Our Partners - Thank you!

CICS partners with a number of organizations that help us fulfill our mission. Here are a few of our trusted partners.

Community Outreach/Parent Involvement
•   Parents for School Choice
•   Family Focus
•   Chicago Communities in Schools

Infrastructure/Campus support
•   Kaboom!
•   Kraft Foods
•   Discovery Clothing
•   Teach for America
•   UNITE

Mentoring
•   Accenture
•   Cushman and Wakefield

Out-of-school programming/Enrichment
•   USTA
•   LEAP
•   JPA
•   Museum of Science & Industry
•   University of IL Extension
•   Chicago Run
•   Jan Irwin
•   Patriot’s Gateway Center
•   CPS - Office of Extended Learning
•   Exelon
•   Urban Gateways

Professional Development
•    The Achievement Network
•   Barbara Kurth
•   NWEA
•   Promethean & Polyvision

Charter School Support & Advocacy

• CPS – Office of New Schools
• Illinois Network of Charter Schools

Partner Profile: Accenture

Accenture students

For several years, Accenture has served as a valued partner to CICS by providing a mentorship program that connects their female executives with more than 30 of CICS's female students.

Recently, 26 12th grade women from Chicago International's Northtown, Ralph Ellison, and Longwood campuses spent a day at Accenture's downtown Chicago office. They celebrated the unique relationships they'd developed with their professional mentors and learned how to prepare for college and beyond. All 26 of the young women in attendance had been admitted to several colleges and universities and were in the midst of deciding where their future would take them.

Discussion topics included the importance of effective listening, protecting one's personal brand, and networking. The girls confided in their mentors about post-high-school apprehensions; in turn, the mentors shared important advice. The session was an invaluable opportunity for mentors and proteges, and reaffirmed the need for the CICS-Accenture partnership to continue for years to come.