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Darryl Bundrige is the Executive Director and Senior Vice President of City Year Philadelphia. He began his career with City Year Philadelphia in 2009 as Managing Director of Impact and assumed his current role in 2015. As Executive Director, Darryl maintains strategic relationships with the School District of Philadelphia, City Year Philadelphia’s site board, corporate and philanthropic partners, and the wider Philadelphia community.
Darryl graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in business. A native of Pittsburgh, Darryl moved to Philadelphia to enthusiastically serve with the National School and Community Corps during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 school years, where he tutored and mentored elementary school students. Prior to joining the City Year staff, Darryl worked as Dean of Students for Belmont Charter School and Director of After-School Programs at the Center for After-School and Community Education at Foundations Inc.
Since becoming Executive Director of City Year Philadelphia, Darryl has increased public and private funding, expanded the staff from 35 to 50 employees, and reached an operating budget of $10 million, up from $8 million. Each day, he inspires, challenges, and supports staff along with diverse teams of AmeriCorps members (ages 18-25) who serve as mentors and tutors in schools across Philadelphia. He has also led the execution of City Year’s Whole School Whole Child school-based service model, and launched the first ever School District Leadership Summit—an opportunity for local education leaders to meet and discuss impact.
For Darryl, service is a lifestyle. He remains a steady advocate for mentorship and youth education both at work and outside of the office. Among his many civic engagement activities, Darryl has served on Penn State’s Alumni Council, is the former co-chair of the National Service Task Force in Philadelphia, a current member of the Cedar Park Neighbor Association Scholarship Committee, and member of the Fast Start mentoring program. Likewise, he is active in the Philadelphia African-American Leadership Development Forum sponsored by the Urban League, of which he was an inaugural member.
Throughout all his roles, Darryl takes pride in connecting people to build networks and get things done. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including being named as a 2015 Brothers Network honoree, 2010 Outstanding Alumni Council Member awardee, the K. David Weidner Diversity Award recipient, a 2018 “Made Man” honoree, and a 2019 Philadelphia Business Journal Diversity Business Leader award recipient.
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