City Year SERVES

City Year SERVES is the new name for the event that we called Serve-a-thon. New name, same great event.

Come join City Year to revitalize the Christy Rec Center in Southwest Philadelphia. We hope to build community and inspire residents in restoring and beautifying this critical recreation center.  Your service will transform Christy into a brighter, cleaner, and safer place for children to learn in summer camps, after-school programs, and other enrichment activities.

Location: Christy Recreation Center 56th & Christian Streets Philadelphia, PA 19143  
Registration Opens:8:30am
Morning Program: 9:00am
Service: 9:30am
Lunch:1:00pm
Depart: 2:00pm

Register for the event at www.regonline.com/cityyearchristy
For more information please contact Amanda Finch at afinch@cityyear.org or 267-386-7014.

Run For City Year

There are two ways to get involved with this great event:

• Register to Run, or 
• Support a City Year Runner 

Run For City Year is City Year's running-based fundraising program to support City Year and the great work performed by its corps members. Alumni are registering with friends and raising money together. It is not too late to consider running yourself or to support a runner. Come check it all out here.

http://www.runforcityyear.org/ycm/

Meet & Greet Thank You!!

It was wonderful event, and a big hit with the corps. Your time and experience are invaluable things and on behalf of the CYGP 2011-12 corps and CYGP Alumni Board, I thank you for making that afternoon's event a huge success.

We look forward to seeing you at future events!

Arianna Neromiliotis

City Year Greater Philadelphia Alumni Board Chair

50 Web Applications for Teachers via Gazette

If you know a teacher, pass this along. A great resource from Teacher.net where they know that teachers don't teach subjects, they teach students.

http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/allison-gray/50-web-apps-for-teachers/

http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/october-2011/

What Steve Jobs Can Still Teach Teachers via Fast Company

This is an interesting take on an article about Steve Job's view in the classrom...
http://www.edsocialmedia.com/2011/10/what-steve-jobs-can-still-teach-teachers/

Original article below, published by Fast Company:
http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2011/what-can-steve-jobs-still-teach-us

photo from Flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigalakos/839742222/sizes/m/in/photostream/

One Great Idea

Do you have a great idea for Philadelphia? Share it.

Back on 1/11/201, The Philadelphia Inquierer and The Daily News launched the community-focused initiative One Great Idea. Each Tuesday on Philly.com a new video is posted featuring One Great Idea suggested by someone who loves the region.

See the videos here:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/One_Great_Idea_videos.html?cmpid=124488704

Do you have a great idea to suggest? Do it!

Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing' via NPR

A decade after his death, the beloeved poet and illustrator has a new book out -- and we love it. Read a review on it below and let us know your favorite poem after you've visited its pages.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140566486/shel-silversteins-poems-live-on-in-every-thing

High Volunteerism Can Mean Lower Unemployment Rates, Study Says

"States in which a big share of people volunteer, vote, and participate in other civic events tended to suffer the least-drastic increases in joblessness during the downturn, according to a new report" by by the National Conference on Citizenship.

Read the full review here:
High Volunteerism Can Mean Lower Unemployment Rates, Study Says