Past Programs

Agape Youth Foundation Located in East Garfield Park, Agape’s Victory Club after-school program provides personalized needs assessment and opportunities for education enhancement, homework assistance, crafts, performing arts, physical fitness and social development. A past grantee, Agape conducts innovative, resident-led programs to achieve resident-based solutions. AKArama Foundation, Inc. Created in 1994 and administered by the AKArama Foundation, F.A.M.E. (Families As Mentoring Entities) is a community service, after school program serving students, grades 3rd through 6th, in the Dixon and Pirie elementary schools in the Chatham neighborhood. American Indian Center Positive Paths provides a safe and culturally appropriate learning environment for Native American students (the “Students”). We increase the Students’ knowledge about their cultures and communities. While facilitating positive interactions between the Students. We strongly encourage and help prepare the Students to participate in higher education. Bethany Brethren Community Center Bethany Brethren Community Center runs youth programs focused on improving student achievement in the East Garfield Park community. The Center provides homework assistance and arts education four days a week during the school year and five days a week during school vacations and the summer for 100 elementary-age children. Blessed Sacrament Youth Center Blessed Sacrament Youth Center began in response to the North Lawndale community’s need for a safe, healthy environment to counter the streets. The center challenges its youth through guidance and opportunities to promote values and develop maturity and skills necessary to become responsible adults and leaders. Please visit our website at www.bsyc.org Blue Sky Inn The Blue Sky Inn provides creative, recreational and educational activities to at-risk adolescents in Chicago. All of our work is carried out by trained, committed volunteers. Our programs take place in domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, and community center. Please visit our website at www.blueskyinn.org. Breakthrough Urban Ministries* Breakthrough Urban Ministries was created in 1992 to provide neighborhood-based holistic services that empower individuals, families and urban communities in the Edgewater/Uptown neighborhood to overcome poverty, addiction and isolation. Please visit our website at www.breakthroughministries.com. Chicago SCORES Chicago SCORES mission is to inspire a lasting dedication to education, healthy living and civic responsibility in urban children. Please visit our website at www.chicagoscores.org. Chinese Mutual Aid Chinese Mutual Aid’s Youth Department provides after-school tutoring, leadership development, and other recreational activities for 94 immigrant and refugee children and youth, ages 4-19, in the Uptown community. Gads Hill Center Gads Hill Center is a community-based family resource center serving Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Its Learning Connection program provides educational assistance to at-risk elementary school students. A past grantee, Gads Hill recently began the Primero, La Ciencia, program in collaboration with The Chicago Botanic Gardens. This urban environmental science camp for 7th-9th graders was awarded one of six national Leadership Awards from The United States Institute for Museum and Library Services. Please visit our website at www.gadshillcenter.org. Girls In the Game Girls in the Game (GIG) provides and promotes sports and fitness opportunities, nutrition and health education and leadership development to enhance the overall health and well being of all girls in Chicago. Please visit our website at www.girlsinthegame.org Girls on the Run - Chicago Girls on the Run-Chicago (GOTR) uses the power of running to educate and inspire girls for a life time of self-respect and healthy living. Please visit our website at www.gotrchicago.com Institute for Positive Living Institute for Positive Living with its Open Book program is designed to build early adolescents’ reading, literacy, analytical and communication skills through exploration of literature and self-expression. In conjunction with several Chicago public schools, students read culturally significant books, participate in writing workshops then plan and present a performance based on their readings. MusicAlive! Using a direct instructional approach that connects everyday life to music, the MusicAlive program helps students improve perceptive listening, critical thinking and creative participation skills. New Horizons for Youth New Horizons for Youth serves 50, impoverished children and youth, ages 6-17, living in Chicago's South and West Sides through out-of-school-time tutoring, life management skills workshops, recreational activities, and counseling. Meals and snacks are provided as well as parent education services. Pros Art Studio Pros Art Studio is a community-based multi-arts organization serving the Pilsen neighbourhood dedicated to enhancing individual and community life. Pros Arts brings artists and communities together while offering workshops and classes in crafts, performing arts and theatrical productions. Please visit our website at www.prosarts.com San Miguel School San Miguel School is an alternative school for grades six through eight which offers after-school, evening and family outreach programs that provide mentoring, tutoring, scholarship support, sports and field trips. A past grantee, San Miguel now has two south-side campuses: one in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, and the new Gary Comer Campus in Austin. Please visit our website at www.san-miguel.org. Saving a Childhood Foundation Saving a Childhood Foundation is organized to encourage children to chase their dreams and be productive members of their communities, SACF programs target at-risk youth, ages 7-18. Combining job training (culinary arts) with academic programs, character-building workshops, arts, sports and field trips, SACF aims to positively impact the cycles of negativity afflicting the Humboldt Park and surrounding communities. South Chicago Art Center The South Chicago Art Center’s mission is to provide a safe place for children after school by bringing arts education to Chicago's most impoverished schools and to stimulate the imaginations of participants of all ages in order to decrease incidences of crime and substance abuse. Please visit our website at www.happyartcenter.org South Harper Montessori School Based on the Montessori Philosophy, the South Harper Montessori School cares, nurtures and educates children utilizing hands-on, minds-on activity oriented strategies. Southside Educational Center for Youth* The Southside Educational Center for Youth is committed to helping youth become responsible, productive, and engaged citizens. The program offers educational and recreational activities during out-of-school hours to children aged six to thirteen from the Roseland, Pullman, and Riverdale communities.A past grantee, SECFY recently finished a successful capital campaign, enabling the organization to move into a larger space and help for more children. Please visit our website at www.secy.org. Starfish Learning Center Starfish Learning Center provides a safe, nurturing environment where at-risk children and teens learn, are encouraged and have fun. Please visit our website at www.starfishchicago.com Sue Duncan Children's Center Sue Duncan has been teaching kids at her South Side Chicago after-school Children's Center since 1960. On a daily basis, an average of 40 children attend the Center to receive one-on-one tutoring, participate in educational group discussions on a variety of topics, receive a nutritious meal and enjoy recreational activities. Please visit our website at www.sueduncanchildrenscenter.org The Beloved Community The Beloved Community's Excellence in Education program provides evening and weekend tutoring, academic enrichment, college exploration, college application and admission support, college test preparation, and scholarship and financial aid counseling for 50 African-American youth, grades 6-12. The Learning Network Center The Learning Network Center, serving the Austin community, arguably the city's largest and most troubled neighborhood, the Learning Network Center has helped kids beat the odds since its founding in 1972. Providing a community-based, alternative school to students ages 4-14, the Learning Network Center offers a full in-school curriculum, as well as after school programming focused on tutoring, youth outreach, workshops and recreational activities to fill the programming void that currently exists. West Humboldt Park Center for Performing Arts West Humboldt Park Center for Performing Arts was created to address the severe lack of child and youth programming within the west side community, the West Humboldt Park Center for Performing Arts offers after school and summer camp programming in drama and the theatre arts. Students take part in artistically-oriented field trips and performances, including road shows, while gaining valuable career training.Youth Technology Corps The Youth Technology Corps, Inc. provides 100 youth, grades 9-12, with access to technology resources and skills through school-based programs in Chicago, and seeks to enable youth to provide tech service to low-income communities and experience other cultures. Please visit our website at www.ytcorps.org Young Men's Educational Network The Young Men’s Educational Network provides academic coaching, long-term mentoring, entrepreneurial training, summer camping, and college financial assistance for 100 young men, ages 12-18, in the North Lawndale community. Please visit our website at www.ymenchicago.com Art Therapy Connection Art Therapy Connection (ATC) provides art psychotherapy to students within their school setting who have been identified as at risk of failure socially, emotionally and academically and who are currently not receiving any mental health services. Please visit our website at www.arttherapyconnection.org Dime Child Foundation Dime Child Foundation's mission is to provide resources and services to at-risk, low-income students that would ensure them hope for a promising future. Through programs that emphasize the importance of education, mentoring and leadership, youth are encouraged to seek their highest level of potential. Please visit our website at www.dimechild.org The Cambridge School The Cambridge School's after-school program, The Ambassadors Club seeks to increase self-discipline, parental involvement, and academic performance for 45 students, ages 3-8. Please visit our website at www.cambridgechicago.com  Hudson Academy Foundation The Hudson Academy Foundation provides a fitness martial arts program for residents of the Village of Robbins (south suburb) and surrounding communities. Other programming includes basketball, summer camp, before- and after-school care, and cheerleading for 50 children and youth, ages 4-16. Please visit our website at www.hudsonacademy.org .