Acknowledgements

NYC Service could not do the work to build City Service Corps alone. In addition to our current and former AmeriCorps members and host site supervisors, we would like to acknowledge:

All of our current and former funders: American Express, Citi Foundation, CSX, Disney, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Lizzie and Jonathan M. Tisch Family Foundation, New York Community Trust, Trinity Wall Street, UJA Federation of NY

Paula Gavin, former NYC Chief Service Officer who had the vision for City Service Corps

May Malik, former NYC Service Public/Private Partnerships Director who wrote the AmeriCorps grant and all the funding proposals for the first four years to ensure program success

Patricia Eng, former Chief Service Officer

Dabash Negash, former NYC Service Chief of Staff

CNCS current staff: Barbara Stewart, Chester Spellman, Jennifer Bastress Tahmasebi, Sarah Yue

CNCS former staff: Wendy Spencer, Bill Basl, Jessica Vasquez, Kim Mansaray

NYS Commission Staff: Linda Cohen, Beth Tailleur, Michael Stevens

The entire staff of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, especially Toya Williford, Chris Kelsaw, Leah Prestamo and Aarthi Gunasekaran

Mayor’s Office Administration current staff: Maya Jakubowicz, Mir Bashar and former staff: David Sheehan

NYC Office of Management and Budget staff: Gilian Bower, Shane Loughran, Jessie Spence and former staff: Jeremy Halbridge

Department for Youth and Community Development staff: Alan Cheng, Jagdeen Phanor, Caroline Press, Nawshin Varming

City Service Corps Management Committee: Dawn Pinnock, Bess Chiu, Matt Klein

Service Year Alliance former staff: Shirley Sagawa, Jay Mangone, Mackenzie Moritz, Rosa Moreno

Former NYC Service Staff who worked on City Service Corps: Sara Nitschke, Sarahn O’Uhuru, Jessica Brothers, Christopher Frye, Jess Man, Natasha Mills

Bridgette Blair, consultant, for the writing and design of the City Service Corps Blueprint

And the current NYC Service Team: Anusha Venkataraman, NYC Chief Service Officer, Shilpa Jackman, Public/Private Partnerships Director, Steph Halpin, Marketing and Communications Manager, and the entire NYC Service Team

Aaron Miner, NYC Service’s Managing Director of Service Year Programs, who built, launched and expanded the program.

NYC Service Staff Leading City Service Corps: Tashawn Morgan, Megan Tenes, Melvin Rosario, Megan Solomon