Mayor Bloomberg Graduates City's Second NYC Civic Corps Class

July 27, 2011
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today delivered remarks at the graduation ceremony of the City’s second NYC Civic Corps class—a specially trained group of AmeriCorps members who work at nonprofit organizations and City agencies to help increase the number of volunteers they can utilize amd serve a greater number of New Yorkers in need. The NYC Civic Corps members just completed their ten-month term of service, during which they worked to create sustainable volunteer management structures within nonprofits. During their year of service, the Civic Corps members helped 53 nonprofits and City agencies recruit more than 715,000 volunteers. The NYC Civic Corps is a key component of NYC Service, the Mayor’s comprehensive initiative to promote a new era of volunteerism in New York City and direct volunteers toward the City’s areas of greatest need. The Mayor was joined at the graduation ceremony at Gracie Mansion by First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris; the City’s Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford; Kevin Cummings, the Director of the NYC Civic Corps; and Marc Hem Lee, a member of the 2010-2011 NYC Civic Corps class, who was chosen to reflect on the collective experience of the corps members.

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