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Posted on 11/27/2009 11:53:43 AM PST by WVKayaker
FROM THE WEBSITE:
City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world.
As tutors, mentors and role models, these diverse young leaders make a difference in the lives of children, and transform schools and neighborhoods in 19 U.S. locations and one in Johannesburg, South Africa. Just as important, during their year of service corps members develop civic leadership skills they can use throughout a lifetime of community service.
Major corporations and businesses participate in our mission by serving as strategic partners, team sponsors, and national leadership sponsors.
Together we’re building a citizen service movement that is larger than our organization, our lifetime, and ourselves.
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Steve Woodsum co-founded Summit Partners in 1984. Today, Summit Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital firm with offices in Boston, Palo Alto, and London. Since inception, the firm has raised more than $11 billion in its private equity, venture capital, and subordinated debt funds. Mr. Woodsum was Managing Partner of Summit Partners from 1984 to 2000, during which time the firm averaged over 60% compound annual net returns to its investors.
Previously, Mr. Woodsum was a General Partner at TA Associates and an Investment Analyst at First Chicago Investment Corporation. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters in Management from Northwestern University.
Mr. Woodsum is Chair of the National Board of City Year, an organization which recruits young people for a year of community service across the United States and in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also serves on the Board of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and Co-Chairs the Major Gifts Committee. Mr. Woodsum also serves on the Board of Massachusetts General Hospital and Chairs the Finance Committee. He also serves on the Board of Jumpstart for Young Children, and the board of Overseers of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously, Mr. Woodsum was Chair of the Board of BBN and the Science Center of New Hampshire where he remains an Honorary Trustee.
Steve Woodsum has 25 years of experience in private equity investing, having co-founded Summit Partners in 1984 and helped manage its growth to over $5 billion today. Prior to co-founding Summit, Mr. Woodsum was a general partner at TA Associates and an investment analyst at First Chicago Investment Corporation. His board directorships and investments include CIDCO, Inc.; Intellution, Inc.; Softdesk, Inc.; and Superior Services, Inc. He is a past president of the New England Venture Capital Association.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
http://www.cityyear.org/whatyoudo.aspx
As a City Year corps member, you will serve full-time as a tutor and mentor in schools, running after-school programs, leading and developing youth leadership programs, and vacation camps to make a difference in the lives of children and their communities. Although most of your corps experience will be working with kids, you will also help rebuild neighborhoods and perform a variety of transformative physical service projects.
A DAY IN A CITY YEAR
Your day at City Year will start early and end late. While there is no typical day for all corps members, your time will be invested well as you meet critical community needs, making a difference in the lives of children, everyday.
Sample Monday
8:00 am Join fellow corps members for an energetic start to the day with Unity Rally
8:30 am Travel with team to school
9:00 am One-on-one math tutoring with Victoria
10:00 am Reading group and review phonics lessons
11:00 am Team-building games during recess
12:00 pm Lunch meeting with newspaper club
1:00 pm Literacy tutoring with Sam and Alisha
2:00 pm Meet with principal to plan 300-person playground renovation project
3:00 pm Lead kids in after-school program recycling lesson
5:00 pm Give parents flyer for upcoming family book fair night
6:00 pm Break for the day
You will also receive training on service-related issues and skills one day per week.
Pepsi is involved in this if I’m not mistaken.
Pepsi, and a whole lot of others. CSX is the one that hit me hardest as a sponsor. Aren’t the taxpayers funding the RR’s?
Mmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmm
Nervous lol
I guess that country crackers need not apply.
Tune in to “Morning Joe” on Thursday and Friday to learn more about the Starbucks and MSNBC national partnership that promotes community involvement and volunteerism - and is featuring City Year.
As part of the Brewing Together initiative, the “Morning Joe” show with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist will be highlighting the power of service and volunteerism with a community call-to-action.
On Thursday, November 19, at 6:45AM EST, the Morning Joe show will include a segment about City Year’s service in schools and how corps members are tutors, mentors and role models who help students stay in school and on track. This segment was filmed at the Maurice J. Tobin School in Boston with MSNBC Contributor Mike Barnicle.
On Friday, November 20, the entire Morning Joe show - starting with Willie Geist’s “Way Too Early” at 5AM EST and ending at 9AM EST - will be broadcast live from the John M. McDonogh Senior High School in New Orleans, where a diverse City Year Louisiana team is in full-time service helping improve student attendance, behavior and coursework.
On Friday, the City Year corps members, Starbucks employees and MSNBC employees will show the transformative power of service by working on major physical service projects at the McDonogh school.
The school is also implementing the Diplomas Now school turnaround model, with City Year, Communities in Schools and Talent Development, funded by the PepsiCo Foundation.
The Brewing Together Day of Service with HandsOn Network, is November 21 and is bringing together volunteers across America.
So pour yourself a cup of Starbucks coffee, turn on MSNBC and enjoy!
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Dear City Year Community,
Today, on Veterans Day, at a ServiceNation event in our nation’s capital, we join together with leaders of military and civilian service organizations to honor the service and sacrifice of those who serve our country. We are honored to be joined by First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Alma Powell, three of the nation’s most inspiring advocates for service, to recognize our nation’s veterans and launch Mission Serve, an exciting initiative to strengthen the patriotic bonds shared by military and civilian service organizations.
City Year is a convenor - with Be the Change, Civic Enterprises and Points of Light Institute - of ServiceNation, a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate service as a core ideal and problem-solving strategy in American society. Mission Serve is designed to provide assistance to military families and veterans in need of services and to provide opportunities for returning veterans to continue to act on their desire to serve their country through community service here at home.
You can watch this Veterans Day event, also featuring the Corporation for National and Community Service Acting CEO Nicola Goren and MTV News Correspondent Sway Calloway, on MTV and ServiceNation starting at 2 pm ET.
City Year alumnus and U.S. Army Sergeant Timothy Brian Mahoney will be a featured speaker at the event. Tim was in the 1993 Boston corps and furthered his commitment to service in the United States Army and has been deployed twice to Iraq. He has been invited to share his perspective on what civilian and military service have in common, and how they can grow stronger through Mission Serve.
The Mission Serve initiative is chaired by City Year Senior Vice President for Civic Leadership, Col. (Ret.) Robert L. Gordon, III. Like Tim, Rob embodies a spirit of service and love of country that is shared by those in military and civilian service. Rob is presenting Alma J. Powell, chair of America’s Promise Alliance and wife of General Colin Powell, with the first annual ServiceNation Award for Excellence in Military and Civilian Service for a lifetime of service to our children, communities and nation.
We are grateful to Bank of America, a National Leadership Sponsor of City Year, for its sponsorship of the Mission Serve initiative. For more information on ServiceNation and Mission Serve, click here.
Please join me and all of us at City Year as we salute America’s veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice.
Yours in service,
Michael Brown
CEO and Co-Founder
City Year, Inc.
P.S. You can show your support for ServiceNation and get 30% off the latest fashions with Gap Inc.’s Give & Get program this Nov. 12 - 15. Print this coupon and help reach local communities in all 50 states!
Shouldn't this be 57 states...
They have such snappy uniforms.
...AmeriCorps is also a cost effective way to employ people who are having a difficult time finding jobs in a down economy. For a small investment, it provides people with a low cost “job” working in hard hit communities. In return, they receive training that prepares them for future employment and an education award to make higher education attainable.
Unless the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act is funded at the level endorsed by President Obama, the legislation will not meet its potential, national service will not flourish and people who want to serve will not have the opportunities to do so.
The President’s recommendation of $1.149 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service is $90 million more than the funding level recommended by the House - and that makes a huge difference to the growth both of people in service and their beneficiaries. Key differences between the President’s request and the House’s recommendation include $41 million less for AmeriCorps and $17.4 million less for AmeriCorps Education Awards.
Please help. The next step in this Federal budget process is the Senate. Critical decisions about AmeriCorps will be made early next week by a Senate Appropriations Committee. Call your Senator today or tomorrow and ask that they “please fund AmeriCorps and the Serve America Act at the President’s requested level of $1.149 billion.”
It takes 2 minutes. You can call the Senate operator to be connected to your Senators at 202-224-3121.
Voice your support for the President’s recommended appropriation level of $1.149 billion - so that the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act can meet its potential to change lives and communities across the country.
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The evening training sessions will consist of core curriculum such as Self Critique, a method we learned from our little communist brothers in the Viet Cong and North Vietnam Peoples Army espoused by Uncle Ho and General Giap.
This will be followed by rousing renditions of Dosvidanya Rodina. It’ll be most inspiring.
As a partner of City Year, you will not only invest in City Year and our dedicated corps members, but also the communities and neighborhoods we serve. City Year has been fortunate to develop strong strategic partnerships across many sectors.
Maybe its just me but I have a sneaking suspicion that these city year volunteers will find that much of their public service is little more than slave labor for corporate sponsors.
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