CY 101: Community Meeting

Community Meetings bring together the corps, staff and non-City Year folks alike to build community, to share information, to reflect, to celebrate and to learn new skills. Each site hosts Community Meetings once or twice a month, usually following Leadership Development Day. Annual Community Meetings include summer training academy ad CYZYGY, the network's annual convention of idealism.

Site-wide Community Meetings center on a theme, such as the board game Operation, a trip to the grocery store, or a field trip on the Magic School Bus. At City Year Greater Philadelphia, each Community Meting consists of an opening skit, Joys, Ripples, Starfish Stories, Stone Soup, Moccasins, and Life Works.

Each of the elements of a Community Meeting is included to allow all members of the site to reflect on what they've done so far in their service, to hear what other teams are accomplishing, to inspire each other to overcome difficulties in the day-to-day of City Year, and to strengthen our community. This also acts as an excellent opportunity to pause, appreciate what's been done and re-energize for what is yet to come.