Programs
Make a Difference Youth Foundation*
Make A Difference Youth Foundation - Provides technology-oriented after school tutoring and extracurricular programs for elementary students, and college prep for high school students from across Chicago. More than 150 students are served each week. Please visit our website at www.makeadifferenceyf.org.
About Our Program
Elementary school programs include after-school tutoring, summer technology camp, a stock market program and a children's book club. High school programs include ACT preparation classes, college trips, live college videoconferences, career speakers and job shadowing, youth led weekly planning sessions, educational workshops and retreats, community service projects, an e-mentoring program, an e-tutoring Program, and a teen book club. Every high school student participating in the college bound program has been accepted to college for fourteen straight years with over 65% of those students currently in college or recipients of a four-year college degree.
Primary contact
Johnnie James Jones III
President/CEO
johnniej@makeadifferenceyf.org
708-955-4471
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Program Spotlight
T.E.A.M. Inc. mission is to provide boys and girls between the ages of 6-13 years of age (who are currently enrolled in a elementary, junior high, or high school) with a program that will help them to address social and ethical values that are very prevalent in society today. T.e.a.m. program’s address the need for establishing and maintaining structured activities for disadvantage, low-income, inner city children. Our programs provide a safe environment that foster positive peer interactions, teamwork, positive adult interactions, and respect for authority.
Website: www.t.e.a.m.8m.com
The Food Research and Action Council identifies afterschool programs as effective venues for improving nutrition, nutrition education and physical activity (Food Research and Action Council, 2006)