Many of our programming is made possible by the generous grants and gifts we receive.  We deeply thank the following foundations and organizations for their generosity.  We encourage you to click the links on this page to learn more about these companies.

(Listed alphabetically)

Accenture
A global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company committed to delivering innovation.  Accenture combines vast client experience across industries and knowledge of every business function to shed light on how organizations can innovate to become and remain high-performance businesses.  Accenture's Chicago office has provided a generous contribution to Ravenswood's RISE Fund.

Best Buy Corporation
Providing Ravenswood School with Interactive Technology Support & Filmmaking Cameras.  The goal of the corporation is to provide positive experiences that will help them to excel in school, engage in their communities, and develop leadership skills.

Chicago Math & Science Initiative (CMSI)
CMSI supports all mathematics and science instruction with the vision that high-quality, standards-based mathematics and science experiences can be provided to all students.  Mathematics and science instruction is transformed by the initiative providing coherent programs, more support and better preparation to enable high quality teaching and improved student achievement.

Field Foundation of Illinois 
The Field Foundation seeks to provide support for community, civic and cultural organizations in the Chicago area, enabling both new and established programs to test innovations, to expand proven strengths or to address specific, time-limited operational needs.

Lenscrafters & Luxottica
Sponsored by the Give the Gift of Sight Foundation and Luxottica Group, these programs have helped more than five million people on five continents and in hundreds of communities across North America including needy families in our community. 

Motorola Foundation
Through the Innovation Generation grants program, Motorola supports Ravenswood School's engagement of  K-8th grade students and teachers in innovation, science, technology, engineering and math.

Northeastern Illinois University's (NEIU) Chicago Teachers' Center (CTC).
NEIU and CTC have granted Every Art Every Child (EAEC), a four-year project that develops a comprehensive and sequential arts curriculum for all grades in music, dance, theater and visual art.  Through the EAEC grant, Ravenswood School teachers plan integrated-studies units with a variety of local, national and international artists and programs.

Oppenheimer Family Foundation
The Foundation, established in 1933, has been giving grants to Chicago Public School teachers for the past twenty-six years through its Teacher Incentive Grant (TIG) program and has provided funding for Ravenswood School's International World's Fair through our Social Studies Department.

Sulzer Family Foundation
A private, non-operating grantmaking foundation serving the Chicago Ravenswood community.  This foundation is built on the heritage of public service and committment to the community.


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