This summer, the CITY Teen Leaders learned about publishing a magazine. Michelle Pratt, a community volunteer, worked with the teen leaders, to write, edit and publish a magazine focused on young males, their issues and their health. The title of the magazine is “Da Truf”. Articles in the magazine focussed on topics such as stereotypes, [...]

The members in the Community Improvement Through Youth (CITY) Project  are learning how to fund raise by organizing and hosting a basketball tournament. This community event will raise money to support programs at the Broome County Urban League in Binghamton and OASIS Afterschool Program in Endicott. This will help the children in these programs to continue [...]

The Broome CITY Project held a tech training at the Boys & Girls Club in Endicott today.  Celeste Carmichael, CITY Tech Coordinator, demonstrated how to post to the blog-style website, how to add photos and add video to the website.  Watch here for new content!

Students from the CITY Project put on a play for fifth graders at Theodore Roosevelt. CITY Project stands for Community Improvement Through Youth and we are also known as the Agents of Change. The students dedicated their time and work into this play. They gave up their lunch just to educate younger students on Black [...]

In February, two members from the CITY Project in Endicott and four members from Binghamton went to the capital of New York, Albany. These members went to the Capitol Building to spread the ideas of CITY Project. They met Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, Assemblyman Clifford Crouch, and State Senator Tom Libous. They spoke with their legislators [...]

On April 16 Barbyly Noel and An Ngo, members of the CITY Project, attended a Children and Youth Service Council meeting. An and Barbyly attended along with Dr.  June Mead, CITY Project’s state director, and presented the CITY Project: A Civic Engagement Model as the program has been the recipient of many awards. An and Barbyly got to talk about some [...]

In December 2008, CITY Project from Binghamton and Endicott went to the Handicapped Children’s Association dressed as reindeers and Santa Claus and sang for the children – ages 1 to 5.
Miguel Southee dressed up as Rudolph and while the Project was singing, he danced with some of the boys and girls.  Dylan Bridges also dressed [...]

 Programs like CITY Project which help youth in many different ways could be left with no funding. The CITY Project helps us improve ourselves, teaches us different ways to handle problems, shows us our true potential, keeps us in line, as well as many other qualities that can help us as adults.
Some of the students [...]

Today we had this meeting of sorts. We learned to post articles right here on our Blog.  I decided to write about our three new members, - Julia, Luis, and Moi (James) – . The CITY Project is  VERY cool, and…I like it, alot. We plan on continuing our participation here in the CITY Project.

 In Endicott we talked to the village board to see what we could do as a project to improve the community. Mr. Frank Flint said that we should look at the “Old Carriage House”. This building was a historic Endicott Johnson “Home of the Square Deal” building. It is located behind the library which was originally [...]