City Year Chicago

13th Annual Ripples of Hope Awards Dinner

The Ripples of Hope Dinner raised essential revenue directed to training diverse young leaders to serve as tutors, mentors and role models – helping to build the high school graduation pipeline.

PJH Contact: Kara Forrestal e-mail

City Year

At City Year’s locations across the United States, London, England and South Africa, young people – called “corps members” – serve full time for 10 months. These young leaders serve as tutors, mentors and role models to at-risk students, keeping them in school and on-track to graduate. City Year Chicago has 154 corps members serving 4,350 Chicago Public School students, As a City Year Chicago corps member, by providing supports in attendance, behavior and course performance during the school day in addition to after school programming.

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