90% of Crushers’ youth stay out of the juvenile justice system.
30,000+ paid workforce hours each year.
Our workforce model costs $10,000 per youth, per year.
Youth incarceration costs $90,000 per youth, per year.
100% of Crushers feel they have learned new skills while at Crushers Club.
100% of Crushers feel they are loved and cared about at Crushers Club.
100% of Crushers feel like their job at Crushers Club is keeping them from the streets to make money.
“On the streets we feel we have to be against each other…
…but at Crushers Club, we can be for each other”
Awards and Recognition
Winner of the Wintrust Chicago Neighborhood Award, at the 2022 Chicago Innovation Awards
Porsche Car Club, Charity of the Year Award, 2021
FBI’s Director Community Leadership Award Winner - the highest recognition the FBI awards a civilian
Cook County’s 2017 Woman of the Year Award, presented to Sally Hazelgrove for her work with youth on probation
Named a Chicagoan of the Year, 2017 (Sally Hazelgrove) by Chicago magazine
Winner of the A Better Chicago, 2012 Project Impact competition
2014 winner of Poder Award for Social Impact and Make It Better’s Philanthropy Award
Highlighted at the 2014, Women in the World Summit, at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Spoke at the 2014 American Justice Summit, and published in Vice News.