City Year has received a five-year, $21 million commitment from Ballmer Group to expand educational equity and nurture the next generation of civically engaged leaders.

The investment includes $20 million in support of City Year’s general operations and $1 million to help address students’ recovery from the impacts of the pandemic. To that end, City Year will invest in the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), which the organization helped establish. As part of Ballmer Group’s renewed commitment to organizations across the country working to improve economic mobility in wide-ranging impact areas, including K-12 education, the investment will provide critical capacity for the NPSS Hub and support City Year’s work to replicate its student success coach model beyond the organization’s footprint.

“We are enormously grateful for Ballmer Group’s investment, which will enable us to execute our strategic plan for increased impact across the country,” said City Year CEO Jim Balfanz. “This includes advancing our fast-growing teacher pathways work, building upon our equity-focused research and learning agenda, which is helping to inform policy shifts and best practices, and expanding and helping others replicate our evidence-based student success coach model in more schools.”

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