| 2007
10-34 Wisconsin, Inc. (formerly Children's Safety Services), Milwaukee, WI - $10,000
for the Prevention Education Expansion.
Badger Association of the Blind, Milwaukee, WI - $15,000
for an expansion of vision rehabilitation services for seniors.
Big Brothers Big Sisters, Milwaukee, WI - $40,000
a renewal grant for the Amachi Project Children of Promise, serving children who have a parent that is incarcerated.
COA Youth and Family Centers, Milwaukee, WI - $40,000
for Family-Centered Programming Initiative that links youth recreational, educational and community services with families and parents - 3rd year support.
Columbia St. Mary's Foundation, Milwaukee, WI - $30,000
for the Madre Angela Dental Clinic, to support expanded dental
care for low-income residents of the City.
Counseling Center of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI -
$20,000 for the Pathfinders runaway and homeless youth program,
providing shelter, counseling, case management, street outreach,
and supportive services for teenagers.
Family House Inc., Milwaukee, WI - $15,000 for Men with Vision project which provides peer support, mentoring and opportunities for community services for young males in the Family House target area.
Grand Avenue Club, Inc., Milwaukee, WI -
$20,000 for Learning and Earning, a young adult supported
work program that helps with high school to college transition
and college graduation.
Greater Milwaukee Committee, Milwaukee, WI -
$10,000 funding the hiring of a facilitator and completion
of a strategic plan for the Milwaukee Public Schools.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
- $65,000 for the Nonprofit Management Fund serving Milwaukee,
Ozaukee and Washington Counties. The fund provides small technical
and management assistance grants to small and medium-sized
organizations to improve their business, governance and financing
activities.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI -
$10,000 for the Nonprofit Management Fund of Waukesha County,
which provides technical and management assistance grants
to Waukesha-County based organizations.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
- $2,500 for continued funding for the Report Card on Philanthropy,
the annual benchmark report on philanthropy in the metropolitan
area.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI - $25,000
for the Nonprofit Management Fund's BoardStar project and its mission to increase the involvement and capability of the Boards of nonprofit organizations in the greater Milwaukee area.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee, WI - $35,000
for the Violence-Free Zone, a project involving the Latino Community Center and Running Rebels, coordinated nationally by the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.
Ko-Thi Dance Company, Milwaukee, WI - $15,000
for transition support and expanded business planning for
the organization’s efforts to improve administration
and secure a permanent home for the dance and arts education
facility.
Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, Milwaukee, WI - $40,000
for the Senior Housing and Neighborhood Connection Program, that focuses on providing seniors with home assessments, repairs and neighborhood service connections to remain in their home and to play an active role in the community - 2nd year support.
Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI - $30,000
for support of the HELP (Helping the Elderly with Legal Problems) Program that seeks to improve the review and appeals process for Social Security Disability, with emphasis on older adult applications.
Milwaukee Aging Consortium, Milwaukee, WI - $35,000
for the Senior Housing Project.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI - $16,000
for Art Aloud, a joint effort with the Milwaukee Public Library that promotes reading, art appreciation and a more diverse audience for the museum.
MilwaukeeCares, Milwaukee, WI - $30,000
for its efforts to expand physician involvement and access to specialists, in conjunction with the Milwaukee County Medical Society and the Milwaukee Free Clinic Coalition. The grant will also enable an expanded availability of free or deeply discounted prescription medicines to patients served through MilwaukeeCares.
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
- $48,025 for the 2007 Summer Reading Program of
the Milwaukee Public Library.
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation, Milwaukee, WI - $13,794 for an independent evaluation of the Summer Reading Program of
the Milwaukee Public Library.
Milwaukee Turners, Milwaukee, WI - $15,000
in continuing support for the 4th Street Forum for the civic and civil conversations, broadcasting and distribution of local and national expert's views on a wide range of challenges facing Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Urban League, Milwaukee, WI -
$25,000 for Project ALIVE, which will test specific strategies
in several schools to increase student and family participation
in education and student achievement.
Mother Kathryn Daniels Conference Center, Milwaukee, WI -
$40,000 over two years to expand the Argilla Youth Development Program, which provides character development training and employment opportunities for youth.
Neighborhood House of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI -
$25,000 for the Early Childhood Services/Family Home-based Literacy Program serving Hmong, Somalit and other recent immigrant families - a project of the International Learning Center.
Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee, Milwaukee,
WI - $15,000 for expansion of the home repair program,
and to assist in creating community partnerships to provide
free home repairs to low-income homeowners with physical disabilities
and/or are over 60 years old.
Safe & Sound, Milwaukee, WI - $23,000
for support of KaBoom! WE Play! Workshop entirely on play.
Transitional Living Services, Milwaukee, WI -
$60,000 for the Milwaukee Crisis Resource Center, serving adults with serious mental illness, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders who are experiencing psychiatric crises. The project is an outgrowth of the Mental Health Task Force and has received national demonstration funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
United Community Center, Milwaukee, WI - $25,000
for the Latino Geriatric Center, a model project serving older Hispanics in the Milwaukee area - 2nd year support.
Urban Day School, Milwaukee, WI - $40,000
for two different projects: a program pairing advocates with designated students and families to improve student achievement, and for a series of visioning conferences to determine the role of a school in supporting students and families in an urban setting as well as, guidelines for the school's strategic plan.
Urban Ecology Center, Milwaukee, WI -
$45,000 for Neighborhood Environmental Education Programs.
UWM Foundation, Milwaukee, WI -
$50,000for the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management - ENTECH, a model University effort involving students, campus resources and philanthropic support to enhance the nonprofit sector's use of technology.
UWM Foundation, Milwaukee, WI -
$5,000 for continuation of the Senior Housing Charette initiative with an emphasis on Public Policy and Capacity-Building for improved elder housing design.
West Allis/West Milwaukee Recreation & Community
Services Department, West Allis, WI - $20,000 for
the Irving School Special Needs Accessible Playground, designed
for special needs students as well as the general population.
WI Council on Children and Families, Madison, WI -
$35,000 for the Ready, Set, Grow Technical Assistance and Training Project - 3rd year support for the Council's efforts to build an area "Brain Team" to stimulate conversation and action among child care and health providers on healthy brain development and to provide technical assistance to selected child care providers on stimulating healthy brain development among very young children.
Wisconsin Center for Nursing, Inc., Waukesha, WI - $60,000
over two years for the “Raising the Bar” project
to demonstrate new methods of educating and employing public
health nurses. The award is part of a national application
to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Wisconsin Center for Nursing, Inc., Waukesha, WI - $30,000 for continued program and operations support for the Center, a confederation of schools of nursing, nursing associations and health systems.
Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc., Milwaukee, WI - $25,000 to improve working partnerships with neighborhood organizations and to design and launch the arts and science component of CR-21 with several partners including Discovery World and the Medical College of WI. |
