By Lorena Fiori, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member 2010-11 On September 1st, 2009, I found myself in an unfamiliar city, in an office full of people whose purpose I didn’t quite understand, thousands of miles away from home. It was, at the time, the most drastic and risky decision I’d ever made. It [...]
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Ricky Cuellar, External Relations Project Leader To really get to know LA, you have to open yourself up to the new experiences and adventures that await you. Staying home on the weekends is not an option, you really have to get up and out to explore what this hustling and bustling giant of a city [...]
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Are you ready to give a year and change the world? Are you looking for a way to positively impact the lives of others while gaining leadership experience? City Year is searching for young idealists who are motivated to change the world. What is City Year? City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for [...]
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With our first application deadline approaching on September 30th, we would like to welcome you to our first Open House to learn more about City Year and answer any questions you might have about applying. Feel free to stop by our offices on the evening of September 26th for our first Open House of the [...]
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At City Year we use a wide range of tools and exercises that allow us to provide service as powerfully as possible. Many of these are unique to City Year and set us apart from other organizations. City Year culture is a catalyst for building strong teams and is recognized across all of sites. Our [...]
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Gauthami Penakalapati, City Year Los Angeles If you’ve been following the recent blog topics, you may have realized that living on a stipend in style requires some creativity. In addition to the food stamps and the multitude of free activities, LA living requires some forethought and planning. Budgeting is a great way to keep track [...]
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City Year Los Angeles is very excited and beyond proud to welcome our next class of over 200 young leaders! The 2011-2012 corps represents the best of the most competitive applicant group City Year LA has ever seen. We received over 800 applications and only 1 in 4 applicants were accepted to the program. So [...]
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By Camie Zamir, Team Leader at Stevenson Middle School As you may know, corps members work long hours and sometimes serve on the weekends. The demands of daily service might result in scenarios such as, eating on the go, snacking, maintaining a caffeine buzz all day or forgetting to eat altogether. It’s often difficult to [...]
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By Audrey Kuo, City Year Alumna Let’s start this post with a disclaimer: It’s probably more than a little ironic to have a culinary gadget junkie write a post on kitchen essentials. Seriously, you’re getting advice from someone whose reward for completing a year of service was buying herself an immersion blender. So take this [...]
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Lily Austin, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member Sometimes even though I love communing with nature and exercising, these activities need to be interspersed with some traditional “fun”–going out and seeing all the arts and entertainment the city has to offer. Below are some more free places to visit that you should take advantage of: [...]
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