The Motorola Award Provides Some Early Hope in the New Year by Funding Summer Engineering Apprenticeships for Underserved High School Students
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Chicago Nonprofit is One of Thirty-four Community Organizations to Receive Grants Through Chick-fil-A's True Inspiration Awards
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4th-6th Grade Program Director to Take the Helm as Former Center Director Stays On in Administrative Role
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Residents Can Cast Their Vote to Support the MEF as the Only Chicago-based Charity in the Running
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We Say Goodbye to Metro’s Most Senior Director and Welcome a Metro Alumna to the Role
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Midtown Educational Foundation Closes the Gap on Educational Inequality with Heavy Emphasis on Individual Tutoring and Mentoring Through its After-School Programs in Chicago.
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Midtown Educational Foundation Releases Preliminary Results From Its Remote Summer Program; Parents and Students Were Overwhelmingly Satisfied and feel Prepared for Virtual Learning in the Fall.
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Midtown and Metro are making the decision to go remote this Fall based on the success of its summer programs and requests from families.
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Fun At-Home Courses Mixing Academics and Character Education. Individual mentorship for students and parent engagement will still be a focus.
Read MoreStarted in elementary, now one is going to M.I.T. , the other to University of Illinois.
Read MoreMEF has worked to make necessary changes to keep its community safe during this global pandemic.
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Fox32 Chicago’s Lou Canellis visited the Midtown Center for boys during the last week of the summer program, where he shared insights into his success and Chicago sports tales from the road.
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NBC5 Chicago featured Midtown and Metro students and alumni on a recent news segment, where they discussed the impact of the programs.
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Sally Grimes, ’97, built her career on pushing the innovation envelope. Now a leader at Tyson Foods, she’s changing the paradigm around what it means to be a big food company.
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The Midtown Educational Foundation’s (MEF) 27th Annual Reach for Excellence Dinner provided an electric energy as roughly 450 new and old friends converged at the Four Seasons on a brisk October night. The familial atmosphere was evident to each guest, mirroring the feeling one feels when walking into one of MEF’s centers. As Executive Director, Glenn Wilke, said, “what we teach at the centers, we practice at our events.”
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