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About the Nonprofit

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The mission of Friends of Whitney Young (FoWY) is to build and maintain a vibrant school community among its students, families, administrators, faculty and alumni. FoWY conducts a wide range of fundraising activities and community-building initiatives to support and enhance academic and extracurricular programs at Whitney Young.

FoWY was founded in 2001 by a small group of parents. The notion was to form an independent fundraising organization for Whitney Young. Throughout the 90's many public schools formed “Friends of..” organizations as a way of raising funds through a charitable non-profit entity and to ensure that funds would be used for the school and not subsumed by the Chicago Public Schools. FoWY is an independent 501(c)(3) charitable foundation which means your donation is tax-deductible. It has an independent board of director comprised of Whitney Young parents, alumni and students.