November 16, 2018

AbbVie Donates $55 Million to Three Education Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Youth in Chicago & Across America

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- Donations include $30 million to Communities In Schools, $10 million to City Year and $15 million to University of Chicago Education Lab
- The contributions will significantly expand and strengthen programs to provide vulnerable children across the country with academic, social and emotional support to help them achieve their full potential.

北芝加哥,伊利诺伊州。,,,,Nov. 16, 2018/PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced a5500万美元总共向三家领先的非营利组织捐款,以解决服务不足地区的儿童的成就差距:学校,城市年和University of Chicago教育实验室。这些捐款将增长和加强计划,重点是提高毕业率,降低辍学率,增加幼儿园儿童的大学和12​​年级儿童的职业准备,并着重于在贫困社区中成长的儿童。

在美国,近1300万年龄在18岁以下的儿童生活在贫困中,面临着重大的教育障碍。这些学生常常被迫与饥饿,无家可归,情绪创伤,无法获得基本医疗服务或其他障碍,因此可以具有较高的辍学率,较低的晋升率和较低的准时毕业率。阿布维(Abbvie)的捐款将通过投资有效的教育计划来帮助支持这些孩子,这些计划将不足的学生与他们所需的资源联系起来,并发挥自己的潜力。

“教育的坚实基础对于所有儿童都可以改变生活,并使他们能够获得所需的信心和工具,以认识到他们的潜力是无限的,而且他们的未来是光明的,无论他们长大的地方如何。”劳拉·舒马赫(Laura Schumacher),外交部,总法律顾问兼公司秘书Abbvie的执行副总裁。“我们正在为我们的后院的孩子们加紧芝加哥通过提升我们三个新合作伙伴的任务,他们都证明了他们的计划对学生产生了深远的影响。”

Communities In Schools该国最大的组织致力于赋予高风险的学生,致力于减轻贫困的后果,并确保为每个学生提供公平的机会在课堂及其他地区脱颖而出。阿布维的捐赠3000万美元将允许学校的社区为近70,000名服务不足的儿童提供基本的支持服务,其中包括16个高需求的儿童芝加哥public schools. This investment represents the largest single corporate donation Communities In Schools has received in its 40-year history.

"There are millions of at-risk students who could have a brighter future if they were connected to caring adults and community resources," said戴尔·埃尔基亚加(Dale Erquiaga),学校社区的总裁兼首席执行官。“ Abbvie的慷慨投资是帮助我们为更多这些孩子服务的重要一步。”

城市年通过招募多样化,才华横溢和培训的Americorps成员作为专职导师,导师和榜样,为学生提供全职服务,为学生提供成功的技能和思维方式,以帮助学生和学校成功。Abbvie's1000万美元commitment will help City Year to place teams of "near-peer" corps members in schools to help students acquire critical strengths and skills. Specifically, AbbVie's support will help expand the organization's reach to serve more than 18,000 students in 36 schools in芝加哥在接下来的五年中,将引人入胜的课后蒸汽编程带给服务不足的学生加利福尼亚州圣何塞和strengthening City Year's National Math and Literacy Academic Services to 385 schools and 258,000 students by 2022.

"City Year is dedicated to ensuring that students receive the support they need to help them persevere through challenges, build on their strengths and thrive," saidMichael Brown,,,,chief executive officer & co-founder of City Year. "Through AbbVie's tremendous investment, more students will have access to positive relationships and holistic support provided by our AmeriCorps members, helping us reach our goal of significantly increasing the number of students who are on track to graduate from high school in the communities we serve. We are deeply grateful to AbbVie for its generous support."

TheUniversity of ChicagoEducation Lab与之合作芝加哥公立学校,当地非营利组织和市政府识别和测试创新的方法来改善结果芝加哥的最脆弱的青年。教育实验室与合作伙伴合作,共同提供有关提高学术成就的最有效方法的严格证据,为青年提供所需的社交情感支持,并重新吸引那些面临最大风险的学校失败风险,暴力受害或监禁。这项工作旨在为政策和实践提供信息芝加哥和generate evidence that cities across the country can draw on in their efforts to better serve youth. AbbVie's$15 million捐赠将扩大实验室与芝加哥公立学校,支持为实施有前途的服务的工作芝加哥的students, and evaluate and scale these solutions in similar settings around the country.

"We are proud to continue our work with the芝加哥公立学校采用创新方法来更好地服务芝加哥的students," saidRoseanna Ander,,,,founding executive director, Education Lab at theUniversity of Chicago。“ Abbvie的支持将有助于生成有关确保所有学生都有所需支持的最有效方法的证据,不仅在芝加哥but in cities across the country."

这三个领先组织的工作补充了学校课程,并确保了全年和全学的学习方法,为学生提供社交和情感支持以及学术支持。Abbvie的贡献将使组织能够显着扩大其吸引更多学生的能力,并将提升工作以生成有关抚养儿童的最有效策略的证据。

A Facebook Live panel discussion entitled "Narrowing the Education Gap: A live discussion with 3 nonprofits using a Whole-Child/Whole-School approach to help kids succeed"计划November 16, 2018CT上午10:15www.facebook.com/abbvieglobal。The panel will be moderated byTracie Haas,,,,VP, Corporate Responsibility, Brand and Communications, AbbVie, and includeArne Duncan,,,,Managing Partner, Emerson Collective, and Communities In Schools Board Member;Roseanna Ander,创始执行。教育实验室主任;Jim Balfanz,城市年总统;和Janice Jackson, 首席执行官,芝加哥公立学校。

The donations to Communities In Schools, City Year and theUniversity of ChicagoEducation Lab are part of a series of donations AbbVie is making to nonprofit partners in 2018, totaling$350 million。阿布维(Abbvie)根据他们在K-12教育,救灾和支持生病的儿童及其家人的关键领域产生长期影响的能力,选择了这些合作伙伴。作为这些捐款的一部分,Abbvie给予了$100 millionto Ronald McDonald House Charities and500万美元到达家庭,以帮助家庭蓬勃发展和5000万美元each to Habitat for Humanity and Direct Relief for rebuilding efforts following hurricanes inPuerto Rico

About AbbVie

AbbVie is a global, research and development-based biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and critical conditions. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to markedly improve treatments across four primary therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, virology and neuroscience. In more than 75 countries, AbbVie employees are working every day to advance health solutions for people around the world. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.worldcupnut.com。跟随@ABBVIE在Twitter上,Facebook,,,,LinkedIn或者Instagram

关于学校的社区

Communities In Schools(CIS)是美国最大的组织,致力于使高危学生能够留在学校并走上光明的未来。我们直接在全国2300多所学校内部工作,我们将孩子与旨在帮助他们成功的成年人和社区资源联系起来。我们会尽一切努力确保所有孩子(他们可能面临的挑战都没有挑战),他们已经需要实现自己的潜力所需的一切。

关于城市年

城市年帮助学生和学校成功。在国民服务的推动下,城市年与公立学校的合作伙伴在美国29个城市,高需求的社区以及英国的国际分支机构和South Africa。City Year Americorps成员的各种团队提供基于研究的学生,课堂和学校范围内的支持,以帮助学生留在学校,并有望从高中毕业,为大学和职业成功做好准备。2015年的一项研究表明,与城市年合作的学校在数学和英语评估方面的可能性要高两到三倍。市政府是美国国家服务网络的骄傲成员,得到了国家和社区服务公司,当地学区以及公司,基金会和个人的私人慈善事业的支持。

有关University of ChicagoEducation Lab

The芝加哥大学城市实验室位于哈里斯公共政策学院,努力应对城市生活五个关键方面的挑战:犯罪,教育,健康,贫困以及能源与环境。The Education Lab与公民和社区领袖合作,识别,严格评估并学习如何扩展计划和政策,以改善美国最苦恼的城市社区的教育。

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Media for AbbVie:
玛丽·凯瑟琳·斯蒂尔(Mary Kathryn Steel)
+1(224)440-6552
mk.steel@abbvie.com

Media for Communities In Schools:
Steve Majors
+1(703)518-2554
majorsS@cisnet.org

城市年的媒体:
蒂娜·郑
+ 1(857)305-1602
tchong@cityyear.org

Media for University of Chicago Education Lab:
朱莉娅·奎因(Julia Quinn)
+1 (773)702-9887
jquinn1@uchicago.edu