THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Founded in 1981, All Stars Project (ASP) is a 501(c)3 national nonprofit that uses a performance based approach to help tens of thousands of inner-city youth and their families create success in their lives. The Magnificent Mile Charitable Foundation raised over $50,000 for ASP in 2023, which will support ASP’s new Hub for Afterschool Development in the heart of downtown Chicago. With an anticipated 2023 opening on the horizon, the Hub will connect youth to the mainstream, create new partnerships, and highlight the transformational power of performance to grow and develop inner-city youth and communities.

In ASP’s Development School for Youth, young people ages 16 to 21 experience a variety of improvisational, personal development, and coaching experiences through which they learn to perform as professionals, and they partner with business leaders across the country who conduct development workshops and provide paid summer internships at their companies. The Foundation’s donation will support ASP’s new Hub for Afterschool Development in the heart of downtown Chicago.

CHI provides meals every Wednesday evening to 150 disadvantaged and homeless individuals in the community at the facilities of Catholic Charities at 721 N. LaSalle Street. In addition to being served a nutritious meal, guests can also visit with doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers and sign up for drug rehabilitation, job training programs, homeless shelters and literacy tutoring.

CHI partners with local businesses, residential, faith-based, social service, institutional and volunteer leaders striving to promote an atmosphere of dignity and compassion toward those in need by providing access to food, health services, shelter and employment to more than 6,500 every year.

The Alliance For Community Peace initiative is a faith-based project which seeks the following: improve academic performances and school attendance of students; to provide opportunities for demonstrating positive social skills, interactions, and relationships through educational, recreational, cultural and other programs activities; adopt positive decision making skills that discourage negative risk taking behaviours through life skills application; and develop meaningful work experiences leading to career and vocational fulfilment for students and families.