
On April 3, 2023, Make It Better Foundation will announce the recipients of our 10th annual Philanthropy Awards.
The Philanthropy Awards – our keystone program – is an annual competition to identify, elevate, and amplify the most effective nonprofits making a difference. An awards package valued at over $25,000 is given to recipients each year.
This year we honor the Chicago-area nonprofits doing the most impactful work to interrupt violence through their work in Health and Mental Wellness, Human Services and Social Services according to data-driven standards. Suzanne LeMignot of CBS2 Chicago will moderate the awards program.
Eligible candidates included evidence-based programs that support: child trauma and mental health services, crisis prevention plans, youth engagement, hyper-local collaborations, street outreach intervention and de-escalation, victim services, nonviolence training, and community organizing.
In March 2023, the Make It Better Foundation hosted a virtual solutions-based conversation on interrupting violence and explored our panelists integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of violence and recommended holistic approach to addressing it. The tenets of the discussion informed our judges’ review and selection of this year’s Philanthropy Awards recipients.
Panelists Roseanna Ander, Executive Director UChicago Crime Lab, Phil Andrew, Co-Founder and Principal of PAX Group and Jeanne Bishop, Cook County Public Defender, discussed their integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of violence and recommended holistic approach to addressing it.
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