Stephen B. Soumerai and Matthew W. Gillman
City Year's unhealthy corporate ties
CITY YEAR, the brainchild of Michael Brown and Alan Khazae, is like an urban Peace Corps. Every year, about 1,000 17- to 24-year-old men and women serve at least 1,700 hours in cities and schools, often in low-income urban areas, in the United States and South Africa. City Year volunteers do demanding work like cleaning parks and painting schools and ... (Full article: 571 words)
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