Help The Uplift Project secure 501(c)(3) status

My name is Azmat Ahmed and I am starting a nonprofit based in Chicago, Illinois called The Uplift Project. We need your help so that we may apply for our 501(c)(3) status. This will help us expand our impact and enable us to better support our community members that need us the most. Our current focus is the homeless community but with your helps we will expand to other sectors of need within our community. The three main programs we will launch once we reach our goal is providing essential resources to the homeless community, Park and beach clean up events, and organizing a school drive to provide book bags filled with supplies to students.