WCF - Grants - past grantees

For fiscal year 2002-2003, WCF made grants totalling almost $ 195,000 to a wide variety of grantees. Details about these grants are set out below, by grantmaking program.

African American Children's Theatre	Milwaukee	$2,500
The mission of AACT is to provide all children of the metro Milwaukee area with opportunities to express their creativity, to nurture their individuality, and to guide them in learning and acquiring leadership and performance skills.
Anishinaabe Niijii/Protect the Earth	Springbrook	$5,000
Working to stop the proposed Arrowhead-Weston power line, the Crandon mine and the Northern Wisconsin mining district (multiple mines) are part of the attempts by Anishinaabe Niijii/Protect the Earth to fight environmental injustice and racism in northern Wisconsin.
Community Union	Milwaukee	$7,500
The Community Union was formed in 2000 out of the layoff of 600 primarily African-American and Latino tannery and steel fabricating workers when US Leather and Steeltech declared bankruptcy and provided no lay-off pay.
Education for the People	Milwaukee	$7,600
Education for the People (E4TP), an educational advocacy organization based in Milwaukee, opposes corporate attempts to privatize and take over the public school system.
GLSEN-SCW	Madison	$5,000
GLSEN employee's coalition building and direct education to promote enforcement of Wisconsin's pupil non-discrimination law (s.118.13) which prohibits discrimination and harassment in school.
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council	Lac du Flambeau	$10,000
The Intercultural Leadership Initiative, housed at the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, focuses on reducing racial tensions at Lakeland Union High School in north central Wisconsin.
Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice	Madison	$10,000
The Worker Rights Center (WRC) provides education, information, legal assistance and training to low-wage earners and immigrant workers. The education and training covers employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour claims, workers and unemployment compensation, occupational safety and health, as well as grass-roots leadership and direct action.
Interfaith Hospitality Network	Madison	$2,400
This grant will create a consumer advocacy group of homeless and formally homeless community members who will advocate for legislative changes and increased resources to address the lack of sufficient shelter and affordable housing in the Madison area.
Peace Education Project of Peace Action WI	Milwaukee	$7,500
The WCF grant will be used for the Activist Training Project, a major initiative to train members of small, regional peace organizations in Wisconsin in grass roots organizing skills and to develop an ongoing supportive relationship with these groups.
Progressive Media Project	Madison	$5,000
As part of their efforts to reach out to activists in Wisconsin, the Progressive Magazine through the Progressive Media Project will be offering a skills-building clinic in the art of op-ed writing.
WI Research Center for Pluralism	Milwaukee	$5,000
The Wisconsin Research Center for Pluralism tracks the activities of right wing and hate groups around the state of Wisconsin and promotes public education and coalition-building efforts in support of democratic values and diversity.
Wise Women Gathering Place	Green Bay	$2,500
Wise Women Gathering Place promotes Indigenous Women's right to a midwife attended birth at the place of her choosing. Eventually, WWGP would like to see a midwife in all Native American communities again.
*2002-2003 General Fund Grants Total:*		$70,000

Anathoth Community Farm	Luck	$500
The grant was used to finance their Peace Bus which is used to educate people on issues related to peace in Northern Wisconsin.
CSWAB	Merrimac	$500
Funding will be used for a bi-lingual (saturation) mailing notifying community members at risk of their right to receive written notification of open burning of hazardous waste at badger Army Munitions Plant.
Community Action on Latin America	Madison	$500
CALA hosted a presentation by a Nicaraguan coffee grower/activist who was on tour with Witness for Peace.
Eau Claire Earth Day Committee	Eau Claire	$500
Grant used to publicize the events in the mainstream media in West-Central WI, materials for activities and games, educational displays, and to provide high quality sound for music and speakers at the event. Over 200 attendees at Earth Day.
Earth Day to May Day	Madison	$500
The Special Opportunity Grant was used to bring Ward Churchill, Native American author/activist to Madison to speak on the current domestic situation resulting from the War on Iraq. Over 100 people attended the 3 hour presentation.
Grassroots Initiatives	Kickapoo Valley	$500
The grant was used to create a newspaper entitled "Grassroots Initiative" that would reflect the growing anti-war movement in the area and as a vehicle for the voices and views of progressives in the region.
UW Havens Center	Madison	$500
Used to fund Community Power -- the first international conference on local democracy. Pal1icipants came from Brazil, England, Uruguay and throughout the US.
Physicians for Social Responsibility	Madison	$500
In an effort to continue their work of impacting public policy and ensuring that it protects public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility will use this grant for a film series on war and peace.
Voices Beyond Bars (MUM)	Madison	$500
Sponsored my Madison Urban Ministry (MUM), Voices Beyond Bars is a speakers bureau of newly returned former prisoners whose focus is corrections reform.
Voces de la Frontera	Milwaukee	$500
Funding pays for transportation costs to bring student members of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights from Chicago to Milwaukee to provide a training workshop for the Voces de la Frontera student.
Welfare Warriors	Milwaukee	$500
This grant sent participants to Washington D.C. for an emergency conference on welfare issue
WORT Youth Radio Project	Madison	$500
This project funds four local youth's participation in the National Youth in Radio Conference. The goal is to give area a youth a chance to make a difference by giving them the training necessary to produce their own programs.
*2002-2003 Special Opportunity Grants Total:*		$6,000

WCF Donor Advised Accounts:

From Frederick Douglass Edhlund Memorial Fund:
Peace Action Wisconsin	Milwaukee	$500
To support peace and justice organizing
ACLU-Wisconsin	Milwaukee	$500
To support civil liberties work

From Mildred Harnack Memorial Fund:
Milwaukee High School of the Arts	Milwaukee	$1,000

From Verna Hill Memorial Fund:
University of Wisconsin Havens Center	Madison	$2,500
To support the annual Radfest conference
Madison Arcatao Sister City Project	Madison	$1,000
To support sister city project work

To Headwaters Foundation -- Fund of the Sacred Circle	Minneapolis	$10,000
To support American Indian grantmaking programs for Minnesota and Wisconsin
To Action Wisconsin	Madison	$500
To support gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender rights
To Casa Maria Catholic Worker House	Milwaukee	$250
To support poverty and homelessness work
To The Social Justice Center	Madison	$27,646
To support capital campaign for co-op building project
*2002-2003* Donor Advised Grants Total:		$43,896

Disabled Womens' Education Project	Madison	$2,900
Project to produce a book on women and disability.
MediaVision	Boston	$7,700
National project to get progressive voices in mainstream media.
WI Apprentice Organizers' Project	Statewide	$28,750
Provides training and a support network for a new generation of community organizers.
Action Wisconsin Education Fund	Statewide	$15,800
Works for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
*2002-2003* Grants to Fiscal Sponsored Projects Total:		$55, 150

Midwest Treaty Network	Madison	$7,000
To support opposition to the proposed Crandon mine
Team Response: Indians Against Defamation (TRIAD)	Bayfield	$5,000
To support the monitoring of anti-Indian activities
*2002-2003 Fund of the Sacred Circle Total:*		$12,000

General Fund Grants	$ 70,000
Special Opportunity Grants	6,000
Fiscal Sponsorship Grants	55,150
Fund of the Sacred Circle Grants	12,000
Donor Advised Grants	43,896
Memberships & Sponsorships	7,860
Grand Total	$ 194,906


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