Recommended Fellowships and Internship Programs for City Year Grads

The organizations and fellowship/internship programs listed below are City Year partners who value the experience and skills of City Year corps members and alumni, and encourage members of the City Year community to apply.

Featured fellowship and internship programs:

• Breakthrough Collaborative Summer Teaching Internship 
• HACU National Internship Program
• Ron Brown Scholar Program

To see a full list of recommended fellowship and internship programs, click here.

National Alumni Spotlight: Trina Tran

City Year Washington, DC '11 & Urban Teacher Center '15

"Through City Year, I was able to develop my ability to build meaningful relationships with youth and to instill in them a sense for social justice that I’ve taken with me as a classroom teacher.”

Click here to read Trina's full profile in the Career Center on the Alumni Website.

Itai Dinour - Chief Organizational Advancement and Alumni Officer

Itai Dinour, currently serving as the Executive Director for City Year New York, has accepted the role of Chief Organizational Advancement and Alumni Officer. 

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, Dinour will oversee and work closely with the Alumni Department, in collaboration with the National Alumni Advisory Board, to align our engagement efforts and identify new ways to strengthen connections, support the leadership development of corps members and graduates, and mobilize the talents, skills, and resources of our 15,000 alumni for the benefit of the students and communities we serve.

Dinour will report to President Jim Balfanz ‘94 and will be responsible for building and implementing philanthropic revenue strategies, strategic partnerships, and alumni engagement initiatives that will accelerate City Year’s value as a social enterprise in alignment with the organization’s long-term impact goal.

Join us in welcoming Itai Dinour to his new role with City Year and the Alumni Association. He can be reached at idinour@cityyear.org and looks forward to working with alumni from across the network.

18 Minute Networking Thank You!!

 

We can’t thank you enough for joining us last Thursday for City Year’s 18 Minute Networking!  It was the largest 18 Minute Networking event that City Year has ever hosted with 70 alumni and community leaders in attendance.  The corps really enjoyed the opportunity and we’ve received a lot of positive feedback about their experience. 

Volunteering your time to support the professional development of the City Year corps speaks volumes about your continued commitment to City Year. Please let us know if you’re interested in participating again next year; and we would love to see you again at another City Year event!

Highlights:
∙  200 corps member participated (90% of corps).
∙  70 facilitators joined us from 20 different fields.
∙  35 were corps alumni (from 5 sites: Philly, Boston, Chicago, DC, and Detroit).
∙  6 were staff alumni (from 3 sites: Philly, DC, and Louisiana).
∙  38 facilitators joined us for a Happy Hour at New Deck.

2012 Tribute Dinner Honoring Arthur R. Block

Honoring
ARTHUR R. BLOCK
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and SecretaryComcast Corporation

SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, May 17, 2012
6:00 PM Cocktails ~ 7:00 PM Dinner
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia, PA



Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union's Award

Interesting story from last month: "The actor Matt Damon and his mother, a professor of education, on Wednesday turned down the opportunity for an award from the country’s largest teachers union after reading an opinion article that the union’s president had co-authored with the founder of Teach for America."

Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/01/05/matt-damon-and-mother-reject-unions-award/

The Do Something Award - $100,000 Top Prize

A great opportunity for those alumni working with young adults.This is an award program for teens and young adults who take action in their communities. There are five $10,000 prizes and one $100,000 prize. All the details are listed here: http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards

The deadline is March 1.