Chance The Rapper’s Charity SocialWorks Receives $100K Donation From Raising Cane’s

Eunice Alpasan | September 12, 2024, 1:06 pm

Chance the Rapper at Raising Cane’s in Wrigleyville on Sept. 12, 2024. (WTTW News)

Chance the Rapper greeted fans outside of Raising Cane’s in Wrigleyville Thursday morning ahead of receiving a $100,000 donation for his charity from the restaurant chain.

Chance the Rapper’s charity SocialWorks, founded in 2016, aims to empower youth through the arts, education and civic engagement.

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The charity’s initiatives include youth summer camps, support for those experiencing homelessness, youth open mics and grants to expand student access to computer science, arts and literary education at Chicago Public Schools, according to its website.

During a news conference Thursday, Chance the Rapper said he is more involved in SocialWorks than most other celebrities who have nonprofits because he’s based in Chicago and can attend SocialWorks events that his friends, who help run the nonprofit, host in the city.

“A lot of the future of SocialWorks is expanding on existing programs,” Chance the Rapper said. “I think all the programs that we run and all the partners that we engage could all just be boosted and be expanded to reach more people.”