Chicago Children’s Charities supports non-federally funded “grassroots” community organizations who are dedicated to positively impacting the lives of local children.
Run by passionate individuals, these organizations tend to lack staff members to conduct formal fundraising initiatives. As such, relatively small contributions enable these organizations to continue their amazing work.
We only donate funds where our contributions have a major impact on the receiving organizations and all prospective beneficiaries are vetted to determine the effect of our contribution to their charitable activities.
2023 BENEFICIARIES
The Chicago Chapter of “A Special Wish” grants wishes to children 21 years or younger with life-threatening conditions. CCC’s donation goes towards making children’s wishes come true.
Tutoring Chicago (formerly Cabrini Green Tutoring Program) fosters pathways for success by positively influencing the relationship that elementary school children have with learning. We do this by providing economically disadvantaged children in Chicago with one-to-one tutoring by adult volunteers, along with quality resources and programming.
Maywood Fine Arts Association is dedicated to providing fine arts education to low-income and minority children in Chicago’s Maywood Community. The organization has a combined student body of 800+ in its dance, music, voice, tumbling and drama programs. The dance program provides lessons in tap, ballet, and jazz. The music program teaches lessons in drums and piano. CCC’s donation goes towards teacher stipends and building maintenance.
Reading In Motion’s goal is to get every student reading at grade level or above during their early years, especially students whose environment or other circumstances put them in greater need of support. To accomplish this, the organization partners with schools and teachers to deliver an engaging and innovative reading curriculum, in both English and Spanish, together with our on-site specialized coaches to inspire students to learn and teachers to grow.
Chicago Run is a nonprofit organization that provides young people from Pre-K through high school with inclusive running and physical activity programs. We empower young people with equitable access to physical activity and use running as a catalyst to transform lives. Through the power of sport, we build resilience to stress and trauma and develop social and emotional skills. We primarily focus programming in under-resourced communities with limited access to physical activity and play.