Community Partners
The following organizations and individuals help Urban Initiatives fulfill its program mission and are integral to the program's success.
Community organizations
- Academy for Urban School Leadership
- Big Shoulders Fund
- Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois
- Building a Healthier Chicago
- Chicago Fire Major League Soccer Club
- Chicago Housing Authority
- Chicago Park District
- Chicago Public Schools
- Children's Memorial Hospital
- Columbia College
- Conlon Public Strategies
- Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children
- Communities In Schools
- DePaul University
- The Family Institute at Northwestern University
- The Federation for Community Schools
- Illinois Department of Human Services
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- Loyola University
- Mayor's Fitness Council
- MLS Camps
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Northwestern University
- Pegasus Soccer Club
- Schweitzer Fellowship
- Sinai Urban Health Institute
- Spartan FC
- University of Chicago
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Wilmette Wings Soccer Club
- World Sport Chicago
Community leaders
- Walter Burnett Jr. Alderman of 24th Ward
- John J. Cullerton, Illinois Senate President
- Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education
- Jess Ruiz, Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education
- Larry Sufferdin, Cook County Commissioner
- Jesse White, Secretary of State of Illinois