From around the Interwebs: Students relieving stress with Yoga?: Students at The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools are taking a study break with Up Dog Fitness and are featured on NBC New York! Keeping students in school: City Year New York executive director, Itai Dinour, leads effort to keep New York City students engaged and [...]
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From around the Interwebs: Everybody was great because everybody served: Check out the great coverage from Monday’s MLK Day! LA Times: To honor King, volunteers spruce up a school CBS/KCAL9: Hundreds Honor MLK with Day of Service. UCLA’s Daily Bruin: UCLA students, alumni joins City Year Los Angeles’ service day honoring Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
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Liz Warden, Corps Member While most people have Martin Luther King Day off, for us, it’s a “day on.” MLK Day is City Year’s biggest service day of the year; City Year corps members around the country honor Martin Luther King’s legacy of building a strong community and promoting peace and justice. Sure, our students [...]
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Our Civic Engagement Team is gearing up for our biggest service day of the year – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! We see MLK Day as a day ON not a day off, so to honor Dr. King’s legacy, we are engaging over 1,000 Angelenos in a full day of service at Los Angeles Academy [...]
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“Everybody Can Be Great, Because Everybody Can Serve.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today was the 25th anniversary of MLK Day, and for the fourth year in a row, City Year Los Angeles put together a massive group of volunteers to serve Los Angeles. This year, we were at Thomas A. Edison Middle School in [...]
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By Arthur Shtern, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member Lunch started at noon and the rain was still coming down really heavy. Many of the murals that were done outside experienced some smudging and running. Regardless, I’m sure our incredible Civic Engagement team will figure out how to deal with it. Lunch time is always [...]
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By: Arthur Shtern, City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps Member The first thing we did this morning was collect our Heroes shirts. This was a big event for me because I signed up to be a Young Heroes Team leader late last year, so my shirt was a XXXL and un-wearable (I am a small/medium). [...]
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By Richard Premvaree, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member For most Americans, MLK Day is seen as a holiday, a break from school and work. But for City Year Los Angeles and the volunteers at Belvedere Junior High it is not a day off but a day ON! We are currently giving the school the [...]
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The Civic Engagement Team and the City and Young Heroes teams are gearing up for one of our biggest days of the year – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! We see MLK Day as a day ON not a day off, so to honor Dr. King’s legacy, we are engaging over 1,000 Angelenos in a [...]
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