For the third consecutive year, the PRSA Foundation has awarded a grant to DePaul University and Midtown Educational Foundation (MEF) to encourage Chicago minority high school students to pursue a career in public relations or journalism.

This summer, MEF students heard from 81 professional career speakers, went on 5 service trips, took 32 behind the scenes tours at Chicago corporations and enjoyed fun & educational field trips at 21 of Chicago's cultural institutions!!

After an afternoon with 7 attorneys from Discover Financial Services and 2 partners from Burr & Forman, the Midtown Law Apprentice students have a deep appreciation for the law and the grit, determination and preparation it takes to argue cases in front of the bench.

Midtown's Architecture Apprentices presented drawing and models to a panel of architects, architecture students, and Midtown alumni, gaining valuable insights on their designs and what it takes to become an architect.

Read the first three editions of the Midtown Voice, the student newspaper published weekly by the PR/Communications Apprenticeship at Midtown Center for boys in Chicago!

The January 1998 edition of Philanthropy, Culture, & Society was dedicated entirely to the Midtown Achievement Program (MAP). Now, nearly 20 years later, the same group interviewed Glenn Wilke in a follow-up comprehensive look at MEF's standard setting approach to helping at-risk youth.

The 2016 Crain's Giving Guide featured MEF's apprenticeship program in a feature about how companies can help educate Chicago's youth by partnering to provide and fund internships.

A Midtown high school student finds a mentor that he can look up to and trust in the Summer PR/Journalism Apprenticeship.

Two Midtown PR/Journalism Apprentices wrote a letter to the editor at the Chicago Tribune that ran this week. They encourage community leaders and lawmakers to build more programs that help prevent violence, like Midtown Center for boys.