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Chicago Cares is a nonprofit organization that connects prospective volunteers with volunteer opportunities throughout Chicago. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 1991 by Leslie Bluhm and Mary Prchal. [4] In addition to connecting volunteers to service programs, Chicago Cares offers a training called Power of Service. [5]
Founded in 1988, Communities In Schools of Chicago is partnering in 2019-20 with 175 Chicago Public Schools and 200+ service providers to facilitate program and service connections that address students' needs – all at no cost to students or schools. Many of these services are basic but essential, from health services to arts enrichment to ...
Care Force is a part of City Year specifically created to engage corporations and their employees in high-impact volunteer events to help improve schools and communities. Since launching in 2001, Care Force has led more than 100,000 volunteers in service projects and managed more than 700 events, and worked in over 220 communities in 10 ...
Supportive adults – Community schools can ensure that relationships are established between young people and adults in the community (i.e., health care providers, case managers, additional social workers, and volunteer mentors) by integrating these services with existing pupil personnel services on the campus.
Cecil Partee Academic Preparatory Center - occupied the old Hookway Elementary School; Chicago High School (1856–1880) - renamed Central High School in 1878, closed in 1880; building demolished in 1950 to make way for the Kennedy Expressway [14] Chicago Talent Development High School (2009–2014) Chicago Virtual Charter School (K–12, 2006 ...
The UNO Charter School Network (UCSN) was founded in 1998 when UNO recognized the need to bolster public education in Chicago as a way to effect positive change in predominantly Hispanic communities. The first school, Octavio Paz Elementary was in Pilsen, Chicago and has since grown to 13 K-8 elementary schools and 3 high schools.
Project Exploration currently serves nearly 1,000 students. It began as an after-school and summer program when Gabrielle Lyon, a teacher at Fiske Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago, decided that students underrepresented in the sciences, primarily girls and minorities, should be given opportunities to collaborate with actual scientists and participate in real-life scientific research.
Urban Prep Academies is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit organization, and relies substantially on private donors to support its operations. [citation needed] The organization's largest source of funding is the Illinois State Board of Education, which funds all charter schools in the state on a per-pupil basis.