The CIRCLE Foundation is an institution that facilitates innovative educational experiences, inspirational leadership development, insightful guidance opportunities and dutiful support service programming.
We are a non-discriminatory, non-sectarian and non-political organization that focuses on preserving and encouraging the heights of human potential, in order to contribute to the advancement of individual, group, and societal progress.
23 August
“I could see people grasping to what I had going on,” he says, referring in particular to his Innovations English teacher Keith Chrisman, who encouraged Bartlett to take up poetry. “He was one of the people that pushed me towards rapping and taking the path I did.” Chrisman pushed for the rapper to participate in the Chicago slam poetry tradition Louder Than a Bomb, where a number of other talents like Chance the Rapper and Noname had their moments, too.
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The Circle Foundation is celebrating a decade of work that has helped facilitate educational development for Chicago youth at Innovations High School.
It all started in 2002 when I was working as a consultant for a company called the Blue Gargoyle. My job was to work with the administration of their alternative school called Bronzeville Academic Center.
The CIRCLE Foundation is an institution that facilitates innovative educational experiences, inspirational leadership development, insightful guidance opportunities and dutiful support service programming.
