Hard Rock Hotel Chicago (www.hardrock.com/locations/hotels/chicago): This new addition to the Chicago's Magnificent Mile pays homage to Chicago's own rock-and-roll legacy while giving you a comfortable stay and fantastic views of downtown Chicago. Hard Rock Hotel's corporate staff recently participated in a Care Team event at Marah's transitional housing for women facing abuse and/or homelessness. They barbequed, played games, and contributed rockin' prizes.

Subway (www.subway.com): With over 21,000 franchises in over 70 countries, this sandwich chain has been rated the #1 franchise opportunity by Entrepreneur magazine. Subway has provided The MGR Foundation with discounted Subway sandwiches for our THINK and Murals participants.

Special Olympics Chicago (www.sochicago.org): Spreading their motto of "Let Me Win, But if I Cannot Win, Let Me Be Brave in the Attempt," Special Olympics Chicago provides challenging and exciting sporting competitions and events for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Special Olympics Chicago provides many volunteer opportunities for the Care Team through which CPS students can complete their Service Learning hours.

Dignity Diner (www.muralchurch.org/Involve.htm#DigDiner): Unique, vegetarian, restaurant-style meal program for Chicago residents facing hunger and homelessness. Dignity Diner is a volunteer site for the Care Team.

Planned Parenthood Chicago Area (www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/chago/): Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area (PP/CA) provides medical services, educational programs and counseling to women, teens and men.

Lookingglass Theatre Company (www.lookingglasstheatre.org): The Lookingglass Studio provides creative and affordable theatre arts classes to Chicago's youth taught by a professional theatre company. In a nurturing and safe environment, young people are encouraged to grow in personal self-esteem while exploring the creative process within a community of their peers. The Lookingglass Studio is committed to the belief that early drama education fosters a lifelong love for the arts and prepares the individual to perform with confidence and self respect when meeting life's challenges.

Chicago Women's Health Center (www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org): Chicago Women's Health Center (CWHC) is a 30-year-old organization dedicated to providing affordable health care and related services to women regardless of ability to pay. in 1975, a group of women healthcare providers and activists formed the health center for women in the community. The CWHC is the longest operating women's health collective in the United States.

Whole Foods Market Chicago Lakeview (www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/lakeview/index.html): Founded in 1980 as one small store in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market is now the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with 171 stores in North America and the United Kingdom.

Patagonia Chicago (www.patagonia.com/za/PDC/Pgonia/retail/retailer_detail.jsp?
ARTICLE.ID=14): Committed to Uncommon Culture. We prefer the human scale to the corporate, vagabonding to tourism, the quirky and lively to the toned down and flattened out. We used to call our own world of alpinists and surfers a dirtbag culture; of temp jobs and long summers; of foraged meals and tribal travel the followed the seasons, from summer climbs in Yosemite to Baja's winter surfbreaks to spring kayaking. And if many of us now work more than we climb, and care more for our families than for bumming about, we still sound our appeal to the dirtbag within, the need for the wild dirtbag spirit to survive in our e'd-out culture.

Tickets for Kids Foundation (www.ticketsforkidsfoundation.org): Tickets for Kids Foundation seeks to include our often-forgotten children and families in quality community, educational and entertainment events and activities. In doing so, Tickets for Kids hopes to bring a source of joy, however small, to children and families who, otherwise, may never have a chance to participate fully in our enriching community resources.