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WCF's 32d Funding Cycle (2006-2007) Grantees
Out of 17 applicants, ten non-profit organizations throughout Wisconsin received grants ranging from $3,000 to $9,000, totaling $55,000, in WCF's 32nd Funding Cycle. Here are descriptions of the grantees and the programs which WCF's grants will help to fund:
General Fund Grants - 2006-2007
| 9 to 5 Poverty Network Initiative | Milwaukee | $ 6,000 |
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9 to 5 Poverty Network Initiative is a multi-racial, multi-issue organization; our mission is to strengthen the ability of low-wage women to win economic justice. They combine advocacy, public education, grassroots organizing. policy campaigns and leadership development to relief from the most punitive components of welfare reform and improve employment policies, while building for long-term goals, especially creation and retention of family-supporting and family-flexible jobs. Grant funds will be used to support general operating expenses including staff time, a portion of office/rent/supplies and postage overhead and scholarships for our member leaders to attend local and regional leadership training conferences to develop our campaign work around the greater Milwaukee Good Jobs/Livable Neighborhoods Coalition
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| Adult Learning Center | Milwaukee | $ 2,000 |
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.The Adult Learning Center provides basic educational opportunities to economically disadvantaged adults so that they may enhance the quality of their lives, positively affect the community and pursue lifelong learning. Students are predominantly African-American and courses focus on black history and communities while discussing the role of race and class in this society. The grant will fund the Street Law course offered at no charge to community members and current ALC students. Space and instruction are funded. WCF grant monies will go to purchase instructional materials including textbooks, instructor’s materials, all student notebooks and folders, videos and transparencies.
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| African American Children’s Theatre | Milwaukee | $ 3,000 |
| AACT provides African-American children with opportunities to express their creativity, to nurture their individuality, and to guide them in learning and acquiring leadership and performing skills while producing quality art. At the same time, these children also learn self esteem and skills to function in a racist society.
The funds will be used to cover operating expenses, grant writing, training, rent and AACT’s Training Academy Scholarships
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| Center Advocates | Milwaukee | $ 8,000 |
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Center Advocates exists to win concrete legislative improvements in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in Metro Milwaukee. The money will be used to fund continued work funded in the 31st FC including: recruiting lesbian and gay couples of color who will speak publicly about how the lack of legal recognition affects them, increasing the ownership of the LGBT movement by activists of color through an active steering committee, house parties and events, building lists of leaders of color who support the freedom to marry rather than just oppose LGBT discrimination, organizing an affirming event in the Black church, and build grassroots support in African American neighborhoods for marriage equality by conducting neighborhood canvasses, and continuing successful earned-media efforts to educate the African American community about same-sex families.
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| Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center | Appleton | $ 3,000 |
| Fox Cities Roatry Multicultural Center will use its $3,000 grant to battle racism in the Appleton community. Founded in 2004, the Center works to promote diversity and understanding among races through education. The facility acts as a hub for area multicultural groups, offering a meeting place with internet access as well as guidance for smaller non-profits. In addition, the Center holds Diversity Circles, talking sessions throughout the community, as well as movie nights featuring multicultural films. Funds received from WCF will be used to address issues to be identified at its Action Forum in May. This is the first year WCF has funded the group.
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| Grassroots Leadership College | Madison | $ 9,000 |
| Grassroots Leadership College develops grassroots leaders by building skills and relationships in a supportive and challenging environment. Classes are taught by volunteer faculty drawn from neighborhood, non-profit, governmental, educational, faith-based organizations as well as the for-profit sector.
Funding will be used to expand el Programa de Liderazgo Comunitario, our grassroots leadership development program for the Spanish speaking community in Dane County.
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| Intercultural Leadership Initiative | Lac du Flambeau | $ 7,000 |
| Intercultural Leadership Initiative serves students in the Lakeland Union High School district which covers 800 square miles and four feeder K-8 schools and one high school serving 10 communities in 2 counties in northern WI. Of the four K-8 schools, one is predominantly Native while the other three are all non-native. ILI is in its eighth year and works with students from 4th grade through 12th grade.
Funding for 2 ILI projects. ILI After School Leadership (ASL) pilot project. Twelve dedicated LUHS ILI high school students meet with ILI staff to more deeply explore ILI issues, get training as elementary session mentors and facilitators, peer mentoring and other advanced leadership skills as well as develop service learning activities across the community. Continued support for the ILI Transition Program, a project we began a few years ago to bring all of the area 8th graders and their teachers together in May to meet and interact with their freshman high school teaching staff.
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| Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice | Madison | $ 5,000 |
| Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice educates and mobilizes the religious and labor communities in South Central WI on issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers. The ICWJ set up and oversees the day-to-day operations of the Workers’ Rights Center which educates workers about their rights in the work place.
Funds will be used to cover staff time to build a broad coalition of groups to work on issues surrounding conviction record discrimination. Funds will also be used for the various program expenses related to the project. A quarter time religious outreach organizer will be hired to focus on building contacts and ties to the various congregations and denominations in South Central Wisconsin.
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| TAPIT/new works | Madison | $ 3,000 |
| TAPIT/new works was founded in 1985 for the express purpose of pursuing
artistic innovation and community connection. TAPIT/new works believes that art helps people make better sense of the world and inspires people to make the world a better place. Experiencing art is an essential part of human nature and through art,
TAPIT/new works strives to dismantle barriers of race, class, age and education
Funding will go towards putting the play "Tearing Up the Front Page" on tour and pairing it with facilitated discussions taking place before and after the performance, as a form of grassroots organizing through the arts.
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| Wexford Ridge Neighborhood Center | Madison | $ 9,000 |
| Wexford Ridge Neighborhood Center provides programs, services and access to resources that promote growth and community well-being in response to neighborhood needs.
Grant monies will go to help fund the following programs: Community Mapping/Community Forums, Justice for Youth Coalition, Training/Peer to Peer Support, Teen Build Up Support
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| 2006-2007 General Fund Grants Total: | $55,000 | |
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