More Than $4 Million in Grants to Help Local Nonprofits
The Foundation’s Basic Needs Fund was created at the end of 2008 to help local nonprofits meet basic food and shelter needs during the economic downturn. Between the Foundation, donors and the community, more than $543,000 has been raised for the fund to date. Since its inception, the Basic Needs Fund has made more than $507,000 in grants.
Other grants made from the Foundation’s competitive grant process include:
$100,000
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (over two years) for continued support of its restoration and revitalization efforts of the Kinnickinnic River corridor.
City Year (over three years)for start-up funding to launch a site in Milwaukee. The Boston-based program plans to recruit 55 young adults, ages 17 to 24, to serve as tutors, mentors and leaders in five Milwaukee Public Schools over a 10-month period.
$75,000
United Way of Greater Milwaukee - Teen Pregnancy Prevention Fund to support model teen pregnancy prevention efforts. Other supporters of the fund include the Faye McBeath Foundation, Rockwell International, Brico Fund, Johnson Controls and the United Way.
