The five winners of this year's Alpert Award in the Arts received $75,000 each. The award focuses on mid-career artists and is one of the more lucrative annual arts prizes in the United States.
The highest-profile winner is Eisa Davis, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her drama "Bulrusher", who also was part of the 2008 Obie Award-winning acting ensemble of the rock musical "Passing Strange" and a leading player last year in Melissa James Gibson's drama "This".
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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.”