When Chance The Rapper thanked "all of Chicago" in his Best New Artist acceptance speech at the 59th GRAMMYs, he already had plans to do more than state his gratitude. After his first meeting with Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner — after which Chance publicly expressed frustration with the meeting's lack of substance — Chance took matters into his own hands and made a historic donation of $1 million to the Chicago public school system. Chance stated at the press conference he wanted "to bring light and attention to public school funding, broken formulas and especially how it affects [his] hometown," adding, "We can all really get involved here."

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His words did not fall on deaf ears. Chance made a follow-up announcement this week that the Chicago Bulls' basketball organization has partnered with him to make a matching donation of $1 million to area schools. Furthermore, Chance The Rapper announced that SocialWorks, a nonprofit group he co-founded, had launched the New Chance Arts & Literature Fund. The fund will "bring arts programs and materials to schools that have experienced a decrease in five-year graduation rates, addressing their budgets, textbooks and music programs."

Alongside the Chicago Bulls, Seattle Seahawks' defensive lineman Michael Bennett cited Chance The Rapper as his inspiration to do more to give back to his own community. Accordingly, Bennett announced last week he would donate all of his 2017 endorsement proceeds and 50 percent of his jersey sales to programs funding science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics programs through his own nonprofit, the Bennett Foundation.

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