City Year 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 donors.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

The challenges
From the outside, it looks like City Year faces quite a few challenges in its quest to raise money and move forward with its mission — ministering to two distinct groups of people (corps members and students in the schools they serve) and corralling 18 individual domestic sites, each with its own interests, personality and community issues, to name just a few.