City Year San José/Silicon Valley

Under leadership, we spent MLK Day planting trees in East Palo Alto. We loved 🌱🌳 with .becker.ca , Ruben Abrica, Carlos Romero, at Los Robles Ronald McNair Academy! One of the benefits of planting trees is their cooling effect on playgrounds during hotter months so children can enjoy swings and slides 🛝 year round!

The Guadalupe River is a natural gem just four miles from office. We love catching January sunsets with fellow Bay Area inhabitants like seals and sea gulls.

🐬💵 At Cassell Elementary School, City Year AmeriCorps Members run the Dolphin Store. Students are rewarded on a daily basis for positive behaviors. This month, we are focusing on kindness. When four 4th graders naturally “stood up for a girl who was being bullied for what she was eating in the cafeteria”, Thanaa later celebrated their act of kindness with dolphin bucks. Dolphins bucks also helps students learn about budgeting, saving, and math!

Our Executive Director, Luke Hostetter, was thrilled to participate in the Hoover Institution’s Summit at , exploring the latest research in education and learning alongside experts in the field.

A heartfelt thank you to former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice, NFL great Andrew Luck, Frances Messano and Jean-Claude Brizard for sharing their invaluable insights and knowledge.

This year, we’ve utilized several of community rooms for our Learning and Development Days! From the Tully Community Branch Library to Dr. Robert Cruz Alum Rock Library, we love learning in the communities we serve. A special thank you to Jeff Tibayan for sharing the plethora of library resources beyond books such as passes as well as free tax prep with our AmeriCorps Members!

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s week, and hosted two of our learning and development days. AmeriCorps members had the chance to learn from Cristian King,
Margaret Navarro, Christy Liang, Cammie Erickson,
Karina Gutierez, and Johanna Hoang. All ACMs received LinkedIn premium accounts and resume and networking coaching.
 
The next day, Nancy Lau, Raquel González,
Kathy Gallagher, John Connolly, Amanda Jaskiewicz,
Bijal James, and a team of Bank of America Mentors provided our AmeriCorps members with valuable financial wellness and literacy advice.

We’re so grateful to our amazing corporate partners for working with AmeriCorps members to create and build their independent careers after City Year!

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Join us on November 1 as we honor Tashia and John Morgridge with the Legacy Champion Award at our 30th Anniversary Gala. This awards recognizes the Morgridge's extraordinary investment in City Year that has left an indelible impact on the lives of countless students and AmeriCorps members.

Be a part of this evening filled with food, music and fun — all in support of the thousands of students who this year will grow their potential in school and beyond because of City Year.
https://support.cityyear.org/event/30thaniversarygala/e609462

We love Moo Deng almost as much as we love telling people about the amazing opportunity to serve with us at City Year San José/Silicon Valley!

A year of service with us allows you to gain essential skills and experience to enhance your resume while positively impacting your community.

Learn more here: https://www.cityyear.org/san-jose/

On , we recognize how necessary it is for students to have access to good food.

East Palo Alto is considered to be a food desert by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has been exacerbated by recent store closures. Without access to nutritious food, students can't reach their full potential in the classroom.

As free school lunch programs are under threat across the country, we are proud that California school districts continue to offer free meals to their students, regardless of their parents' income.