Campers at Chesterbrook Academy® Donate More Than $5,600 to Charity

Summer campers at Chesterbrook Academy Preschools in the Chicago area - including Bartlett, Champaign, Lisle, Naperville, Oswego, Saint Charles, Shorewood, Westmont, and Wheaton - recently partnered to donate more than $5,600 to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a national childhood cancer foundation dedicated to funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer. To raise money for the organization, campers sold lemonade and baked goods to their fellow campers, families, staff, and teachers.

Chesterbrook Academy Preschool instills a sense of social responsibility at an early age by implementing opportunities for students to learn about the importance of giving back to their communities and helping others in need. Its signature Links to Learning preschool curriculum emphasizes social-emotional learning as a stepping stone for kindergarten and beyond, working with children to help recognize and label emotions in themselves and others, while learning how they fit into their community and the larger world.