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My name is Jeanne Pritzker and I founded an organization called Foster Care Counts after leaving the investment banking field for 15 years to become a full time parent raising 7 children including 1 foster child. I decided to take my skills and experience to the next level and make it a full time profession and I started this organization to help support the foster children in our country; locally, nationally, and all over the world. In my free time, I am actually finishing a PhD in Clinical Psychology because as I felt that I wanted to bring higher level of competency to the initiatives I am trying to support in foster care and when I am not doing that, I am collecting kitschy snow globes.
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Jeanne K. Pritzker

Founder, Foster Care Counts

Jeanne K. Pritzker is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Care Counts, a California nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the lives of current and former foster children.  A successful businesswoman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Jeanne was educated at the University of Michigan (BA 1982, French and Psychology), Northwestern University (MBA 1986, Finance and Accounting) and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Psy.D. expected 2013, Clinical Psychology).Jeanne started her professional career in the finance world, where her experience included commercial lending, investment banking and entertainment finance. She went on to found and run Splurge, Inc., a producer of healthy snack foods, and The Bag Lady Inc., stimulating microfinance in Asia through importing straw bags made by tsunami victims.Her noteworthy academic and professional successes notwithstanding, Jeanne's greatest satisfaction has come from her personal and philanthropic activities. The proud mother of seven children (including one foster child), she is an outspoken advocate, and a matchless contributor and fundraiser, for foster care and social justice causes. Jeanne is a woman on a mission: to improve the foster care system and to help current and former foster children, as well as her own children, to lead happy, successful, and productive lives.

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