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The Commission oversees the work of carefully selected and trained volunteers who provide personal outreach to the ever-changing members of the diplomatic community. The mission of the volunteers is to ensure that new arrivals learn about the practical services of the Commission and feel more at home in this large city (one-third of New York's diplomatic community changes each year). New arrivals, many with families, are visited and given a special information kit about the City.
The volunteers also provide immediate solutions to the problems of resettlement and adjustment to a new culture. During the General Assembly, a group of volunteers maintains a special Host City Information Desk at the United Nations as well. The members of the volunteer corps are of diverse backgrounds that wish to share the best of our City with its foreign guests and to make American goodwill a reality for them.
Education is a major concern for all members of the diplomatic community. Requests for assistance or advice are received by the New York City Commission's Education Coordinator, who explains and guides the families of diplomats and consular officers on public and private school entrance procedures and rules of eligibility from day care through postgraduate programs.
 Young Ambassadors' Program
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