Wisconsin State Journal

GRANTS AWARDED TO COMMUNITY GROUPS LOCAL GROUPS RECEIVED FUNDING FOR A VARIETY OF PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT MADISON SOCIETY.

Date: Saturday, June 28, 2003
Section: LOCAL/WISCONSIN, Edition: ALL, Page: B2

Byline: State Journal staff

The Madison Community Foundation recently gave out $576,826 to fifteen local groups for community projects. The largest award of $120,000 was given to the Madison Metropolitan School District for the Read 180 program at Cherokee, Jefferson and Sennett middle schools and Madison East High School. The program works to improve literacy for struggling students. Other grants are: $34,000 to the Friends of the Middleton Area Performing Arts Center to purchase a grand piano; $25,000 to the Atwood Community Center for the Youth Volunteer Corps, $5,000 to the East Isthmus Planning Council for staff costs; $15,306 to Downtown Madison Partners for the Lisa Link Peace Park revitalization project;

$12,000 to Benedictine Life Foundation for native prairie restoration; $114,020 to Genesis Development Corporation for renovations at the Genesis Enterprise Center; $75,000 over two years to the Interfaith Coalition for Workers Justice for the Workers' Rights Center; $5,000 to the North/Eastside Senior Coalition for the 2003 Summer Concert Series in Warner Park; $5,500 to the Professional Association of Treatment Homes to support attachment disorder training; $50,000 over two years to Research, Education, Action and Policy on Food Group for staff support; $81,000 over three years to The Jericho Project to create the Madison Jobs and Housing Partnership; $15,000 to the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra for Concert in the Woods 2003 in Spring Green; and $20,000 to the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra for a concert weekend with cellist Lynn Harrell.

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