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There are a lot of reasons to love our Deloitte partners, but we'll start with their commitment to collaborate and help us solve tough challenges for our sites, students and schools http://bit.ly/1MkWFoj 

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Standing together for AmeriCorps

By Senator Kelly Ayotte

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#911Day of Service @ Capital Area Food Bank with My Good Deed

Director of AmeriCorps Bill Basl joined City Year AmeriCorps members, City Year CEO, Jeff Franco, and about 130 volunteers, including 42 6th graders from Leckie Elementary School and teachers at Capital Area Food Bank. None of these children were born until after the 9/11 attacks, which is an important theme for this year’s National Day of Service (teaching future generations about 9/11 and service). In the classroom this week many students learned about 9/11 through My Good Deed’s learn and serve lesson plans and then touring the Capital Food Bank, and performing service side by side with volunteers from around the city. Some worked in the community garden. The school is near Bolling Joint Base, includes many military families, and lost a student and a teacher (on Flight 77) and two parents (Pentagon) in the 9/11 attacks.

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Preparedness is like sunscreen. Can you ever have too much? 

To help you prepare for #CityYear, here are a few of our favorite start-of-year blogs: http://www.cityyear.org/blog/start-your-best-foot-forward

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A powerful reminder of how vital it is to have those human moments, for it is those candid conversations that can lead to the realization “I want to graduate high school.” Read more on our CIty Year L.A. blog http://bit.ly/1KHJokO

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Hillary Clinton Proposes Major Expansion of AmeriCorps

To combat rising college debt.

“Young people willing to commit to public service deserve to live free from the crushing burden of student debt,” said Clinton in a statement Thursday. “In the same way we provided for our returning veterans with the G.I. Bill, we must commit to those who serve our communities at home.”

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There comes an unexpectedly poignant quote from the Hollywood classic The House Bunny--”Kindness is just love with its work boots on.”  I recall watching this movie with my dear roommate (another City Year AmeriCorps Member), just having pried those Timberlands off my feet, after yet another 12+ hour day. The quote has stuck with me since, and it seems that one never really outgrows the work boots. That pair of Tims has since seen better days, but it was still one of the first things to make it in my suitcase as I began packing last summer to head off for the Peace Corps in Armenia.  http://www.cityyear.org/blog/these-boots-are-made-working

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Open a book, turn on your eReader & #ReadWhereYouAre w a loved one! Join our day of action → www.ed.gov/readwhereyouare http://thndr.it/1LInhyF

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What are you reading today?

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For the past 25 years, City Year alumni have been making a difference in their community, both inside and outside of the organization. Since 2005, Comcast NBCUniversal has recognized more than 50 City Year alumni leaders. Meet this year’s winners: 

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What is it really like to live on the stipend? Find out what Charlie has to say about how he makes his $1,000 a month stipend work for him in Boston. 

http://www.cityyear.org/blog/real-talk-how-live-city-year-stipend

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Your City Year

Do you want to #makebetterhappen with City Year? Apply to serve as a City Year corps member: http://bit.ly/1R6GfR1 At City Year, we believe education has the...

We believe education has the power to help every child reach his or her potential. However, in high-poverty communities there are external factors and obstacles students are faced with every day that can interfere with their ability to both get to school and be ready and able to learn. But it's these students who need a bit of extra, individualized support. But there’s a gap between  the kind of help they need and the support the schools are designed to provide.

America’s schools are designed to provide extra support to just 15% of students. But in many high-poverty communities, 50% or more students require additional support academic, social, or emotional support. The result of this gap is a shockingly high dropout rate in high-poverty communities.

But, there is a solution.

Within these communities, dropouts are often highly concentrated, so we’re able to identify and target the specific schools that are in need of extra support. From there, we can start working to put students on the right path to graduation—which is where City Year comes in.

At City Year, we partner with  most at-risk schools to help bridge the gap between what their students need and what the schools are designed to provide. In doing so, we’re helping students reach their full potential and graduate high school in communities all across America.

Be part of the solution: http://bit.ly/1R6GfR1

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”— Margaret Mead

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Reading Wednesday

We sat down with Mari, Online Math Content Specialist for City Year, and found out what she is reading right now. 

Currently Reading: Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Why it's great: Has the impossible happened? The NSA's top code-breaking machine may have just found an unbreakable code. The head cryptographer is wondering how someone could have done the mathematically improbable task of writing an unbreakable code and if they have, what does this mean for the future of national security? Enter the world of cryptography, where top mathematicians and computer scientists blend their mathematical and reasoning skills to create codes and ciphers, to both encrypt and decrypt secret messages.

This book was right up my ally - start with a suspense novel, add in math and espionage, and throw in some logic puzzle. This book kept me on the edge of seat right up until the very end!

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City Year Alumna Shares Her Story

                                            The Corps Network has just published its new book, Join the Crew: Inspirational Stories of Young Adults in America's Service and Conservation Corps. In this book, City Year alumna Gabby Fish, shares her captivating City Year story with readers. Tomorrow, on Saturday August 31st, the book will be available for free download on Amazon.com! 

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Reading Wednesday

Congressman John Lewis's new novel, March: Book One, shares his story with new generations as he reflects on his life as a Freedom Rider. Lewis is the sole surviving speaker from the original March on Washington, and today marks the 50th Anniversary of the speech he gave alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Read his inspiring speech here.

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Reading Wednesday

We sat down with Elana, National Admissions Coordinator for City Year, and found out her favorite book from high school.

Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings Trilogy

What I learned from it/how it shaped my thinking as a young person:  Aside from becoming proficient in Elfish, the books really focused on the importance of loyalty, friendship, courage, and perseverance. Although I adored every character in the books, it was the strong female characters that influenced me as a young woman. I found myself looking to these warrior-women as literary role models as I was finding my way through the trials of adolescence.