Inner City Youth Charitable Foundation | ICYCF

remember summer jam?  that was icycf

     For over twenty years, our Summer Quarters (boys) and Summer Jam (girls) programs helped Chicago youth step out of their urban environment and build experiences and relationships that nourished their hope for a better future.  When our program co-sponsor was no longer able to participate in helping us put on those events, we developed a mentorship and scholarship program that launched in the Fall of 2015. This program continued and expanded on many of the successful components of Summer Quarters and Summer Jam while adding year-round contact with college mentors who helped the youth develop a thorough college preparation plan. All of the youth who successfully completed the program and who were accepted to a college or university had the opportunity to receive a college scholarship from ICYCF.

At the beginning of 2020, we decided to focus our resources on the scholarship aspect of the program and ended the mentorship chapter of ICYCF. This put us in a good position to weather the challenges of the pandemic and allowed more of our resources to go directly to helping Chicago youth reach for their dreams of higher education. You can read our program announcement here.

icycf needs your help

     2017 was the first year ICYCF had to turn away youth applicants from our mentorship program due to lack of resources. Now with the focus on scholarships, our ability to help these students is directly tied to the level of contributions from our donors.  With your help, we can work together to make sure that these youth get the support that they need to succeed.

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