Back to School Time for City Year Chicago

For many of us, “back to school” means our children continue their outstanding educations in safe, clean, well supplied schools, under the guidance of spectacular teachers.

This is not so though for too many students in Chicago Public Schools.

The good news is that decades of concerted civic attention has created many opportunities for us to help.  Even better, Make It Better has given Philanthropy Awards to or worked with several of them too.  Because of this, you can trust that any donations of your talent, things or financial support will be well-spent. A few organizations we’ve been proud to work with include :

Bernie’s Book Bank and Literature For All Of Us, to name a few. It’s a good time to recognize the work that City Year is doing at this important back-to-school time.

City Year – Helping Chicago Public Schools

When you think that nearly a third of Chicago public school students from grade 3-9 are at risk to drop out, you know there a lot of work to be done.  City Year Chicago’s 206 highly skilled City Year Chicago corps members step in as near peer mentors and serve to keep students in school and on track. This is a mission that really shows results. I recently wrote about it for our Make It Better Magazine and feel passionate about the cause. Here are just a few mentioned on their website;

Our corps members serve students in 20 Chicago public schools and we continuously track and measure our impact. Here are the results from the previous school year:

Improved academics

89% of Chicago teachers say corps members improved their students’ overall academic performance.

Better grades

64% of students in grades 6 through 9 earning a D or worse, improved to a C or better.

More attendance

86% of principals felt confident corps members boosted school attendance.

 

Please consider supporting this impactful and extremely important organization by attending their Back to School Soiree 

 

More Details here;

Back to School Soiree!

Infused with energy from City Year’s red-jacketed AmeriCorps members, this one-of-a-kind event will celebrate the impact City Year Chicago has on the lives of students right here in Chicago.

Date: Friday, September 19th 2014 
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: The Library Club (190 S. LaSalle Street, 40th Floor Chicago, IL 60603)

For sponsorshop information and earlybird ticket rates, please visit the event registration page.

Please direct questions about the event and sponsorships to Nicole Camboni, Major Gifts Officer for City Year Chicago.

 

 Please keep us posted on the issues most important to you and your family. We always like to discover new way to help and make it better for yet another population in need.