Crushers Club

You Said It: Crushers Club Executive Director Receives Award From FBI Chicago

As a Philanthropy Award winner, Crushers Club wanted to provide Make It Better readers with an update on the Club and recent achievements. The mission of the Crushers Club is to be the strongest alternative to gangs for young men in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. We arm young people with the support and skills they need to […]

by Crushers Club

February 2, 2018

2014 Philanthropy Awards: Crushers Club

Crushers Club  is a most improbable and quite remarkable story. Mother of three Sally Hazelgrove moves her family to Englewood—one of the most challenging neighborhoods in the country—because she feels called to help. Gang banging and shootings abound there; opportunities to escape that life do not. Hazelgrove asks young males loitering on street corners what […]

by Susan B. Noyes

February 24, 2015