We’ve teamed up with Starbucks to offer a virtual workshop in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service. Together, we can strengthen our community and advance equity by recognizing that each of us can help create a more just world.

Knowing Your Why is a City Year workshop designed to help participants develop a deeper understanding of diversity, belonging, inclusion and equity—a journey we believe begins with self-reflection. Participants will have an opportunity to stretch their sense of perspective, learn about the benefit of taking an adaptive approach to challenges, and reflect on why equity is personally important to them. Join City Year chief equity officer Stephen Spaloss for this conversation about how identifying your purpose—your “why”—can deepen your engagement with our shared DBIE work.

One of the first things we do with our AmeriCorps members is a similar workshop, because a sense of purpose can inspire and energize them during their year or more of full-time service in schools across the country. Our AmeriCorps members partner with teachers to help make school a welcoming, joyful place where students feel like they belong, and can learn and grow—which is at the heart of educational equity.

City Year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide support to students, classrooms and the whole school. Schools that partner with City Year are up to two to three times more likely to improve in English and math assessments, and the more time students spend with AmeriCorps members, the more they improve on social, emotional and academic skills— skills that help students thrive in school and contribute to their community.
A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by AmeriCorps, local school districts and private philanthropy. City Year partners with public schools in 29 communities across the U.S. and through international affiliates in the U.K. and South Africa.

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