Our Crowdfunding Groups
Thank you for your interest in the Cities Project! Our spring campaign has ended, but you can still make a gift and make a difference! Click here to support the Cities Project today!
Summertime is coming, but what that means depends on where you live. For children living in neighborhoods with little money and power, summertime often brings more violence and less learning and health.
To make summertime more fair and more fun, the Cities Project will provide educational, therapeutic, and collaborative programming three days a week between June 27th and August 17th. Summer program leaders and mentors will travel around the city in a school bus, picking each child up from their doorstep to maximize safety, and to include those with barriers to transportation.
Summer program students will travel to DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus for science experiments, podcasting and music recording, team building activities, cooking and dance classes, and arts and crafts. Summer program leaders also take youth on field trips around the city including the beach, nature preserves, the zoo, and swimming pools.
Summer program students will work on maintaining community gardens in their neighborhoods, with opportunities to partner with urban farmers.
The summer program also provides leadership and employment opportunities for Cities Project students that have continued to stay involved in the program into high school, our junior mentors.
More about the Cities Project
The Cities Project provides treatment for the traumas of urban poverty while helping youth escape the cycle of poverty through education and advocacy. The Cities Project connects Chicago Public School students who are fighting poverty with university mentors and therapists to support healing, learning, and activism and to build community across our divided and unequal city. Check us out on Instagram, Spotify, and TikTok!
We understand that this remains a challenging time for many, but we hope you will give your best gift today to support those who are facing the toughest challenges.
With a gift of this amount, we can provide meals for a child for one week.
A gift of this amount will cover the cost of feeding a child for the duration of the summer program.
This gift will help us purchase fresh fruits and veggies for the children for the summer.
This gift will cover the cost of transportation to and from our program for an entire week!
With this gift, we can feed all the children in our program for the entire summer.
We need a new Macbook to teach the children video/podcast/music editing. This generous gift will allow us to purchase one!
