Association of Illinois Montessori Schools
- AIMS and its member schools are represented on the Illinois Coalition of Non-Public Schools (ICNS) which provides advocate visibility to the Illinois State Legislature and Governors Office.
- AIMS organized a three day Statewide Montessori conference for teachers, parents and administrators.
- Over a three year period AIMS helped create Montessori awareness by providing Montessori books and videos to the libraries of one hundred one Illinois public and private colleges and universities.
- AIMS provided monetary support and volunteer help for the American Montessori Society’s national convention held in Chicago.
- AIMS collaborated with the organization Bookfriends International, NFP, to collect and ship books to public and private schools in need in Uganda, Africa.
- AIMS provided monetary support to Victoria Montessori School in Entebbe, Uganda, which offers schooling and housing for orphans from war torn Northern Uganda, Africa.
- AIMS and member schools contributed Montessori materials for the two new Montessori classrooms at Chicago’s Kennedy King College.
- AIMS provided monetary support to purchase Montessori materials for a new school starting in Bangladesh.
- Funds were allocated by AIMS for the advocacy of "universal pre-K".
- Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, AIMS provided emergency monetary support to Haitian Montessori schools and the Peter Hesse Foundation.
