Prior Lend-A-Hand Grantees
The following tutoring and mentoring programs have been awarded Lend-A-Hand grants in years past.
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE (BHGH) helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need and at-risk from neighborhoods including Cabrini Green, Lawndale, Austin, and others on the south and west sides of Chicago. Student scholars are ages 13-18 in the BHGH residential program, and BHGH graduates attending college. The program is a mentoring and tutoring program.
Contact
Peter Beale-Delvecchio
847.920.2783
[email protected]
Location
1100 Laramie Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
http://www.chicagobhgh.org/
BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES matches youth ages 7-15 one-on-one with a caring adult for at least one year, meeting two-four hours a week. The Bridge offers young people a healthy relationship in which they can develop strengths and skills to avoid high-risk behaviors such as alcohol/drug use, gang involvement, sexual activity, teen pregnancy, and school dropout.
Contact
Liz Dobrzynski
847.485.3061
[email protected]
Location
721 S. Quentin Road, Suite 103
Palatine, IL 60067
http://www.bridgeyouth.org/
CHANGING LIFE EDUCATION INITATIVE, INC. has a dynamic tutoring and mentoring program that serves youth ages 6-18 in Englewood, Auburn Gresham, and Grand Boulevard. The program is a safe-haven for latch-key youth and provides one-on-one mentoring, fun activities, and academic support.
Contact
Audrey Johnson
773.633.2165
[email protected]
Location
Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
7050 S. May St.
Chicago, IL 60621
www.changinglifeinc.com
CHICAGO LIGHTS TUTORING serves students in grades 1st-12th providing tutoring and mentoring on a weekly basis from October through May. The focus for younger students is on reading and math skills. While working on academic skills, older students also gain leadership skills, assistance in applying for college, and internship opportunities. The majority of students come from Chicago’s Near West and Near North neighborhoods. Students are also provided free transportation and a hot meal.
Contact
Fernie Tiflis
312.981.3381
[email protected]
Location
126 E. Chestnut
Chicago, IL 60611
http://www.chicagolights.org/
CHICAGO SCHOLARS identifies energetic and promising students from almost every Chicago neighborhood who are determined to make the most of their college experience and provides them with programming, tools and mentoring to help them succeed; beginning with college choice and access and continuing through college graduation.
Contact
Brian Socall
312.784.3320
[email protected]
Location
247 S. State Street, Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60604
http://www.chicagoscholars.org/
CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS’ (CYP) Tutoring and Teen Tutoring Programs are outcome focused, tutoring and mentoring programs serving youth ages 13-16. CYP operates in three broad neighborhoods – Cabrini Green/Near North, Washington Park, and Uptown. (Lend-A-Hand funding supports the Washington Park program.)
Contacts
Monique Cook-Bey (Washington Park)
773.924.0220, ext. 123
[email protected]
Location
5350 S. Prairie
Chicago, IL 60615
http://www.chicagoyouthprograms.org/
COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES coaches economically disadvantaged students in north suburban Districts 113 & 115 on how to get into college, find financial aid, and graduate from college. Each CBO scholar is paired one-on-one with an adult mentor who works with them from junior year in high school through college graduation to achieve the student’s goals.
Contact
Susan Bell
847.943.9226
[email protected]
Location
2033 N. Milwaukee Ave., Suite 246
Riverwoods, IL 60015
http://www.cbo4edu.org/
ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE seeks volunteers for its “Tutoring to Educate on Aims and Motivation (TEAM)” program which matches volunteers with 8th-12th grade students to focus on a mix of academic tutoring and mentoring that helps students transition to high school and college.
Contact
Rosalba Castrejon
312.432.2282
[email protected]
Location
1701 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.eriehouse.org/
FAMILY MATTERS‘ Community Tutoring program offers tutor-mentoring activities after school to students (grades K-12th) in the North of Howard/Rogers Park community. Students and tutors commit to working together for an academic year. In addition to academic support, students gain tools to be their own educational advocates and make healthy academic choices.
Contact
Brooke Turner
773.465.6011 x123
[email protected]
Location
1701 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.eriehouse.org/
GADS HILL CENTER partners with Orozco Community Academy to offer the New Horizons mentoring program. The program provides one-to-one mentoring relationships for at-risk 6-8th graders. Gads Hill is currently developing a partnership with Finkl Elementary School to pilot a new, school-based cohort and maximize program impact in Chicago’s Pilsen community.
Contact
312.226.0963 ext. 240
[email protected]
Location
1919 W. Cullerton St.
Chicago, IL 60608
www.gadshillcenter.org
HORIZONS FOR YOUTH is a community organization committed to helping low-income, Chicago children recognize and achieve their full potential. Horizons works with students as early as kindergarten through high school graduation offering them an array of support services including: scholarships, mentoring, tutoring, summer academic programs, and monthly enrichment outings.
Contact
Brian Broccolo
312.627.9031
[email protected]
Location
703 W. Monroe
Chicago, IL 60661
http://www.horizons-for-youth.org/
LIFE DIRECTIONS‘ Peer Mentor Program (PMP) serves CPS students, ages 13-18, targeting underserved youth attending Farragut and Community Links High Schools to make college or a quality career a viable option.
Contact
Van Bensett
773.265.5806
[email protected]
Location
Community Links H.S.
2400 S. Marshall
Chicago, IL 60623
Farragut H.S
2345 S. Christiana
Chicago, IL 60623
http://www.lifedirections.org/
LINK UNLIMITED, Chicago’s most experienced African-American high school mentoring and scholarship programs, brings together the comprehensive resources required to shape high potential youth from underserved neighborhoods into academic achievers and life-long community leaders.
Contact
Dr. Rosalind Blasingame-Buford
312.225.5465 ext 12
[email protected]
Location
2221 S. State St.
Chicago, IL 60657
http://www.linkunlimited.org/
McGAW YMCA’s Project SOAR mentors children in grades 4th-8th from the Evanston community. Hours and locations vary. SOAR’s purpose is to enrich the life of individual Evanston youth.
Contact
Jace Smith
847.475.7400, ext. 218
[email protected]
Location
1000 Grove Street
Evanston, IL 60201
http://www.mcgawymca.org/
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES, DUPAGE‘s MetroMentors is a youth mentoring program provided in partnership with schools and community organizations in DuPage County. Screened and trained adult mentors are matched one-to-one with at-risk youth ages 7-14. Occasional group activities are held to facilitate social skills development for youth.
Contact
Marsha Lightfoot-Ndoko
630.784.4836
[email protected]
Location
222 E. Willow Ave.
Wheaton, IL 60187
www.metrofamily.org/metromentors
THE MIDTOWN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (MEF) provides one-on-one weekly tutoring/mentoring sessions for inner-city students in grades 4th – 6th and weekly academic classes and one-on-one mentoring for grades 7th – 12th. MEF’s mix of academic and character education helps at-risk students enroll in college at nearly five-times the rate of their peers nationwide.
Contact
Carolyn Madigan
312.226.4886, ext. 232
[email protected]
Location
718 S. Loomis St.
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www.midtown-metro.org/
The PARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE & ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK) provides mentoring services and scholarships for at-risk high school students to attend Holy Trinity High School. Mentors commit to mentoring a student for their four years of high school, to meet and communicate monthly, and to attend coordinated PEAK student/mentor events.
Contact
Shawnee Bernstein
773.235.8003
[email protected]
Location
1658 N. Milwaukee, Number 301
Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.peakchicago.org/
PASSAGES ALTERNATIVE LIVING PROGRAMS INC. operates an individualized mentoring program for youth ages 6-18. Mentors provide weekly sessions with mentees for one to three hours. The objective of the program is to engage participants in interactive self-improvement and esteem building activities geared at avoiding anti-social and criminal behaviors.
Contact
Christine Smith
312.225.3800, ext. 32
[email protected]
Location
10 W. 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60616
http://www.passagesalt.org/
PENEDO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION‘s program is designed to support not only the long-term achievement but also the social and emotional growth of its students. Each year, the program enrolls ten at-risk 6th grade girls and guides them through a tutoring and mentoring program that provides sustained intervention and resources throughout their middle school, high school, and post-secondary education.
Contact
Nely Bergsma
312.340.4776
[email protected]
Location
Unity Lutheran Church
1212 West Balmoral Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
http://www.penedocharitable.com/
TUTORING CHICAGO helps economically disadvantaged students succeed in elementary school and beyond. The program pairs students with volunteer adult tutors and provides educational and life skill resources.
Contact
Bradley Troast
312.397.9119
[email protected]
Location
2145 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614
http://www.cabrinigreentutoring.org/
UCAN‘s Mentor and Volunteer Program pairs the talents and interest of responsible men and women with youth, aged 12-19, who are in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services. The program helps young people build positive relationships with adults and broadens a child’s social and cultural experiences.
Contact
Nichelle Simmons
773.290.5888
[email protected]
Location
3737 N. Mozart
Chicago, IL 60618
http://www.ucanchicago.org/
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS (WITS) increases the reading proficiency and learning capacity of low-income and minority students in the Chicago Public Schools. WITS recruits and supports dedicated business, university, government, and community volunteers who deliver measurable and consistent tutoring and mentoring services within five unique programs reaching students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.
Contact
Maria Villarreal
312.269.4514
[email protected]
Location
641 W Lake Street #200
Chicago, IL 60661
http://www.witschicago.org/
YEAR UP CHICAGO (YUC) is a one-year intensive workforce development and education program for urban young adults from ages 18 to 24. Once accepted to the program, participants enter a 6-month long program Learning and Development phase, wherein they receive college-level training in IT, business communications, and professionalism. This is followed by a 6 month professional internship with a corporate partner, during which each participant is matched with a professional mentor to further their development.
Contact
Jenny Wolfe
312.982.8231
[email protected]
Location
223 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60606
http://www.chicagobhgh.org/
YOUTH UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION’s (Y.O.U.) is a mentoring program designed to reduce delinquency, violence, and gang involvement through comprehensive positive youth development services and structured mentoring opportunities. Mentor Y.O.U.th provides opportunities for vulnerable youth, ages 11-18, in Evanston and Skokie to develop long-term, positive relationships with community volunteers.
Contact
Tori Robbins
847.866.1200 ext. 300
[email protected]
Location
1027 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60202
http://www.youevanston.com/
The following tutoring and mentoring programs have been awarded Lend-A-Hand grants in years past.
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE (BHGH) helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need and at-risk from neighborhoods including Cabrini Green, Lawndale, Austin, and others on the south and west sides of Chicago. Student scholars are ages 13-18 in the BHGH residential program, and BHGH graduates attending college. The program is a mentoring and tutoring program.
Contact
Peter Beale-Delvecchio
847.920.2783
[email protected]
Location
1100 Laramie Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
http://www.chicagobhgh.org/
BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES matches youth ages 7-15 one-on-one with a caring adult for at least one year, meeting two-four hours a week. The Bridge offers young people a healthy relationship in which they can develop strengths and skills to avoid high-risk behaviors such as alcohol/drug use, gang involvement, sexual activity, teen pregnancy, and school dropout.
Contact
Liz Dobrzynski
847.485.3061
[email protected]
Location
721 S. Quentin Road, Suite 103
Palatine, IL 60067
http://www.bridgeyouth.org/
CHANGING LIFE EDUCATION INITATIVE, INC. has a dynamic tutoring and mentoring program that serves youth ages 6-18 in Englewood, Auburn Gresham, and Grand Boulevard. The program is a safe-haven for latch-key youth and provides one-on-one mentoring, fun activities, and academic support.
Contact
Audrey Johnson
773.633.2165
[email protected]
Location
Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School
7050 S. May St.
Chicago, IL 60621
www.changinglifeinc.com
CHICAGO LIGHTS TUTORING serves students in grades 1st-12th providing tutoring and mentoring on a weekly basis from October through May. The focus for younger students is on reading and math skills. While working on academic skills, older students also gain leadership skills, assistance in applying for college, and internship opportunities. The majority of students come from Chicago’s Near West and Near North neighborhoods. Students are also provided free transportation and a hot meal.
Contact
Fernie Tiflis
312.981.3381
[email protected]
Location
126 E. Chestnut
Chicago, IL 60611
http://www.chicagolights.org/
CHICAGO SCHOLARS identifies energetic and promising students from almost every Chicago neighborhood who are determined to make the most of their college experience and provides them with programming, tools and mentoring to help them succeed; beginning with college choice and access and continuing through college graduation.
Contact
Brian Socall
312.784.3320
[email protected]
Location
247 S. State Street, Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60604
http://www.chicagoscholars.org/
CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS’ (CYP) Tutoring and Teen Tutoring Programs are outcome focused, tutoring and mentoring programs serving youth ages 13-16. CYP operates in three broad neighborhoods – Cabrini Green/Near North, Washington Park, and Uptown. (Lend-A-Hand funding supports the Washington Park program.)
Contacts
Monique Cook-Bey (Washington Park)
773.924.0220, ext. 123
[email protected]
Location
5350 S. Prairie
Chicago, IL 60615
http://www.chicagoyouthprograms.org/
COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES coaches economically disadvantaged students in north suburban Districts 113 & 115 on how to get into college, find financial aid, and graduate from college. Each CBO scholar is paired one-on-one with an adult mentor who works with them from junior year in high school through college graduation to achieve the student’s goals.
Contact
Susan Bell
847.943.9226
[email protected]
Location
2033 N. Milwaukee Ave., Suite 246
Riverwoods, IL 60015
http://www.cbo4edu.org/
ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE seeks volunteers for its “Tutoring to Educate on Aims and Motivation (TEAM)” program which matches volunteers with 8th-12th grade students to focus on a mix of academic tutoring and mentoring that helps students transition to high school and college.
Contact
Rosalba Castrejon
312.432.2282
[email protected]
Location
1701 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.eriehouse.org/
FAMILY MATTERS‘ Community Tutoring program offers tutor-mentoring activities after school to students (grades K-12th) in the North of Howard/Rogers Park community. Students and tutors commit to working together for an academic year. In addition to academic support, students gain tools to be their own educational advocates and make healthy academic choices.
Contact
Brooke Turner
773.465.6011 x123
[email protected]
Location
1701 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.eriehouse.org/
GADS HILL CENTER partners with Orozco Community Academy to offer the New Horizons mentoring program. The program provides one-to-one mentoring relationships for at-risk 6-8th graders. Gads Hill is currently developing a partnership with Finkl Elementary School to pilot a new, school-based cohort and maximize program impact in Chicago’s Pilsen community.
Contact
312.226.0963 ext. 240
[email protected]
Location
1919 W. Cullerton St.
Chicago, IL 60608
www.gadshillcenter.org
HORIZONS FOR YOUTH is a community organization committed to helping low-income, Chicago children recognize and achieve their full potential. Horizons works with students as early as kindergarten through high school graduation offering them an array of support services including: scholarships, mentoring, tutoring, summer academic programs, and monthly enrichment outings.
Contact
Brian Broccolo
312.627.9031
[email protected]
Location
703 W. Monroe
Chicago, IL 60661
http://www.horizons-for-youth.org/
LIFE DIRECTIONS‘ Peer Mentor Program (PMP) serves CPS students, ages 13-18, targeting underserved youth attending Farragut and Community Links High Schools to make college or a quality career a viable option.
Contact
Van Bensett
773.265.5806
[email protected]
Location
Community Links H.S.
2400 S. Marshall
Chicago, IL 60623
Farragut H.S
2345 S. Christiana
Chicago, IL 60623
http://www.lifedirections.org/
LINK UNLIMITED, Chicago’s most experienced African-American high school mentoring and scholarship programs, brings together the comprehensive resources required to shape high potential youth from underserved neighborhoods into academic achievers and life-long community leaders.
Contact
Dr. Rosalind Blasingame-Buford
312.225.5465 ext 12
[email protected]
Location
2221 S. State St.
Chicago, IL 60657
http://www.linkunlimited.org/
McGAW YMCA’s Project SOAR mentors children in grades 4th-8th from the Evanston community. Hours and locations vary. SOAR’s purpose is to enrich the life of individual Evanston youth.
Contact
Jace Smith
847.475.7400, ext. 218
[email protected]
Location
1000 Grove Street
Evanston, IL 60201
http://www.mcgawymca.org/
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES, DUPAGE‘s MetroMentors is a youth mentoring program provided in partnership with schools and community organizations in DuPage County. Screened and trained adult mentors are matched one-to-one with at-risk youth ages 7-14. Occasional group activities are held to facilitate social skills development for youth.
Contact
Marsha Lightfoot-Ndoko
630.784.4836
[email protected]
Location
222 E. Willow Ave.
Wheaton, IL 60187
www.metrofamily.org/metromentors
THE MIDTOWN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (MEF) provides one-on-one weekly tutoring/mentoring sessions for inner-city students in grades 4th – 6th and weekly academic classes and one-on-one mentoring for grades 7th – 12th. MEF’s mix of academic and character education helps at-risk students enroll in college at nearly five-times the rate of their peers nationwide.
Contact
Carolyn Madigan
312.226.4886, ext. 232
[email protected]
Location
718 S. Loomis St.
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www.midtown-metro.org/
The PARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE & ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK) provides mentoring services and scholarships for at-risk high school students to attend Holy Trinity High School. Mentors commit to mentoring a student for their four years of high school, to meet and communicate monthly, and to attend coordinated PEAK student/mentor events.
Contact
Shawnee Bernstein
773.235.8003
[email protected]
Location
1658 N. Milwaukee, Number 301
Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.peakchicago.org/
PASSAGES ALTERNATIVE LIVING PROGRAMS INC. operates an individualized mentoring program for youth ages 6-18. Mentors provide weekly sessions with mentees for one to three hours. The objective of the program is to engage participants in interactive self-improvement and esteem building activities geared at avoiding anti-social and criminal behaviors.
Contact
Christine Smith
312.225.3800, ext. 32
[email protected]
Location
10 W. 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60616
http://www.passagesalt.org/
PENEDO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION‘s program is designed to support not only the long-term achievement but also the social and emotional growth of its students. Each year, the program enrolls ten at-risk 6th grade girls and guides them through a tutoring and mentoring program that provides sustained intervention and resources throughout their middle school, high school, and post-secondary education.
Contact
Nely Bergsma
312.340.4776
[email protected]
Location
Unity Lutheran Church
1212 West Balmoral Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
http://www.penedocharitable.com/
TUTORING CHICAGO helps economically disadvantaged students succeed in elementary school and beyond. The program pairs students with volunteer adult tutors and provides educational and life skill resources.
Contact
Bradley Troast
312.397.9119
[email protected]
Location
2145 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614
http://www.cabrinigreentutoring.org/
UCAN‘s Mentor and Volunteer Program pairs the talents and interest of responsible men and women with youth, aged 12-19, who are in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services. The program helps young people build positive relationships with adults and broadens a child’s social and cultural experiences.
Contact
Nichelle Simmons
773.290.5888
[email protected]
Location
3737 N. Mozart
Chicago, IL 60618
http://www.ucanchicago.org/
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS (WITS) increases the reading proficiency and learning capacity of low-income and minority students in the Chicago Public Schools. WITS recruits and supports dedicated business, university, government, and community volunteers who deliver measurable and consistent tutoring and mentoring services within five unique programs reaching students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade.
Contact
Maria Villarreal
312.269.4514
[email protected]
Location
641 W Lake Street #200
Chicago, IL 60661
http://www.witschicago.org/
YEAR UP CHICAGO (YUC) is a one-year intensive workforce development and education program for urban young adults from ages 18 to 24. Once accepted to the program, participants enter a 6-month long program Learning and Development phase, wherein they receive college-level training in IT, business communications, and professionalism. This is followed by a 6 month professional internship with a corporate partner, during which each participant is matched with a professional mentor to further their development.
Contact
Jenny Wolfe
312.982.8231
[email protected]
Location
223 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60606
http://www.chicagobhgh.org/
YOUTH UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION’s (Y.O.U.) is a mentoring program designed to reduce delinquency, violence, and gang involvement through comprehensive positive youth development services and structured mentoring opportunities. Mentor Y.O.U.th provides opportunities for vulnerable youth, ages 11-18, in Evanston and Skokie to develop long-term, positive relationships with community volunteers.
Contact
Tori Robbins
847.866.1200 ext. 300
[email protected]
Location
1027 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60202
http://www.youevanston.com/
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