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CIS of Chicago was established in 1988 to help children become more successful in school and in life by connecting community-based organizations, hospitals, universities and other community partners to schools. CIS of Chicago has substantially increased the number of students served annually during the past 20 years, growing from roughly 12,000 ...
Central Stickney School District 110; Chicago Heights School District 170; Chicago Ridge School District 127-5; Cicero School District 99; Community Consolidated School District 59; Community Consolidated School District 146; Community Consolidated School District 168; Cook County School District 130; Country Club Hills School District 160
The Chicago Community Trust was founded in 1915 by Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, and his son Albert Wadsworth Harris. [5] The founders were inspired by The Cleveland Foundation, the country’s first community foundation, which was established the year before. [5] Most of the Trust’s funding during 1915 ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, [5] in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest [6] school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County.
Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15, often initialized CCSD15, is a school district in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois with its headquarters in the Joseph M. Kiszka Educational Service Center in Palatine. [4]
Converted to the School district's Administration office; Cornell Elementary School - located at 7525 S. Maryland Ave, closed in 1975 and demolished in 1980. Dodge Elementary School - Now served as Chicago Public Schools, Garfield Park Office. Ana Roque De Duprey School - located at 2620 W Hirsch St.; voted to be closed in 2013. The Board of ...
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001 that worked with half of Chicago's public schools and was funded by a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years from the Annenberg Foundation.
The first community foundation was set up in Cleveland in 1914 by Frederick Goff and operates now as The Cleveland Foundation. [3] Others soon followed including the California Community Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. The first Community Foundation in Canada, The Winnipeg Foundation, was established in Winnipeg in 1921. [4]