It's almost a habit now. Once a month, guest athletes lead an educational activity. The program started four years ago in St. Paul, Minn., expanded to Boston, Mass. and arrived in Chicago last October. Similarly, a board grant added the Chicago public schools to the work of the MidAmerica Leadership Foundation, whose focus is helping new and emerging ministries and foundations develop and train executive boards. Now it has 92 tutors working with 200 students.
Additional funding comes from churches.
The MidTown Educational Foundation has been around for 33 years and has been tutoring public school students since 1989 at two centers in Bucktown and the Near West Side. The board's money is used to transport Ryerson students to Orr High School, where they are tutored three days a week by students in the Future Teachers of America program. I want to give back to the community where I see the greatest need. I want to teach children the pitfalls of drugs and alcohol and at the same time teach them responsibility, how to set goals, develop positive relationships and finish what they start. A CPS grant created a tutoring program for Goldblatt Elementary School in West Garfield Park.