The Porter County Community Foundation awarded $86,000 for this year's first round of community fund grants to 12 local nonprofit organizations.
Some of the recipients are: College Mentors for Kids, Community Theatre Guild, Frontline Foundations, Hilltop Neighborhood House, Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center, Parents as Teachers of Porter County, Porter County Heritage Corp., United Way of Porter County and others.
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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.”