The Legacy Initiative (TLI), a non-profit company founded in 2009 and provides mentoring, entrepreneurial and workforce preparation and leadership development for under served youth, hosted a fundraiser on June 19^th at Sutton Place in Chicago. The event included students helped by the company and a performance by singer Koku Gonza.

Student members are mentored through their senior year of high school by Legacy Initiative Certified Facilitators. The curriculum is designed to help student make better academic, economic and social decisions; gain admission to 2-or 4-year colleges and technical schools; receive scholarships or job training for those colleges, technical schools and/or apprenticeship programs and receive grants, funding or loans for small business startups. For more information, please visit http://www.tliteam.org