Back Your Block: Show Your Local Love
You are the people who made South Chicago what it is today. You put your life aside, and pulled your community together. Your family and neighbors see it. And, we RECOGNIZE your work as the best evidence of what happens when you make the choice to do the right thing where you live, on your street, on your BLOCK, in your home. TODAY.
Special VIP press conference to award local nonprofits grant funds and celebrate local heroes in the South Chicago community.
Olympic Gold Medalist & WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings created the Catch the Stars Foundation Inc. in the spring of 2004. She is a community leader and embraces being a positive role model by encouraging youth to be all that they can be.
Catchings felt compelled to start the foundation because she understands that the youth of today are the stars of tomorrow and the lack of support for our youth results in many never reaching their full potential.
The Catch the Stars Foundation provides these youth with organized programs geared toward motivating them to set goals, dream bigger and achieve more. The foundation is preparing our youth to catch their dreams one star at a time.
Nike is awarding a total of $50,000 to ten local non-profit organizations who have inspired our youth through work, play, and educational programs.
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