Grants
2008 Recipients
| Community Advocates |
$150,000 |
To support the Milwaukee Addictions Treatment Initiative and mental health services to individuals at high risk of recidivism and incarceration |
| Greater Milwaukee Foundation Educational Improvement Fund |
$50,000 |
To support a financial and operational analysis of Milwaukee Public Schools by McKinsey & Company |
| Journey House |
$875,000 |
To facilitate the design and implementation of a five-year comprehensive community development plan with residents and other local partners in Milwaukee's Clarke Square neighborhood |
| Journey House–Longfellow School |
$250,000 |
To match, dollar for dollar, contributions from local residents, businesses, associations and faith institutions in the Clarke Square neighborhood to the capital campaign for the new community center at Longfellow School |
| LISC Milwaukee |
$1,600,000 |
To deliver technical expertise, communications support, and financial assistance to community organizations as they design and implement plans for improving the social, economic and physical conditions in their neighborhoods |
| Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity |
$250,000 |
To start A Brush with Kindness, a citywide program to bring volunteers and homeowners in low-income neighborhoods together to repair and paint homes, starting with the areas in and around Clarke Square and Lindsay Heights |
| United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee |
$900,000 |
To deliver technical expertise in human services program design to community groups and to develop and carry out pilot projects that affect low-income households across the city |
| Walnut Way Conservation Corp. |
$875,000 |
To facilitate the design and implementation of a five-year comprehensive community development plan with residents and other local partners in Milwaukee's Lindsay Heights neighborhood |
| Walnut Way Conservation Corp. |
$250,000 |
To establish Maranatha Enterprise, an entity that will plan and implement housing and economic development ventures to benefit Lindsay Heights |
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