The Reach for Excellence Awards Dinner offers a chance to help place Chicago’s disadvantaged youth on a path to success. MEF’s after-school programs strengthen at-risk youth in both academics and character.
2020 Honorees:
John J. Conroy, Jr., Principal and Former Global Chair, Baker McKenzie
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., Executive Partner, Madison Dearborn Partners and Professor, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Event Contact: Briana Wagner
About Midtown Educational Foundation
Midtown Educational Foundation (MEF) guides low-income urban youth in Chicago along pathways of success. Its proven enrichment programs embrace the dignity of the person by focusing on academic excellence, virtue development, individual attention, and parental involvement.
MEF operates through its Metro Achievement Center for girls and Midtown Center for boys in grades 4-12. Programs focus on Hispanic and African-American youth, offering after-school and summertime growth opportunities that help students of average academic ability to achieve above-average results. Programs are rooted in Catholic moral and social teaching and embrace students regardless of their religious, racial, ethnic, or familial status.
MEF’s approach can best be remembered with the help of an acronym that also describes every child it serves: “A V.I.P.”, with the “A” standing for ACADEMICS; the “V”, VIRTUES; the “I”, INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION; and the “P”, PARENTS.
To make a reservation, please visit our event website at: midtown.org/dinner