1. 2010 Youth
Impact Survey
August 2011
Journalism Program

2. Survey
The McCormick Journalism Program earlier this year
conducted a survey of its news literacy and youth
journalism grantees to determine the impact of
programs in Chicago.

3. Methodology
 MF staff created a 12-question
Survey Monkey questionnaire
that asked about partnerships
with high schools, youth
reached, teachers trained and
neighborhoods where
programs take place.
 MF staff collected school data
from the CPS Office of
Performance.
 MF contracted the Urban Data
Visualization Lab at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
to produce maps using ArcGIS.

4. Collective Impact
Some 23 youth journalism and news literacy
organizations were surveyed:
• Grantees served 6,874 young people in the
Chicago area.
• These students live in 43 of the city’s 77
neighborhoods, with the most activity in
Roseland, Englewood, Grand Boulevard,
Humboldt Park and North Lawndale.
• Grantees reached students in 87 Chicago
schools and 23 other schools in the suburbs.
• Grantees trained 153 teachers.

5. News Literacy &
Youth Journalism
For the purposes of our grantmaking clusters, we
also broke down the survey results into two
categories.

6. News Literacy
 2,484 students in Chicago were directly
reached by news literacy programs.
 News literacy programs were available in
32 schools.
 53 teachers received news literacy
training.

7. Youth Journalism
 4,390 youth in the Chicago area were directly
reached by MF youth journalism grantees.
 Nearly all of McCormick’s 2010 youth
journalism grantees have infused a strong
news literacy component into their programs.
 Youth Journalism programs operate in 78
schools.
 About 100 teachers received youth journalism
training.

8. Maps
In partnership with the Urban Data Visualization Lab
at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Journalism
Program developed a set of four maps to illustrate
this data.

9. Chicago
Community Areas
This map shows the Chicago
community areas where our
grantees are working and
reveals a concentration of
programs in the near South and
West sides.

10. Chicago Students
Served
This map shows our partners by
grant type (news literacy or youth
journalism) and illustrates the
volume of students served by each
organization. Programs span
citywide and reached a total of
6,874 young people in 2010.

11. Chicago Schools
Served
This map shows the reach of our
grantees in Chicago high schools
(and a handful of middle
schools). In 2010, our grantees
reached students in 87 Chicago
schools and 23 other schools in
the suburbs.

12. Chicago Schools Served
1
Academy of Communications and Tech Charter School
4319 W. Washington Blvd
45
Mother McAuley HS
3737 W 99th Street
2
Ada S. McKinnley Lakeside Alternative
2920 S. Wabash Ave
46
Mount Carmel HS
6410 S Dante Ave
3
Al Raby High School
3545 W. Fulton Blvd
47
Mount Vernon Elementary School
10540 S Morgan Street
4
Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy HS
231 N. Pine Ave
48
Multicultural Arts High School (At Little Village)
3120 South Kostner Ave
5
Banner Academy South
2330 E. 99th Street
49
Murray Language Academy
5335 S Kenwood Ave
6
Benito Juarez Community Academy High School
2150 S. Laflin Street
50
Neal F Simeon Career Academy High School
8147 S. Vincennes Ave
7
Bethune Elementary
3030 W Arthington Street
51
Nicholas Senn High School
5900 N. Glenwood Ave
8
Bronzeville Scholastic Academy High School
4934 S. Wabash Ave
52
Nightingale Elementary School
5250 South Rockwell Street
9
Carl Schurz High School
3601 N. Milwaukee Ave
53
Noble Street Charter - Gary Comer College Prep
7200 S. Ingleside Ave
10
Cassell Elementary School
11314 S Spaulding Ave
54
Noble Street Charter - Noble Street College Prep
1010 N. Noble Street
11
Charles P Steinmetz Academic Centre High School
3030 N. Mobile Ave
55
Noble Street Charter - Rowe-Clark Math & Sci Acad
3645 W. Chicago Ave
12
Chicago Military Academy High School
3519 S. Giles Ave
56
North Lawndale College Prep Charter - Christiana
1616 S. Spaulding Ave
13
Chicago Virtual Charter High School
38 S. Peoria Street
57
North Lawndale College Prep Charter - Collins
1313 S. Sacramento Drive
14
Clara Barton Elementary
7650 South Wolcott Ave
58
North Lawndale College Prep Charter High School
1616 S. Spaulding Ave
15
Claremont Academy Elementary
2300 W. 64th Street
59
Northside College Preparatory High School
5501 N. Kedzie Ave
16
Columbia Explorers Academy Elementary
4520 S Kedzie Ave
17
Crane Achievement Academy High School
2245 W. Jackson Blvd
60
Paul Laurence Dunbar Career Academy High School
3000 S. King Drive
18
Dr Martin Luther King Jr College Prep HS
4445 S. Drexel Blvd
61
Percy L Julian High School
10330 S. Elizabeth Street
19
Edwin G Foreman High School
3235 N. LeClaire Ave
62
Perspectives Charter - Calumet HS
8131 S. May Street
20
Eli Whitney
2815 South Komensky
63
Perspectives Charter - Calumet Technology
8131 S. May Street
21
Erie Elementary
1405 N. Washtenaw
22
Fenger Achievement Academy High School
11220 S. Wallace Street
64
Perspectives Charter - IIT Math & Science Academy
3663 S. Wabash Ave
23
George Washington High School
3535 E. 114th Street
65
Perspectives Charter School
601 S. LaSalle Street
24
Gray Elementary
3730 North Laramie Ave
66
Phoenix Military Academy High School
145 S. Campbell Ave
25
Greater Lawndale High School For Social Justice
3120 South Kostner Ave
67
Prosser Career Academy
2148 N. Long Ave
26
Henderson Elementary
5650 South Wolcott Ave
68
Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School
1147 N. Western Ave
27
Henry Ford Academy Power House Charter HS
931 S. Homan Ave
69
San Miguel School
1949 W 48th St
28
Jacqueline B Vaughn Occupational High School
4355 N. Linder Ave
70
Saucedo Elementary
2850 W 24th Blvd
29
Jane Addams Resource Corp
4432 N. Ravenswood Ave.
71
Simpson Academy High School for Young Women
1321 S. Paulina Street
30
John Hancock College Preparatory High School
4034 W. 56th Street
72
South Shore School of Leadership
7627 S. Constance Ave
31
John M Harlan Community Academy High School
9652 S. Michigan Ave
73
Spry Community Links High School
2400 S. Marshall Blvd
32
John Marshall Metropolitan High School
3250 W. Adams Street
74
St Scholastica HS
7416 N Ridge Blvd
33
Kelvyn Park High School
4343 W. Wrightwood Ave
75
Thomas Kelly High School
4136 S. California Ave
34
Kenwood Academy High School
5015 S. Blackstone Ave
76
University of Chicago Charter - Woodlawn
6420 S. University Ave
35
Lane Technical High School
2501 W. Addison Street
36
Laughlin Falconer Elementary
3020 North Lamon Avenue
77
Urban Prep Academy for Young Men Charter School
6201 S. Stewart Ave
37
Lincoln Park High School
2001 N. Orchard Street
78
Walter Payton College Preparatory High School
1034 N. Wells Street
38
Lindblom High School
6130 South Wolcott Avenue
79
Westinghouse College Prep
3223 W. Franklin Blvd
39
Little Village Lawndale High School
3120 South Kostner Avenue
80
Whitney M Young Magnet High School
211 S. Laflin Street
40
Manley Career Academy High School
2935 W. Polk Street
81
William C Reavis Math & Science
834 E 50th St
41
Maria HS
6727 S California Ave
82
William Howard Taft High School
6530 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
42
Marquette Elementary School
6550 South Richmond Street
83
William J Bogan High School
3939 W. 79th Street
43
May Community Academy
512 S Lavergne Ave
84
William Jones College Preparatory High School
606 S. State Street
44
Morgan Park High School
1744 W. Pryor Ave
85
YCCS - Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican H.S.
2739 West Division Street
86
YCCS Innovations HS of Arts Integration
220 W. 45th Place
87
Young Women's Leadership Charter High School
2642 S. Calumet Ave

13. MF Grantees
Serving Chicago
High Schools
This map shows the number of
McCormick grantees serving
Chicago schools. There are 10
schools that have three or
more news literacy and youth
journalism program partners.

14. Questions?
jliao@mccormickfoundation.org
mhallett@mcormickfoudnation.org