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Dear Friends and Supporters,
As we reflect on this past year, our hearts are filled with gratitude for our donors, supporters, and the teachers who are the recipients of the grants. Every donation, sponsorship, and volunteer hour fuels Opportunity GrantED’s mission to provide students with the optimal educational experience by granting resources in underserved communities throughout Chicagoland.
Thank you for your generosity in bringing our mission to fruition.
For the 2024-2025 school year, Opportunity GrantED received 319 applications from 40 schools for our fall 2024 grant cycle. From these applications, we funded 190 grants totaling nearly $34,000.
We consolidated our annual grant cycle by streamlining our process, enabling us to reach more educators while strengthening our behind-the-scenes efforts.
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We are thrilled to announce that we exceeded our year-end fundraising goals for 2021! This will allow us to increase the number of grants we fund in 2022 by 25%. We are so excited about this growth and look forward to helping more teachers and students in Chicago Public Schools. We know there are many non-profits to support who are doing amazing work, and we are incredibly grateful for our donors who believe in Opportunity GrantED's mission and place a priority on supporting equality in education.
As we look back on 2021 and consider the challenges that teachers and students faced, we are incredibly grateful to our supporters who donated to keep our mission going strong. We are so proud of the impact we had in 2021 by awarding $28,000 worth of items to 108 Chicago Public School teachers. In our fall grant cycle we received TWICE the amount of applications as in previous cycles.
We are excited to announce that Opportunity GrantED and Redefined Fitness are launching a collaborative fundraising campaign called Dollars for Devices! Together, we set a goal to raise $30,000 in the month of July to provide 100 chromebooks to Sherman School of Excellence on the southwest side of Chicago. This special campaign is outside of Opportunity GrantED’s typical grant cycles, and we are excited to broaden our impact with Redefined Fitness.
Press
Alexa Burnell, Freelance Reporter
5:00 am CST February 7, 2020
Chicago public school teachers will no longer have to wish upon a star to see their educational dreams come true, thanks to Wilmette’s Kristen Bowie and Kim Peters.
New Non-profit Launches to Help Create Equality in Education for Chicago Public Schools
Chicago, IL -- A new nonprofit, Opportunity GrantED, Inc., recently launched its mission to create equality in education based on the belief that every child from every community deserves an equal education regardless of socio-economic status.
Grant Deadlines
Fall Grant
September 15