FundWell.com StudentThe 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.

quotesI 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