For 46 years, Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, Inc. has provided free one to one tutoring for elementary school children from the Cabrini Green neighborhood and surrounding areas. In a city where the high school dropout rate runs nearly 50% and many of the local schools we serve sit near the very end of the public schools ranking,
our free tutoring and mentoring services are needed more than ever.
Therefore, we remain true to our mission to
help economically disadvantaged students succeed in elementary school and beyond. Cabrini Green Tutoring Program provides a safe learning environment where students and tutors work
one to one using an abundance of educational resources, technology and life skills materials, along with quality programming and special events. We continue this today with over 250 children, 300 volunteers and the generous support of so many individuals.
With your support, Cabrini Green Tutoring Program has been able to further
improve its services over the last year and expand our boundaries to reach even more children in need.
- Additional bussing to provide even safer transportation.
- Wireless technology to double the children’s access to computers.
- A pilot project called Literacy Intensive Tutoring (LIT) using early intervention literacy resources on a one to one basis for nearly three hours a week.
- Services to qualifying children from the Logan Square neighborhood.
Your financial support, whether large or small, allows us to provide these and other crucial services to deserving disadvantaged youth.
- $1,000 will pay for books and materials for Literacy Intensive Tutoring
- $500 will pay for two weeks of safe bus transportation.
- $250 will buy new library books and reference materials.
- $100 will buy school supplies and teaching resources.
- $50 will buy necessary consumables like paper and pencils.
- $25 will buy healthy snacks for a night
I hope you will do what you can to assist our needs by sending your tax deductible contribution in the enclosed envelope.
Thank you for helping to brighten the horizons of disadvantaged children in the Chicago area.
Jill Heller
Director of Fundraising
Erin McPartlin
Executive Director
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list of our in-kind needs throughout the year.
Letters to Santa go quickly! Request a letter(s) from us in late November/early
December to purchase, wrap and deliver a gift(s) for a child at the Holiday time.
Gifts should be delivered to the center by Saturday, December 12th.
Donate new hats and gloves sets. Better yet, organize a drive at work where colleagues
can also contribute. All students receive a new set of gloves and a hat/scarf to
match at the holidays.
Small items are always needed for our CGTP Store. At holiday time, student use their
accumulated points to purchase holiday gifts for their loved ones.
Collect gently used or new coats for children sizes 6 on up. Free coats are also
available to our students at holiday time.
Purchase or organize a book drive of new or very gently used children's books. Our
students choose two new books in December. One is a gift that they wrap up for someone
special, and the other is for them to keep.
Donate wrapping paper, bows, tape, labels, etc. - we always need it this time of
year.
Ask your friends to help, too
A lot of people are looking for a worthwhile cause to support, and you might be
pleasantly surprised at a friend's eagerness to help the Cabrini-Green Tutoring
Program, Inc.
Call the Tutoring Center at (312) 397-9119 to get involved.
Or email us at
emcpartlin@cabrinigreentutoring.org
For 46 years, the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Inc. has been dedicated to defining
and responding to children's needs and to creating quality, innovative instructional
programs that are not only educational but boost self-esteem. We accomplish this
through personalized mentoring provided by one-on-one, weekly tutoring sessions.
Additionally, we have interactive, fun programs to stimulate the children's interest
in education, while improving their literacy skills.
Your participation will help us continue to build on our successful program and
implement new educational activities that will better prepare Cabrini-Green children
for the challenges they face today and tomorrow. CGTP is a safe haven for many children
-- a place to form friendships with supporting adults and focus on educational,
cultural and artistic activities.
Tutoring sessions are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6:10 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. We are happy to answer any questions you may have about the Tutoring Program
and how you can become involved.
For more information on sponsorship or fundraising, please e-mail
Jill Heller
or call at (312)397-9119.