GCE Lab School energizes students to make the world a better place for all.

Help put the curiosity and wonderment back into high school education. Your gift enriches lives and funds dreams. Join us and become a champion for real-world learning.

$410K Goal

Every gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar!

Pioneers
of Education

Pave the path for GCE’s continued innovation in high school education.

Heroes
of Our Future

Connect classrooms to the real world and prepare students for a changing world.

Champions
of Opportunity

Empower students from all across Chicago with access to an unmatched education.

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Feed the entrepreneurial spirit of students like Gimena.

Gimena’s commitment to social issues manifests in both student work and entrepreneurial endeavors. A product of GCE’s curriculum, Gimena’s original game—which includes characters representing an array of ethnicities, identities, and physical abilities—has earned them a nomination for Young Inventor of the Year by Chicago Toy and Game Fair.

I think this is the only school I know of to give so much love to their students’ future and what they want to do, not what they have to do or what they should do.
—Gimena

Make dreams come true for a student like Nakiya’h

Nakiya’h never misses an opportunity to distinguish himself, to develop his voice, and to become an agent of change. He draws on experiences as a Chicagoan, a former CPS student, and as a resident of Englewood and Uptown in his art, which includes work selected for the cover of Marwen’s program catalog—a notable Chicago nonprofit for young people from under-resourced communities and schools providing free visual arts programs.

GCE helps me to interact with people of many different backgrounds, and helps me identify and pursue my dreams.
—Nakiya’h

Support students taking inspired action like Cora

As a youth advocate, Cora’s voice is heard not only in Chicago but also in Washington D.C., where she spoke with Representatives to support the Epilepsy Foundation’s legislative goals. Closer to home, Cora’s ambition as an organizer helped bring to life the 15,000-strong #NeverAgain movement with March for Our Lives Chicago to protest youth gun violence. GCE’s challenges students to be bold and act boldly—Cora is showing us how.

GCE helps me by using tools and knowledge I learn inside and outside the classroom to help me reach out to my peers and community and educate people about my activism with epilepsy and ending gun violence.
—Cora

Your contribution goes directly to:

Provide teacher training and resources to create cutting edge curriculum to develop tomorrow’s global citizens and GCE-led workshops to share successes and challenges in our model with other public and independent schools.

Support the Field Experience Program by providing transportation, guest speakers and mentor lunches, developing meaningful curricular connections to businesses, nonprofits and civic agencies in Chicago.

Provide deserving students from across Chicago access to a life changing high school experience through flexible tuition, access to a need-based opportunity fund, and state of the art technology.

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Your support ensures GCE Lab School can continue to deliver an unmatched education and fulfill our mission to use the city as a classroom and embolden a community of socially responsible citizens to respond courageously to the world’s biggest challenges.

Global Citizenship Experience Lab School is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax deductible. EIN: 45-2406296