Tuesday, June 16, 2015
City Year Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the New York Life Foundation
City Year, an education-focused nonprofit organization that helps students to stay in school and on track to graduation, announced today that it will standardize and scale its After-School middle school program with the support of a three-year $2.5 million grant from the New York Life Foundation.
“We are grateful and proud to welcome New York Life as City Year’s newest national partner,” said Michael Brown, City Year CEO and co-founder. “With help from this partnership, we can scale up our innovative after-school program to impact as many as 150,000 middle school students, providing kids with academic support and skill-building enrichment activities.”
“City Year’s mission and the New York Life Foundation’s focus are clearly aligned. We see the need to do more to keep middle school students in school and on track to graduate,” said Marlyn Torres, senior program officer at the Foundation. “We invested in City Year because they have a successful track record of helping students improve their attendance, behavior, and course performance – all of which are proven indicators of a student’s likelihood to graduate from high school....”