About NYC Service

In April 2009, Mayor Bloomberg launched NYC Service, the citywide initiative tasked with setting a new standard for how cities can tap the power of their people to tackle their most pressing challenges.

NYC Service is comprised of 22 diverse and innovative initiatives that aim to achieve three overarching goals:

• Help more New Yorkers connect to service opportunities more easily
• Target volunteers to address the City’s greatest needs
• Promote service as a core part of what it means to be a citizen of the greatest City in the world.

A key focus of NYC Service is to heighten accountability within the field and to set a new standard for measuring the impact of volunteerism and service.

NYC Service aims to drive volunteer resources to six impact areas where New York City’s needs are greatest:

• Strengthening communities
• Helping neighbors in need
• Improving education
• Protecting our environment
• Increasing public health
• Enhancing emergency preparedness

USE YOUR BLANK FOR GOOD.

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NYC Service is New York City's Regional Volunteer Center

NYC Service is also proud to be our area’s designated Regional Volunteer Center.  This state-wide network is made up of organizations that are working together to achieve the following primary objectives during the next three years:

• Develop and expand a sustainable network of national and community service agencies that will provide services and resources to communities throughout New York State;
• Engage one million New Yorkers in active service in order to increase New York's volunteer rate to the current national average and help address our State’s most pressing needs;
• Deliver volunteer management training that will strengthen the capacity of non-profit agencies statewide and more strategically engage national service programs and volunteer resources as a solution to critical local problems; and
• Elevate the State Commission's capacity to implement its objectives statewide, capture regional and local volunteer statistics to full analyze the service landscape in New York, and increase the overall impact of skill-based volunteers to meet community needs.