The cornerstone to our program is the real-world experience and community service learning component of each of the courses. FundWell.com creates a situation where both the student and the organization benefit from the courses. Organizations agree to mentor students in exchange for proposal/grant writing, an annual fund plan and a major gifts plan.
I felt that the FundWell.com courses prepared me well for a career in the nonprofit industry. Not only did they teach me how to think about certain aspects of fundraising i.e. annual fund, they taught me how to apply what I learned to "real-life" situations.”
Students have partnered with over 150 diverse nonprofit organizations. They have worked with community centers, dance troupes, theaters and political groups. Below is a frequently updated list of mentor organizations.
Mentor Organizations
- About Face Theatre Company
- After School Matters
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Cancer Society
- American Friends Service Committee
- Another Chicago Literary Journal
- Archimedia Workshop
- Artists For Harmony
- Arts At Large
- Barrel of Monkeys
- BEST Adult Literacy Program
- Beverly Arts Center
- Boulder Hill Elementary School
- Breadline Theatre
- Brown Couch Theatre Company
- Buelah A.G. Smith Scholarship Foundation
- Chemically Imbalanced Comedy
- Chicago Children's Choir
- Chicago Children's Theatre
- Chicago Cultural Alliance
- Chicago Dance Crash
- Chicago Filmmakers
- Chicago Gay Men's Chorus
- Chicago History Museum
- Chicago Opera Theater
- Chicago Public Art Group
- Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Chicago Sinfonietta
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Child's Play Touring Theatre
- Christian Community Health Center
- Cinema/Chicago
- Cirquena Rivera
- Collaboraction
- Columbia’s Office of Student Leadership
- Columbia’s Book and Paper Arts Center
- Columbia’s Center for Asian Arts & Media
- Columbia College Summer Arts Camp
- Columbia's Urban Music Association
- Community Foundation of Jewish Education
- Deeply Rooted Productions
- District of Columbia Arts Center
- Do Your P'Art Foundation
- DuSable Museum of African American History
- E. Central ILRefugee Mutual Assistance Center
- Educational Theatre Company
- Elastic Arts Foundation
- Emergence Theatre
- Estrojam NFP
- Facets Multimedia
- Families Helping Families
- Family Rescue
- Fine and Performing Arts Center at Moraine Valley Community College
- Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
- Free Street Theatre
- Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
- Girls in the Game
- Girls Rock! Chicago
- Glessner House Museum
- Goodman Theatre
- Harold Colbert Jones Memorial Community Center
- Harris Theater
- Hazel Crest Park District
- Hillcrest Family Services
- Hope Haven
- HotHouse
- Housing Options
- Hubbard Street Dance
- Human Rights Watch
- Hyde Park Art Center
- Hyde Park School of Ballet
- Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
- Illinois Special Olympics
- Illinois State Soccer Association
- Imagination Theatre
- Incurable Theater
- Inlet Dance Theatre
- Inside Chicago Dance
- Intuit: Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art
- Joel Hall Dancers
- Jump Rhythm Jazz Project
- Kindling Group
- Lake County Underground Music and Arts
- Latino Art Beat
- Latino Cultural Center
- Lill Street Learning Center
- Links Hall
- Little Black Pearl
- Lookingglass Theatre
- Lupus Foundation of America
- Lyric Opera
- Maine South Orchesis Dance Company
- McCord Gallery & Cultural Center
- McLean County Arts Center
- Mercy for Animals
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Najwa Dance Corps
- National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (Chicago)
- Northwestern University
- Olbrich Botanical Gardens and Society
- Old Town School of Folk Music
- Oriental Institute
- Partners in Education
- Pathways to Development
- People's Music School
- Percussive Arts Society
- pH Comedy Theater Company
- Pilsen/Little Village Development Corporation
- PLCCA-ACT, Youth Services Department
- Poder Learning Center
- Porchlight Music Theatre
- Portage Township Live Entertainment Association
- Prairie Arts Center
- Progressive Life
- Prometheus Radio Project
- Quest Theater
- Ravinia Festival Association
- Redmoon Theatre
- Ruth Page Dance Center
- Same Planet Different World
- Shattered Globe Theatre
- Shaw Chicago Theatre Company
- Snow City Arts Foundation
- Split Pillow
- Street Level Youth Media
- Suzuki Orff Music Institute
- Teachers Academy for Math and Science
- Teatro Luna
- The Haven
- Theater Building
- ThreeWalls
- Trinity Lutheran Church
- United States Vietnam Arts Program
- Virginia Museum of Transportation
- Walker Elementary School PTA
- Windy City Habitat for Humanity
- WLUW
- YMCA of Greenville, SC
- Young Chicago Authors
I felt that the FundWell.com courses prepared me well for a career in the nonprofit industry. Not only did they teach me how to think about certain aspects of fundraising i.e. annual fund, they taught me how to apply what I learned to "real-life" situations.”