I AM ABEL FOUNDATION would like to propose partnerships that target to assist socioeconomically disadvantaged Chicago area youth achieve careers in medicine and allow you to share the wonderful spirit of generosity with the community at large. 

 I AM ABEL FOUNDATION, is a 501c3 charitable organization I founded following the murder of my young cousin then paralysis of my even younger cousin due to south side gun violence all in the same year. I determined that I had to do more than just speak on the problems in Chicago but had to become an agent of change. I founded I AM ABEL FOUNDATION to engage untapped talent amongst Chicago’s inner-city youth interested in careers in medicine and to empower THEM to become doctors as healers that are prepared to change the narrative in their communities. Each student participates in an intense pre-health and STEM curriculum that is preparing them to be our future researchers, innovators, advocates and physicians. We also connect each student one to one with their own physician mentors and provide them support in a pipeline program that follows them from their first pinning ceremony until the day they dawn their short white coat. We have a powerful mentoring community and our students are saturated with affirmations that further empower them to believe in themselves and their goal to become physicians as healers. Our goal, through our highly impactful programming is to raise up our next generation of healthcare heroes who will become agents of change in their own communities through the platform of medicine. We believe and teach our mentees that medicine and society are inextricably tied. There is no pill that can take away the pain of the voiceless so community leadership as well as humanitarian service both locally and abroad is woven through our pre-health programming and is an expectation for our mentees. 

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

As a corporate sponsor, you will be spotlighted on our media especially at our largest events of the year including our annual 

                       Preparing Our Successors In Medicine Pinning Celebration                             Medicine and Mimosas” Saturday, April 13^th, 2019 and our

 Chicago Health and Medical Careers Citywide Student Conference 

Both of these events are being held at Rush University’s Searle Conference Center in the beautiful 500 Room at 1725 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL.  We hope that you will consider serving as one of our annual 2019 corporate sponsors.  Our Pinning Ceremony as well as our Healthcare Conference are our signature fund raising events and this year’s goal is $120,000.  As a corporate sponsor, an Exhibitor’s booth at our annual student conference (May 2019) is complimentary.  

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

Annual Sponsorship Levels Include

 VIP Title at $15,000+ Contributing at $5,000

Presenting at $10,000 Participating at $2,500

 Supporting at $7,500 Partnering at $1,250

 Please visit our website to view the benefits associated with each level of support. Check out our dedicated sponsorship pages with all the information you need.

https://www.iamabel.org/corporate-sponsorship

The most challenging barrier for our inner-city children is receiving the needed support and assistance in the areas of science and mathematics. Many of our students are from poorly resourced inner-city schools and were it not for our interventions would not be reaching such impressive benchmarks. We have now seen our 1st medical school graduates and there are many more in the pipeline.  We have increased enrollment of students in AP courses at their high schools and mean GPAs have improved.  Our goal is to continue providing valuable academic and tutoring resources to our students free of charge but to help more students who are waiting for our help. This year we are specifically looking to expand on MCAT prep that is desperately needed amongst our students but is extremely costly. Your support will help provide MCAT prep for our next class of medical school applicants and continued tutoring in STEM coursework. Our goal is to help our mentees overcome common barriers and get the one thing they have often lacked – opportunity.  Please consider becoming a Corporate Sponsor, An Exhibitor or both for our upcoming signature events.