Chicago Children's Choir

Chicago Children's Choir is a non-profit organization committed to inspiring and changing lives through music. Founded in 1956 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the Chicago Children's Choir serves over 4,400 singers annually through its core values of education, expression, and excellence and is devoted to peacefully creating a better world. 2Organization Chicago Children's Choir is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that raises approximately $2 million each year in order to provide reduced tuition on a sliding scale according to family income. The choir serves in excess of 4,400 children annually through choirs in nearly 80 Chicago schools, after-school neighborhood choir programs in 10 Chicago neighborhoods (Albany Park, Austin, Beverly, Englewood, Garfield Park, Hyde Park, Humboldt Park, Lincoln Park/DePaul, Pilsen/Little Village and Rogers Park), DiMension (an ensemble for boys with changing voices), and the internationally-acclaimed Voice of Chicago, the top performing ensemble and highest aesthetic pinnacle of the Chicago Children's Choir. Of the children served, ages 8–18, the majority come from low-income homes and would otherwise have no other access to music education. 2History In 1956 during the Civil Rights Movement, the late Rev. Christopher Moore founded the multiracial, multicultural Chicago Children’s Choir at Hyde Park’s First Unitarian Church of Chicago. He believed that youth from diverse backgrounds could better understand each other - and themselves - by learning to make beautiful music together. Today, the choir is fully independent and serves all of Chicago from its home in the Chicago Cultural Center. Christopher Moore’s vision of a choir combining high artistic standards with a social purpose continues to define the choir’s missio