The Fund
The Fund’s management team proves an integral asset to our success. Combined with our financial capital and our portfolio of program investments, The Fund is building a critical mass of great public schools in Chicago. Our team, comprised of individuals dedicated to this mission, values equity, integrity and excellence, and we employ collaboration, innovation and effective leadership to set and reach our goals.
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." – Robert H. Schuller
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand” -Oprah Winfrey
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama
“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: you create a good future by creating a good present.” —Eckhart Tolle
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” - bell hooks
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”― Albert Camus
"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself." - Jane Addams