Wisconsin Community Fund raises money and gives it away to groups that are too new, too small or too controversial for mainstream funders.

Intercultural Leadership Initiative (ILI) strives to improves academic and social success for students in the Woodruff community by reducing racial tension in schools and promoting cultural understanding through inter-cultural experiences.  Since 1998, their programs have reached over 900 students in grades 4-12.

Recently, ILI was pushed out of schools because of No Child Left Behind and the schools in the Woodruff community, who demanded control of ILI curriculum.  ILI and the children who benefit from the program were not consulted in this decision.  To read more about this unjust decision, read ILI founder, Bob Kovar's, letter to the community.

 

ILI received over $36,000 in Fund grants since 2007. To read more about their programs and how beneficial they were to the Woodruff community, check out their website.