--- title: Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Schools description: Grammy Award winner Chance the Rapper announced on Monday that he is donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools to support art education. canonical: https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-06T22:08:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:39.589Z og:title: Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools og:description: He's calling it a 'call to action' og:url: https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools twitter:description: He's calling it a 'call to action' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools as a 'Call to Action' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 6, 2017 10:08 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 6, 2017 10:08 PM UTC Grammy Award winner [Chance the Rapper](http://time.com/4669147/chance-the-rapper-grammys-2017/) announced on Monday that he is donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools, the _Chicago Tribune_ [reports](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-chance-the-rapper-chicago-schools-plan-met-20170306-story.html). During a [press conference ](https://www.facebook.com/165583971161/posts/10155294643746162)at Westcott Elementary School on Chicago’s South Side that was streamed live on Instagram, Chance said the monetary contribution is to “support art and enrichment programming.” Chance called the endowment a “call to action.” Last week, [Chance](http://time.com/4659456/chance-the-rapper-what-you-need-to-know/) met with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner to [discuss education funding](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/02/28/chance-the-rapper-is-meeting-with-illinois-governor-about-education-funding-really), but the rapper said he walked away from their talk feeling “frustrated and disappointed in the governor’s inaction.” He continued, “Governor Rauner can use his executive power to give Chicago’s children the resources they need to fulfill their God-given right to learn.” [Chance](http://time.com/4641219/optimistic-challenge/) said he would do all he can to “protect Chicago’s most valuable resource: its children.” Ultimately, he wants to “help cultivate Chicago creative minds.” Support was already flooding in on social media after the announcement. > [](https://twitter.com/rkelly/status/838857663748444160) > [](https://twitter.com/SheaSerrano/status/838861249161150464) > [](https://twitter.com/fakeshoredrive/status/838849529449439234) Watch the entire press conference below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/"},"headline":"Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools as a 'Call to Action'","datePublished":"2017-03-06T22:08:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:39.589Z","description":"He's calling it a \"call to action\"","url":"https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Education","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4692575/chance-the-rapper-chicago-school-donation/","name":"Chance the Rapper Donates $1 Million to Chicago Public Schools as a 'Call to Action'"}}]}] ```