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September 2021
August 2021

Member Featured: Wisconsin Humanities Council

Member Featured: WHEDA

Member Featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
LATEST COVID-19 RESPONSE GRANTS TARGET MENTAL HEALTH, ONGOING PANDEMIC HEALTH EFFECTS

Member Featured: Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Member Featured: American Family Dream Insurance


Members featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin and Wisconsin Partnership Program
Statewide Partnership Awarded $3 Million to Address Health Disparities

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured: Milwaukee Bucks Foundation

Member featured: Wisconsin Trust Foundation

Member featured: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation
Local students awarded scholarships from the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation

Member featured: WHEDA Foundation

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Community Foundation awards over $400,000 in scholarships in 2021

Members featured: Herb Kohl Philanthropies, Northwestern Mutual, United Way of Wisconsin, and Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Milwaukee Succeeds Give Black Male Students Seats at the Table

Members featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation and Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation
Rock River Community Clinic celebrates donors during clinic tour

Member featured: Eau Claire Community Foundation
Eau Claire Community Foundation to launch new fundraising initiative

Member featured: Johnson Controls, Inc
Johnson Controls Named One of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women by 2021 by Seramount

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County

Member featured: Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Northwestern Mutual gives $1.9M to boost 3 Milwaukee neighborhoods

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Funding News: AHW Awards $6.5 Million to Improve Health & Advance Health Equity in Wisconsin

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
June 2021

Member featured: Siebert Lutheran Foundation

Member featured: Direct Supply

Members featured: Associated Bank and United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County
Associated Bank, Digital Bridge give refurbished laptops to United Way

Member featured: Fond du Lac Area Community Foundation

Member featured: Wisconsin Community Health Fund
Community education series vaccine clinics coming to Twining Park

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

Member featured: CUNA Mutual Group
Hope on the Horizon: Recovery high school moves to new space, graduates nine

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County
Microsoft announces effort to expand broadband access to Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights neighborhood

Members featured: Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation and Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured UW Health Foundation
Urban League of Greater Madison: UW Health makes $100,000 donation to Black Business Hub

Members featured: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
UW-Green Bay journalism students to participate in NEW News Lab

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation
Community leaders write on windows at MMoCA to acknowledge their roles in racism

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group

Members featured: Otto Bremer Trust and Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation
May 2021

Member featured: SSM Health
SSM Health releases pandemic documentary during National Health Care Week

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

Member featured: Stateline Community Foundation

Member featured: Milwaukee Bucks Foundation
Milwaukee Bucks Foundation celebrating anniversary with virtual events

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Post from Community: $1M in small business loans offered by Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Members featured: Alliant Energy Foundation, TASC, American Family Insurance
Madison Guaranteed Income pilot program gets $300K boost from local donors

Member featured: Marshfield Area Community Foundation
Public Encouraged to Use New Marshfield Outdoor Learning Sanctuary

Member featured: United Way of Dane County and United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County
Dane County organizations to receive $385 in emergency grants through UW Credit Union, United Way

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
Ascendium invests $16 million in postsecondary education in prisons, math pathway and more

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin

Member featured: Community Foundation of the Fox Valley Region

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

Member featured: Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee cultural institutions get $1.4 million boost from Northwestern Mutual

Member featured: Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation
Impact Updates from the Watertown Community Health Foundation

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence: Leveraging Technology to Support Children
April 2021

Member featured: Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin
$3.2 million donated to Baraboo Public Library for expansion

Member featured: SSM Health

Member featured: Milwaukee Public Schools

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust
Otto Bremer Trust donates to Junior Achievement of Wisconsin

Member featured: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation
Follow-up: Bike trail between Ripon and Green Lake needs funds to move forward

Member featured: Stateline Community Foundation

Member featured: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation to acquire downtown train depot

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
COVID-19 Response Focus on Adolescent Social and Emotional Health Grant Program

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
2020 Education Philanthropy Report: Empowering Possibilities

Member featured: Shawano Area Community Foundation
$1 Million! Gresham High School Graduates Each Can Get a $3,250 Scholarship

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Community Foundation Awards $117,420 in Community Enhancement Grants

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region

Members featured: Brewers Community Foundation and American Family Insurance
Brewers partner with AmFam to help 'Fearless Dreamers' in Milwaukee
March 2021

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust
Otto Bremer Trust awards 190 grants and program-related investments totaling $11.4 million

Members featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Herb Kohl Philanthropies

Member featured: Milwaukee Public Schools
At MPS Foundation, Willis seeks your donations and intellectual capital

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

Member featured: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
Milwaukee doulas help pregnant Black women during the pandemic

Member featured: Kern Family Foundation

Member featured: National Guardian Life Insurance
National Guardian Life Insurance Black History Month Project

Member featured: Northwestern Mutual

Member featured: Forward Community Investments
How Community Development Financing Can Help Support Healthier Neighborhoods

Member featured: Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation

Member featured: Eau Claire Community Foundation
Women’s Giving Circle to host virtual event on mental health awareness

Member featured: Stateline Community Foundation

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
7 rural community colleges join effort to boost student outcomes

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin

Member featured: Shawano Area Community Foundation and Waupaca Community Foundation
Waupaca, Shawano Foundations help Rhoades Sanford Foundation in Neenah

Member featured: Milwaukee Bucks Foundation
Fiserv, Bucks award grants to 20 local minority-owned businesses
February 2021

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured: American Family Insurance
American Family Insurance to commit $105 million to help close equity gaps

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region


Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Sinclair named chief diversity and inclusion officer for GMF

Member featured: United Way of Wisconsin
UW Credit Union partners with United Way on $1.5 million racial equity fund

Member featured: Bader Philanthropies
See photos of Bader Philanthropies' newly renovated cafe and clinic building next to its Harambee HQ

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
Ascendium Education Group Launches a National Postsecondary Rural Research Agenda

Member featured: Central Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
COVID-19 Community Response fund raised $632,000 to help local nonprofits

Member featured: United Way of Dane County
Baldwin and Moore seek to diversify maternal health workforce with “Momnibus”

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
UW-Madison nursing school vaccination efforts get thousands in funding to boost support

Members featured: Milwaukee Area Technical College and Milwaukee Public Schools
MPS, MATC and UWM Discuss Their Efforts in Place to Close Equity Gaps for Students

Member featured: Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

Member featured: Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County unveils plans for $25 million MacKenzie Scott gift

Member featured: Herb Kohl Philanthropies
Herb Kohl Philanthropies to flash-fund Wisconsin teachers' donation requests

Member featured: Gateway Technical College
SC Johnson donates $5.5 million for Gateway Technical College scholarships

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
A Generous Match Boosts a Great Future for ALL Local Young People

Member featured: Rockwell Automation
January 2021

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
Increasing Access: Improving Immunization Rates by Leveraging Pharmacists

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group

Member featured: Milwaukee Bucks Foundation
Milwaukee Bucks to support Black entrepreneurs through new partnership

Member featured: The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation
Local organization to grant money to woman making impact in community

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Nearly $80K in funding available through Community Response Fund

Member featured: WHEDA Foundation

Member featured: Waukesha County Community Foundation
Waukesha County Center for Growth names new executive director

Member featured: A.O. Smith Foundation
A.O. Smith Corporation Publishes 2020 Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report 2020

Members featured: Rockwell Automation and Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation
Rockwell Automation Launches Milwaukee’s First Math Week Dec. 14-18

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
CH Coakley growing through new building purchases in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa

Member featured: Siebert Lutheran Foundation
Carthage, Parkside contribute $72,000 to fund free teacher education college credits

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation
Nonprofits hoping 2021 brings better fundraising opportunities

Member featured: Hugh J. Andersen Foundation
Over 100 area nonprofits received COVID-19 response funds totaling over $1 million

Member featured: Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
How One New Program Hopes to Help Kids Who Test Positive for Lead Poisoning

Members featured: Associated Bank and Zilber Family Foundation
Construction commences on new homes in north side Milwaukee subdivisions

Member featured: United Way of Wisconsin
United Way of Marathon County hopes to bring connection to people isolated during pandemic

Member featured: Greater Sauk County Community Foundation

Member featured: Zilber Family Foundation
Zilber Family Foundation announces recipients of $1.8 million in grant funding

Member featured: Rexnord Corporation
Rexnord Corp. gives $1 million to expand Marquette's Bridge to Business program

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
Art making an impact on at-risk youth thanks to generous donors
December 2020

Member featured: Bradley Foundation
Bradley Foundation awarded $10 million in grants to Wisconsin organizations this year

Member featured: Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Community Foundation awards more than $555,000 in community enhancement grants in 2020

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
Newsletter: New postsecondary education in prison resources, etc.

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
Fox Valley Generosity Ranks Community Foundation 51st Nationally

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County
United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County exceeds campaign goal

Member featured: Daniel Hoan Foundation

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured: Baird Foundation
Opportunity Village seeking additional support to reach fundraising goal

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
New funding aims to bring more mental health resources to Douglas Co.

Member featured: United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County
‘This is why we exist’: United Way helping local nonprofits through pandemic

Member featured: Stateline Community Foundation

Member featured: The Fund for Lake Michigan

Member featured: United Way of Dane County

Member featured: Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin

Members featured: Alliant Energy Foundation and American Family Insurance
Art of the everyday: See the world through the eyes of the Wisconsin State Journal’s photographers

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured: Prairie Springs: The Paul Fleckenstein Trust

Member featured: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

Member featured: Kohl's Corporation

Member featured: SSM Health
'Peace in the Pandemic': SSM Health offers video series to aid mental health during COVID-19

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
Wisconsin Partnership Program Announces 2020 Community Impact Grant Recipients

Member featured: Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation
November 2020

Member featured: Barry Mandel
Northwestern Mutual dedicates $20 million to support black entrepreneurs, new startup accelerator

Member featured: Ascendium
Ascendium Education Group, Employees Step Up Community Support

Member featured: M3 Insurance

Member featured: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation

Member featured: United Way of Dane County
Dane County groups announce $11.8 million raised for new housing development fund

Member featured: Fort Atkinson Community Foundation
Fort Foundation’s online scholarship site now accepting applications

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation
Madison on track to avoid brutal arts cuts in 2021 city budget

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central
Law Enforcement Appreciation Project Gives $20 Gift Card to Every Patrol Officer in Marathon County

Members featured: Milwaukee Public School, UWM Foundation, Milwaukee Area Technical College

Member featured: Alliant Energy Foundation
Alliant Energy: Drive Out Hunger supplies 1.15 million meals to food banks

Member featured: SSM Health
SSM Health Opens Behavioral Health Urgent Care to Treat Depression, Anxiety and Other Mental Illness

Member featured: UWM Foundation

Member featured: Associated Bank

Member featured: UnityPoint Health Meriter
UnityPoint Health Meriter restricted by COVID-19 community spread

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program
Nonprofits find new ways to support local farms, community food needs during COVID-19

Member featured: Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee

Member featured: UW Foundation
Helping a city of Badgers coexist with their candid neighbors

Member featured: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust

Member featured: Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation

Member featured: Medical College of Wisconsin

Member featured: Zilber Family Foundation

Member featured: Fond du Lac Area Foundation

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation
October 2020

Member featured: Madison Community Foundation

Member featured: City Forward Collective
City Forward Collective launches billboard campaign to recruit teachers in Milwaukee

Member featured: UnityPoint Health - Meriter
Wisconsin Leadership Summit panel to discuss racism as public health issue

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Online catalog to help nonprofits hit hard by COVID-19 pandemic

Member featured: Wisconsin Partnership Program

Member featured: SSM Health
SSM Health gives ‘community health improvement’ grant to Catholic Charities

Member featured: Milwaukee Bucks Foundation
Pat Connaughton honored after major donation to Neighborhood House

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region

Member featured: Baird Foundation

Member featured: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation

Member featured: Forward Community Investments and Associated Bank

Member featured: United Way of Dane County
Dane County partnership formed to address racial disparity in healthcare

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Robertson promoted as Greater Milwaukee Foundation's first EVP, COO, and CFO

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group

Member featured: Otto Bremer Trust

Member featured: MATC Foundation
Chris Abele increases investment in MATC's free-tuition scholarship program

Member featured: Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Northwestern Mutual commits $2.5 million to schools, education initiatives
September 2020

Member featured: Racine Community Foundation
Watch now: Racine County United Way launches virtual campaign, need greater than ever

Member featured: Gateway Technical College Foundation
Gateway Foundation seeks donors for emergency grants to students

Member featured: Zilber Family Foundation and United Way of Greater Waukesha & Milwaukee County

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation and Bader Philanthropies
UpStart Kitchen boosts inner city entrepreneurs, feeds those in need

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin set to kickoff COVID-19 Impact Catalog

Member featured: United Way of Dane County, UnityPoint Health-Meriter, UW Health
Group formed to address Black maternal health, infant mortality in Dane County

Member featured: Stateline Community Foundation and Alliant Energy Foundation
Welty Environmental Center navigates pandemic while pursuing equity goals

Member featured: CUNA Mutual Group

Member featured: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
TestUpMKE Campaign Promotes COVID Testing Information with an Eye on Health Equity

Member featured: Daniel Hoan Foundation
Light the Hoan - First Look at Bridge’s arches lit up over the city: slideshow

Member featured: Ascendium Education Group
New Grants, New Reports on Postsecondary Education in Prison Metrics, Strong Start to Finish

Member featured: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin
Tim Parker President/CEO Named President/CEO of Community Foundation

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region

Member featured: MPS Foundation
MPS Foundation raising $1 million for student, teacher tech support

Member featured: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region
Imagine Fox Cities - Keep The Conversation Going About Antiracism, Belonging and Community

Member featured: Medical College of Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Medical College, Greater Milwaukee Foundation unveil priority areas, branding for new collaboration

Member featured: Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation

Member featured: Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin

Members featured: Bader Philanthropies, The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County, Northwestern Mutual Foundation, Rockwell Automation