Alverno
College $22,500
Support for the Southeastern Wisconsin Assessment
Collaborative.
America's Second Harvest Food Bank of Wisconsin $5,000
Year-end gift for support of the Kid's Cafe program.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee, Inc.
$20,000
Second year support of the on-site mentoring program
located at schools, youth clubs and community centers throughout
the Milwaukee community.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee $10,000
Support for the Mobile Bike Repair Shop, where youth
earn a bike by volunteering at the club and learn to repair
bikes.
Camps For Kids/COA Youth and Family Centers $15,600
To support the salary of a part time coordinator
to manage a collaborative camp program for central city children;
14 Wisconsin camps participate.
Cathedral Center $75,000
To renovate the old convent building adjacent to
St. John’s Cathedral to house a homeless shelter and
assessment center for women and children. A new nonprofit
organization will bring together most of the major providers
of services to homeless people in Milwaukee to provide on-site
services.
Center for Blind and Visually Impaired Children $10,000
Second year support for a two-week camp experience
for blind children in collaboration with the Badger Association
for the Blind.
Clara Mohammed School $20,000
To support the after school program at this central
city school located in the Harambee neighborhood. Field trips,
homework help and recreational activities keep children motivated
and engaged and help working parents.
COA Youth & Family Centers $25,000
Support of the programs of the Family Resource Center.
Creative SHARP Presentations, Inc. $10,000
Two-year support for an evaluation of the effectiveness
of the Creative SHARP curriculum.
Danceworks, Inc. $20,000
To expand creative arts and movement classes for
high-functioning elders who participate in programs at Milwaukee
County senior centers.
Daughters of Luke, Ltd. $20,000
Support of the provision of home maintenance services
to poor elderly clients living in the community.
Discovery World Museum $20,000
Support for the Milwaukee Girls Science Partnership,
which provides after-school science and technology programming
for girls and professional development for teachers.
Dr. James Albrecht Free Clinic, Inc. $20,000
To support free health care to persons with no insurance
and an inability to pay for care in the Hartford and West
Bend areas. Nurse practitioner and physician services are
provided one evening a week at each location. Referral services
are available from many medical providers in the community.
Emmaus Lutheran School $25,000
To support construction of a school playground at
this central city school at 23rd and Hadley Streets.
Franciscan Peacemakers $5,000
Year-end gift for street ministry.
Future Milwaukee, Inc. $15,000
Second year support of the Institute for Local Politics,
a learning and support program for elected officials.
Girl Scouts of Milwaukee Area, Inc. $10,000
To support a technology program that provides an
opportunity for girls to acquire skills in various software
programs including web site development, photography, and
video production.
Grand Avenue Club $38,400
To support the club’s expanding transitional
employment program that provides job training and placement
for persons experiencing mental illness.
Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation $10,000
To provide financial counseling and assistance to
individuals with hemophilia. The program often prevents the
loss of insurance and promotes access to healthcare.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Inc. $2,800
Support of the Children's Court Judges Leadership
Retreat to be held on November 18-19, 2002.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Inc. $2,500
For the production of the 2003 Report Card on Charitable
Giving produced by the Public Policy Forum in collaboration
with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel.
Hispanics in Philanthropy/Greater Milwaukee Foundation
$24,000
Over three years to support a funders collaborative
to develop the leadership and capacity of small and medium
size nonprofit Latino organizations in the Milwaukee area.
Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee $30,000
Support of a system for distributing supplemental
food to twenty sites throughout the community where poor elderly
live. The monthly distribution expects to serve at least 5,000
older residents.
Impact Health, Inc. $10,000
To support two health partnerships with Parklawn
Christian Church and Midtown Neighborhood Association. A yearlong
series of health education programs covering stress, heart
health, breast cancer, menopause and general health will be
presented using video and participatory sessions to groups
of up to 50 persons.
Journey House $15,000
“Girls in the House” program which offers
educational and recreational mentoring and creative opportunities
for girls four days a week after school.
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Kathy's House $10,000
To help establish a fund to help individuals of modest
means with supplemental services while staying at this hospital
hospitality house during a medical crisis. Supplemental services
include daycare, social services, financial and nutritional
counseling.
LAND (Lisbon Ave. Neighborhood Development Assoc.)
$15,000
To support the Maridadi Rite of Passage project,
an arts and educational program serving adolescent boys and
girls from Milwaukee’s central city.
Leaves of Learning $5,000
Year-end gift for the tutoring program for children.
Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee $15,000
H.E.L.P. Project - Helping the Elderly with Legal
Problems providing free legal service. Services are targeted
to issues relating to medical and mental health access, income
maintenance, consumer issues and housing.
Marquette University $50,000
Capital support to help the university meet a challenge
grant in the amount of $1,000,000 from the Kresge Foundation
to help fund the construction of the new dental school.
McBeath Community Partners Endowment Program $200,000
To fund matching endowment gifts raised in 2003 by
the Milwaukee Public Library Foundation, Public Policy Forum,
America's Second Harvest and United Community Center.
Meta House, Inc. $25,000
Support of the Next Step Program, in collaboration
with St. Catherine Residence to provide a safe, supportive
living environment for women recovering from alcohol and drug
abuse.
Milwaukee Catalyst $10,000
To support the development of a training manual and
a six-week training program for parent advocates of public
school children in the Milwaukee area.
Milwaukee Christian Center $25,000
To support a comprehensive program serving Hmong
and Lao elderly. Services include health care, socialization,
expanding their knowledge of American culture, and connecting
them with community resources.
Milwaukee County Department on Aging $10,000
For matching support to plan an ambitious project
connecting communities serving the elderly by forging new
partnerships and moving the focus of long term care from self-contained
buildings to neighborhood corridors of aging. Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation is the principal funder.
Milwaukee Police Athletic League $5,000
Year-end gift for the youth program.
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation $25,000
To support expansion of the summer reading program
for children to neighborhood schools and branch libraries.
In 2001 the summer reading program served 7,500 children from
toddlers to teenagers.
Milwaukee Public Museum $20,000
To support the development of an early childhood
program for inner-city preschool children and their teachers.
A family pass provides an opportunity for parents and children
to visit the museum at no charge.
Milwaukee Tennis Foundation $5,000
Year-end gift for support for the Inner City Youth
Program.
Modjeska Theatre Company, Inc. $10,000
To support the production of ‘Annie’
by the Youth Theatre Company.
MPTV $30,000
To support the development of an educational curriculum
to accompany a documentary based on a recent history of Milwaukee
entitled The Making of Milwaukee by local historian John Gurda.
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Neighborhood House of Milwaukee $15,000
Support for an outdoor environmental education program.
An imaginative outdoor play area at Neighborhood House coupled
with a one hundred acre environmental facility in Dodge County
provide impressive resources for child learning about plants
and the outdoors.
Nonprofit Management Fund of Milwaukee $65,000
Supports a grants program, and other resources, to
help improve the management of nonprofit organizations in
the Milwaukee area.
Nonprofit Management Fund of Waukesha $10,000
Supports a small grants program to help improve the
management of nonprofit organizations in Waukesha County.
Notre Dame Middle School, Inc. $20,000
For the Graduate Support Program that follows middle
school graduates through their high school years, providing
after-school study sessions and support from mentors and tutors.
Open Gate $5,000
Year-end gift for operating suport.
Our Next Generation $5,000
Year-end gift for the Homework Club.
PEARLS for Teen Girls, Inc. $25,000
For support of the PEARLS Power Project designed
to provide girls with the opportunities to apply leadership,
communication and interpersonal skills in a supportive environment
with trained teen and adult leaders.
Prevent Blindness - Wisconsin $10,000
To provide preschool vision screening for children
in 100 daycare centers throughout the Milwaukee area. 3,000
children will be screened annually and it is expected that
at least 150 children with undiagnosed vision problems will
be found.
Salvation Army $10,000
Year-end gift for the Christmas Tree of Lights program.
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center $20,000
To develop a bilingual pediatric asthma case management
program. A treatment team will work with 100 families including
in-home visits to help identify “triggers” that
cause asthma episodes. Asthma is the leading cause of school
absenteeism in Milwaukee.
Special Needs Adoption Network $10,000
To support a family resource center to help adoptive
and foster families with supportive services and resources
to facilitate their parenting.
St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care $25,000
To support the establishment of a senior wellness
unit to aid older adults wishing to stay in their own homes
with a combination of exercise, nutrition, socialization and
medication management.
Task Force on Family Violence $20,000
Support of the Child Advocacy Program that provides
specialized case management and legal assistance to children
who are victims or witnesses of abuse and their protective
parent(s).
The Parenting Network $15,000
To provide childcare services to parents attending
support groups of the organization.
United Community Center $15,000
To support the development of a new math and science
curriculum for the Bruce Guadalupe Middle School, a Milwaukee
charter school.
UW-Milwaukee/Helen Bader Institute $50,000
Core support for this university institute which
provides nonprofit management education to the nonprofit community,
conducts sector research and disseminates relevant knowledge
about the sector.
Volunteer Service for Visually Handicapped $5,000
Year-end gift for general operating support.
Walker's Point Center for the Arts $15,000
To support the "Hands On" Children's art
education program, an after school, drop-in arts enrichment
program targeting at-risk children in the Walker’s Point
neighborhood.
Wisconsin AIDS Fund $5,000
Year-end gift to support AIDS prevention education.
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music $20,000
To support a Saturday Music Club at the Central City
Cyberschool, a charter school located in the Parklawn housing
development in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin Sports Foundation $5,000
Year-end gift for the health education program in
Milwaukee.
YMCA of Metro Milwaukee $25,000
To support the Career and Life Skills Institute of
the Youth Leadership Academy. This program provides after-school
job skill training and summer internships for approximately
35 graduates of the Youth Leadership Academy.
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