Our Focus
By working together across neighborhoods and issues and sectors, Chicagoans are helping make our city a place where all people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Championing these efforts is our focus.
By working together across neighborhoods and issues and sectors, Chicagoans are helping make our city a place where all people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Championing these efforts is our focus.
To strengthen Chicago and its neighborhoods, we support efforts focused on workforce development, housing, community and economic development, legal services, and safe communities.
Explore Strong CommunitiesTo strengthen families and their support networks across Chicago, we invest in efforts that promote healthy relationships and youth development and offer equitable access to holistic services.
Explore Strong FamiliesTo ensure all Chicago public school students are prepared for success in college, in their careers, and in life, we invest in school improvement and student academic success.
Explore EducationTo improve the health outcomes of Chicagoans, especially those affected by poverty, we support efforts that expand access to school-based and community-based preventive and primary health care.
Explore HealthTo increase Chicago public school students' access to the learning opportunities that come from deep participation in the arts, we support school-based arts education programs and community-based arts instruction for youth.
Explore Arts Access and LearningTo help our grantees — and the systems in which they operate — thrive, we support capacity building at the organization level and at the sector level.
Explore Enhanced CapacityTo achieve greater impact, we often join forces with our colleagues in philanthropy, nonprofits and the public and private sectors.
Explore Strategic Collaborations
