The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s discretionary grantmaking supports projects and programs that align with priorities that support strategic vision of creating a Milwaukee for all.
Donor Name: Greater Milwaukee Foundation
State: Wisconsin
County: Milwaukee County (WI), Ozaukee County (WI), Washington County (WI), Waukesha County (WI)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priorities
Early childhood education
- High quality early childhood care and education is the key to giving every child the start in life they need and deserve. It has been shown to have a significant impact on a child’s long-term academic, social, and developmental success, and enables parents to participate in the workforce. Furthermore, research supports that physical learning environments matter. Facilities and the child-centered spaces within them can enhance children’s development by inspiring a range of social and cognitive learning experiences, as well as encouraging the development of gross motor skills. Indoor and outdoor spaces can increase students in a variety of hands-on learning experiences, collaboration, exploration, and play. For the well-being of children and the future of economy, they need to act now. That is why the Greater Milwaukee Foundation is prioritizing early childhood care and education.
- Grantmaking Focus
- Facility upgrades, quality, and access improvements
- Grant amount
- The maximum request for a capital grant is $100,000.
Mental Health
- Mental health outcomes are impacted by the ongoing harm of racial disparities in health care system. Access to appropriate mental health services and improvement of mental health outcomes are this portfolio’s main priorities. The grant investment strategy aims to shift power, representation and policy toward racial equity.
- Grantmaking Focus
- Projects/organizations which provide community-based and culturally reverent mental health support
- Projects/organizations advancing an integrative approach to well-being
- Restorative justice
- Projects/organizations which build solidarity and collaboration among service providers and community in their sector/work
- Projects/organizations which build narrative and actual power for oppressed communities
- Projects/organizations engaged in advocacy efforts, including anti-racist organizational development which transforms influence in their sector/work
- Projects/organizations addressing health impacts of racial inequity, particularly interventions that are disproportionately underfunded
- Projects/organizations that provide community-based, culturally reverent, and responsive mental health support and clinical services
- Projects/organizations advancing an integrative approach to well-being, especially evidence-based interventions not typically funded by health insurance
- Patient empowerment and clinical/training process improvement.
- Local manifestations or solutions of/for racial disparities in health outcomes
- Culturally reverent researchers and methods
- Grant Amount
- The typical grant range is $5,000 to $75,000. The maximum request for a capital grant is $100,000.
- Medical research is impacted by the ongoing harm of racial disparities in health outcomes. Access to appropriate health services and improving health outcomes are this portfolio’s main priorities. The grant investment strategy aims to shift power, representation, and policy toward racial equity.
- Grantmaking Focus
- Patient empowerment and clinical/training process improvement
- Expressions of racial disparities in health outcomes
- Projects/organizations that build solidarity and collaboration among service providers and community in their sector/work
- Projects/organizations that build narrative and actual power for oppressed communities
- Projects/organizations engaged in advocacy efforts, including anti-racist organizational development which transforms influence in their sector/work
- Projects/organizations addressing health impacts of racial inequity, particularly interventions that are disproportionately underfunded
- Grant Amount
- The typical grant range is $5,000 to $75,000. The maximum request for a capital grant is $100,000.
Workforce Development
- Investments in this grant portfolio aim to support job creation, job training, job placement and other workforce strategies in region.
- Grantmaking Focus
- Programs and projects that provide creative job creation strategies
- Job training programs that help get people into jobs that pay a living wage
- Workforce programs and projects that offer supports to people & employers
- Grant Amount
- The typical grant range is $5,000 to $50,000. The maximum request for a capital grant is $100,000.
Area served
Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants are made to 501(c) (3) organizations that have board membership that comprises at least 10 percent people of color.
For more information, visit Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
