New Chance: Arts & Literature Fund

A plan to invest and enhance access to enrichment programming within the school day.

The New Chance Fund launched the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year impacting 20 schools within the Chicago Public School system. The grant engages principals with $100k gift for 3-years to create their vision schools.

With staffing and budgeting support from Ingenuity and The Children’s First Fund, our first cohort has seen implementations of new capital expenditures, curriculum, and staff, meant to enrich the bell-to-bell school day for students. As the 2018-2019 school year approaches, SocialWorks plans to introduce a second cohort of schools focused on expanding students access to computer science enrichment education, pushing our impact to 40 schools.

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