei, however, vowed that City Year first had to grow in Boston. "We
needed to demonstrate scale," explained Khazei. "We had to become large enough so that young
people in red jackets were as common to the community's fabric as the police force or the
schools." With increased corporate sponsorship, City Year expanded from 100 to 200 corps
members in 1992, and considered further growth for 1993. But as Brown recalled:
We began to ask the question, "Should we stay a single site action tank or
grow and become a bigger part of the national service infrastructure?" We
decided that we could have the most impact by demonstrating what a national
service network in the City Year model would look like.
In December 1991, a presidential hopeful called on City Year. Brown and Khazei
arranged a two-hour discussion between Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and several corps
members. Clinton was elected president in November 1992. The day after Thanksgiving, a CNN
newscast showed the president-elect out jogging in a City Year sweatshirt. In his first press
conference as president-elect, he told reporters his top priorities were the economy, the deficit,
health care, and national service. 10 Recalled Brown, "It was a great surprise. The first three
had to be on the national agenda. Only a president could make national service a top concern."
6. Harrison, Jim "City Year" Harvard Magazine, May-June 1992.
7. Lewis, Anthony. "Making a Difference" The New York Times, March 15, 1993.
8. Hanson, Gayle. "A Youth Corps Volunteering to Change Things" Insight Magazine, August 24, 1992.
9. Brent Staples, "Pride in Boston" The New York Times, June 19, 1991.
10. Cable News Network, Evans and Novak. November 14, 1992, Transcript 139.
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If national service was on the presidential agenda, Brown and Khazei realized the time had come
to think seriously about expansion.
Developing New Sites
"There were a few things," noted Khazei, "that were fundamental to us, on which we
would not compromise. We would not open a program that wasn't diverse, didn't perform quality
service, didn't attract private sector support, and didn't share City Year's culture. On everything
else, we were completely flexible." Given their requirements, Brown and Khazei began to
consider what a new site would need to replicate the organization's fundamental values and ideals.
Brown remembered, "We didn't know yet how we could ensure that the intangibles that make
City Year what it is-its idealism, its energy, its entrepreneurism-took root somewhere else."
Brown and Khazei called Roger King, a City Year board member and Bain manager, to
discuss their concerns. King recommended that they focus on how to structure the relationship
between Boston and a potential expansion site. Bain & Company donated a case team, led by
King, to examine the question.
Weak Coordination
In the not-for-profit world, organizations often grew by developing a loosely affiliated
network of chapters. Chapters of large and successful not-for-profits like Habitat for Humanity
and the Audobon Society shared the name of the national organization, as well as mission
statements and training manuals, but had separate legal status, autonomous executive directors,
and local boards of directories with fiduciary responsibility over local budgets. In many cases,
local chapters exercised a high degree of control over their activities.
The Bain case team weighed the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Local
control fit with a common understanding in the non-profit world that organizations serving the
community should be local in character. Not only, it was believed, did local people understand
what was unique about their city, but citizens would reject an organization not controlled entirely
at the local level. Looser control also allowed for faster growth. City Year might be wise to take
advantage of the strong and unprecedented political support that the idea of national service was
enjoying in 1992. The most worrisome disadvantage was that City Year would have limited ability
to ensure that its model and culture were replicated with fidelity.
Strong Coordination
Under a system of strong coordination, key decisions about the strategy and direction of
local sites would be made by a national organization led by Brown and Khazei. They would
maintain ultimate control over all operating standards and guidelines for the corps and staff.
Tight control also would enable them to shape directly the composition of local staff, placing City
Year veterans in each new site. Local sites would not have separate legal status as independent
not-for-profits; local boards would have only advisory roles, and executive directors would be
employees of City Year.
The advantage of strong coordination, argued Bain, was that City Year would have a
greater ability to proscribe and monitor replication of the model. Tighter control would also
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enable the rapid development of shared experience across sites utilizing similar practices-thereby
lowering costs, improving quality, and encouraging diffusion of innovation across sites. The
disadvantage was that growth would have to be slower so that new sites were supported and
managed in ways to ensure their full adoption of the model: a few sites, at most, in 1993, with
possible expansion to as many as 10 cities in 1994.
After analyzing the situation, Bain recommended that City Year adopt a strategy of tight
coordination, and expand to one or two sites in the next year. Khazei and Brown agreed.
Explained Khazei, "Because the value that we add-our culture, our experience, our central
ideas-was not easily transferable, that argued for stronger coordination. You can't put City Year
into a manual. We care so much about the idea that we had to ensure its success." Added
Brown, "The quality of new sites was a top concern. There was too much at stake, including the
reputation we had built for five years in Boston. We could not allow any site with the City Year
name to fail."
Yet, both wondered about the implications of this decision for the City Year organization.
Most likely, Boston would become the headquarters of a national organization that managed and
coordinated all new sites along with City Year Boston. How that organization would be
structured, and what roles and responsibilities it would assume, however, remained unclear.
While some veteran staff members would maintain positions at City Year Boston, others might
move to new positions in the national organization.
Khazei and Brown also pondered how to staff local sites. Noted Brown:
We had no idea how many City Year-trained staff we would need at each site.
Through expansion in Boston, we had developed a depth of experienced staff and
corps who could seed other sites and foster understanding and adoption of the
City Year model locally. But we also wanted local people at each site. Was there
a right mix?
While they tentatively thought that the executive director would have to be a City Year veteran,
they considered whether other senior staff should be local people. Service projects, while
following the guidelines of meaningful service and civic engagement, would need to address each
community's particular needs. Commented Khazei, "We could not be rigid. We wouldn't go in
and impose City Year on a community. Any new site would have to embrace and understand City
Year."
Three Opportunities
A national conference and a news story galvanized City Year to consider its options. In
January 1993, the Conference of Mayors invited City Year to make a 7 a.m. presentation to 200
of the nation's mayors. Recalled Brown, "Twenty corps members led the mayors in calisthenics
and told their City Year stories. Mayor Flynn [of Boston] described the impact City Year had
made in Boston." That same day, NBC aired a three-minute profile of City Year on the national
news. By the end of the week, hundreds of phone calls had poured in from dozens of cities-from
mayors, businesspeople, government officials, and not-for-profit directors, all wanting to find out
about starting "a City Year chapter."
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Several calls came from cities that the Bain consulting team had recently identified as
matching key selection criteria. A new site would have to have a diverse metropolitan population
from which to draw a diverse corps. The city would have to demonstrate a commitment to City
Year and an interest in community service. Contentious politics, an existing youth corps, or heavy
corporate commitment to other service providers represented possible barriers to entry. As well,
City Year had to be assured of private sector resources, which required a substantial corporate
base (see Exhibit 8 for Bain Study site selection criteria).
Other calls came from cities already mentioned by City Year staff members as possible
expansion sites. Many had argued for months that City Year needed to prove it could operate
in an environment different from Boston. Expansion to one of the nation's largest cities-New
York, Chicago, or Los Angeles-would demonstrate the strength of the City Year model. So
would expansion outside the Northeast, to a spread-out city without extensive public
transportation, or to a metropolitan area with a different ethnic diversity. Others disagreed,
arguing that it was more important to ensure that expansion succeeded. Cities demographically
similar to Boston would make the best new sites. City Year, some pointed out, should "stay close"
and select a city where they could share resources and staff easily with Boston.
Chicago
The city of Chicago was particularly promising. Both the director of Chicago Community
Trust and the president of the MacArthur Foundation had witnessed City Year presentations.
Mike Alter, president of the Alter Group, a Chicago real estate firm, was a long-time friend to
Brown and Khazei and an avid City Year supporter. Expansion to Chicago in eight months,
however, would require considerable effort. Few U.S. cities contended with as many social
challenges. City Year would also have to navigate complex local politics and compete for funding
with 1,500 other community organizations.
Providence
Another possibility was Providence, Rhode Island. Rocky Melo, a former corps members
and now a Brown University student and member of the Governor's commission on youth service,
called Brown and Khazei about bringing City Year to Providence. Rhode Island's state capital,
she argued, had a diverse population of 160,000, no existing youth corps, and an energized service
community. Melo knew many directors of non-profits personally. Less than 60 miles south of
Boston, Providence had branch stores of several current team sponsors. Brown and Khazei
wondered, however, whether Providence could fulfill City Year's requirement of private sector
funding. Rhode Island had a limited corporate base. Also, given its small size and proximity to
Boston, Brown and Khazei were not sure they would truly be testing the viability of the model
by expanding to Providence.
Columbia
A third possibility was 1,000 miles away in Columbia, South Carolina. There, Marie-
Louise Ramsdale was busy with preparations to open a summer pilot for a youth service corps.
Ramsdale, a 24-year-old Harvard Law School student, had been inspired while participating in
the 1992 City Year Serve-a-thon, to found a corps modeled on City Year in her hometown of
Columbia (pop. 120,000). Failing for months to schedule a meeting with Brown or Khazei, she
went ahead with her plans, researched youth corps, and made a proposal to Columbia's mayor
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and key business leaders. Within six months, Ramsdale had raised over $10,000, assembled a
board of not-for-profit directors, lawyers, and corporate executives, and begun to recruit young
volunteers. When she contacted City Year again, the call was given to Roger King. He
immediately told Brown and Khazei, "You must meet Marie-Louise. She has the energy and the
commitment needed for a new site. With or without us, I think she is going to make it happen."
Though enthusiastic, Khazei and Brown maintained reservations. Columbia was a small city, and
Ramsdale was not a City Year veteran. Could the City Year culture "take" under her leadership?
Moreover, it was not clear that Ramsdale would be interested in operating in a system with tight
control.
February Decisions
As the corps completed its day of service, Brown and Khazei had yet to make any final
decisions. Momentum was building, and both were now certain that the time was right to expand.
The huge demand generated by the Conference of Mayors meeting raised the question of
whether the slow growth mandated by tight coordination was really the best strategy. Perhaps
it would be better to loosen control and expand quickly to a larger number of cities in 1994. The
demand seemed to exist for such a strategy.
In any case, they struggled with the question of which cities to enter. Chicago,
Providence, and Columbia were all promising opportunities. Yet, each had distinct drawbacks.
Khazei and Brown could not help wondering whether they were even the right cities from which
to choose. Many other cities were now expressing interest, but would they still be receptive a
year from now?
Brown and Khazei also realized that, regardless of which city they entered and the degree
of control they exercised over a site, the addition of new sites would likely require changes in the
City Year organization and their own management style. They considered creating a new
corporate structure, and wondered what new roles and responsibilities would have to be
established. New staff would be hired, and others would take new positions. What impact would
this have on the staff and corps? And how could they communicate the changes and align the
organization to this new strategy?
Both were acutely aware of the high stakes involved. City Year had always operated
through innovation and risk-taking, but this time, they knew it could not afford to fail. Expansion
to the "wrong site" or a poorly executed growth strategy would squander substantial organizational
resources-perhaps jeopardizing even Boston's viability. The future of City Year depended on
its continued reputation as a successful model for national youth service.
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Exhibit 1
Timeline of City Year Events, 1987-1993
Start-up
September 1987
Planning begins for summer pilot
January 1988
City Year receives first donation
June 1988
Summer pilot launched
August 1988
Pilot for Serve-a-thon™ called "City Year for a Day"
September 1988
Planning precedes for full-year program
First Year
September 1989
City Year opens with first full-year corps
October 1990
First annual City Year Serve-a-thon™; 450 participate
June 1990
First full-year corps graduates
Second Year
September 1990
Corps expands to 70 members
October 1990
1,200 participate in annual Serve-a-thon™
January 1991
Teams complete longer four-month service projects
Third Year
September 1991
Corps expands to 100 members
October 1991
3,000 participate in Serve-a-thon™
December 1991
Governor Bill Clinton visits City Year
June 1992
City Year is named a Demonstration Project for National
Service by President Bush; receives $7.2 million in federal
funding
Fourth Year
September 1992
Corps expands to 214 members; City Year's communication
staff report that 1,000 people have attended City Year
Visitor's Day since 1989
October 1992
7,000 participate in Serve-a-thon™
November 1992
Clinton elected president and calls for volunteer
National Service
January 1993
City Year's presentation to Council of Mayors followed by
hundreds of requests for expansion
February 1993
Brown and Khazei consider expansion to Chicago, Providence,
and Columbia for September 1993
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Exhibit 2
Excerpts from the City Year handbook, "Putting Idealism to Work"
"Every battle is won or lost before It is fought" This 2,500-year-old insight from the Chinese
strategist Tsun Tsu is the most important rule of implementation at City Year. Planning and
preparation are the critical elements of success. Almost any glitch or failure can be traced
directly to poor planning or implementation. Think it through, take the time-and do it right
the first time.
Nail the details! Every single one. Excellence is all in the details. Everything counts, all
the time! Each daily briefing, each painted wall, each child taught-for better or worse-tells
the world about our values, standards and beliefs.
Program for diversity. In planning anything, think about diversity in terms of input into
design, implementation and communication.
Lead with ideas. Always try to lead first with the big ideas, rather than "rules" or
"expectations." Allow people to get as excited as you are about those ideas. Share
information, and the results you are trying to achieve.
Don't confuse "empowerment" with "anarchy." Structure is the heart of real empowerment.
Provide people you are leading with the structure and skills they need to meet their potential.
"Gut check" major decisions. Never compromise the integrity of the organization. When
making major decisions, learn to trust your best instincts, and the best instincts of others.
City Year refuses to fail. To achieve important organizational goals, City Year will
re-imagine plans, re-arrange priorities, re-allocate resources, or just plain work harder and
smarter. Because we refuse to fail, we must be careful that the goals we set are important
enough to do what it takes to achieve them.
City Year seeks to appeal to the best in people and institutions. And challenge them to put
their best to good use. Never hesitate to ask someone to contribute or to get involved.
Young people are the resource, not the client. This is the whole reason youth service
experience is so powerful. City Year is not a youth program. It is a social change
organization with youth as its greatest resource.
Never ridicule anyone else's idealism. There are really very few "nevers" at City Year,
but this is one. The most destructive thing any corps member or staff member can ever
do is pour cold water on someone else's idealism, passion, and enthusiasm. As an
organization we cannot tolerate it and stay true to our ideals.
Always remember, It s a privilege for all of us to serve at City Year.
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Exhibit 3
City Year Corps Demographics, 1989-1993
1989-
1990-
1991-
1992-
1990
1991
1992
1993
Enrollment
Fall
50
74
100
214
Mid-year
7
2
7
20
Total
57
76
107
234
Gender
Male
54%
49%
50%
53%
Female
46%
51%
50%
47%
Ethnicity
African-American
39%
29%
35%
33%
Asian-American
2%
8%
7%
8%
Caucasian
47%
45%
42%
43%
Latino
12%
14%
15%
14%
Native American
04
3%
1%
<1%
Other
0%
1%
of
2%
Pre-CY Education
High school non-graduate
23%
30%
24%
27%
High school graduate
61%
50%
60%
54%
Some college/college graduate
16%
20%
16%
19%
Socioeconomic (annual
Low (up to $30,000)
na
57%
61%
68%
family income)
Mid ($30,000-$60,000)
na
20%
26%
12%
High (above $60,000)
na
23%
13%
20%
Attendance
Completion rate
77%
83%
86%
85%
Average length of stay (months)
7.9
8.2
8.2
8.1
Profile of graduates
Education:
College (2&4 years)
42.9%
64.8%
54.2%
na
Vocational program
2.9%
5.6%
1.4%
na
Working
68.6%
68.5%
69.4%
na
Parenting
11.4%
18.5%
16.7%
na
Unemployed
14.3%
1.9%
12.5%
na
Unknown
20.5%
14.3%
21.7%
na
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Exhibit 4
Highlights of Reebok Team's Schedule, 1992-1993
Fall Term
August 20-31
Training Academy (all staff)
September 1
GED Testing
September 8-12
Corps Member Orientation and Training (overnight)
September 15-29
Kick-off Project Reebok Team constructs common
space in group home, Lynn Mental Health, Lynn, MA
September 18
Signature Service All corps and staff clean-up and
rehabilitate Garden Cemetery in Chelsea
September 22
Opening Day
September 29
Fall Flagship Project "Operation Overcoat" Reebok Team
collects, sorts, and distributes overcoats to homeless people
October 2
Friday Workshop "Life Issues and Counselling Services"
October 9
Friday Workshop "Multicultural Awareness"
October 24
Serve-a-thon™ (led by all staff and corps)
October 30
Friday Career Expo "Internships, College and Careers"
November 6
Friday Workshop "Leadership-You Can Make a Difference"
November 20
Friday Workshop "Violence Prevention"
December 9
Event with Sponsor Reebok Human Rights Day
December 12
Signature Service All corps and staff visit
with elderly residents of Boston Housing Authority sites
December 19
Flagship Project ends Winter vacation begins
January Term
January 5-29
Corps Member Externships Projects of Reebok Team
members include 1) writing articles about homelessness for
newspaper sold by homeless, 2) teaching Russian at
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 3) programming for
children at Boys and Girls Club in East Boston
January 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
February 1-4
Mid-year Retreat (overnight, all staff)
Spring Term (upcoming events)
February 2
Spring Flagship Project Reebok Team to serve at Phyllis
Wheatly Middle School in Roxbury as teacher's aides
February 13
Signature Service All corps and staff to sort food at
Greater Boston Food Depository
March 6
Friday Workshop "Wellness and AIDs"
March 13
Event with Sponsor Service Project with Reebok
Employees
March 26
Recruiting Blitz "Annual Call to Service" (all teams)
March 27
Friday Workshop "Life after City Year"
April 19-23
Reebok Team helps run Day Camp for children during
Boston Public School's Spring Break
May 2
Special Event Walk for Hunger (all corps and staff)
May 14
Special Event Blackstone School Carnival
May 22
Friday Workshop "Violence Prevention"
June 1
Flagship Project Ends
June 14
Graduation
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Exhibit 5
Selected Financial Information, 1989-1993
8/31/90
8/31/91
8/31/92
8/31/93*
Revenues
Private Sector
$539,712
$1,539,708
$2,492,184
$2,926,200
Federal Funding
0
0
0
2,858,100
In-Kind
153,602
219,118
129,159
311,400
Total Revenues
693,314
1,759,826
2,621,343
6,095,700
Expenses
Salaries, benefits (staff)
343,222
558,759
980,741
2,370,000
Stipends, scholarships(corps)
410,251
562,965
787,346
1,750,200
In-Kind
152,868
270,922
146,014
261,400
Other Expenses
151,244
382,770
692,707
953,400
Total Expenses
1,057,585
1,775,416
2,606,808
5,335,000
Net Surplus (Deficit)
-364,271
-16,950
14,535
760,700
*Estimate, February 15, 1993
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Exhibit 6
List of Team Sponsors, 1992-1993
Apple Computer Team
Boston Wharf Company Team
Bain & Company Team
Citizens Founders Team
Bank of Boston Team
Citizens Team
Big Six Accounting Team (consortium)
Clean Harbors Team
Arthur Anderson
Echoing Green Foundation Team
Coopers & Lybrand
Fleet Bank Team
Deloitte & Touche
Gillette Team
Ernst & Young
Hospitality Industry Team (consortium)
KPMG Peat Marwick
Au Bon Bain
Price Waterhouse
Rebecca's Cafe
Boston Consulting Team (consortium)
Interleaf Team
Anderson Consulting
Kellogg Foundation Team
Boston Consulting Group
KPMG Peat Marwick Team
Charles River Associates
Liberty Mutual Team
Gemini North America
Massachusetts Community Service
Harbridge House
Commission Team
Mercer Management Consulting
Millipore Team
Monitor Company
New England Telephone Team
Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath
Parents, Friends & Family Team
Talisman, Inc.
Reebok Team
Boston Company Team
Summit Partners Team
Boston Lawyers Team (consortium)
Timberland Company Team
Bingham, Dana & Gould
Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer
Burns & Levinson
Choate, Hall & Stewart
Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar
Goulston & Storrs
Hale & Dorr
Hill & Barlow
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Palmer & Dodge
Ropes & Gray
Sherburne, Powers & Needham
Sherin and Lodgen
Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault
Widett, Slater & Goldman, P.C.
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Michael Brown Alan Khazel
Co-Executive Directors
Judith Kidd
Greg Ricks
Chad Olcott
Robert L. Lewis, Jr.
Eric Schwerz
Charlie Rose
Kristen Atwood
Vivian McMullen
V.P. for Development
V.P. for Education & Training
Program Director
V.P. for Field Operations
V.P. for Organizational
V.P. for Community
V.P. for Human Resources
Finance Director
Development
Partnerships
B.A., Williams College
Ed.M., Harvard University
B.A., Skidmore College
B.A., Curry College
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan
B.A., Northeastern
Donor Relations Manager,
Multicultural Educator,
City Year Alumnus
Director, Boston Housing
B.A., University of Vermont
Director of Youth Services,
University
CPA Consulting
Boston Foundation-1990-1992
Stanford University
Authority's Community Initiatives
Journalist, the Patriot Ledger
Boston Community Centers
Worked in sales for a
Corp. Contributions Manager,
Department
national travel firm
Bank of Boston, 1984-1990
5 Staff
5 Staff
9 Staff
5 Staff
2 Staff
Fleld
Division
Division
Division
Division
Leader
Leader
Leader
Leader
Operations
Director
Service Leader
Service Leader
Service Leader
Service Leader
and 2 Fleld
and 2 Fleld
and 2 Field
and 2 Field
Field Assistant
Assistants
Assistants
Assistants
Assistants
4 Team
5 Team
6 Team
6 Team
Leaders
Leaders
Leaders
Leaders
50 Corps
50 Corps
60 Corps
60 Corps
Members
Members
Members
Members
496-001
City Year: National Expansion Strategy (A)
Exhibit 8 Bain Study: Site Selection Criteria
Group
Criteria
Rationale
Definition
Demographics
Size
Pool for corps
Metropolitan area
members; pool for
population >500,000
Diversity
individual financial
support; integral part
Minority population
of City Year
philosophy
Funding
Corporate sponsorship
Pool for corporate
Number of establish-
fundraising
ments with >500
Local foundations
employees
Another key source of
Funders identified
funds
Assets of foundations
in state
Would ease financial
burden of first sites
Contact established
with City Year
Community Support
State/local government
Will ease implemen-
Contact established
contacted by City Year
tation; could rally
with City Year
local support
Community interest
Community expressed
Local support
interest in City Year
Civic-mindedness
Potential support
Participation in
Successful current
community activities
youth corps
Not beneficial to
compete with existing
corps
Geographic
Balance
Should avoid image of
Outside of New England
"New England" corps
Federal support
coordination
Improves possibility
Congressional support
for federal financial
assistance
Eases implementation
Direct flight <3 hours
process
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SPORTS FINAL
CLEVELAND, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1998
Clinton
basks in
President
warmth of
Cleveland
salutes
By JOE HALLETT
PLAIN DEALER POLITICS WBHER
President Clinton, as he has a
dozen times since taking office,
came to Cleveland yesterday and
U.S. youth
relished a friendly respite from
scandals that seem to engross the
Beltway but bore the heartland.
In a five-hour visit, Clinton
once again appeared right at
home in a state which he said
volunteers
"has been very, very good to me."
And he did his best to assure that
Ohio's next governor is a Demo-
crat by raising at least $500,000
Casey Hunt's letter
that he had never imagined. Not
only was he seated next to Clinton
for Lee I. Fisher, the party's nom-
inee.
moved president to
on the stage, but the president
also told the convention how
Everywhere he went, Clinton
come to Cleveland
much he had been moved by
appeared buoyed by the warm,
Hunt's letter.
even adoring, welcome he re-
By OLIVERA PERKINS
"I thank Casey for what he
ceived. He made a brief stop to
PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
said," said Clinton, "When he
talk to kids at Stephen E. Howe
started talking about his mother,
Elementary School in Cleveland.
Casey Hunt was one of 600 City
I almost started to cry, too.
Then the president gave the key-
Year Corps members who wrote
note speech to more than 1,000
President Clinton several weeks
City Year is a national service
organization in which 17- to 24-
City Year convention delegates
ago asking the president to speak
at the national convention of
assembled at John Carroll Uni-
versity. He finished with the
young volunteers at John Carroll
Clinton means well. but doesn't
Fisher fund-raiser at the Cleve-
University.
measure up to his idols, writes
Hunt, 24, really wanted Clinton
land Play House.
Elizabeth Auster. 2-A
to address the group. but he said
His reception seemed to affirm
that he didn't focus on that when
Couple angered after being
the high approval rating he has
he wrote his letter. He saw it as a
forced to take down anti-abor-
received in national polls, despite
chance to tell the president how
tion sign. 12-A
PRESERVATION
PHOTOCOPY
nagging investigations of his rela-
tutoring school children and help-
tionship with former White
ing elderly residents at Kethley
House intern Monica Lewinsky
House, an assisted-living and
year-olds spend 10 months volun-
and controversy over the sale of
nursing facility in Cleveland had
teering in 10 cities. doing things
missile technology to China.
given new direction and meaning
like tutoring students. helping
"These scandals and controver-
to his life a change that didn't
nursing home residents and turn-
sies swirling around the presi-
go unnoticed by his mother, Max-
ing weed-choked lots into inviting
ine.
dent are much more important in-
green spaces. It is part of Ameri-
heard the words, 'I'm proud
side the Beltway than they are out
Corps, the federal service pro-
of you, son, from my mother for
gram. Participants receive a
in the rest of the country," said
the first time,' said Hunt, his
weekly stipend of $135 and qual-
Professor John C. Green, director
voice breaking with emotion as he
ify for a $4,725 grant for school-
of the Bliss Institute at the Uni-
spoke to the crowd of more than
SCOTT SHAW/PLAIN DEALER PHOTOGRAPHER
ing or job training after complet-
versity of Akron.
900.
ing the program
SEE CLEVELAND/12-A President Clinton basks in the applause of City Year Corps volunteers at John Carroll University.
Yesterday Hunt got a response
SEE VOLUNTEERS/12-A
THE PLAIN DEALER
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1998
Clinton salutes citizen service of youths
larger numbers - with a GI edu-
cans engage in service efforts
ally gave the presidential candi-
$685 million; and Clinton is re-
VOLUNTEERS
FROM 1-A
cational bill for citizen service,"
that address health, education
date the shirt off his back as a
questing that the figure be in-
Clinton said.
and other issues relating to young
show of appreciation.
creased by $96 million, said
During the president's 25-
The president said that in four
people.
"I want you to know that I still
Harris Wofford, the corps' chief
minute speech, which was met by
years, nearly 90,000 people had
Hunt said Clinton was so unas-
have Stephen's sweatshirt, and
executive officer.
an exuberant crowd that often in-
served in AmeriCorps, including
suming and friendly that he was
I'll have it with me forever to re-
Clinton also urged the conven-
terrupted his remarks with wild
those in City Year; and nearly
more anxious about addressing
member when I first met him and
tioneers to support pending legis-
applause and cheers, he repeated
50,000 had been eligible for edu-
the convention than meeting the
I first met City Year," said Clin-
lation aimed at curbing tobacco
the theme that national service
cation benefits. He said that last
president.
ton.
use among young people. He ad-
programs had the potential to
year, AmeriCorps members had
"I've never spoken in front of a
Responded Spaloss, 29, who has
mitted that request had little to do
transform America.
taught or tutored 500,000 stu-
crowd that large before, but he
only seen Clinton a few times
with volunteerism. However, he
"Out of the national service of
dents, helped immunize 64,000
said I did a good job," said Hunt.
since their first meeting: "He
was moved to make the request
our soldiers in World War II
children and renovate 5,600
Much of Clinton's address had
treats me the same way now as he
because he had just come from
came the GI Bill, which educated
homes.
the feel of a homecoming. He said
did then, even though he is the
Stephen E. Howe Elementary
a whole generation of [our] par-
The president told the conven-
his fondness for City Year dates
president. It was like having a re-
School in Glenville, where a
ents and created the great Ameri-
union with a friend.
tion that he had just learned that
to 1991, when as a presidential
dozen City Year corps members
can middle class,' he said. "Out
candidate he visited a fledgling
While much of Clinton's speech
1,000 colleges and universities
are assigned.
of the all-too-short service of
focused on AmeriCorps' success,
"Ninety percent of all smokers
around the country had joined the
City Year group in Boston. The
President Kennedy came the
he also urged them to lobby legis-
president was so impressed with
started before they were 18, even
America Reads Challenge by
Peace Corps, which took the idea
lators to support the program in
though it's illegal to sell ciga-
committing to send college work-
the group, he vowed to help it ex-
of citizen service around the
order to keep it successful. Clin-
rettes to children under 18," Clin-
study students to tutor children in
pand should he be elected.
ton has recommended to Con-
ton said.
world,
reading.
Yesterday, Stephen Spaloss
gress that funding for the Corpor-
At an afternoon forum on pub-
"Out of AmeriCorps has come a
Increasing literacy is among
presented Clinton with the Life-
ation for National Services, the
lic policy and service programs,
blending of the two, taking the
the goals of the Presidents Sum-
time of Idealism Award. Now CO-
entity Congress created in 1993 to
speakers discussed ways of get-
idea of service and the idea of ed-
mit for America's Future, an ef-
director of City Year Philadel-
oversee AmeriCorps and other
ting the private sector more in-
ucation - it's almost like the
fort by Clinton and the surviving
phia, Spaloss was then a corps
national service programs, be in-
volved in service programs, so
Peace Corps comes home, in
former presidents to have Ameri-
member in Boston when he liter-
creased. The current budget is
that they could share the costs.
CHUCK PLAIN DEALER PHOTOGRAPHER
President Clinton dives into a crowd of City Year AmeriCorps volunteers after giving his speech at their national convention at John Carroll University yesterday.
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JAN-19-1999 12:16
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Shirley Sagawa
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of First Lady Hillary Clinton
FROM:
Carolyn Casey
Director of External Affairs, City Year, Inc.
RE:
Meeting with City Year Executive Directors
DATE:
19 January 1999
Thank you for meeting with City Year during, what I am sure, is a very busy week. We
are greatly honored and feel privileged to have the opportunity to share our service with
you. Your insights and strategic vision for AmeriCorps will be very enriching.
I have attached biographical information on the roster of attendees. As per my
understanding from Alan, the focus of the meeting is a dialogue between our ten
Executive Directors and you. The remaining City Year senior staff have been invited to
attend and observe.
As you know, City Year is deeply committed to building AmeriCorps and national
service. To that end, we are hosting CYZYGY: City Year's National Convention of
Idealism at Howard University on May 25 - 28, 1999. Some of the event's highlights
include:
Congressional reception co-hosted by Senators Kennedy and Chafee;
district-wide, high-impact service day for 2000 participants;
One America Forum on service as a strategy to unite our nation;
policy forum on building national service for the 21st century; and
a variety of workshops and panels to build skills and capacities in the service
movement.
By uniting corporate sponsors, civic leaders, service partners, AmeriCorps programs,
alumni and over 900 Members of the City Year National Corps, we hope to engage,
educate and inspire our nation's leaders. We are meeting in Washington, DC this week
to lay the critical ground for a successful event.
CYZYGY is but one strategy for strengthening service on the local, state and federal level.
We would greatly benefit by your thoughts and advice as to how to be a more powerful
partner for AmeriCorps and the State Commissions. Executive Directors will be eager to
share their experiences from service, leadership development and civic engagement with
you. Additionally, they would greatly benefit from hearing your thoughts on the
following topics:
the White House strategy for AmeriCorps and national service policy;
advice on how to build bipartisan support by engaging Senators and Congressional
members; (NOTE: Many of them will be visiting with members of Congress or their
staff on Thursday afternoon.) and,
your thoughts on how City Year can support and promote the White House's agenda
on service.
Thank you once again, for your willingness to help build City Year's capacity as a
strategic partner in the national service movement. We are excited to see you and to
learn from your wisdom and vision.
JAN-19-1999 12:16
P.02
City Year's Executive Directors
Jim Balfanz (CY'93) , Executive Director, City Year Philadelphia
A graduate of Northeastern University, Jim is an alumni from the 1992-93 City Year Boston
corps. Following graduation, Jim joined City Year's External Affairs Team and eventually
earned the responsibility of Deputy Director of the Office of National Affairs. One of his
many responsibilities was the development of City Year programs in Philadelphia and
Seattle. Jim was selected to lead City Year Philadelphia as founding co-Executive Director in
1997, a position he holds today as sole Executive Director.
Reco Bembry, Executive Director, City Year Seattle
Reco is the founding Executive Director of City Year Seattle which is in its inaugural year. He
is a nationally recognized youth worker with more than 15 years experience. Prior to joining
City Year Reco was the Senior Program Coordinator with the City of Seattle Parks and
Recreation Department where he managed programs serving over 15,000 young adults. He is an
accomplished musician, a graduate of the Cornish Institute of Performing Arts and recently
completed a fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Priscilla Butler, Executive Director, City Year Columbus
Priscilla founded City Year Columbus in 1994 as a loaned executive from US Healthcare, where
she served as Vice President of Community Relations. With over 15 years experience in the
private sector, Priscilla joined City Year full-time as Executive Director in Columbus in
September 1997. Her strategic thinking, for profit management skills and deep ties in the
community of Columbus have made her an invaluable leader for City Year.
Dr. Maria Hernandez Ferrier, Executive Director, City Year San Antonio
Before beginning her tenure in September 1995 as City Year's founding Executive Director in San
Antonio, Maria was appointed in 1991 to the Board of the Commission on National and
Community Service by President George Bush, during which time it became her ambition to see
a City Year program developed in San Antonio. A lifelong teacher and administrator in the
San Antonio school system, Maria was selected in 1992 by the Secretary of Education, Lamar
Alexander, to serve as the Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority
Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education. In addition to her tremendous
professional abilities, Maria is also a talented singer.
Craig Huffman, Executive Director, City Year Chicago
Craig joined City Year Chicago last spring, just in time to lead the celebration of our fifth
anniversary corps in the Windy City. He served most recently as Assistant to the President of
the Chicago Urban League and Director of the Urban League's Youth Development Fund. In his
inaugural City Year he has secured significant support from Mayor Richard Daley as he has
laid a foundation for future growth in one of the country's largest cities.
Robert Lewis, Jr., Executive Director, City Year Boston
Vice President of City Year, Inc. and Executive Director of City Year Boston, Robert leads the
largest City Year corps. After over sixteen years of community, youth, and service development
experience and as co-founder of Boston's nationally-recognized Street Worker program, Robert
joined City Year in 1992. Robert is a well-respected community activist and motivational
speaker. He is also a Little League baseball coach and a former aerobics instructor.
JAN-19-1999 12:17
P.03
Randy McShepard, Executive Director, City Year Cleveland
As Deputy Director of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission and a member of the founding
advisory board of City Year Cleveland, Randy played an instrumental role in bringing City
Year to Cleveland. Before joining City Year, Randy was the Executive Director of the
Community Vocation Guidance Service in Cleveland, and was also a musician on world tour.
Jyothi Nagraj Executive Director, City Year Rhode Island
This past September, at the age of 23, Jyothi became the youngest Executive Director at City
Year ever to be appointed. A graduate of Brown University, Jyothi is an extraordinary young
person who is lighting up the Rhode Island community with her corps of idealists. She joined
City Year Rhode Island two years ago and has served as Development Director and Civic
Engagement Director. Recently, she recruited Brown University President Gordon Gee to serve
on her Advisory Board.
Marguerite O'Brien, Interim Executive Director, City Year Columbia
Marguerite joined City Year Columbia in 1994 and has held a variety of positions including
Director of Leadership Development, Director of Recruitment and Deputy Director. Deeply
committed to young people and the ethic of service, Marguerite is providing critical leadership
as City Year conducts an Executive Director search.
John Hoang Sarvey, Executive Director, City Year San Jose
John is a four year veteran of City Year, joining us from the Campus Outreach Opportunity
League where he ran a national conference for over 2,000 students, faculty and community
leaders. He has held a variety of positions at City Year including National Alumni Director,
Deputy Director of the National Corps, and Logistics Coordinator for CYZYGY. As an
undergrad at UCLA, John demonstrated an early capacity for leadership as Student Body
President and Community Service Commissioner.
City Year National Leadership Staff
In addition to co-founder Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, the following people comprise the
national leadership learn at our national headquarters in Boston.
Kevin Broughton, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Kevin came to City Year in 1995 with more than 25 years experience in finance, insurance, and
banking, including leading a department at the Bank of Boston. With a wealth of expertise,
Kevin has advanced City Year's financial capabilities and has led the development of a state-
of-the-art finance department for a growing national organization.
Carolyn Casey, Director of External Affairs
Carolyn joined City Year in 1995, playing a central role in building City Year's capacity to
engage a broad cross section of champions for national service. Following ten years of state and
federal politics, she infused City Year with the energy, enthusiasm and strategic thinking that
has allowed us to turn an idea into reality. One of Carolyn's annual priorities is CYZYGY: City
Year's Annual Convention of Idealism which will take place in Washington, DC this May.
Carolyn's past positions include Director of Communications and Director of National Affairs.
She recently received her masters degree from the Kennedy School of Government.
JAN-19-1999 12:17
P.04
Cindy Laba, Director of Recruitment and Selection
Cindy, a five year City Year veteran, joined us from the South Boston Boys and Girls Club
where she directed a substance abuse prevention program. She has held a number of positions
including Program Director of City Year Boston and Chief of Staff to the President. In addition
Cindy's strong operational skills always put her in a leadership position of CYZYGY, City
Year's Annual Convention of Idealism. Cindy is responsible for managing the recruitment of
over 1,000 young idealists across the country.
Allyce Najimy, National Operations Director, Office of the National Corps
Eight years ago City Year hired Allyce as a part-time GED instructor At the time Allyce also
managed a popular restaurant in Faneuil Hall and worked as a teacher at the South Boston
Neighborhood House. Two years later she joined City Year full-time and soon became part of
our new site development team as a founding staff member of City Year San Antonio. Allyce
has also served as Program Director in City Year San Jose and the National Program Director in
the national headquarters.
Jeff Paquette, Director of the Department of Administration, Technology, and Analysis (DATA)
Jeff joined City Year in 1993 with experience as a VISTA volunteer and as the former Executive
Director of The Dome, an acclaimed youth program in New York City. A Berkeley MBA, Jeff
has held a variety of positions at City Year including Program Director, Deputy Director of
City Year Boston, and Executive Director of City Year Columbus. Jeff also developed the Care
Force initiative which markets service and leadership training initiatives to corporations.
Presently, Jeff leads a new department focused on building a strong infrastructure for the
organization, with a special emphasis on technology.
Greg Ricks, Vice President and Dean of City Year
Greg is a nationally recognized trainer and facilitator of multi-cultural education and
inclusivity. The youngest person lo hold the office of Dean at Northeastern University, Greg
has also served as Dean at Dartmouth College and Stanford University. At City Year, Greg
recruits and develop staff talent, and plays an instrumental role in the programmatic
development of the corps year.
Charlie Rose, Vice President, Office of National Affairs
For the last 20 years, Charlie has helped found a variety of local and national youth and
education programs. Charlie served as a founding board member of City Year and presently
serves in the same capacity for the nationally renowned City on a Hill charter school. Before
joining City Year, he spent nine years as Director of Youth Services for Mayor Raymond Flynn's
administration. Charlie is also an entrepreneur who owns Bella Luna, a successful restaurant in
the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.
Kim Syman, Co-Director of Development
After volunteering for several months with City Year, the organization finally had the good
sense to hire Kim as a special projects assistant to the Co-Founders. In her present role, Kim is
building City Year's capacity to engage foundation support for key growth initiatives. Prior to
City Year, Kim worked at MacNeil Lehrer in New York. As a resident of the Big Apple, she
successfully led a community effort to transform Madison Square Park from a local blemish to
the vibrant, recreational open space it is today.
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JAN-19-1999 12:18
Kadi Tierney (CY'91), Co-Director of Development
Inspired by an ABC news story in 1990, Kadi called City Year Boston to request an application.
She was accepted and graduated from the corps in 1991. After her effective leadership in a
variety of roles, including New Site Development, Kadi was selected to lead City Year
Cleveland as founding Executive Director. She has returned to the National office to help
build capacities and innovation in our corporate giving program. Kadi served as a member of
the White House transition staff as an aide to Eli Segal and has also toured with Up with
People.
Stephen Spaloss, (CY'91), National Operations Director, Office of the National Corps
In December 1991, Stephen was one of four corps members to meel with then Governor Bill
Clinton during his inaugural visit to City Year in Boston. During the meeting, the Governor and
Stephen connected and at the conclusion, Stephen took off his City Year sweatshirt as a gesture
of friendship and belief. Clinton was soon photographed jogging in the sweatshirt which
helped promote national service as a cornerstone of the Clinton platform. At CYZYGY '98 in
Cleveland, Stephen was able to reunite with his "old friend" and present him with a number of
new gifts. A recipient of the Digital Equipment Corporation City Year Alumni Leadership
Award, Stephen has helped found City Year programs in Rhode Island and San Jose, and served
as the founding Co-Executive Director of City Year Philadelphia.
Stephanie Wu, Vice President of City Year and President of the City Year Academy
Stephanie left the private sector in 1988 and became a team leader for the very first City Year
corps. Over the past ten years, Stephanie has been instrumental in managing major
organization change efforts. As a nationally recognized trainer and facilitator, Stephanic is
the founder of the City Year training Academy. Hailing from the Green Mountain State,
Stephanie is also an expert skier.
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duced". Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing
personal dignity and building Dr. King's vision of the "Beloved Community".
His contribution towards creating a just and inclusive society are
immeasurable and have helped shape our nation. His lifelong commitment to
justice came at an early age, when he was inspired by the words of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and the Supreme Court
CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS (D-GA)
decision regarding school desegregation.
In the 1960's, Lewis founded and Chaired the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which played a pivotal role in mobilizing
thousands in the movement against the atrocities of racism and civil rights abuse.
In his efforts, Lewis endured 40 arrests, a fractured skull, and numerous physical
attacks, yet he remained deeply devoted to the philosophy of nonviolence.
Congressman Lewis epitomizes the belief that "one person can truly
make a difference". His countless acts of courage include: serving as one of the
original Freedom Riders; organizing massive voter registration drives throughout
the South; emerging (at age 23) as one of the Civil Rights Movements Big Six
Leaders as organizer and speaker at the March on Washington; recruiting
hundreds of white and black students from across the country to participate in
1964's Mississippi Freedom Summer (when three of those students were killed
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and dozens more attacked and arrested as they sought to register black voters);
leading the march from Selma to Montgomery which galvanized the country and
WITH THE WIND
led to eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and working closely
Please join the City Year community as we welcome one of
with Bobby Kennedy for social justice and on his '68 Presidential Campaign.
our nation's heroes, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS (D-GA),
for an address and book signing.
John Lewis, a Congressman from the 5th Congressional District in
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1998
Georgia, chronicles his life's journey in the recently released Walking With the
Wind. His vision and courage helped change history and serves as an inspiration
BOOK SIGNING - 5:30 TO 6:00PM
for citizens everywhere.
[City Year Plaza, City Year Headquarters - 3rd Floor]
ADDRESS - 7:00 TO 8:00PM
City Year is honored to welcome him to Boston.
[MLK Space, City Year Headquarters - 4th Floor]
CITY YEAR
CITY YEAR: Putting Idealism to Work
NATIONAL
City Year, an AmeriCorps program, is a national service organization which unites young adults,
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ages 17 to 24, from diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding year of full-
Boston, MA 02116
time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
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City Year corps members represent a cross-section of their communities--male and female; inner city
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and suburban; African-American, Asian-American, Caucasian, Latino and Native American; and low,
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middle and upper income. The corps includes college graduates, high school graduates, and young
people without high school diplomas.
City Year was designed as a workshop or "action tank" for national service. From a 50 person sum-
mer pilot program in 1988, City Year has grown to 900 corps members in Boston (MA), Chicago (IL),
Cleveland (OH), Columbia (SC), Columbus (OH), Philadelphia
(PA), Rhode Island, San Antonio (TX), and San Jose (CA). Our
tenth and newest site opened fall of 1998 in Seattle/King County.
BOSTON
City Year corps members begin each weekday morning with a
CHICAGO
regimen of high-spirited calisthenics to prepare themselves for a
day of excellent service. After their "community huddle", corps
CLEVELAND
members - in distinctive red, tan and black uniforms - fan out in
teams of 10 to 12 to serve their community. Corps members serve
COLUMBIA
as teachers' aides in public schools, renovate housing for the
homeless, turn vacant lots into community gardens, operate recreational pro-
COLUMBUS
grams for senior citizens, teach health and public safety curriculums, and run
PHILADELPHIA
after-school programs. Through their service work and coordinated Leadership
Training Days, City Year corps members learn the value of community, realize
RHODE ISLAND
their potential to improve the lives of others, and develop the skills necessary to
excel in educational and professional endeavors.
SAN ANTONIO
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
City Year is an innovative and multifaceted service organization which seeks to
address unmet community needs, break down barriers of class and race, inspire
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
citizens to civic action, and strengthen the bonds of community. By tapping the
energy and commitment of young people, City Year is "putting idealism to work."
The Presidents' Summit for America's Future
The City Year Commitment
By 2000, City Year's national corps of diverse 17-24 year olds will lead
250,000 community partners, youth and corporate citizens in 5,000,000
NATIONAL FOUNDING SPONSORS
hours of service. Together, their idealism and energy will strengthen
neighborhoods, schools and communities. City Year will also convene
Timberland
CYZYGY, an annual training, service and policy summit for youth. Next
year's convention will be held in June in Washinton DC and will feature
youth forums on the goals of the Presidents' Summit and a day of
service.
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PUTTING IDEALISM TO WORK
Alan Khazei
Co-Founder
e-mail Alan_Khazei@City-Year Org
CITY YEAR
PERSPECTIVES ON CITY YEAR
"City Year restored my faith in myself and my generation."
- Terese Gibson, City Year corps member
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"Many corps based in urban centers acknowledge that they have been unable to
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draw a wide demographic mix of participants
The boldest exception to this is
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Boston's City Year."
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- Michael Morriott, The New York Times
"One of our best home-grown products, and now it is one of our leading
exports."
- Governor William Weld
"The most cost effective grant in the history of philanthropy at the Bank of
Boston."
BOSTON
- Ira Jackson, Vice President, Bank of Boston
CHICAGO
"One of my goals is to increase the level of teamwork at Keyport. City Year has
CLEVELAND
been a lightning rod for getting our people to work together. At the same time,
COLUMBIA
it has helped focus our desire to be a good corporate citizen. City Year gives
employees throughout the organization a sense of really being involved with
COLUMBUS
the community. It is far more tangible than writing a check."
PHILADELPHIA
- John Rosensteel, CEO, Keyport Life Insurance
RHODE ISLAND.
"The City Year experience offers solid evidence that national service --
SAN ANTONIO
contrary to what its critics say -- can appeal to all youths, not just the poor and
disadvantaged; that it can operate without intrusive and wasteful bureaucracy;
SAN
JOSE/SILICON VALLEY and that volunteers can be assigned to tasks of genuine value to their
communities. It offers Congress a well designed prototype for replication in
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
communities across the nation."
- The Progressive Policy Institute
"I'm aware of no other youth corps in the country that has drawn from
such a diverse groups of participants for such intense programs."
- Gregg Petersmeyer, former Director, White House Office of
National Service
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"City Year's presence in the Mason School has translated into more for the
Timberland
kids The partnership is a synergistic relationship. Both the Mason School and
City Year brought particular strengths to the partnership. The two coalesced
and produced something even better than the original plans. Every group in
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the school has been impacted. We're extremely positive. We have a lot of
hope."
- Mary Russo, Principal, Mason Elementary School
PUTTING IDEALISM TO WORK
Alan Khazei
Co-Founder
e-mail- [email protected]
CITY YEAR
Visit CITY YEAR
National Service at Work
NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
The concept of voluntary national youth service has captivated the American civic imagination
Boston, MA 02116
for generations. City Year is making it happen. Created in 1988 as a uniquely successful public
Tel: 617.927.2500
and private partnership, City Year is an "action tank," or workshop, for voluntary national
Fax- 617.927.2510
service.
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City Year inspires people throughout the community by showing them that idealism and civic
commitment are both practical and rewarding. City Year is making the concept of national service
real, and contributing to the development of national policy. City Year continues to break new ground in
youth service-and expand beyond local boundaries:
The strength of City Year lies in its strikingly diverse youth corps. An extraordinary group of 900
young people representing a cross-section of their communities - male and female; low, middle,
and upper income; African-American, Caucasian, Latino, Native American, and Asian-American;
BOSTON
urban and suburban; college graduates, high school graduates, and young people without
diplomas -finds common ground in the full-time improvement of their communities.
CHICAGO
City Year has nine years of experience serving the community. With policy makers, youth
CLEVELAND
advocates, and interested citizens, City Year can share practical innovations and catalytic ideas.
Perhaps more importantly, we want to learn from you. City Year has begun ambitious national
COLUMBIA
expansion and currently has nine sites stretching from coast to coast. A visit to City Year presents
an invaluable opportunity for everyone involved to learn.
COLUMBUS
PHILADELPHIA
THE VISITORS PROGRAM
"I have never seen such a well prepared program for visitors."
RHODE ISLAND.
-Ann Maura Connolly, Youth Service America
SAN ANTONIO
We believe City Year is a program that must be witnessed first-hand. By inviting individuals to
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
visit City Year we are hoping to accomplish three main goals:
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
First, we hope that City Year's experience will help others in the service field
develop their own initiatives.
Second, City Year hopes to gain the varied perspectives of many constructive,
objective observers, especially those involved in the youth policy, media, and
corporate fields.
Third, we want to share the energy and excitement of young people engaging in
citizenship and putting idealism to work.
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City Year designs visits to best fit the interests and needs of the prospective visitor. Visits range
from one hour to a full day or more. They can include a roundtable discussion with City Year
corps members, meetings with City Year staff members, and visits to service project sites.
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City Year tries to schedule visits on days that will be mutually convenient. However, we are
especially interested in focusing visitors towards "Visitors Days" on which visitors can partici-
pate in a half day of orientation on the program. "Visitors Days" include attending the morning
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program, a site visit, meetings with staff in your field of interest, and a roundtable discussion.
"Visitors Days" are every Monday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
For more information about visiting City Year, please contact Candace Coakley at (617) 927-2313.
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CITY YEAR
CITY YEAR
NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS
285 Columbus Avenue
Board of Trustees 1998-1999
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617.927.2500
Fax 617 927 2510
www.city-year.org
Jeffrey Swartz, Chair, Chief Operating Officer, The Timberland Company
Kristen Atwood, Former Vice-President, City Year, Inc.
Michael Brown, President and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
Farai Chideya, Political Analyst, ABC News
BOSTON
Marilyn Concepcion, City Year Alumna '94, Student, Brown University
CHICAGO
George Gendron, Editor-in-Chief, Inc. Magazine
CLEVELAND
COLUMBIA
Susan Hammer, Mayor, City of San Jose, CA
COLUMBUS
Deborah Jackson, Sr. Vice President for Network Development and Community
PHILADELPHIA
Service, Children's Hospital
RHODE ISLAND
Ilene Jacobs, Executive Vice President Human Resources, Fidelity Investments
SAN ANTONIO
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
Business Administration
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
Alan Khazei, CEO and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
Roger King, Organizational Development Consultant
Li Lu, CEO, Himalaya Capital Partners
Gary Orren, Professor, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of
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Government
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Mitt Romney, Managing Director, Bain Capital
Eli Segal, President, Welfare to Work Partnership
Bill Shore, Founder, Share Our Strength
Andre Thomas, City Year Alumnus '92, Program Director, Youth Build
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Alan Khazei
Co-Founder
e-mail. Alan_Khazei@City-Year Org
CITY YEAR
NATIONAL
Bringing CITY YEAR to Your Community
HEADQUARTERS
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City Year began in 1988 as a summer pilot program in Boston. In 1989, Boston
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expanded to a full year program for 75 diverse young people. In 1993, City Year
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opened a summer program in Columbia, SC, and a second full-year program in
Providence, RI. In September of 1994, City Year grew significantly by adding four
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new full-year programs in Chicago, IL, Columbia, SC, Columbus, OH, and San Jose,
CA. In September of 1995, City Year opened its seventh site in San Antonio, TX,
and the following year launched an eighth site in Cleveland, OH. 1997 brought City
Year Philadelphia, PA, as the ninth site. Most recently, City Year has identified
Seattle/King County as its tenth site to open in the Fall of 1998.
City Year's new site development process was designed to insure the maximum
investment of the local community and the most effective utilization of City Year's
BOSTON
limited resources. Listed below are City Year's "Seven Guideposts" for new site
development. These guideposts are a checklist for a community that wants to build
CHICAGO
a local City Year program. City Year works closely with local community leaders to
reach each guidepost. In the Fall, City Year's National Board of Trustees votes to
CLEVELAND
grow to a city based on that city's progress in meeting each guidepost. For more
COLUMBIA
information on how you can bring City Year to your community, please contact
Teresa Polhemus at (617) 927-2418. Thank you for your interest in City Year!
COLUMBUS
PHILADELPHIA
City Year's "Seven Guideposts" for New Site Development
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1.
A delegation of local community leaders - public, private, nonprofit and
municipal - visit City Year in Boston for meetings with senior staff, corps,
SAN ANTONIO
and corporate and community partners. This provides the interested city
with a deep understanding of the organization, its mission, as well as
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
parameters for new site development partnership. This delegation should
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
ultimately act as the core of the local City Year Advisory Board.
2.
Private sector champion is identified as lead advocate for expansion site.
"Champion" serves as integral partner with City Year for a successful launch.
3.
Planning grant of $100,000 is committed for start-up effort (January - June).
4.
Letters of endorsement from a broad-based coalition of community leaders
sent to City Year. In particular, written endorsement from Mayor of
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proposed site is strongly encouraged.
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5.
A significant portion of first year program dollars is secured from private,
public and municipal sources (Goal: $500,000). In addition, multi-year
financial commitments are identified.
6.
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Donated or inexpensive office, living space and transportation are secured
for start-up effort (January - June).
7.
Strong support is received from AmeriCorps on both the national and state
levels.
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CITY YEAR
NATIONAL
PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERSHIP AND INVESTMENT
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IN CITY YEAR 1997 - 98
Boston, MA 02116
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Fax 617.927.2510
www.city-year.org
City Year is supported by a unique private-public partnership that engages corpora-
tions, foundations, individuals, state and local municipalities, and the AmeriCorps
National Service Network. Sponsors invest in City Year not only by financially
backing teams of corps members, but also by joining the corps members in their
service projects, and by offering full-time employment opportunities for City Year
graduates.
BOSTON
Since the founding of City Year, individuals and private sector organizations have
invested more than $30,000,000 in cash, through a multitude of means-including
CHICAGO
the Serve-a-thonᵀ, team sponsorships, foundation grants, individual contributions,
CLEVELAND
and employee initiatives. In addition, companies have made extensive and creative
in-kind investments-from jackets and boots to computers, fax machines,
COLUMBIA
headquarters space, consulting support, legal and audit services.
COLUMBUS
CITY YEAR TEAM SPONSORS ACROSS THE NATION
PHILADELPHIA
National Founding Sponsors
RHODE ISLAND
Digital Equipment Corporation
SAN ANTONIO
The Timberland Company
SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY
Boston
Johnson & Johnson
Chicago
SEATTLE/KING COUNTY
Professional, Inc.
Bain & Company
Keyport Life Insurance Company
Founding Chicago Sponsor:
Bain Capital
Massachusetts Bay
The John D. and Catherine T.
BankBoston
Transportation Authority
MacArthur Foundation
Boston Lawyers:
Massachusetts High
Foley, Hoag & Eliot
Technology Council:
The Alter Group
Goodwin, Procter & Hoar
Biogen
Bain & Company
Hale & Dorr
Genzyme Corporation
Chicago Bulls
Hill & Barlow
Thermo Electron Corporation
NATIONAL FOUNDING SPONSORS
Digital Equipment Corporation
Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
The Massachusetts Service
First Chicago NBD Corporation
Ferris, Glousky & Popeo
Alliance
Harris Trust and Savings
Timberland
Palmer & Dodge
Media One
Joseph J. Freed & Associates
Ropes & Gray
Millipore Corporation
North Lawndale: Learning
Sherin & Lodgen
Monitor Company
Community/Steans
Central Artery /
Reebok Foundation
Family Foundation
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Third Harbor Tunnel
The Timberland Company
The Timberland Company
Conrail, Inc.
TheTJX Companies, Inc.
Digital Equipment Corporation
The United Way
(over, please)
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Cleveland, OH
Philadelphia
Founding Sponsor:
Founding Partner:
CAVS
Pew Charitable Trusts
The Breuning Foundation
CoreStates Bank
City of Cleveland
Philadelphia Lawyers Consortium:
The Cleveland Foundation
Ballard,Spahr, Andrew & Ingersoll
Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners
Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley
The George Gund Foundation
Commolly, Epstein, Chicco, Foxman
KeyBank
Englemyer & Ewing
Pioneer Standard
Cozen & O'Connor
Progressive Insurance
Dechert, Price & Rhoads
RPM, Inc.
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish &Kauffman
TRW
Drinker, Biddle & Reath
The 1525 Foundation
Duane, Morris & Heckscher
Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel
Columbia, SC
Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin
Hoyle, Morris & Kerr
City of Columbia
Kohn, Swift &Grat, PC
Columbia Housing Authority
Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young
Luke B. Hanccock Foundation
Nations Bank of South Carolina
RCBA:
Morgan, Lewis & Bocklus LLP
Childs & Duff
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheet
Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson & Greaves
Philadelphia Bar Association
Lewis Babcock & Hawkins
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis
McDonald, McKenzie, Rubin,
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen
Miller & Lybrand, L.L.P
Prudential Preferred Properties
McNair Law Firm
Safeguard Scientifics Inc.
Wawa Inc.
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough
Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard
Sinkler & Boyd
Rhode Island
Suggs & Kelly
Utility Consortium:
Bank Boston/Hospital Trust Bank
Santee Cooper
Bank of Newport
SCANA
Fleet Bank of Rhode Island/
Bell South
Providence Journal Bulletin
UPS
San Antonio, TX
Columbus, OH
National Federal Sponsor:
Foundation Consortium:
Texas Commission for Volunteerism
Borden Inc.
and Community Service
Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation
City of San Antonio
OSU Medical Center
H-E-B Grocery Co.
Grant/Riverside Hospitals
Levi Strauss Foundation
Honda of America Mfg., Inc.
Partner
United HealthCare of Ohio, Inc.
South Western Bell
Excel Management Systems
Columbus Youth Foundation
San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA
Renny Tyson, Attorney at Law
Adobe Systems
Cisco Systems
Comerica Bank/Tandem
GreenTeam of San Jose
San Jose Mercury News
Sobrato Family Foundation/Therma
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CITY YEAR
CYZYGY '99
Building National Service for the 21st Century
Howard University
May 25 - 28, 1999
Celebrating a Decade of Service
Over the last decade, City Year corps members have contributed more then five million hours of service to ten cities nationwide. These
diverse, committed idealists, ages 17-24 years old, dedicate a year of full-time service, leadership development and civic engagement to
strengthen their community and our nation. Every day, City Year corps members act as catalysts for civic change - tutoring, mentoring
and inspiring children, building playgrounds, transforming vacant lots into urban gardens and leading thousands of citizens into service.
In Washington, DC on May 25-28, 1999, City Year will unite our Tenth Anniversary Corps with AmeriCorps members, service partners,
alumni, and civic and private sector leaders from across the country to celebrate a generation committed to service. Through workshops,
policy forums, keynote addresses, high-impact service and compelling dialogue, City Year's 5" Annual CYZYGY will promote young
people as community leaders and demonstrate the power and potential of civic engagement through national service. Honored guests of
CYZYGY in the previous years have included key national figures such as President William Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Ohio Senator-elect George Voinavich, Rhode Island Senator John Chalee and Reverend Bernice King, daughter of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
CYZYGY '99 will unite City Year's network of private sector "big citizens" with new corporations, foundations and individual
supporters for a rare opportunity to witness the nation's future through the sites, sounds and voices of the City Year National Corps.
Program Highlights
Opening & Closing Ceremonies
The Opening Ceremony is an exciting, high-energy kick-off for the convention and sets the stage for the following three days of service
and learning. The Closing Ceremony concludes the convention with an inspirational launch to a lifetime of citizen service. Both events
will feature keynote addresses by national speakers, music, and corps member and multi-media presentations.
Day of Service
The CYZYGY Service Day promises to be one of the convention's most visible and memorable events. This high-profile, high-energy
celebration will unite 2,000 civic activists, corporate leaders, school children, AmeriCorps members and City Year corps members for
transformational service. These projects will engage between 300-500 participants each at four sites throughout Washington, DC,
including the neighborhood surrounding the Howard University campus.
Congressional Reception
The national service movement is led and energized by a coalition of committed bi-partisan leadership in Congress. Senators Edward M.
Kennedy (D-MA) and John Chafee (R-RI) will co-host a special gathering of key Congressional supporters for members of City Year's
First Circle, event sponsors, national service leaders and Washington civic leadership. This event will give guests an opportunity to
share their enthusiasm and support for national service while building alliances for future progress and impact.
National Policy Forum
City Year will convene a forum that will unite City Year's network of political, academic, business and community leaders to create a
blueprint for national service for the new millennium. For the second year, this forum will join the City Year community with our
nation's key opinion-makers, national service leaders, social entrepreneurs and Congressional staff in a thought-provoking discussion
and action summit. Noted participants in the 1997 forum included Gregg Petersmeyer, Managing Director, America's Promise; Robert
Goodwin, President & CEO, Points of Light Foundation; Jonathan Alter, Senior Political Editor, Newswcek; Nick Bollman, Co-Chair,
Grantmaker's Forum on Community and National Service; Michael Sanchez, President, Do Something; and Will Marshall, President,
Progressive Policy Institute.
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Program Highlights (cont'd)
One America Forum
The second annual One America Forum is inspired by the President's Initiative on Race and will engage convention participants in a
dynamic dialogue on the key priorities of our nation's younger generation. Topics such as race and inclusivity are discussed by leaders
under the age of 35 who best embody the skills and values of social entrepreneurship. Together, participants will seek to create an
agenda for the 21st century. Last year's forum featured Omar Wasow, MSNBC Commentator; Christy Haubegger, President & Publisher,
Latina Magazine; and Farai Chideya, ABC Correspondent & noted author on issues of race and diversity.
Leadership Development
Hosting CYZYGY in our nation's capital affords City Year the opportunity to access historic locations, important institutions and key
national leaders to provide innovative programming which is deeply rooted in America's history and history-makers. Convention
attendees will select from four curriculums that reflect fundamental values of City Year's service ethic: Inclusivity, Social Justice, Youth
Leadership, and Educating & Leading Children. Programming will feature challenging, experiential, interactive and thought-provoking
enrichment through workshops, community exploration and a day of service.
Noted Participants
In addition to over 1,000 idealistic, skilled and committed City Year corps members and AmeriCorps participants, scheduled guests
include Eli Segal, Welfare-to-Work Partnership CEO and Founding CEO of The Corporation for National Service; Harris Wofford, CEO
of the Corporation for National Service; Jeff Swartz, CEO of The Timberland Company; Farai Chideya, ABC News Correspondent &
Author; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor & Author; Mitt Romney, Managing Director of Bain Capital; Billy
Shore, Founder, Share Our Strength & Author; George Gendron, Editor in-Chief of Inc. Magazine; San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer;
Seattle/King County Commissioner Ronald Sims; leading members of Congress; civic and non-profit leaders; and corporate executives
from companies such as The Timberland Company, Compaq Computer Corporation, Cisco Systems, MFS Investment Management,
Bank Boston, Reebok and NationsBank.
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CITY YEAR
CYZYGY '99
Building National Service for the 21st Century
Howard University
May 25 - 28, 1999
Celebrating a Decade of Service
Over the last decade, City Year corps members have contributed more then five million hours of service to ten cities nationwide. These
diverse, committed idealists, ages 17-24 years old, dedicate a year of full-time service, leadership development and civic engagement to
strengthen their community and our nation. Every day, City Year corps members act as catalysts for civic change - tutoring, mentoring
and inspiring children, building playgrounds, transforming vacant lots into urban gardens and leading thousands of citizens into service.
In Washington, DC on May 25-28, 1999, City Year will unite our Tenth Anniversary Corps with AmeriCorps members, service partners,
alumni, and civic and private sector leaders from across the country to celebrate a generation committed to service. Through workshops,
policy forums, keynote addresses, high-impact service and compelling dialogue, City Year's 5th Annual CYZYGY will promote young
people as community leaders and demonstrate the power and potential of civic engagement through national service. Honored guests of
CYZYGY in the previous years have included key national figures such as President William Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Ohio Senator-elect George Voinavich, Rhode Island Senator John Chafee and Reverend Bernice King, daughter of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
CYZYGY '99 will unite City Year's network of private sector "big citizens" with new corporations, foundations and individual
supporters for a rare opportunity to witness the nation's future through the sites, sounds and voices of the City Year National Corps.
Program Highlights
Opening & Closing Ceremonies
The Opening Ceremony is an exciting, high-energy kick-off for the convention and sets the stage for the following three days of service
and learning. The Closing Ceremony concludes the convention with an inspirational launch to a lifetime of citizen service. Both events
will feature keynote addresses by national speakers, music, and corps member and multi-media presentations.
Day of Service
The CYZYGY Service Day promises to be one of the convention's most visible and memorable events. This high-profile, high-energy
celebration will unite 2,000 civic activists, corporate leaders, school children, AmeriCorps members and City Year corps members for
transformational service. These projects will engage between 300-500 participants each at four sites throughout Washington, DC,
including the neighborhood surrounding the Howard University campus.
Congressional Reception
The national service movement is led and energized by a coalition of committed bi-partisan leadership in Congress. Senators Edward M.
Kennedy (D-MA) and John Chafee (R-RI) will co-host a special gathering of key Congressional supporters for members of City Year's
First Circle, event sponsors, national service leaders and Washington civic leadership. This event will give guests an opportunity to
share their enthusiasm and support for national service while building alliances for future progress and impact.
National Policy Forum
City Year will convene a forum that will unite City Year's network of political, academic, business and community leaders to create a
blueprint for national service for the new millennium. For the second year, this forum will join the City Year community with our
nation's key opinion-makers, national service leaders, social entrepreneurs and Congressional staff in a thought-provoking discussion
and action summit. Noted participants in the 1997 forum included Gregg Petersmeyer, Managing Director, America's Promise; Robert
Goodwin, President & CEO, Points of Light Foundation; Jonathan Alter, Senior Political Editor, Newsweek; Nick Bollman, Co-Chair,
Grantmaker's Forum on Community and National Service; Michael Sanchez, President, Do Something; and Will Marshall, President,
Progressive Policy Institute.
Program Highlights (cont'd)
One America Forum
The second annual One America Forum is inspired by the President's Initiative on Race and will engage convention participants in a
dynamic dialogue on the key priorities of our nation's younger generation. Topics such as race and inclusivity are discussed by leaders
under the age of 35 who best embody the skills and values of social entrepreneurship. Together, participants will seek to create an
agenda for the 21st century. Last year's forum featured Omar Wasow, MSNBC Commentator; Christy Haubegger, President & Publisher,
Latina Magazine; and Farai Chideya, ABC Correspondent & noted author on issues of race and diversity.
Leadership Development
Hosting CYZYGY in our nation's capital affords City Year the opportunity to access historic locations, important institutions and key
national leaders to provide innovative programming which is deeply rooted in America's history and history-makers. Convention
attendees will select from four curriculums that reflect fundamental values of City Year's service ethic: Inclusivity, Social Justice, Youth
Leadership, and Educating & Leading Children. Programming will feature challenging, experiential, interactive and thought-provoking
enrichment through workshops, community exploration and a day of service.
Noted Participants
In addition to over 1,000 idealistic, skilled and committed City Year corps members and AmeriCorps participants, scheduled guests
include Eli Segal, Welfare-to-Work Partnership CEO and Founding CEO of The Corporation for National Service; Harris Wofford, CEO
of the Corporation for National Service; Jeff Swartz, CEO of The Timberland Company; Farai Chideya, ABC News Correspondent &
Author; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor & Author; Mitt Romney, Managing Director of Bain Capital; Billy
Shore, Founder, Share Our Strength & Author; George Gendron, Editor in-Chief of Inc. Magazine; San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer;
Seattle/King County Commissioner Ronald Sims; leading members of Congress; civic and non-profit leaders; and corporate executives
from companies such as The Timberland Company, Compaq Computer Corporation, Cisco Systems, MFS Investment Management,
BankBoston, Reebok and NationsBank.
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Sweating to the oldies
Toiling together will do as much for race relations as talking together
BY STEVEN WALDMAN
ting killed by an opposing linebacker. Similarly, although
there's no statistical proof, it sure seems that most interracial
he topic was supposed to be race, but the conversation
friendships in high schools are forged on sports teams.
T
quickly turned to music. As alumni of the national serv-
The other widely cited example of black-white cooperation
ice program City Year gathered at a conference in Bos-
is the military-where, again, the goals toward which soldiers
ton, one panel of young people convened to discuss how
strive have nothing explicitly to do with racial harmony. In-
their ethnic backgrounds had affected their experiences with
deed, if the goal of the Army were race mixing instead of de-
the program.
fending our shores, it might do neither job well.
More than one former team of workers described how,
By contrast, college students spend a great deal of time talk-
whenever they would arrive at a work site to do graffiti remov-
ing about racial issues-and yet it doesn't seem to translate into
al or housing renovation, conflict would arise over what music
better relations. A recent study by the Corporation for National
to play on the boom box. Black corps members (and some ur-
Service on diversity in civilian service programs included this
ban whites) would generally
ROBERT TRIPPE SIPA FOR USN&WR
telling passage: "A white fe-
put on hip-hop or rap-mu-
male
commented that the
sic that some of the white
college she had attended was
suburbanites found annoy-
very diverse but the students
ing. When a white City Year
there 'hung out in groups
participant would change it
where everyone was the
to heavy metal or grunge, the
same.' In contrast, at her
black corps members would
AmeriCorps program, mem-
be insulted. The daily deci-
bers truly served and social-
sion of what music to play
ized across racial, ethnic, and
became a constant issue of
class lines."
"respect," a proxy for what-
Why the contrast between
ever insecurities and anxi-
college and national service?
eties each group had about
Primarily, it's a question of
working with the other.
individual goals versus
One team of corps mem-
group goals. While the col-
bers hit upon a comical, yet
lege student's grades reflect
poignant, compromise. In-
only on her, a service corps-
stead of listening to rap or
like an army or a sports
grunge, they agreed to listen
City Year corps members warm up before starting a project.
team-measures success col-
to oldies-a musical genre
lectively. (At the end of the
that no one there particular-
day, are the graffiti gone, the
ly liked but which no one felt
Racially loaded arguments about music
hill taken, the other team de-
threatened by. The key to the
feated?) Few things force
compromise, the alumni
sometimes erupted at the work site.
you to take an honest meas-
agreed, had been the mutual
ure of people as much as
trust they'd gradually devel-
having to rely on them to ac-
oped through working together toward common goals.
complish an objective. You don't have the luxury of your prej-
Colorblind huddle. Usually when critics recommend that ra-
udices. Young people in City Year didn't learn that everyone
cial dialogue be accompanied by action, they mean acts such
worked hard or was pleasant company; they learned that
as appointing more minorities to important positions or pro-
there wasn't a correlation between those qualities and race.
moting affirmative action. But there is also a need for people
So how could Clinton improve his race initiative? Perhaps
of different races to work jointly toward goals that have noth-
by no longer thinking of it as a race initiative. He should pick a
ing to do with race. The failure to recognize this reality is one
goal largely unrelated to race and create opportunities for
reason President Clinton's race initiative has been such a dud.
people of different backgrounds to work together toward that
The same dynamic described by the City Year alumni is typ-
goal. The president could help organize a partnership be-
ical of team sports. Republican politician Jack Kemp, for exam-
tween black churches and white churches to fight drug addic-
ple, has often talked about how his experience as a pro football
tion, or between Hispanic high schools and non-Hispanic
quarterback made him more understanding of African-Ameri-
ones to renovate low-income housing. There would be a lot
cans. As John Mackey, a former football buddy of Kemp's, ex-
less time for talk and perhaps more time for progress.
plained, "The huddle is colorblind." Whatever Kemp's precon-
ceived notions, he was far less concerned with the race of his
Steven Waldman is national editor of U.S. News. In 1996, he
offensive linemen than with their ability to keep him from get-
worked as an official at the Corporation for National Service.
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT. DECEMBER 8, 1997
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President
salutes
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volunteers
Casey Hunt's letter
that he had never imagined. Not
only was he seated next to Clinton
moved president to
on the stage, but the president
also told the convention how
come to Cleveland
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Hunt's letter.
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"I thank Casey for what he
PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
said," said Clinton, "When he
started talking about his mother,
Casey Hunt was one of 600 City
I almost started to cry, too.
Year Corps members who wrote
President Clinton several weeks
City Year is a national service
organization in which 17- to 24-
ago asking the president to speak
at the national convention of
young volunteers at John Carroll
Clinton means well. but doesn't
University.
measure up to his idols. writes
Hunt, 24, really wanted Clinton
Elizabeth Auster. 2-A
to address the group, but he said
that he didn't focus on that when
Couple angered after being
he wrote his letter. He saw it as a
forced to take down anti-abor-
chance to tell the president how
tion sign. 12-A
tutoring school children and help-
ing elderly residents at Kethley
House, an assisted-living and
year-olds spend 10 months volun-
nursing facility in Cleveland had
teering in 10 cities, doing things
given new direction and meaning
like tutoring students, helping
to his life - a change that didn't
nursing home residents and turn-
go unnoticed by his mother, Max-
ing weed-choked lots into inviting
ine.
green spaces. It is part of Ameri-
"I heard the words, 'I'm proud
Corps, the federal service pro-
of you, son,' from my mother for
gram. Participants receive a
the first time,' said Hunt, his
weekly stipend of $135 and qual-
voice breaking with emotion as he
ify for a $4,725 grant for school-
spoke to the crowd of more than
ing or job training after complet-
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900.
ing the program.
President Clinton basks in the applause of City Year Corps volunteers at John Carroll University.
Yesterday Hunt got a response
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Clinton salutes citizen service of youths
larger numbers --- with a GI edu-
VOLUNTEERS
cans engage in service efforts
ally gave the presidential candi-
$685 million; and Clinton is re-
FROM 1-A
cational bill for citizen service,"
that address health, education
date the shirt off his back as a
questing that the figure be in-
Clinton said.
and other issues relating to young
show of appreciation.
creased by $96 million, said
During the president's 25-
The president said that in four
people.
"I want you to know that I still
Harris Wofford, the corps' chief
minute speech, which was met by
years, nearly 90,000 people had
Hunt said Clinton was so unas-
have Stephen's sweatshirt, and
executive officer.
an exuberant crowd that often in-
served in AmeriCorps, including
suming and friendly that he was
I'll have it with me forever to re-
Clinton also urged the conven-
terrupted his remarks with wild
those in City Year; and nearly
more anxious about addressing
member when I first met him and
tioneers to support pending legis-
applause and cheers, he repeated
50,000 had been eligible for edu-
the convention than meeting the
I first met City Year," said Clin-
lation aimed at curbing tobacco
the theme that national service
cation benefits. He said that last
president.
ton.
use among young people. He ad-
programs had the potential to
year, AmeriCorps members had
"I've never spoken in front of a
Responded Spaloss, 29, who has
mitted that request had little to do
transform America.
taught or tutored 500,000 stu-
crowd that large before, but he
only seen Clinton a few times
with volunteerism. However, he
"Out of the national service of
dents, helped immunize 64,000
said I did a good job,' said Hunt.
since their first meeting: "He
was moved to make the request
our soldiers in World War II
children and renovate 5,600
Much of Clinton's address had
treats me the same way now as he
because he had just come from
came the GI Bill, which educated
homes.
the feel of a homecoming. He said
did then, even though he is the
Stephen E. Howe Elementary
a whole generation of [our] par-
The president told the conven-
his fondness for City Year dates
president. It was like having a re-
School in Glenville, where a
ents and created the great Ameri-
union with a friend."
tion that he had just learned that
to 1991, when as a presidential
dozen City Year corps members
can middle class," he said. "Out
1,000 colleges and universities
While much of Clinton's speech
are assigned.
candidate he visited a fledgling
of the all-too-short service of
focused on AmeriCorps success,
"Ninety percent of all smokers
around the country had joined the
City Year group in Boston. The
President Kennedy came the
he also urged them to lobby legis-
started before they were 18, even
America Reads Challenge by
president was so impressed with
Peace Corps, which took the idea
lators to support the program in
though it's illegal to sell ciga-
committing to send college work-
the group, he vowed to help it ex-
of citizen service around the
order to keep it successful. Clin-
rettes to children under 18," Clin-
study students to tutor children in
pand should he be elected.
ton has recommended to Con-
ton said.
world.
reading.
Yesterday, Stephen Spaloss
gress that funding for the Corpor-
At an afternoon forum on pub-
"Out of AmeriCorps has come a
Increasing literacy is among
presented Clinton with the Life-
ation for National Services, the
lic policy and service programs,
blending of the two, taking the
the goals of the Presidents' Sum-
time of Idealism Award. Now co-
entity Congress created in 1993 to
speakers discussed ways of get-
idea of service and the idea of ed-
mit for America's Future, an ef-
director of City Year Philadel-
oversee AmeriCorps and other
ting the private sector more in-
ucation - it's almost like the
fort by Clinton and the surviving
phia, Spaloss was then a corps
national service programs, be in-
volved in service programs, so
Peace Corps comes home, in
former presidents to have Ameri-
member in Boston when he liter-
creased. The current budget is
that they could share the costs.
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The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY. MARCH 15, 1993
Abroad at Home
ANTHONY LEWIS
Making a Difference
BOSTON
Then she helped 225 school kids train
The Mason School in Roxbury, a
at the Boston Ballet. Now the team is
largely black area of Boston, has prob-
at a school in East Boston, giving an
lems typical of an inner-city school:
environmental curriculum It helped
not enough money, an old building,
design: "basics like what to do with
children who speak different lan-
litter."
guages. But it has a determined princi-
"One of the people on my team was
pal in Mary Russo, respected teachers
a rich white girl," Daina Sutton said.
and 10 young men and women helping
"I thought, I don't want to be her
out as aides. They come from a serv-
welfare case. But we got really close."
ice group called City Year.
Diversity is a major theme of City
One of the City Year aides, Luclus
Year. Teams are mixed in race, class,
Graham, is in the first-grade class-
education. About a quarter of the 220
room. Three children - Andrea, Sha-
young people in the corps are drop-
mekia and Alvin - hang on to him,
outs, a third in college or on the way.
hugging his legs. He talks with them,
Black and white, rich and poor
then goes to the corner and helps
spoke of how daunting it had been at
three girls paint T-shirts with colors
first to be with different people.
that glow in the dark.
"It was not just skin color," said
Lucius, 18 years old, dropped out of
Andre Berry, 20, a black corps mem-
high school in the 11th grade, last
year. "The school had 100 many prob-
lems," he said. "You were labeled as
part of a gang. ! went every day with
a weapon to protect myself."
A service corps
How did he end up in City Year,
that works.
helping in the Mason School? "There
was a City Year group building a
little park in our neighborhood. The
more I watched, the more I liked it"
Now he is in high school equivalency
ber who is now on the staff as a team
classes that City Year offers its corps
leader. "One girl on my team had a
members. If he keeps up with the work,
parent who was a brain surgeon! If
and most do, he will get a diploma.
was weird to me: Someone who's got
Stephen Noltemy, 21, got his diplo-
money what's she doing here? But
ma that way, as a City Year corps
she became one of my close friends.".
member, and now teaches in the di-
Lisa Schorr, 22, of Washington, D.C.,
ploma program. He comes from
a graduate of Sidwell Friends School
South Boston, the white stronghold of
and Harvard, is a corps member this
working-class Boston. He was in trou-
year. "I started out skeptical," she
ble, in a halfway house, when he
said. "I thought the diversity would be
joined City Year.
forced and superficial. But it Isn't."
"I didn't care about too many things
Alan Khazei and Michael Brown
then." Sleve said. "I was angry, preju-
had the Idea of City Year and founded
diced, negative. I was less than zero.
It five years ago, after they graduated
"City Year saved my life. I don't
from Harvard Law School. Alan Kha-
want to sell anything to you. but there
zei said to me:
it is. I like to wake up in the morning
"The common ground is service.
- know what I mean?"
People have lost the sense that they
One day last week I watched City
can make a difference. Everything is
Year al work and talked with staff
so imposing: the homeless problem,
and corps members. Like Steve Nol-
drugs, the ghettos. What can I do as
temy, 1 feel I should discount it and
one person? This shows people that
say I am not trying to sell anything.
they can make a difference: bring life
But what I saw was impressive, even
to a community under siege, build a
moving - and quite without what I
playground, improve a school, rehab
had been half afraid I would find, the
housing for the homeless.
aroma of do-goodism.
City Year is a model for the nation-
Daina Sutton, 19, had a baby in 1991
al service program proposed by Pres-
and dropped out of school. The father
Ident Clinton. I had expected to write
was arrested in June 1992.
about the structural qualities that
"I really didn't want to do any-
make it such an appealing model: the
thing." she said. "Except 1 wanted to
lack of bureaucracy, the mix of prt-
do something for my son. City Year
vate and public funding, the entrepre-
wasn't a big deal at first Now it's
neurial spirit. But that will have to
everything."
wait for a second column. The young
The team Daina was on started by
men and women of City Year could
making a garden in a run-down area.
not be put aside.
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A model for activism
City Year's national convention this June in
get something in return. Alan Khazei, the other co-
Boston should inform Congress' national service
founder, calls City Year not a think tank but "an
debate and, beyond that, suggest possible new di-
action tank" - and what action there has been.
rections for civic action on a large scale.
Beginning with a 50-member experiment in
Coming two months before the party political
1988, City Year is now in seven cities - Boston,
conventions, City Year's gathering, if it replicates
Chicago, Columbus, San Jose, San Antonio, Provi-
last year's event in Columbus, Ohio, will also dis-
dence and Columbia, S.C., with Cleveland planning
play energy and optimism that the presidential
to join in the fall.
candidates will be hard-pressed to match.
Although it is part of AmeriCorps, President
The two are not unrelated. With President
Clinton declaring an end to big government and
Clinton's national service program, City Year
Republicans intent on devolving many federal
beats its own path. While AmeriCorps requires
functions to the states and localities, members of
programs to raise at least 15 percent of their funds
both parties are exploring ways local citizen orga-
from local and private sources, for instance, City
nizations can fill a significant part of the breach.
Year has kept its figure above 50 percent.
Michael Brown, cofounder and chief philos-
The convention, called "Cyzygy" (taken from
opher, offers City Year as a model. This is not
syzygy, a word for celestial balance), will attract
volunteer charity work, he notes, but a full-time,
bipartisan participation, including Gov. William
(modestly) paid corps of workers who accomplish
Weld and Sen. John Kerry. City Year is infectious-
much in schools and neighborhoods and who grow
ly candid about the range of its goals: to "spread
in the process. They work with peers from a vari-
idealism to every corner of the globe" and to build,
ety of backgrounds and develop a sense of civic
in a single day this June, a school playground in
reciprocity, giving to the community in order to
Charlestown.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Monday, April 6, 1998
Youths striving to keep themselves, and their community, healthy
morn, sunny, breezy and a tad too
T
he Japanese have the right
brisk, frankly, for the short-sleeved
idea. They punctuate the work-
sport shirt I was wearing. But I was
day with exercise breaks to in-
surrounded by so much youthful
vigorate deskbound bodies, flush
verve and enthusiasm, I hardly no-
stagnant minds, and build esprit de
ticed the chill.
corps.
"Formation!" shouted project
I'd like to see this practice take
leader Jay Robertson. "Good morn-
root here, and not only in
ing. City Year!"
offices and factories. For
"Good morning!" the
example, cocktail parties
corps members shouted
would be much more
back, their reply reverber-
bearable if they featured a
ating off the skyscrapers.
push-up contest or gung-
"I can't hear you."
ho round of tossing the
"Good morning!"
medicine ball.
Then Robertson and
Given this bias, you can
several others led us
imagine how delighted I
through the exercises: leg
was when a friend told me
stretches and "slap-
about a community serv-
Art Carey
happys" and jumping
ice program called City
jacks and traveling side-
Year. Maybe you've seen
Body
jack jumping jacks and
some of these kids down-
Language
torso twists and bends.
town in their bright-red
"Can do! One, two,
jackets. Three mornings a
three!" the corps ex-
week, they gather at JFK Plaza, in
claimed.
the shadow of the LOVE statue, to do
Like Marine recruits at Parris Is-
calisthenics.
The Philade phia Incurrer TOM GRALISH
land, we had to count in unison and
The other day. I joined them at
parrot cadences that. in our case,
Volunteers with City Year Philadelphia, a youth community-service program, begin each
8:15 for PT ("physical training," for
were strictly Grated. To wit: "Spirit!
day with calisthenics - three of those mornings at the very public 7FK Plaza.
you civvies). It was a lovely spring
See ART CAREY on C4
For them, health, strength, total fitness isn't just physical
ART CAREY from C1
National Service Network and gets 51
"One of my biases is that I didn't
So here's the deal: If you live in
Discipline! Purpose and Pride!"
percent of its financing from Uncle
think I could learn anything from
the burbs and you think the city is
That mantra, combined with the
Sam. This 10-month adventure in
somebody who hadn't finished high
decaying and doomed, and that ra-
Howing endorphins, had the in-
"putting idealism to work" (the corps
school," said Nelson, who is African
cial harmony is an impossible
tended effect. Volunteers who min-
motto) is open to ages 17 to 24. Some
American and in her second City
dream, stop by Love Park some Mon-
utes before were sluggish and sleepy
are high-school dropouts pursuing
Year tour of duty, specializing in
day. Wednesday or Friday at 8:15
now were fully awake. beaming.
GED's; some are Ivy League grads
civic engagement. "Being on a team
a.m. and join the City Year kids in
brimming with vitality.
wondering what next. Some are tak-
with people from the inner city and
calisthenics.
"II gives you that special kind of
ing a break from college: others are
all different backgrounds, I learned
energy in the morning, like drinking
taking a year off before heading to
that I could."
The exercise will get your body
moving and your heart pumping.
a cup of coffee." said Marcus Bruton,
college.
Behr, a preppie-looking invest-
The experience will confound your
20. an Overbrook High grad. "It gets
"I was the first person from my
ment banker, is positively giddy
prejudices, and treat your soul to a
you fired up and pumped up." (It also
high school in 26 years not to go di-
about City Year's potential; it's a
healthy dose of hope.
teaches such prized professional
rectly to college," said Fiona Mason.
surefire way to bridge city and sub-
traits as responsibility and punctuali-
"I wasn't ready. 1 had no idea what I
urb and topple racial barriers. "My
For more information about City Year
ty: arriving on time is imperative.)
wanted to study. I figured my first
daughter's in college, and they have
Philadelphia and how you can get
"We do IT for three reasons." said
year would be wasted."
diversity there, but it doesn't really
involved in community service, call
Jim Balfanz, 28, codirector of City
So Mason, 19, put off entering Bos-
work," he said. "The races sit sepa-
215-988-2118
Year Philadelphia. "To get our minds
ton University to give herself time to
rately and don't mix. City Year does
and bodies ready for a great day of
ripen in the real world while pursu-
work because it puts people from di-
service; to build community by giv-
ing what for her is not just another
verse backgrounds in a task-orient-
ing corps members from all across
extracurricular activity on a college
ed environment."
Philadelphia Online
the city a chance to come together
The Philadelphia Inquirer TOM GRALISH
application. but a true passion: com-
The tasks include serving as role
For a Web Video version of
and inspire each other about the
munity service. (By the way, a lot of
models, mentors and tutors for
work they're doing: and to inform
Members of Philly's youth
this column, visit Philadelphia
college admissions deans love City
other young folks, and giving them
Online, The Inquirer's site on
the public about the power of young
community service program
Year; it's the kind of life-experience
goals, direction and a sense of pride;
the Internet: http://
people to make a difference and to
start each day with exercise.
credential, they say, that can put a
running after-school literacy pro-
www.phillynews.com
encourage citizens 10 become in-
candidate over the top.)
grams for tots and teens; removing
volved in their communities."
"Action begets action." said Phil
City Year itself is a community,
graffiti and beautifying the city-
These City Year folks are crafty.
Behr the other day.
one devoted to harnessing the
scape with murals; restoring aban-
They perform their calisthenics in a
Behr, 56. of Gladwyne. is cochair of
power of unity fueled by diversity.
doned houses and transforming va-
public place in the heart of the city
for a reason: to attract attention. It
City Year Philadelphia's advisory
It's e pluribus unum in practice, a
cant lots into community gardens;
works. Many passershy stop and gape.
board. Truth to tell, he's also why the
barrier-breaking, stereotype-bust-
They smile, they ask questions
program is here. Several years ago,
ing, assumption-shattering melting
and collecting more than a million
books from the suburbs and redis-
he was running in Boston when he
pot of young Americans there are
("What's this? Some kind of paramili-
saw a couple of hundred City Year
upper-middle-class blacks from the
tributing them to public schools
lary cult?"). Some even join in, as do
suburbs, for instance, and lower-
and literacy workers in the city.
homeless habitues of the park in
volunteers doing their morning PT.
middle-class whites from the city
City Year calls itself an "action
warmer months. and even some of
His reaction: "Wow!" Later, he saw
who come in more flavors and col-
tank" - when it comes to commu-
the paper-pushers who watch from
the same spectacle in Chicago.
ors than Baskin-Robbins ice cream.
nity service, these kids walk the
neighboring office towers.
"We've got to bring this to Philadel-
"I came from a fairly sheltered ho-
talk. They're also learning. and
I like the way Bruton phrased it.
phia," he thought.
mogeneous background," said Kim-
teaching, an important lesson:
It's all about spreading the can-do
In September. with the help of local
berly Nelson, 23, who attended pri-
Health is about wholeness. To be a
spirit of City Year and the gospel of
businesses and foundations (Safe-
vale school before enrolling at
truly healthy, totally fit human be-
community service through "word of
guard Scientifics Inc., CoreStates
Swarthmore and the University of
ing means more more than doing
eye."
Bank, Philadelphia Lawyers, Pruden-
Rhode Island, where she's majoring
yoga, running marathons or pump-
The rationale behind City Year PT
tial Preferred Properties, Wawa, Inc./
in political science. "Everyone had
ing iron. It means escaping the nar-
(which corps members also do on
PNC Bank and the Pew Charitable
the same education level and socio-
cissistic self-absorption of the gym,
Tuesdays and Thursdays al their re-
Trusts), it happened; Philadelphia
economic level, so we all had the
helping others, giving something
spective service sites) is simple: Rev
became the ninth city in the nation
same politics and way of looking at
back, making a contribution to the
up the body and you'll also rev up the
to launch a City Year program.
the world.
common good.
brain and spirit
City Year is part of the AmeriCorps
FUR ONE HUNDR&D-AND FIFTY YEARS
Chicago Tribune
North
Sports Final
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Saturday, April 26, 1997
Tribune photos by Patrick D. Witty
Anthony James, 10, grabs for a gardening shovel (above, center)
nelley Youth Center. Organizer Michael Mandel (below) rallies the
as students took back a rubbish-strewn garden at the Elllott Don-
kids, Including Michael Smith, 11, (left) and Sushmere Martin, 12.
Students dig into volunteer spirit
By Heather Lalley
TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
They lugged shovels taller than themselves
and wore gardening gloves hanging from
their fingers, but nobody seemed to mind.
The 1st- through 8th-graders were too busy
on Friday shoveling gravel. pulling weeds
and examining earthworms in the
Bronzeville community garden they helped
spruce up.
While many of their peers spent this past
week's spring break camped in front of the
TV. 250 Chicago public school kids partici-
pated in Camp City Year. a weeklong service
learning project in the North Lawndale and
Bronzeville communities, Sponsored by City
Year, a national youth service organization
that is part of the AmeriCorps program. the
free camp was organized and led entirely by
corps members, ages 17 to 23.
Participants pledge nine months of service
to this "domestic peace corps" in exchange
for a $4,725 college scholarship. said the
group's director of marketing. Elinor Jan-
notta. The camp Is the culmination of their
work, Jannotta said.
"It's a great leadership opportunity and a
way for them to integrate what they've
learned throughout the year." she said "It's
an opportunity for them to be young role
Back at the cleanup site, at 3947 S. Michi-
the soil to divide the garden plots.
models for children."
gan Ave., kids dumped orange wheelbarrows
"It's fun to do this because it feels like
Earlier in the week. campers visited the
full of pebbles onto paths they had created in
grown-up stuff." 10-year-old Eboni Henderson,
Shedd Aquarium, attended environmental
the community garden.
a 5th grader at Washington Irving Elementary
workshops. learned about art and poetry, and
Residents near the Elliott Donnelley Youth
School said as she gripped a garden shovel
played games at a carnival
Center have used the garden for several years.
with fuzzy gloved hands.
"We're trying to make this camp like a
Recently, though. weeds and rubbish have
Her dad won't let her shovel snow, she said,
mini-City Year for them." said Michael Man-
beaten out the vegetables for space.
so this was her chance to get to shovel And
del, 23, who was in charge of recruitment for
And that's where the kids come In.
besides getting to use grown-up tools, Hender-
the program. "We wanted to create a project
Over the past several months, City Year
son learned a grown-up lesson: "I wanted to
where they could all get a little taste of ser-
participants pulled weeds and picked up the
be here to help the community. It's to help us
vice."
trash. They've hammered railroad ties into
breathe better."
Providence Journal Bulletin
_Y SINCE 1829 . http://www.projo.com
THURSDAY
JUNE 5, 1997/50 CENTS
'WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE ANOTHER'
Journal-Bulletin/STEVE SZYDLOWSKI
HEARTFELT: Michael Mandel, a City Year member from Chicago, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Jackie Daluz, from
City Year in Rhode Island, during the national anthemin front of Providence City Hall yesterday.
By SCOTT MacKAY
posed largely of the 750 volunteers
First lady
Journal-Bulletin State House Bureau
from the City Year national youth ser-
PROVIDENCE - Invoking the
vice program, which is holding its
American tradition of helping your
annual convention in the city this
celebrates
neighbor and the magnanimous spirit
week.
of the Marshall Plan, First Lady
"Citizenship has always been
Hillary Rodham Clinton told a nation-
more than paying taxes, or going to
al convention of young community
work or obeying the law or casting a
volunteers yesterday that citizens
vote
Citizenship is built on the
citizen
need to help each other to meet the
idea that we are all responsible for
nation's future challenges.
one another," said Mrs. Clinton.
"America and Americans have to
City Year is a volunteer organiza-
understand how we are interdepen-
tion that links teenagers and young
volunteers
dent," said Mrs. Clinton, speaking on
adults with community projects and
the steps of City Hall to a crowd com-
Turn to VISIT, Page A-9
IN IT
TOGETHER:
City Year
members from
around the
country chat near
Kennedy Plaza
yesterday.
CITY YEAR
Journal-Bulletin/
JOHN FREIDAH
More pictures,
Page A-8.
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1997
A 9
FROM PAGE ONE
Visit
in the world before. We had men
Reporters were granted no inter-
and women working hard to make
views, allowing the first lady to
a good living for themselves and
avoid nettlesome questions about
Continued from Page One
their families in a free-market
such topics as the Whitewater in-
focuses on urban schools. It is part
economy."
vestigations and the sexual-harass-
But neither the nation's demo-
ment allegations leveled against
of the AmeriCorps national service
program started by President Clin-
cratic form of government nor the
her husband by Paula Corbin
economy that has created material
Jones.
ton as a sort of domestic Peace
wealth is "what made America spe-
Before the speech, Mrs. Clinton
Corps.
cial," Mrs. Clinton said. "It was the
appeared at a private reception at-
Mrs. Clinton cited last month's
space between our government and
tended by about 150 guests in the
Presidents' Summit for America's
our economy, what is sometimes
ornate Alderman's Chamber inside
Future in Philadelphia, the huge
called civil or civic society, the
City Hall. The state's political hier-
national pep rally for volunteerism
space that is occupied by families
archy was well-represented at the
attended by Mr. Clinton and former
and churches and associations and
event, which included City Year
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald
groups of all kinds, and that is fu-
officials and representatives of the
Ford and George Bush.
eled by a sense of service and obli-
local corporations that raised the
Of all the national volunteer pro-
gation.'
$150,000 needed to hold the con-
grams highlighted at the summit,
"America is great because
vention in Providence, including
Mrs. Clinton said, "none of those
America is good. We are good
the Bank of Newport, the Journal-
examples was more important than
because we understand that we do
Bulletin, Textron, CVS and Hospi-
City Year."
not make it alone, we make it by
tal Trust.
Speaking on a sun-splashed
helping other people as well to
Some in the throng said poor
afternoon tinged with a chilling
(reach) their potential." said Mrs.
acoustics and echoes off buildings
wind, Mrs. Clinton was flanked on
Clinton.
made understanding her speech
stage by Governor Almond, Sen.
Citing the recent 50th anniversa-
difficult. The speakers were set up
Jack Reed, and Mayor Vincent A.
ry celebrations for the Marshall
behind the crowd, amplifying to a
Cianci Jr. Attendance was sparse:
Plan that helped rebuild Europe af-
vast empty downtown space. Still,
few came to hear the first lady
ter World War 11, she said: "What
most were pleased to glimpse the
except for the 750 City Year volun-
other country would have reached
first lady. After her speech, she ap-
teers. local political figures and
out to help rebuild its enemies?"
proached the crowd, shaking hands
people associated with the conven-
"If we intend for the United
and saying hello.
tion.
States to continue to lead the world
Journal Bulletin/JOHN FREIDAH
Ellen O'Donnell. 20, from Provi-
In a 15-minute speech that sport-
by example and model, then we
dence, had never seen her before
ed as many cliches as a commence-
have to serve in order to build the
IN THE MOOD: City Year members from Rhode Island dance following the ceremony on the steps of City Hall in
and called her visit "impressive,"
ment address, Mrs. Clinton urged a
kind of country that we will be
Providence yesterday afternoon during First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit.
even more $0 because City Year
return to a Tocquevillian America
proud of. that will be strong and
members organized it. She liked
- the country described by Alexis
will give the hope to others that you
de Tocqueville, a French political
have seized for yourselves," Mrs.
concept of an activist federal gov.
many of the special interests -
ernment's responsibility to help the
the speech, to a point. "Her points
thinker in the 1830s. as egalitarian
Clinton said.
ernment that helps those who can-
Insurance companies most promi-
nation's have-nots, sort of liberal-
were good - making the streets
safe and so on - but she didn't
and decentralized. marked by small
Those themes are underscored
not help themselves seems a relic
nently - that profit from the cur-
ism on the cheap. Conservative
government. individual initiative
in Mrs. Clinton's book It Takes a
of a hygone era. With Republicans
rent health system.
opinion has ranged from parodying
give any specifics."
and volunteer associations.
Village to Raise a Child, in which
in control of Congress, there is
So instead of taking on one big
the "mandatory volunteerism"
Although Mrs. Clinton didn't
"He wrote what is still one of the
she argues that that while parents
scant support for federal social pro-
issue. the Clinton administration
aspect of the movement to lam-
mention it, yesterday's speech was
shifted gears to a strategy of trying
poorting the need for political fig-
given from the steps facing Kenne-
most perceptive analyses of what
have the prime responsibility for
grams.
kind of people and country we
raising children. the larger commu-
With Mrs. Clinton playing a lead-
to address many small issues.
ures urging people to do what they
dy Plaza, named for John F. Kenne-
are," said Mrs. Clinton. "One of the
nity and the government have to do
ing role, Mr. Clinton tried in his
AmeriCorps and the volunteerism
have been doing for years on their
dy, who famously challenged
things that he noted was how
their part to raise healthy, happy
first term to resurrect traditional
movement do just that. The volun-
own - freely giving their time to
Americans in his inaugural address
America was unusual. Yes, we had
and well-educated children.
Democratic programs by proposing
teerism initiative provokes no real
worthy causes.
to "Ask not what your country can
a government that had been
The Clinton administration's ap-
a universal health-care program. It
controversy. but has drawn sneers
The speech on the City Hall
do for you, but what you can do for
formed by a revolution, that was
proach mixes idealism with the po-
met defeat, beaten back by wary
from skeptics on the left and right.
steps was the only public event yes-
your country."
committed to ideals that had never
litical realities of the 1990s, when
conservatives in Congress and a
Some liberals see it as Clinton's
terday during Mrs. Clinton's rough-
- With staff reports from Jona-
been taken seriously anywhere else
the New Deal and Great Society
massive lobbying campaign by
cop-out, an abdication of the gov-
ly two hours in Rhode Island.
than D. Rockoff.
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We've all been there. Stuck in yet another agonizingly
boring, ineffective, unproductive meeting. When, we
wonder, can we get back to our real work? We're happy
to report that there are exceptions to this sad state of
affairs. We've checked out a variety of organizations to
see what we could learn about making meetings work.
Here's a look at some of the more creative strategies
and tools we discovered.
"OK, hands up."
the "magazine" would feature. Other meet-
With that simple phrase and a raising of the
ings might begin with what are called "rip-
leader's hand, meetings at City Year, a Boston-
ples," named for a phrase in a speech by
based, nationwide nonprofit service organiza-
Robert F. Kennedy, in which he said that acts
tion, are called to order. Other hands shoot
of courage send a "tiny ripple of hope." Any-
VIE,
up as one by one, conversations cease, until all
one can share a ripple. The ripple may be
is quiet. Although City Year uses this physically
something that happened within the organi-
engaging meeting-start-up technique in
zation. Or maybe it's something from last
groups as small as a dozen, it's especially valu-
night's 11 o'clock news. The point is to cele-
able with large groups, says Edith Buhs. Buhs
brate the good, to create an updraft of posi-
is the national director of the Academy, the
tive emotion.
training arm of City Year, which teaches effec-
Most City Year meetings employ a ground
tive-meeting techniques and provides tools-
rule called NOSTUESO to keep domineering
not only to City Year's 1,200 staff and corps
or wordy individuals from monopolizing dis-
members but also to interested nonprofit and
cussions and to ensure that all voices are
for-profit corporations.
heard. The acronym stands for "No One
Effective-meeting workshops were origi-
Speaks Twice Until Everybody Speaks Once."
nally deemed necessary because of the youth
Meeting leaders are also taught to end
and diversity of City Year's members, but ex-
their meetings with another meeting, a mini-
perienced meeting goers could easily adopt
meeting called "+4." The mission: to quickly
some of City Year's power tools. Most meet-
assess the meeting itself. Under the plus sign,
ings begin with a warm-up exercise of some
leaders write down what worked. Under the
kind. At a recent meeting anticipating the or-
delta symbol, they record changes that need
ganization's 10th anniversary, a four-by-eight-
to be made, phrasing those recommenda-
"Meeting too long," but rather "Meeting
participants generated ideas for the stories
should be shorter."
(Continued)
PHOTOGRAPHS: MARNIE CRAWFORD SAMUELSON (RIGHT): CHIP SIMONS (LEFT)
Body Language
Organization: City Year, a non-
foot magazine-cover mock-up commemorat-
tions in positive terms: not, for instance,
profit national service organization
ing the event encouraged big thinking:
Purpose of Meeting: To organize
and motivate a young, energetic,
and diverse membership
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signing and decorating was and probing
de. There's also technology norade. a
becauses and Hos lul Hot
has filled ont ⑉ advance
the Mions Zoologo di santens
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granuar minute ton the of quote
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Get ready, get
Vleek's PAR meetings include diss
He group **** ceded, drinks to
non marks, for instance). and ... office
Organization: Mattel Media. J division of
set-typel
CUSSION of the subordinate's dream "
alle in high speed in about 63 seconds.
highesped. high-pechoomance meeting
machine unimite (which might 5.
Mariel Toys in EI Segundo. Calif.
mission 1.4 chief finance al office In 186-
It 11.15 disappeared trom towstore do her
prosered ---- cards
copier janst.
Purpose of Meeting: To develop products
stance, might strive for
These workaday note and born the
almost as quickly. The neeting moral:
The last agenda item: the Ans Box
Don't thisk your rejects
Atta Girl Award. This
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profit-and-loss statements that are urver
bar Lbone of . meeting method called
"II people " writing changs down.
day late, with zero past due ⑉ collec-
"compression planning low-ted
wooden plaque, testooned with personal
the otten not pring attention, NAS
tions 01 payments to suppliers) JH
equivalent of computer mediated meet-
Standing-Room Only
effects (pennies from the company con-
Mush Kakin repressident of up
analysis of his or ber role twhat the Fill-
mgs. the 101 hompe " last ght ... work.
moller, a Pez dispenser), is acarded each
any des toputi IN 100 Mariel Media.
Organization: The Phelps Group. a Santa
phone doesona regular basist, disense
shops by the Ms Nellis Co., in New
week. The current award holder selects
Has, the 110 note taking allowed at
studi of the employee's needs (both pro-
Brighton. P.a. GM has used 11. So has
Monica. Calif.. marketing agency
the next recipient and places on the men
Rifkin products meetings. or.
fessional and personal. or the need for
Habitat for Humanin And MI and facture
Purpose of Meeting: To build camaraderie
morested mated plaque, which has be-
une houlth of seven "I eight people
new software of more employees), and
for Borton A. Cohen, " run the meet
and cooperation
come power company
one selt-pros landed Tea Imograph
a report on achievements complish-
mg 1/1.11 give birth 10 the 110% threewear
"It's great to have group experience
of Berrie Debonen, records everyone's
Every Monday M 25 4.111., Joe Phelps
ments of the last (M) days) and struggles
old School for Environmental Studies in
at the beginning of the neek." CIVI CEO
aleas on Tipiop the entites appearing
(whis provides an opportunity to al-
Apple Valley, Minn. (Cohen " now
goes THE the public-address when with
Phelps. It's one counterbalance to the in-
before the group either on a Couch of
"posonimute warning Each of les 30 or
mit stewups before the bow identifies
teacher and administrator at the whool)
creasingly echnology-enabled work-
" income -- ted wall
them). The benefit to the boss: france
One idea of the storyboarding with
" employees beads for an all-propose
place. which losters los and less license
Dekoven-whose title at Mattel "
and subuace ideas. Then it's back to the
work to diplomatically address job CODE
that could be adapted (i) almost HIY
toom. where most of them remain stoud-
face contact.
"doctor loss stall de signer -" **** your
mg. The carrot for prompt attendance
laptops. Participants now rank the
cerm. He or she might city, "Jostead of
ageeting: there's no clean state at the
orderson note taker. An expert m meet-
ideas-Tag em, mine fem. drop em-
dus, think I'd like to are vite doing
start. On the first board " statement an-
and the first item on the agency: $100
me donames, be inmuted the Institute
bill to the employee whose phone exten-
Get Ready, Cet Set-Type!
on their screens. As soun as the List per-
more of that." The meeting closes with
nouncing the purpose of the meeting
for Better Meenings. which nowadays
sion " drawn at random-i/ he or she
sun his the vote key. the resides are ne
review of the goals and an action plan
On other boards appear ground rules
Organization: Any group with $5,000
whis has Learn ... his full-nine duries at
stantaneons. The advantage: participants
to meet them. And 30 days later. you're
"We listen to each other." "No speeches
can correctly answer a question from the
Mattel
to spend on one meeting
employee handbook
can spend time focusing on the top-cated
back revisiting those goals. Over time,
"We address ideas. not people A meet-
Little which fill up and
Purpose of Meeting: To generate and
The meetings themselves move
ideas instead of wasting time shooting
says Vicek, you learn to ask vourself.
ing leader need onh point to statement
have to be crased. the hobbing tank in
select ideas
down the easy marks.
through the Lime live agenda beadings
Can it wait ill the JP&:R? "Eighty-five
to remind attendees of the guidelines.
Dekoven's computer " boundless. For
each week. After the drawing. the second
percent of the time, " can," he says.
At the school meeting. one designated
For $3,000 day, meeting facilitator Dou-
loving the groups direction, he can edit
But how do you find time for all the
people recorded ideas on three-br five
Hrm "" the agends is for the company
KLU Critten, a managing partner of DS
Téle-à-Tête
aleas is he gones along. drag related THE
hours spent in Vicek tells of an ex-
cards. Another person stude them on
teams-advertiving. direct marketing.
Cntfen & Associates of Scouldale, Aris.,
ORDS dongside other. tecank choic-
production. and media-to altow off
Organization: Domino's Pizza
ecutive who constered. "I have seven
covered boards four feet square A
will arrive at your doorstep with net-
P. not. waterot saving . word, reduce
their new work. The third 13 to announce
worked Improps, server, luer printer.
Purpose of Meeting: To review an
people reporting to me; can't spend 21
designated tuner watched the clink, mg.
everyone allention metely by scrolling
important agency or bent business. The
and even CD player.
employee's aspirations, needs, and
hours month doing this." Vicek handed
naling the Licibtator when " was time to
back to earlier notations.
title of the bourth agenda Item. "Min-
achievements
him stopwatch and provided these no-
move from the exploration or brain-
At one particular meeting. the ques
Even without meeting mayen like
otes," is darion all for brevity Each of
structions: "Keep it with you. When
storming phase of the meeting " the IIP
lion on the table is "What new markets
Dekoven on hoard. you still might with
the trains delivers a one-minute mini-
Tum Monaghan, founder and president
you're spending your time on something
chang phase. then to the concept board.
can " enter?" The question appears on
to consider the alea of having one per-
lesson, teaching the group about some
20 lapiop scieens set "p around a U.
of Domino's Pizza Inc., with headquarters
that's screwed up. un something that oth.
and finally to the action beard. In the for
son take *** THE computer. be more of
in Ann Arbor, Mich., conducts individual
er people are paid to do and new you're
cusing phase. ideas were winnowed out
Lev piece of expertise or perhaps hand-
shaped while. You type suggestion and
her address benefit: everyone Can
ing ont and numbersing a helpful arti-
hit the submit Lev. Your screen clears and
job-planning and review (JP&R) ineet-
doing. when you're reexplaining things.
and categorized by colored dots Every.
leave the meeting with hand-
ings-each at least TWIS lusin long, and
surt this sinpwatch. guarantee you, ner
borb converged on the hearth. selecting
asks. "What else?" You can ice every.
cops record 111 band, and that
sometimes far longer-with his six execu-
the course of month you'll spend more
their favorite ideas by sucking dot 00
body's ideas on the lop half of your
Instant meening record can be
use ince-presidents, plus his chief of stalf.
than 21 hours-because you and your
the appropriate card. Consents was easy
E-mailed to the TEM of vour
screen. One of those suggestions gives
once n month "My first job planning and
people haven't come 10 mental agree-
to spot. Everything was out III the open,
company " phis for Mattel.
you an idea. which you quickly type and
review with Tom Monaghan lasted eight
inent on key issues." The executive called
and alleyes were on the items. -
Dekinen stores what he and
submit. Filteen minutes of brainstorming
hours." says Don Vlack. who was hired in
back five days later, he was already up to
passes-and nobody has said word.
Rilkin call bonevard" ideas-
the late 1970, and ran the company's
25 hours on the stopwaich.
John Grossmann
What does this get you? More ideas
de that are rejected in the
$600-million-a-year distribution sub-
coin) " tenter Insted in Mountain
and quick. reliable, computer-assisted
men separate
sidiary until 1994, when he left to form
Lakes, N.J.
skimming of the cream, says Griffen.
of the males Due of sight but
his own consulting firm in Plymouth,
Follow the Dots
each beought has ... and
Lively jan pumpt up the energy level.
Mich. New JPX-R sessions are a key cum-
Theoretically all 20 people at the meet
Organization: An educators' task force
potient of Vluek's executive workshops
What Do You Do?
some of deese dismissed ....
ing can with simultaneously-and anony-
Purpose of Meeting: To write a vision
otten become viluable lat-
Spending several hours month with
mouth No more wasting time kissing up
statement for a new-concept high school
Has your company found ways to
NI ⑉ the context of another
those von supervise may wen like Meet-
to the buss's idea. No more inlubitions
in two sessions
make meetings work? Let US know
proport boxing with I.A busers
ing Impossible But don't stop reading.
on those reluctant to speak up.
by E-mail (editors the com), regular
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Other aspects of these reviews may strike
To get from ground zero In a developed
With brainstoming in progress. Crif-
Mult
mail (Inc., 38 Commercial Wharf,
peaced requests for at
a hand with MIL For DUE thing. talk of
concept ⑉ only two sessions lasting two
fen watches as many in 200 itless bubble
Boston, MA 02110. Attn: Meetings).
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The Strength Of Diversity
The Power Of Idealism
H
OW do you get hundreds of young adults to start their
day with calisthenics at dawn in City Hall Plaza? How
do you get them to work harder than they've ever
worked. tutoring kids. feeding the hungry, renovating housing?
You start an organization called City Year.
Founded in Boston and now
spreading across America, City Year
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unites young people from all racial and
economic backgrounds for a year of full-time
community service. By helping rebuild communities in need,
City Year builds citizens - thoughtful, committed people working
together to help others.
At City Year they call it "putting idealism to work," and
at Bank of Boston, we immediately saw the power of their idea.
We were City Year's first corporate sponsor, and we've supported
them ever since, through every step of their growth.
This is just one of the ways we're helping create
solutions and by investing in a dream called City Year, helping
to make our community a better place.
BANK OF BOSTON
Member FDIC