Purpose isn't just a name. It's why we built the business. When you hire us, part of what you pay goes straight back to the public school down the street.
We believe in public schools. Ours are under-resourced, and they do a lot with what they have.
We're supporting the neighborhoods we live and work in, and putting resources where the kids are. So the money from a kitchen or a closet doesn't leave the neighborhood. A share goes right back to the school.
Each school's parent group, Friends of Peirce and Friends of Coonley, decides where it goes.
Source: Friends of Peirce annual report. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
Source: Friends of Coonley, 2025/26 spending. Photo: Coonley School.
Tell us at the consult, and we'll send your give back there instead. Any Chicago public school.
Accent walls, closets, kitchens, baths. Every project like these puts 5% toward a local school.
As Purpose grows, so does what the schools get. The goal is more schools in more neighborhoods, every year.
Peirce. Where it started.
Peirce + Coonley.
Your school? Hire us and tell us where it goes.
When local businesses do well, they invest back into their neighborhoods. In our case, that's the schools.
Through my work with Friends of Peirce, five other local businesses have added $27,500 in school sponsorships over the last three years.
We support where we live. And put resources where the kids go.Steve Larosiliere, founder. Award-winning social entrepreneur and President and Founder of STOKED, a youth mentoring nonprofit. Licensed General Contractor, City of Chicago. I built Purpose the same way I built STOKED: to make a real difference in the community I live in.