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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Take a look at this week’s media highlights from City Year LA! From Around the Interwebs: We bring our communities together and that is GOOD: Check out the latest in GOOD’s A City Education series by our own Liz Warden. Buzzworthy: Is that Eva Mendes with Ryan Gosling walking around in Paris while rocking her [...]
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One out of every four students in LAUSD drops out of high school before completing their degree requirements. Last Friday, September 23rd, City Year Los Angeles corps members spent the day working alongside LAUSD officials and L.A. community members during Student Recovery Day, an initiative to encourage students who have left high school before graduation [...]
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On Friday, September 23rd the corps members serving in elementary schools across Los Angeles County assembled at a LAUSD warehouse to work alongside employees from the LAUSD Homeless Education Program. We created an assembly line to sort through 44,000 donations graciously collected by Comerica Bank in all of their Los Angeles County branches. As one [...]
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On Friday, September 2nd, 2011, City Year Los Angeles took to William Jefferson Clinton Middle School with brushes and paint with the goal of making the campus more welcoming to its students. Over 200 corps members participated in the school beautification project, painting 26 murals which exemplified the importance of healthy living, positive attitude, school [...]
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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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Becca Goldstein, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member First off, Congrats! You are now a part of the coolest, smartest, most talented, corps ever to exist in City Year history. Not to brag or anything, but everything you’ve heard? It’s all true. But now that you’ve accepted your position in the corps, you need to [...]
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By Marcus McKoy, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member I know your excitement is rising as you start your service year, so I want to open the year with a topic that might become increasingly interesting to you: Life Outside of City Year, or LOCY for short. I have a short list of [...]
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Gauthami Penakalapati, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member 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 [...]
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Sha’Ki Boyd, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member There has been no greater joy than serving my first City Year in South Los Angeles, formerly known as South Central. I was born and raised in South L.A.; therefore, I have an even greater appreciation for the city and the school in which I serve in. [...]
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