Daily North Shore featured Gorter Family Foundation’s partner organization, North Chicago Community Partners and its Executive Director Jennifer Grumhaus, in an article “Friendly—and Effective—Fixture” that highlights the non-profit’s Community School Model. The model, which is helping bridge the low-income achievement gap in North Chicago, “focuses on the whole child by providing students and their families with academic
and health/social services programming to complement and enhance student learning.” NCCP was founded in 2008 with seed money from GFF. Today, with an annual budget of roughly $2.2 million, NCCP employs 40 staff and works with 3,000 volunteers to administer a full roster of lunchtime, after school, weekend and summer enrichment programs for K-12 students in North Chicago Community Unit School District 187’s public schools.