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Choose where you want to make an impact.

Chandler Advisory Inc. creates educational, creative, and culturally responsive experiences for young people and educators. Your support helps us create spaces where people can learn, create, find their voice, strengthen their practice, and see what is possible. Choose the initiative you would like to support.

  • Chandler Advisory Inc.
  • Youth + community programming (Chan Clan)
  • Educator development
  • Individual initiatives + campaigns
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Current initiatives of Chandler Advisory Inc.

Two ways to give right now

Each initiative is run by Chandler Advisory Inc. Pick the one you want your gift to support. You'll finish your donation on our secure Givebutter page.

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Support Teens

Youth Development + Creative Arts

Comedy Cohort for Teens

Comedy Cohort for Teens is a creative youth development experience where teens learn comedy, storytelling, joke writing, stage presence, confidence, and the business of entertainment while working with professional comedians and teaching artists.

Young people deserve opportunities to learn directly from professionals, develop their voices, tell their stories, and discover new possibilities for themselves. Your donation helps us put teens in those rooms.

Support the Teen Comedy Cohort

Help us put young people in the room with professionals who can help them develop their voices.

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Support Educators

Educator Development + Professional Learning

Cultivating Classrooms: Professional Development for Educators

ISBE Approved Professional Development Provider

Teachers spend their days pouring into students. Cultivating Classrooms was created to make sure someone is pouring back into them.

Cultivating Classrooms provides engaging, culturally responsive professional learning experiences designed to help educators reconnect with their purpose, strengthen their practice, and return to their classrooms with strategies they can actually use.

Explore Cultivating Classrooms or bring it to your school →

Your Donation Puts an Educator in the Room

  • $100sponsors one educator.
  • $500sponsors 5 educators.
  • $1,000sponsors 10 educators.
  • $2,000helps fund a complete Cultivating Classrooms professional learning experience for up to 20 educators.
Sponsor an Educator

Chandler Advisory Inc. is an Illinois State Board of Education approved Professional Development Provider. Eligible Illinois professional development experiences may provide educators with professional development credit when applicable ISBE requirements are met.

Chandler Advisory Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

What your investment builds

Gifts go into the things that make a program feel like a real studio, a real classroom, and a real opportunity.

  • Student materials
  • Teaching artists
  • Creative equipment
  • Transportation
  • Meals
  • Venue rentals
  • Student showcases
  • Technology
  • Fashion + design materials
  • Photography + video
  • Books + curriculum
  • Field experiences

Other ways to invest

  • Donate supplies or equipment

    Heat presses, cameras, laptops, blanks, art supplies, books.

    Offer supplies

  • Sponsor a program

    Underwrite a cohort, a showcase, or a field experience.

    Talk sponsorship

  • Give your time

    Volunteer, mentor, or teach.

    Get involved
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