Word: khazei
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Founded by Khazei and Brown, this "urban Peace Corps" program will get into full gear in a few weeks. Although it was developed from an idea to a reality just this year, City Year has drawn together a working group which includes recent graduates and students of Harvard College, Law, Business and Kennedy Schools. Equally critical to making the City Year experiment fly is its impressive and expanding group of advisors and sponsors, which includes former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner and the Bank of Boston...
Unlike the Peace Corps, City Year was founded in a Law School student's apartment, not the White House. The program is an independent, privately funded venture, and Khazei and Brown drew heavily on students and faculty at the Law School when creating it. Even President Bok participated, appraising and discussing a 10-page sketch of City Year which the two presented...
City Year's working members see it as part of a tiny but potentially booming national youth service movement. The idea of a national youth service program has been bandied about for a long time and Brown and Khazei--roommates at the College and the Law School--both researched a national service bill while interning for members of Congress on Capital Hill. They and other proponents of national service now say that using a decentralized network of local groups like City Year might be the most practical way to realize their ideal...
They posit that the United States needs more institutions to ease students' transitions from being irresponsible high-school kids to acting as adult citizens. City Year, Khazei says, "is more than taking a year off; it is developed as a bridge between youth and adulthood...
...Khazei's vision of public service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...