The Chicago Teen Foundation and its alumni program have awarded $38,642 in grants to seven Jewish social service and education programs in Chicago and Israel.
Jewish Child & Family Services, Therapeutic Day School Life Skills Program, which provides monthly field trips that allow the school's 120 at-risk students to take lessons learned in the Life Skills Program out into the community received $8,050.
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William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan of Dowser write about the social entrepreneurs slowly and steadily dirsupting the world of philanthropy. According to Forbes, philanthropy disruptors are those that believe “no one company is so vital that it can’t be replaced and no single business model too perfect to upend.”