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Pitch In

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Despite the curveballs that life circumstances may throw, everyone deserves a chance to reach their full potential. The Wood Family Foundation facilitates collaborative relationships between school partners and families that provide support and opportunities to empower students to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond.

The Wood Family Foundation’s premiere program, Pitch In, is an after-school model that employs high-quality mentoring relationships and exposure to unique experiences to ensure that our 4th-8th grade students develop the academic and social-emotional skills, mindsets, and agency necessary to transition to high school successfully.

Beyond the after-school component of our model, Pitch In deeply engages with our partner schools to improve the culture of the middle grades (4th-8th grade), adding school-day capacity that aligns to principals’ visions for their school communities, providing access to an abundance of resources, and focusing not only on our students, but also on their families.

We currently serve Humboldt Park and North Lawndale, and aspire to reach Austin, Englewood, and Roseland in the near future.

Despite the curveballs that life circumstances may throw, everyone deserves a chance to reach their full potential. The Wood Family Foundation facilitates collaborative relationships between school partners and families that…

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