On the heels of his Grammy wins, Chance The Rapper announced that he will be donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools.
Chance made the announcement at a press conference held earlier today. For every $100,000 raised, Chance's non-profit will match that amount with another $10,000. Portions of tickets sales from his upcoming tour will be use to fund this donation according to a tweet from @fakeshoredrive.
Chance recently met with the Illinois governor over school funding cuts. Chance wanted him to honor his original commitment to provide $215 million to Chicago Public Schools.
You can watch a portion of the press conference below.
Our kids should not be held hostage because of political positions
. <a href="https://twitter.com/chancetherapper" target="_blank" link-data="{"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"@chancetherapper","target":"NEW","url":"https://twitter.com/chancetherapper","_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93a0007","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93a0008","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">@chancetherapper</a> is donating $1,000,000 to Chicago Public Schools <a href="https://t.co/NHoQzzoC5M" target="_blank" link-data="{"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"pic.twitter.com/NHoQzzoC5M","target":"NEW","url":"https://t.co/NHoQzzoC5M","_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93a0009","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93a000a","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">pic.twitter.com/NHoQzzoC5M</a><br><br> — Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/CorbinReiff/status/838845063341953024" target="_blank" link-data="{"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"March 6, 2017","target":"NEW","url":"https://twitter.com/CorbinReiff/status/838845063341953024","_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93b0000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000184-c386-d511-ada5-ffdff93b0001","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">March 6, 2017</a>
