Alive Center

📣 Naperville, We'll See You After a Short Break!

Our center will be temporarily CLOSED from August 3–12 while our team prepares the center for an exciting new school year. 🎒✨

We’ll RE-OPEN on Thursday, August 13, refreshed, ready, and excited to welcome our community back! 💛

Grateful for partners like this. 💛

Alive Center is honored to receive a generous $2,500 grant in general operating support from the FT Cares Foundation! 🙌

This flexible funding helps power the everyday work behind our centers and programs, allowing us to keep creating welcoming spaces where teens can:

✨ build meaningful friendships
🎨 explore their interests
💬 express themselves
🌱 grow in confidence
💛 feel like they truly belong

Thank you for believing in our mission and investing in the teens and communities we serve. 💯

400 new teens joined Alive in 2025! 🎉🙌

That means hundreds of teens found a safe, welcoming place to connect, build confidence and be themselves. 💚

400 NEW faces. 👥
400 NEW connections. 🤝
400 MORE reasons to celebrate! 🎉

We’re so proud to keep growing the Alive community! 💙

2,816 HOURS OF PROGRAMS! 🎉⏰

That’s 2,816 hours of teens learning, creating, leading, connecting, and spending time in spaces built just for them. ✅

MORE interests explored 🎨
MORE confidence built 💡
MORE friendships formed 🤝
MORE safe spaces to belong 🫶
MORE moments to be themselves 🌱

Every one of those hours was made possible by our incredible teens, staff, volunteers, families, community partners, and supporters. 💯🙌

Thank you for helping ALIVE continue showing up for teens across our communities! ✨💙

THIS SATURDAY ONLY! 🚧🛠️

Join Alive Center, Nicor Gas, and the City of Aurora, IL, Government for the FREE Aurora Trades Career Fair! 🎉

Looking for a new career path, hands-on training, or apprenticeship opportunities? Come meet local employers and learn more about careers in the skilled trades. 🚀

Plus, bring the family for Touch-a-Truck fun! 🚚

📍 13 S. Water St.
📅 Saturday, July 25
⏰ 10 AM–12 PM
🎟️ FREE | All ages welcome
✅ No registration needed

Just show up, explore, connect, and build your future! 🙌

A YEAR OF TEENS COMING ALIVE. 🙌✨

Today, we are SO PROUD to share Alive Center's official 2025 Annual Report! 🎉

In 2025, together we:
💙 Served over 1000 individual teens
💛 Welcomed over 400 new teens
💚 Recorded over 11,000 teen visits
❤️ Provided over 2,800 hours of programming

Behind every number is a teen who felt safer, more supported, more connected, and more empowered to lead. 💯

This report reflects the impact our teens, families, staff, volunteers, donors, & community partners made possible throughout the year. ✅

Thank you for believing in Alive and helping create spaces where teens can belong, lead, and truly come alive. 🫶

📖 Read the full report HERE: https://ow.ly/5yoe50Zqcap

FREE movie night in Naperville! 💙🎬

Join us for a private screening of Coming Alive, an inspiring film about youth, connection, leadership, and the power of community. ✨

📅 Tuesday, July 21 at 6:00 PM
📍 Go Brewing Taproom
🎟️ Free to attend
🍕 Pizza & snacks provided

Bring a friend and come get inspired! 🙌