At City Year Dallas (CYD), we partner with Dallas ISD and Uplift Education in some of their highest-need schools to help ensure all children, regardless of race/economic background, receive an excellent education and achieve their full potential. The students in these schools are 85% eco-disadvantaged, 55% Hispanic, and 41% Black.
To fulfill the needs of Dallas ISD students, City Year Dallas:
* Recruits‚ trains, and deploys Corps Members ages 18-25 from diverse backgrounds to serve full-time in a Dallas ISD or Uplift Education school.
* Corps Members provide literacy, math, attendance, and pro-social learning interventions including one-on-one support for students most at risk of dropping out.
* Corps Members mirror the student body they serve, with 82% of corps members identifying as people of color.
We hope you will make a gift today to support our work with students across Dallas ISD and Uplift Education!
Help us reach our goal of raising $100,000 by September 19th to support our work in Dallas ISD and Uplift Education schools. You can double your impact - Santander Consumer USA Foundation will match all gifts dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000.
Educational equity for students learning in South Dallas and West Dallas communities was challenging even before Covid-19. With the onslaught of the pandemic, the challenges and needs facing children, families, and schools in these communities have only grown larger.
As students return to school this fall, our Corps Members will be in the classroom providing necessary and critical supports to accelerate learning as students regain valuable instruction time. Our Corps Members are ready to serve and impact students in Dallas, and we look forward to training and coaching them along the way.
City Year Dallas is committed to helping teachers and students in these communities thrive despite the obstacles - and today we need your help, too!
City Year Dallas (CYD) bridges the gap between what schools are designed to provide and what all students need to succeed. We recruit, train, and support young adults ages 18-25 from diverse backgrounds to serve full-time as Corps Members (CMs) in historically underserved and underperforming schools, helping to ensure all children, regardless of race or economic background, receive an excellent education. Working alongside teachers, CYD CMs provide extra support on attendance, literacy, math, and social-emotional well-being to help students build the confidence, self-esteem, academic, and soft skills required to succeed and thrive through school and beyond. CYD fulfills our mission by addressing one of our nation's most pressing concerns: educational inequity. We are contributing to a clearer and bolder vision of what public schools can be for all children: places of learning, exploration and risk-taking, where every student has access to positive relationships that encourage them to thrive.
City Year Dallas is dedicated to building a more just, equal, fair, and compassionate world. Recognizing the deep inequities and unequal opportunities along race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity, City Year Dallas values these differences and is dedicated to working toward greater educational equity for all.
Organization name
City Year Dallas
Causes
Education - K-12
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Both the Executive Director/CEO and Board Chair
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
3000 Pegasus Park Drive Suite 730