Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) ignites the entrepreneurial mindset with unique learning experiences that empower students to own their futures. A global nonprofit founded in 1987, NFTE provides high-quality entrepreneurship education to middle school, high school, and postsecondary students. NFTE brings the power of entrepreneurship to students, regardless of family income, community resources, special needs,…
One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees (OMD) provides holistic, wraparound services to accelerate community college students’ progress on pathways to economic mobility. These services include financial support, academic support, coaching and professional development. Founded in 2006, OMD is the only organization in Illinois providing comprehensive support to low-income community college students to help them succeed in school, life…
Chicago Collegiate
Starting in middle school, we partner with families to prepare scholars to be leaders, change agents, and set a positive trajectory for themselves, their families, and their community. Through their experience with us, scholars are provided with rigorous academic attention to ensure rapid growth, opportunities for new experiences and visits to new places, exposure, guidance…
Code Nation
Code Nation equips students in under-resourced high schools with the skills, experiences, and connections that together create access to careers in technology. Our vision is for youth in low-income circumstances and from under-represented backgrounds in tech to have equitable access to a career in their local tech sector, where they can realize economic security and…
Children’s Research Triangle
Children’s Research Triangle (CRT) has provided more than 21,000 high-risk children and their caregivers in the Chicagoland area with essential behavioral and mental health services since 1998. CRT believes that access to mental health services is a social justice issue for Chicago’s Black and brown children and has become a highly respected model with a…
The Bloc
The Bloc envisions a Chicago where every young person is the champion of their own life. To achieve this, The Bloc cultivates the love of boxing to provide transformational resources to Chicago’s youth and communities. The sport of boxing allows us to engage youth who want to fight in order to help them fight for…
HEAR Scholarship
The HEAR Scholarship Foundation provides financial assistance and a college success program to low-income Chicagoland high school seniors who demonstrate academic excellence, commitment to community, and personal integrity in their pursuit of a college education. Through its nationally recognized program, HEAR is committed to increasing the declining college enrollment and graduation rates from underrepresented communities…
Mikva Challenge
Mikva Challenge is a nonpartisan nonprofit whose mission is to develop youth into informed, empowered, and active citizens who will promote a just and equitable society. We do this by engaging youth in Action Civics, a transformative learning process built on youth voice and expertise. We coined the term action civics to describe our philosophy…
