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Girls Inc. of Chicago delivers life-changing experiences that inspire girls to be strong, smart and bold enough to overcome challenges. Our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers.

My Brother's Keeper Alliance ("MBK Alliance") is an independent, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) that works to elevate the voices of boys and young men of color and unite cross-sector leaders and youth to improve life outcomes and impact lasting social change.

VisionAshoka envisions a world where Everyone is aChangemaker: a world that responds quickly and effectively to socialchallenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence andsocietal support to address any social problem and drive change. MissionAshoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers

Walltown Children’s Theatre inspires positive social change by empowering and reconnecting young people from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, creating a new expression of community, and enriching their lives and those of their families and communities, through exemplary performing arts instruction and youth development programming.

Our mission is to empower both youth and adults as agents of positive individual, institutional, and social change. We envision a world in which youth, working with adults in mutually respectful and supportive relationships, can use their voices creatively to inspire, lead, and empower their communities to achieve justice and peace.

The Scraper Bike Team empowers urban youth living in underserved communities through self-expression and creativity. We encourage youth entrepreneurship and promote healthy, sustainable living for all. The Scraper Bike Team will use each work of bicycle art to impact social justice and global change.

Outside the Lens (OTL) activates and amplifies voices of historically marginalized individuals through photography, filmmaking, and media arts, catalyzing change within themselves, their community, and the world. For over 20 years, we have delivered an adaptable curriculum to 22,000 youth in weekly classes, after-school programs, summer sessions, workshops, and teacher training. We use cameras and digital media along with a proven educational strategy that allows youth to think creatively, engage in issues that are important to them, and advocate for social change.

Changing lives through challenge and discovery.

Our mission is to mobilize children as agents of change in their communities.

Choose 180 impacts our community through programs that support youth and young adults in at-risk situations by helping them commit to a positive direction for their life and by surrounding them with a community of support to help them sustain their commitment to change and by convening, supporting and advancing community based initiatives that promote justice and fairness to ensure the social well-being of our youth.

SBCC’s mission is to reduce economic and social inequality in historically marginalized communities through relationship-based community organizing and authentic resident-driven civic engagement. Our mission is anchored in SBCC’s core belief that sustainable social impact must be resident-led and community-driven. SBCC has empowered individuals, strengthened families, and transformed communities in partnership with community residents for more than four decades. Through this work, we promote local leadership so residents become active agents of change.

Reaching, changing, and saving lives by bringing a message of hope and love to a desperate generation.