City Year

The parent company of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs has announced a partnership to help bring City Year to four East Side schools in the San Antonio Independent School District.

City Year is a nonprofit that places young people in schools and community programs for a year of full-time public service.

In SAISD, they will work primarily to prevent dropouts and boost lagging attendance by calling the families of absent students, developing a rapport with students and creating a positive school-going culture.

DUBLIN, Ohio, October 14, 2009 — During Cardinal Health's two-week campaign to encourage employees to give back to their communities, employees donated more than $2 million to local non-profit organizations, and more than 1,600 employees at 71 sites worldwide donated more than 2,800 hours of service through hundreds of volunteer service projects.

Milwaukee, July 16, 2009 — A grant to establish a new central access system for the homeless in Milwaukee was among the more than $4 million approved by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Board and boards of its supporting organizations during the second quarter.

City Year, which engages young adults for service in urban public schools, transforms the lives of two distinct sets of constituents — but it doesn’t stop there. Relying on powerful stories to engage them, it also transforms the lives of its donors. Read about how in our cover story, “City Stories.” Also, in Fundraiser Forum, three experts weigh in on the pros, cons, costs and considerations of both long- and short-form direct-response television in our informal, e-chat format.

City Year, which engages young adults for service in urban public schools, transforms the lives of two distinct sets of constituents — but it doesn’t stop there. Relying on powerful stories to engage them, it also transforms the lives of its donors. Read about how in our cover story, “City Stories.” E-mail Append Also, increase your list health with e-mail append tips from Catherine Algeri, account director at Washington, D.C.-based data-processing services firm Triplex, an infoUSA company, in her feature story “E-mail Appends: The Good, the Bad and the Realistic.”

City Year, which engages young adults for service in urban public schools, transforms the lives of two distinct sets of constituents — but it doesn’t stop there. Relying on powerful stories to engage them, it also transforms the lives of its donors. Read about how in our cover story, “City Stories.” E-mail Append Also, increase your list health with e-mail append tips from Catherine Algeri, account director at Washington, D.C.-based data-processing services firm Triplex, an infoUSA company, in her feature story “E-mail Appends: The Good, the Bad and the Realistic.”