Our Impact
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is proud to partner with community and civic institutions to increase economic opportunity in Chicago. We have committed over $100 million to building a more inclusive and prosperous City. We are proud to present these legacy reports highlighting some of our bigger investments over the last 10 years.
Tech talent: Positioning Chicago’s economy for a tech future
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2024
P33 is dedicated to building programs, advocacy, and coalitions that promote inclusive economic growth for Chicago and the region.
This year P33 took giants steps toward a key goal — creating a tier-one technology and innovation hub for — and with — the people of Chicago. More than three decades after USX permanently closed its sprawling steel plant on Chicago’s Southeast Side, the 440-acre site is now positioned to be a catalyst in a science and technology revolution.
The site will become a multibillion-dollar quantum computing campus built around the country’s first quantum computer built to scale for researchers, partners and others to use. P33 played a crucial role to bring the partnership to life. To make Chicago a top-tier tech and innovation hub, it takes coordination between entrepreneurs, investors, academia, business and government — not to mention robust marketing and workforce development. P33 works to help Chicago seize its opportunity and make the region greater than a sum of its parts.
BUILDING A TECH ECOSYSTEM
2 new tech hubs
Critical driver of a statewide collaborative that secured millions in federal funds for two “tech hubs” — a central Illinois biomanufacturing center and the quantum campus on the USX site.
$20M training center
The tech workforce training center on Chicago’s South Side will bring 100 jobs and $70 million of economic impact.
50 companies
Size of an alliance brought together by P33 focused on developing the best and most diverse tech talent in Chicago.
Annual tech celebration
A yearly celebration of Chicago’s unique, inclusive tech ecosystem that draws an estimated 9,000 people, highlights culture and brings together employers and talent.
Pritzker Access Scholars: Scholarships with impact
PUBLISHED APRIL 2024
Motivated by a goal to provide educational and career opportunities for undocumented high school students, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation and Pritzker Foundation in 2015 launched the Pritzker Access Scholars program with the Noble network of charter schools.
PAS provided full college scholarships and other crucial services to 405 undocumented high school seniors, supporting them to earn college degrees and change the trajectories of their lives and the lives of their families. Twenty-six colleges and universities partnered with the foundations.
Later, TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college and career success program for undocumented immigrant youth, also became a partner.
“In a world where life seemed so out of my control, suddenly, I had a future to look forward to,” scholar Karina Ortega Dominguez recalled of the day she learned that she’d receive a scholarship.
She graduated with a double major in math and economics. Today Karina runs a program that rewards teachers for exemplary work in Noble Schools.
PAS’ POWERFUL 'EFFECT
194 of the 306
scholars who entered college in 2015-19 earned bachelor’s degrees–a rate of nearly 64%.
Almost 70%
of PAS recipients who’d earned bachelor’s degrees, were employed full-time or continuing their education as of November 2023.
3 in 4
undocumented Noble students remained enrolled at the fifth semester in college from 2015-19 - a higher rate than documented peers.
Nearly 63%
of the 99 PAS students who entered college in 2021 and 2022 are persisting.
15 times
— the amount a student’s lifetime earnings increase for every dollar invested in a scholarship and administrative costs for a PAS recipient.