City Year Washington, DC

???? Congratulations to the City Year DC 2024 AmeriCorps members on your graduation! Your dedication to serving students and schools has made a lasting impact in our community. Wishing each of you all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your careers. Your commitment to making a difference is truly inspiring! Are you a recent college or high school graduate ages 18-25 looking for a next step in your career that will provide networking events, professional development training, and amazing opportunities like this? Apply to serve next year with CYDC by visiting cityyear.org/apply-now! Read more about graduation on our blog:https://lnkd.in/erzaiG_S ?? #CityYearDC #AmeriCorps #Graduation2024 #Service

?? Join us for a night of fun and fundraising at Dacha Beer Garden Shaw! ?? ?? Date: Tuesday, June 4 ?? Time: 5-9pm City Year DC Associate Board is hosting a special fundraiser where you can enjoy extended happy hour until 9pm with the purchase of a $20 wristband! Your donation supports our mission and grants you extra hours of happy hour pricing. How to Participate: 1. Show up at Dacha Beer Garden. 2. Purchase a $20 wristband from us. 3. Enjoy extended happy hour and support a great cause! 4. Don’t forget to tag us in your photos and use our event hashtags! #CauseTuesday #DachaDC

From schools across DCPS, our partnership has made a difference for a quarter-century! As we honor Partnership Appreciation Week, CYDC is excited to continue growing these vital connections and forging new ones. Our Impact Managers share heartfelt thanks and stories of collaboration. Read more about our amazing partnerships: https://lnkd.in/e3gupiZV (https://lnkd.in/e3gupiZV) #CityYear #DCPS #Partnerships #Education ????

?? We had an amazing time planting flowers by the National Mall! ?? Our Civic Engagement team had the opportunity to collaborate with Care Force while they were in town, and together we added a touch of color and beauty to this iconic space. Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make a difference! #CommunityService #CareForce #NationalMall #BeautifyOurCity #exCEllent

Last Thursday, May 9th, we brought back the beloved Breakfast of Champions, and the spirit of service was stronger than ever! From current ACMs to longtime supporters, our community celebrated impactful work in schools across the district. ? Attendees mingled over a delightful breakfast spread, gaining insights from serving AmeriCorps Members and speakers, like Michael Stevens, Ed.D, City Year DC’s Executive Director, & John T. Tupponce, City Year's Chief Operating Officer, who shared personal testimony about their belief in City Year work and mission.? ? We discussed our profound impact, future events, and opportunities for involvement like joining our Leadership Circle. Our champions left with hearts and belly’s full. ? For more details about the event read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/exXBdyyU ? For more about ways to connect with us, donate, or get involved with CYDC, please visit the link in our bio or DM us to connect with our External Affairs Team. ? ?#CityYearDC #BreakfastOfChampions #ServiceSpirit

It's still a season of gratitude, especially when it comes to celebrating some of the new City Year Washington, DC Executive Board Members who are joining us! I'm excited to share that our board continues to grow with exceptional leaders joining our ranks, especially with the addition of Alexis Squire! She is no stranger to AmeriCorps and national service, as I met her during her tenure as our city's Chief Service Officer. Her love and connection to DC runs deep, along with her track record in building public-private partnerships. Check out her bio below and please join me in welcoming Alexis to our board! Alexis L. Squire is a proven tri-sector executive with over 15+ years’ experience in advancing local and national social impact efforts through grantmaking, public-private partnerships, fund development, strategic communications, and civic and community engagement. Currently, Alexis serves as the Chief Equity and Impact Officer for DC Fire and EMS, where she provides administration and coordination of external relations, including strategic communications and community relations, and multi-sector partnerships and collaborations. Alexis is a trusted advisor and philanthropic thought-leader and served as the District’s Chief Service Officer and Director of The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism and Partnerships in Washington DC. In this cabinet appointed role, she served at the helm of the District’s Commission on National and Community Service, awarding nearly 8 million in federal AmeriCorps and private grant funding to area nonprofits in support of key focus areas such as education, environmental sustainability, and civic engagement. Alexis successfully leveraged the power of multi-sector partnerships in support of regional priorities and designed citywide efforts around environmental sustainability, gun violence prevention, and community readiness and resiliency as a means of addressing emerging social challenges and trends. Before her time in public service, for over a decade, Alexis designed catalytic fund-development and engagement efforts such as the Ice Bucket Challenge, Executive Sleep Out, various giving campaigns, strategic communications, and community and volunteer efforts at leading local and national nonprofits with missions centered around access and equity in health, housing, and workforce development. Alexis is graduate of the University of Maryland and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Executive Leadership in Philanthropy program. Alexis also serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Philanthropy DMV, formally Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG), a regional philanthropic membership organization that advances social justice. Alexis is a third generation Washingtonian and the daughter of two retired DC Public School educators. She resides in her Ward 7 community with her husband and two charming sons, Alexander (6) and Levi (4).

As #TeacherAppreciationWeek concludes, CYDC wants to express our deepest thanks to the Partner teachers who empower students and our AmeriCorps Members across District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Your commitment and support is invaluable. Let's keep celebrating and uplifting educators every day! ???? #TeacherAppreciation #EducatorLove #CYDCCommunity #Gratitude

Hey City Year DC alums– got a minute? ? Our 2024 All-Alumni Update survey is open and we’d love to hear from you! ?? Please fill out this 2-3 minute questionnaire to update your contact, career information, and alumni interests with City Year so we can better serve you and stay connected. Find the survey now at cityyear.org/alumnisurvey Please check your email first for your personal link before using the general link provided above.

Thanks to all the awesome alumni who joined us yesterday for a fun happy hour at our new office! It was amazing to see alumni from 2 decades worth of service come together to reconnect and show support. The evening was filled with some insightful conversations and learning about what's new with CYDC! Looking forward to more events and memories together! For more about ways to donate, or get involved with CYDC, please visit the link in our bio or DM us to connect with our External Affairs Team. ?? #CYDCAlumni #NewOffice #GoodTimes

Highlighting our City Year Washington, DC Executive Board Members on #ThankfulThursday has turned into one of my favorite things each week! That's mainly because these amazing executive leaders are also pretty awesome people, and there isn't a better example of that the one and only Daphne Turpin Forbes. She comes from a legacy of leaders and leads on a large scale, all while being one of the most down to earth people. Daphne has been a tremendous force for good in our community and we are so excited that she has joined our board! Please check out her bio below and join me in welcoming Daphne to our board! Daphne Turpin Forbes, Assistant General Counsel and Managing Attorney is a trusted legal and business advisor at Microsoft with 20+ years of practice in the U.S. Public Sector and Commercial Regulated Industries.?Her corporate experience spans in-house at companies like Microsoft, Discovery Communications, ACS State & Local Solutions (formerly Lockheed Martin IMS), Hyatt Hotels, and General Motors. She is lead counsel and managing attorney responsible for supporting Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences and Public Sector businesses (“HPSI”); an $11.8B Enterprise Operating Unit comprised of three business segments of Microsoft’s U.S. Industries: specifically, State & Local Government, Education, and Health and Life Sciences advising clients on various legal matters including; complex technology and professional services transactions, legal, compliance and regulatory issues, data privacy and security matters, critical infrastructure considerations,?government and enterprise cloud, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), public sector contracts/procurement law and ethics, public policy considerations; matters raised by U.S. Attorneys General; and health and life sciences regulations.?Prior to her role in HPSI, she also supported the company’s financial services and federal government business verticals. Daphne is a DEI champion and has served on various non-profit boards and advisory councils nationally and in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.??Daphne recently served as Chairwoman and County Commissioner of the Liquor Board in Prince George’s County, Maryland.?She has also served as an adjunct law professor at Howard University School of Law where she co-instructed a class on Technology and Law.?Daphne is a member of the Maryland State Bar and National Bar Associations and is the corporate recipient of the Microsoft MVP Circle of Excellence (Gold Club) Award, the National Bar Association’s Clyde E. Bailey Corporate Leadership Award and is the 2020 recipient of Michigan State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.?She is a graduate of Michigan State University, and the American University Washington College of Law.?Daphne lives in Prince George’s County, Maryland with her husband and their two young adult children.