Fall 2007 Community Impact Grants

Bridge Lake Point Waunona Neighborhood Center

$30,000 toward the expansion of the Latino Family Resource Center, assisting Southside Latino families to engage in the Madison community by providing access to bilingual services and center programming

Dane County Parks

$165,000 toward the construction of the Ice Age Junction bicycles/pedestrian underpass to connect to the Military Ridge State Trail

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services

$24,845 toward the DELTA Leadership Initiative, a community based project bringing together various partners to end dating violence and sexual assaults in Dane County

Employment & Training Association

$50,000 toward the Occupational Skills Training program to expand and improve the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities

Friends of McFarland Parks

$50,000 toward the Schuetz park land purchase, providing an additional 18.8 acres of land to create a passive use, community park dedicated to wildlife preservation, conservancy and nature study

Friends of Pheasant Branch

$20,000 toward the John C. Bock Community Forest Restoration project, to transfer the former agricultural land into an oak woods and oak savanna over the next decade

Habitat for Humanity

$100,000 challenge grant toward the creation of a permanent endowment fund in celebration of their 20^th anniversary

Henry Vilas Zoological Society

$80,000 toward the construction of a new Arctic Passage Habitat, including an interactive polar bear/seal exhibit with a unique underwater viewing area

Interfaith Hospitality Network

$150,000 toward the Housing & Hope program, an initiative to purchase, renovate and endow 30 new units of affordable rental housing for homeless families with incomes below 30% CMI

Kennedy Heights Community Center

$30,000 toward the expansion and improvement of their technology center and programming, with $10,000 designated to create an endowment fund to sustain the lab

Madison Ballet

$45,000 toward the 2008 production of “Peter Pan” with new choreography, thrilling flying sequences and collaboration with the Ho-Chunk Nation on Native American cultural elements of the ballet

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

$50,000 toward the commission of a bronze cast of American artist George Segal’s “Depression Bread Line,” to be displayed as part of MMoCA’s permanent collection

Madison Public Library Foundation

$200,000 toward the children’s area of the new Sequoya Branch, the busiest library in the South Central Library System

Madison Repertory Theatre

$45,000 to grow the Young Playwrights Program, a one-year residency program for high schools students to engage in the dramatic writing of a short play

Movin’ Out, Inc.

$60,000 toward a merger with WISH, Inc. (Wisconsin Initiative for Sustainable Housing), increasing the capacity to provide affordable and unique housing solutions

Music for Verona

$25,646 as a matching gift toward the purchase of a concert grand piano to be housed at the Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center for a variety of Verona area groups to utilize

REAP

$60,000 for the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch program, a farm-to-school program designed to provide solutions to connect school children with fresh local foods as part of their school meal program

Urban League of Greater Madison

$100,000 to the Center for Economic Development capital campaign as part of the Villager Mall redevelopment and $50,000 for their Workforce Development program

Spring 2007 Grant Synopsis

Fall 2006 Grant Synopsis

Spring 2006 Grant Synopsis