Educate Tomorrow Provides a Timely Lifeline for Former Foster Kids Education and Opportunity Come from Making the Right Connections “We like to say talent is equally distributed among a nation’s children, but opportunity is not.” This conviction came...
Giving Kids their Childhood Back on Chicago’s Troubled South Side A cop builds community trust along with an after-school safe space It’s hard to stand on “the most dangerous block in Chicago” and think that this was once a place where dreams were born, but...
LEAP Stops Prison Recidivism in its Tracks Mentoring and entrepreneurship give female inmates a new lease on life. While the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, it is home to 25% of the world’s prison population. For most of...
A COMMUNITY UNITES TO HELP ITS MEMBERS WEATHER EVERY STORM Out of natural disaster a non-profit is born to meet everyday emergencies Tornados always weave a path of mass destruction, but sometimes they also leave a stronger community in their wake. When Jefferson...
JFCS SUPPORTS AND CONNECTS MEMBERS OF ITS COMMUNITIES Job Placement and Mentorship for individuals with Special Needs Lead to Community Integration and Fulfillment Receiving the Employee of the Month award is always a nice honor; for Jeremy Moore, an individual with...
