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The mission of Skills for Chicagoland's Future (Skills) is to create demand-driven solutions for employers to get the unemployed and underemployed back to work. Skills' vision is to continuously meet employers' talent needs to create economic opportunity for individuals who are under and unemployed. While the national unemployment rate has fallen below 5%, there are still over 7 million Americans out of work, and an additional 7.6 million workers are either underemployed or discouraged. Certain segments, such as youth and minority populations, are disproportionately affected, lacking access to hiring networks leading to employment. Skills is addressing these issues by connecting individuals from a diverse set of Chicagoland neighborhoods and populations, to available jobs. While we work in all areas throughout Chicago and Cook County, the largest geographic concentrations of Skills' placements come from Chicago's south and west sides. In 2015, 43% of individuals Skills placed resided in community areas with unemployment rates higher than 20%; 58% of Skills' placed-job seekers experienced long-term unemployment (more than six months). Seventy-three percent of Skills' placements were African-American, 14% were Hispanic, 62% were women, and 30% were youth. Seventy-three percent of all participants indicated they were collecting public assistance prior to working with Skills.

To establish a powerful national nonprofit record label that works with at-risk youth to create broadcast quality recordings with positive messages which are socially conscious, inspiring, and impactful.

Through our French-language programs and online community, we highlight the social and career advantages of bilingualism and forge linguistic and cultural links among secondary school students enrolled in French courses across the country.

Missions are affiliated at all times with state-sponsored institutions and are led by foremost Western medical professionals, all of whom volunteer their time and expertise. Surgical volunteers treat one face, one child at a time, despite the complexity of the case or the limitations that local conditions might place upon them.

We have forged partnerships with amazing Ethiopian NGO’s who are, like us, committed to providing a “hand up” not a “handout”. Beneficiaries of the programs contribute in some form providing local resources, labour, expertise, and wisdom in order to ensure local ownership and thereby sustainability We undertake all our activities with a sense of Joy and Gladness ever mindful of the trust that has been placed in our ability to keep our administration to a bare minimum and make use of each donation to effect real results “in the field”.

H2TF AIMS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT BACKGROUND COMPLETING CREDENTIALS OF VALUE. WE CONNECT STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. WE WORK WITH STUDENTS TO DEVELOP INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES. WE ILLUMINATE CHOICES AND PATHS TOWARD ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. WE BELIEVE WE ARE ALL WORTHY OF MANIFESTING OUR POTENTIAL AND HAVING A POSITIVE IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY.

Inspiring and catalyzing action towards a plastic-free future by combining adventure, education, and youth empowerment.