Zilber Family Foundation | 2015 Grant Recipients

GRANT RECIPIENT	AMOUNT	PURPOSE
Acts Housing	$200,000	To provide affordable homeownership opportunities to low-income families in ZNI and other neighborhoods
After-School All-Stars Hawaii	$3,000	To support youth development services
Andre Lee Ellis	$5,000	To support performing arts activities for youth
Artists Working in Education, Inc.	$50,000	To operate arts programs in parks and schools and provide art enrichment activities to youth in ZNI neighborhoods
ArtWorks Milwaukee	$8,000	To support paid internships for high school students to work with a professional artist to design, create, and install a work of public art in Burnham Park
Aurora Zilber Family Hospice	$250,000	To expand hospice and bereavement training for employees and volunteers who provide palliative and hospice care
Community Warehouse	$150,000	To support Community Warehouse and its Milwaukee Working programs
Cross Lutheran Church	$50,000	To support basic human needs programs, including the Bread of Healing Clinic and its services for uninsured patients
Discovery World	$300,000	To deliver educational programs to children attending ZNI schools; offer free admission to the museum of science and technology for families in ZNI neighborhoods; and provide mobile lab activities at neighborhood-based events
EPIC Center Community Organization	$25,000	To support afterschool and summer programs for youth on Milwaukee's near southside
Faith Builders	$2,000	To support the 5th Annual Faith Builders Christmas in Milwaukee toy drive
Friends of the Domes	$2,400	To support the Working Sketches Project in a public school in Clarke Square
Friendship Circle	$10,000	To match dollar-for-dollar contributions made to the Friendship Circle of Wisconsin
Greater Milwaukee Foundation	$3,374.98	To partially cover the cost of six participants at the Grassroots Grantmakers On the Ground conference in Cleveland in September 2014
Greater Milwaukee Foundation	$10,000	To support the Partners for Places project to create pocket parks and orchards on city-owned vacant lots in Milwaukee's north side neighborhoods
Greater Milwaukee Foundation	$10,000	To support the Mayor's 2015 Earn & Learn Program to provide summer employment opportunities for up to 3,000 young people
Greater Milwaukee Foundation	$40,000	To support the Community Connections Small Grants Program
Guest House of Milwaukee	$25,000	To support the Guest House capital campaign
Hawaii Arts Alliance	$20,000	To help establish the Hawai'i Turnaround Arts program in three elementary schools
Heartland Housing	$250,000	To provide capital support, pending committed financing, for the development of the St. Anthony's housing project in Milwaukee
Historic Milwaukee	$10,000	To support the 2015 Spaces and Traces and Doors Open programs in ZNI neighborhoods
IMPACT Planning Council	$10,000	To support data development and technical assistance services for neighborhood-based nonprofits and other community development organizations in Milwaukee
International Association for Human Values	$3,000	To support YES! youth leadership development programs at Journey House during the summer of 2015
International Association for Human Values	$75,000	To support YES! programs at Journey House, Milwaukee Public Schools, and other youth-serving agencies in Milwaukee
Journey House, Inc.	$40,000	To serve as fiscal sponsor for the Farm Project, which uses arts and cultural activities to "seed" economic development in Clarke Square; funds will be used to support a part-time project director, complete the stature of Cesar Chavez, and plan and carry out economic development events
Journey House, Inc.	$750,000	To support education, employment, and youth and family programs on Milwaukee's near south side
Journey House, Inc.	$425,000	To serve as the fiscal agent for the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative; CSNI is the lead agency and operating partner for the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative in Clarke Square
Make A Wish - Hawaii	$10,000	To support Make A Wish - Hawaii in honor of Shane Jackson
Make A Wish - Hawaii	$300,000	To match, dollar-for-dollar, up to $300,000 in contributions from first-time donors and increased contributions from existing donors to support the fulfillment of wishes that originate with the Hawaii program
Manatee Community Foundation	$25,000	To support Manatee Community Foundation's capital campaign to renovate and expand its offices
Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied in Hope (MICAH)	$40,000	To support MICAH's 53206 Holy Ground Youth and Young Adult Organizing Initiative
MKE Plays	$300,000	To support MKE Plays with a 2:1 match for public funds for capital expenses to improve three playgrounds in ZNI neighborhoods, and support project management, community planning, and evaluation
Neighborhood Children's Sports League	$10,000	To help replace stolen football equipment and a trailer used by children's sports league
Neu-Life Community Development	$150,000	To complete Neu-Life's $600,000 capital campaign for facility improvements, including ADA accessible entrances, updated mechanicals, new restroom facilities, and more suitable program space
Neu-Life Community Development	$10,000	To support the Neu-Life summer program at Gwen T. Jackson School in Lindsay Heights
PEARLS for Teen Girls	$75,000	To provide general operating support for programs for girls and young women in Milwaukee and ZNI neighborhoods
Penfield Children's Center	$250,000	To support the Behavior Clinic and provide home-based mental health treatment for low-income children with significant behavior problems
Public Policy Forum	$4,500	To support research on trends in public funding and produce Community Development: Recent Trends and Implications, and a report of the findings
Radio Milwaukee	$10,000	To support the Community Stories program
Running Rebels Community Organization	$200,000	To provide general operating support for programs for high-needs youth and young adults
Safe & Sound	$150,000	To implement a public safety and community engagement strategy in the Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods
Schools Than Can Milwaukee	$10,000	To support the organization's efforts to improve school quality and help close Milwaukee's achievement gap
Select Milwaukee	$140,000	To deliver financial counseling, homeownership, and home preservation programs in the Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods
Serenity Inns	$5,000	To support Serenity Inns' drug and alcohol recovery and transitional living program
Sixteenth Street	$100,000	To support Sixteenth Street's efforts to expand community engagement activities and environmental health programs on Milwaukee's south side
Sojourner Family Peace Center	$113,000	To provide a 1:1 match to challenge grant from David Uihlein and help complete the Center's $26.5 million capital campaign
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Milwaukee	$10,000	To support a home-visiting program that provides emergency assistance to individuals experiencing extreme hardship
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM)	$300,000	To raise funds for and support social service agencies that assist children and families in Milwaukee's low-income neighborhoods
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM)	$150,000	To support the Neighborhood News Service, an online source of information about issues of importance to people who live and work in Milwaukee neighborhoods
United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF)	$48,267	To match employee contributions to support performing arts organizations in Milwaukee
Victory Garden Initiative	$6,000	To install 20 raised bed gardens in Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West, and provide garden mentors for homeowners learning how to garden
Walnut Way Conservation Corp.	$7,000	To support the Growing Youth Leadership Program, a 20-week employment program that offers urban agriculture education, leadership development, and job training for 8 to 10 teens in Lindsay Heights
Walnut Way Conservation Corp.	$10,000	To support the Lindsay Heights charrette and the development of schematic renderings for the reuse of six commercial sites along North Avenue and Fond du Lac Avenue
Walnut Way Conservation Corp.	$900,000	To serve as the lead agency for the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative in Lindsay Heights, coordinate local efforts to improve community conditions, and develop and pilot new programs
Wild Space Dance Company	$4,000	To support outreach to students at El Puente High School and Longfellow Elementary School, conduct field trips to Three Bridges Park, and hold summer sessions in 2015
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC)	$65,000	To provide outreach and business development services to existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West
Word of Hope Ministries	$60,000	To support a full-time clinical substance abuse counselor to conduct AODA counseling sessions and group meetings, and cover a portion of program expenses

Acts Housing

$200,000

To provide affordable homeownership opportunities to low-income families in ZNI and other neighborhoods

After-School All-Stars Hawaii

$3,000

To support youth development services

Andre Lee Ellis

$5,000

To support performing arts activities for youth

Artists Working in Education, Inc.

$50,000

To operate arts programs in parks and schools and provide art enrichment activities to youth in ZNI neighborhoods

ArtWorks Milwaukee

$8,000

To support paid internships for high school students to work with a professional artist to design, create, and install a work of public art in Burnham Park

Aurora Zilber Family Hospice

$250,000

To expand hospice and bereavement training for employees and volunteers who provide palliative and hospice care

Community Warehouse

$150,000

To support Community Warehouse and its Milwaukee Working programs

Cross Lutheran Church

$50,000

To support basic human needs programs, including the Bread of Healing Clinic and its services for uninsured patients

Discovery World

$300,000

To deliver educational programs to children attending ZNI schools; offer free admission to the museum of science and technology for families in ZNI neighborhoods; and provide mobile lab activities at neighborhood-based events

EPIC Center Community Organization

$25,000

To support afterschool and summer programs for youth on Milwaukee's near southside

Faith Builders

$2,000

To support the 5th Annual Faith Builders Christmas in Milwaukee toy drive

Friends of the Domes

$2,400

To support the Working Sketches Project in a public school in Clarke Square

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

$3,374.98

To partially cover the cost of six participants at the Grassroots Grantmakers On the Ground conference in Cleveland in September 2014

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

$10,000

To support the Partners for Places project to create pocket parks and orchards on city-owned vacant lots in Milwaukee's north side neighborhoods

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

$10,000

To support the Mayor's 2015 Earn & Learn Program to provide summer employment opportunities for up to 3,000 young people

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

$40,000

To support the Community Connections Small Grants Program

Guest House of Milwaukee

$25,000

To support the Guest House capital campaign

Hawaii Arts Alliance

$20,000

To help establish the Hawai'i Turnaround Arts program in three elementary schools

Heartland Housing

$250,000

To provide capital support, pending committed financing, for the development of the St. Anthony's housing project in Milwaukee

Historic Milwaukee

$10,000

To support the 2015 Spaces and Traces and Doors Open programs in ZNI neighborhoods

IMPACT Planning Council

$10,000

To support data development and technical assistance services for neighborhood-based nonprofits and other community development organizations in Milwaukee

International Association for Human Values

$3,000

To support YES! youth leadership development programs at Journey House during the summer of 2015

International Association for Human Values

$75,000

To support YES! programs at Journey House, Milwaukee Public Schools, and other youth-serving agencies in Milwaukee

Journey House, Inc.

$40,000

To serve as fiscal sponsor for the Farm Project, which uses arts and cultural activities to "seed" economic development in Clarke Square; funds will be used to support a part-time project director, complete the stature of Cesar Chavez, and plan and carry out economic development events

Journey House, Inc.

$750,000

To support education, employment, and youth and family programs on Milwaukee's near south side

Journey House, Inc.

$425,000

To serve as the fiscal agent for the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative; CSNI is the lead agency and operating partner for the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative in Clarke Square

Make A Wish - Hawaii

$10,000

To support Make A Wish - Hawaii in honor of Shane Jackson

Make A Wish - Hawaii

$300,000

To match, dollar-for-dollar, up to $300,000 in contributions from first-time donors and increased contributions from existing donors to support the fulfillment of wishes that originate with the Hawaii program

Manatee Community Foundation

$25,000

To support Manatee Community Foundation's capital campaign to renovate and expand its offices

Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied in Hope (MICAH)

$40,000

To support MICAH's 53206 Holy Ground Youth and Young Adult Organizing Initiative

MKE Plays

$300,000

To support MKE Plays with a 2:1 match for public funds for capital expenses to improve three playgrounds in ZNI neighborhoods, and support project management, community planning, and evaluation

Neighborhood Children's Sports League

$10,000

To help replace stolen football equipment and a trailer used by children's sports league

Neu-Life Community Development

$150,000

To complete Neu-Life's $600,000 capital campaign for facility improvements, including ADA accessible entrances, updated mechanicals, new restroom facilities, and more suitable program space

Neu-Life Community Development

$10,000

To support the Neu-Life summer program at Gwen T. Jackson School in Lindsay Heights

PEARLS for Teen Girls

$75,000

To provide general operating support for programs for girls and young women in Milwaukee and ZNI neighborhoods

Penfield Children's Center

$250,000

To support the Behavior Clinic and provide home-based mental health treatment for low-income children with significant behavior problems

Public Policy Forum

$4,500

To support research on trends in public funding and produce Community Development: Recent Trends and Implications, and a report of the findings

Radio Milwaukee

$10,000

To support the Community Stories program

Running Rebels Community Organization

$200,000

To provide general operating support for programs for high-needs youth and young adults

Safe & Sound

$150,000

To implement a public safety and community engagement strategy in the Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods

Schools Than Can Milwaukee

$10,000

To support the organization's efforts to improve school quality and help close Milwaukee's achievement gap

Select Milwaukee

$140,000

To deliver financial counseling, homeownership, and home preservation programs in the Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods

Serenity Inns

$5,000

To support Serenity Inns' drug and alcohol recovery and transitional living program

Sixteenth Street

$100,000

To support Sixteenth Street's efforts to expand community engagement activities and environmental health programs on Milwaukee's south side

Sojourner Family Peace Center

$113,000

To provide a 1:1 match to challenge grant from David Uihlein and help complete the Center's $26.5 million capital campaign

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Milwaukee

$10,000

To support a home-visiting program that provides emergency assistance to individuals experiencing extreme hardship

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM)

$300,000

To raise funds for and support social service agencies that assist children and families in Milwaukee's low-income neighborhoods

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (UNCOM)

$150,000

To support the Neighborhood News Service, an online source of information about issues of importance to people who live and work in Milwaukee neighborhoods

United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF)

$48,267

To match employee contributions to support performing arts organizations in Milwaukee

Victory Garden Initiative

$6,000

To install 20 raised bed gardens in Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West, and provide garden mentors for homeowners learning how to garden

Walnut Way Conservation Corp.

$7,000

To support the Growing Youth Leadership Program, a 20-week employment program that offers urban agriculture education, leadership development, and job training for 8 to 10 teens in Lindsay Heights

Walnut Way Conservation Corp.

$10,000

To support the Lindsay Heights charrette and the development of schematic renderings for the reuse of six commercial sites along North Avenue and Fond du Lac Avenue

Walnut Way Conservation Corp.

$900,000

To serve as the lead agency for the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative in Lindsay Heights, coordinate local efforts to improve community conditions, and develop and pilot new programs

Wild Space Dance Company

$4,000

To support outreach to students at El Puente High School and Longfellow Elementary School, conduct field trips to Three Bridges Park, and hold summer sessions in 2015

Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC)

$65,000

To provide outreach and business development services to existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West

Word of Hope Ministries

$60,000

To support a full-time clinical substance abuse counselor to conduct AODA counseling sessions and group meetings, and cover a portion of program expenses