Our Partners

Since its inception, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) has been developing and implementing arts education programs that cultivate ongoing, reciprocal relationships - true partnerships - among Columbia College, public schools and community-based organizations. These unique partnerships are crucial to the success of CCAP's programs and initiatives. They ensure that CCAP's vision of collaboration in the arts and an improved quality of education for Chicago's youth becomes a reality.

"By giving our young people a multi-cultural, multi-sensory education we are empowering them to surpass all of our expectations."

—Walter Ornelas, Teacher, Crown Community Academy Fine Arts Center

CCAP extends its gratitude to the following partners for their unwavering commitment to creating communities of learning in and through the arts:

Education
    Public Schools - Illinois
    Higher Education - National
Community-Based Organizations
Columbia College Chicago
    Academic Departments
    Offices & Centers
Agencies, Cultural Institutions & Organizations
Funding Sources

EDUCATION

Public Schools — Illinois

Chicago Public Schools

Evanston School District 65

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Higher Education — National

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COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

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COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

Academic Departments

Offices & Centers

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AGENCIES, CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

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FUNDING SOURCES

The Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) thanks the following contributors for their generous support over the years. Their commitment ensures that CCAP and its many partners can continue to create innovative arts programming that builds stronger schools and communities, and ultimately better educated students.

If you are Interested in supporting CCAP's many programs and initiatives, please contact the Development Manager.

Organizations
After School Matters
Alphawood Foundation
American Express
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois
Blum-Kovler Foundation
Campus Compact
Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services
Chicago Public Schools
Council of Independent Colleges
Field Foundation of Illinois
Foster's Wine Estates
Geographic Society of Chicago
Heartland Arts Fund
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois Campus Compact
Illinois Humanities Council
Inroads Program of Arts International
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Kraft General Foods, Inc.
McDougal Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
National Performance Network
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trust
Starbucks Coffee Company
Starbucks Foundation
Steans Family Foundation
Target
TCF National Bank of IL
The Chicago Community Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
The Corporation for National and Community Service
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Surdna Foundation Inc.
The Wallace Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Woods Fund of Chicago

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Gifts-In-Kind
Africa International House
African Festival of the Arts
American Airlines
Arts Midwest
Chicago Public Radio
Chicago State University
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago Tribune
Comfort Inn & Suites
Dominick's Finer Foods, Inc.
Gospel 1390AM
House of Blues
Jewel Osco
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Kraft General Foods, Inc.
Lawry's Foods, Inc.
Lenox Suites Hotel
Marshall Fields
Northern Trust Bank
Old Town School of Folk Music
Palmer House Hilton
Residence Inn by Mariott
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Target Corp.
UPN Channel 50
V-103
WBEZ 91.5 FM
WBEZ-FM
Western Union
WGCI 107.5 FM
WGN
WVAZ-FM.

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Photo credit (top): Joel Wanek