There are many opportunities to Guest Mentor an underserved high school. This is the ideal volunteer opportunity for those who want to be a mentor but can’t make an ongoing commitment. The tax-deductible contribution to be a guest mentor is $25. Your contribution covers your student’s dinner and materials fees.
Guest Mentor at AIM High Career Fair
Join us for cocktails and hear from fabulous kids whose dreams will inspire you. Mingle with dynamic people who care about making people’s lives better. Relax. Have fun!
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The Safety Net Community ensures all students have the opportunity to earn a college degree. Underserved students face many financial, logistical, academic and social barriers to college graduation that are unique to them. This community of people who care about kids and their futures, and care about enabling families to overcome poverty makes an annual donation to ensure all students, and especially those who are low-income, minority, or have invisible differences, overcome the barriers, graduate from college and enter a fulfilling career. Thank you for making your donation below.
We know we care about people, but we don’t always let them know as frequently as we could. Many underserved children have expressed the sentiment “no one cares.” While it’s not true that no one cares, it is true that kids don’t feel the caring nearly enough to give them the confidence and sense of security they crave. Here’s a way to show that you care. Not only will students feel it, they’ll taste it!
AIM High will send packages filled with sweet treats to our high school and college students!
Your care package is tax-deductibe. Donate today.
Contents of package:
An Assortment Of 40 individually wrapped single serve snacks. Including, Grandmas Cookies, Cheez It Original single serve packages, Snyders Pretzels, Gold Fish Crackers, Chex Mix, M&M Cookies, Fiber One Oats & Chocolate, Rice Krispies, Welches Fruit Snacks, Airheads, Laffy Taffy, Lemon Head Candies, and Planters Peanuts.
Thank you!
Here’s what Hon. Toni Preckwinkle says about Center for Companies That Care
Hon. Toni Preckwinkle Address to City Club 10/20/2016
One of the programs we’ve partnered on is offered by Center for Companies that Care, a local not for profit, which has done a wonderful job of getting corporate partners to extend new opportunities to young people. They mentor and support hundreds of students in public schools from middle school through college graduation. In addition to academic and social support, they offer financial mentoring that guides students and their families through the financial aid and scholarship maze.
They also offer a Career Awareness Internship for high school students. Students earn a stipend while exploring career opportunities that do not exist in the neighborhoods where they live and study. As a teacher, I have to admit that I was pleased to learned, that they are also teaching responsibility by holding students accountable their actions.
We asked them to include some students who have already had contact with the legal system. Students earned a stipend while exploring career opportunities they previously did not know existed.
This is not an expensive program – but it is an impactful one. Corporate involvement not only reduces the cost to provide the program, but gives it additional depth and diversity. This past summer our group of young men and women got to visit Baxter Health Care, Magid Glove, Power Construction, TTX, Fairmont Chicago, the Art Institute and the Nadler Financial Group, just to name a few.
We want to expand this type of programming. This is only the beginning. Cook County is home to thousands of excellent, growing businesses that could be engaged as well as thousands of young people, who could benefit from the exposure.
What we saw firsthand this summer is that justice involved students preformed just as well the other students. They engage in discussions, asked great questions and were just as stunned as the other young people when using their cell phone during work cost them a chunk of their stipend.
One of my staffers sat in on a session for the students at a downtown hotel, which provided a tour, engaging speakers who described their careers, and a video of hotels around the world. The discussion went well until one young girl stopped the speaker in her tracks with a question.
“I see that you have beautiful hotels in beautiful places all over the world. Why did you build a hotel in Chicago?’
The presenter, a lively young woman from Great Britain recovered from her surprise and answered, “because this is a great city, a beautiful city.”
“No, “replied the young girl, “no, not really. It does not look like the places in your video.”
Chicago has been my home for over 50 years. I’m a proud Chicagoan and Cook County resident. However, there is a reason why I started my discussion about public safety with one on neighborhoods. We have communities in the City and County where, due to crime, violence and isolation, an alternate reality is being shaped for our young people.
Video Link: https://www.cityclub-chicago.org/video/1131/hon-toni-preckwinkle (at 15:20)
College Champions are the people who care. These are the people who believe in equal opportunity; that EVERYONE deserves the opportunity to get a college degree. These are the people who persevere to #saveAIMHigh. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you’ve finished doing the hard work you already did. These are the people who believe AIM High should live on. Won’t you join them?
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