How are City Year and T-Mobile collaborating to support youth?
Andy Muñoz: City Year’s after school work is very important to our commitment to community, and we have grown to serve over 8,600 kids and 150 after school programs. In delivering these services, we are always looking for partners that we can work with and learn from. T-Mobile presented itself as deeply committed to community and interested in contributing to the quality of after school programming. Glenn Zaccara: T-Mobile recently started our first national community outreach program with a focus on employee volunteerism. We decided to focus on helping kids from single-parent families and in high-need urban areas by providing access to positive people, places, and programs. We chose to collaborate with City Year because they are the “feet on the street”–their “corps members,”who are young adult volunteers, work with kids on a daily basis, often during the after school time frame. Together with City Year, we have developed an employee volunteer program in which 150 to 300 T-Mobile empl
