Reporting by Richard Ryman, Green Bay Press-Gazette / Green Bay Press-Gazette
The Green Bay Packers Foundation recently gave $1.65 million in impact grants to five nonprofit organizations in Green Bay and four in the Milwaukee region.
The foundation has awarded $13.5 million in impact grants since the program began in 2013.
All the grants are matching grants, which means the organizations must raise an equal amount of money to claim the award. Individual amounts to each organization were not provided.
Grants were made to:
- Brain Center of Green Bay. The matching grant will be used for expansion of the Brain Center’s eight-week Youth Program, the development of a brain health certification for healthcare and direct care workers, build-out of the Center’s Healthy Workplace Series and bringing an international brain exhibit to Green Bay. Donations can be made at givebutter.com/impactgrant
- Ecumenical Partnership for Housing Inc., Green Bay. The matching grant will be used for the nonprofit’s Transitional Housing & Long-Term Supportive Housing Programs, aimed at providing families with children who are experiencing homelessness in Brown County with safe, stable homes and individualized case management support while they work toward self-sufficiency. Donations can be made at ephgb.org.
- Foundations Health and Wholeness, Green Bay. The matching grant will be used to expand access to mental health services for children, youths and families throughout northeast Wisconsin. Funding will support school-based mental health therapy in 14 schools, along with community-based counseling and supportive services provided through Foundations Youth Services. Donations can be made at Wearefoundations.org/support-us/donate-2/.
- Howe Community Resource Center, Green Bay. The matching grant will go toward the organization’s pilot initiative that integrates mental health support within the Parents as Teachers home visiting program while strengthening school-based mental health services at Howe Elementary Community School. Donations can be made at howecommunityresourcecenter.org/area-of-greatest-need/.
- Wisconsin Humane Society-Green Bay Campus. The matching grant will support the early phases of a capital campaign for the new Green Bay Campus facility to allow for expansion of programs and services. Donations can be made at wihumane.me/unleash.
- Historic Haymarket Milwaukee (Milwaukee Public Museum). The matching grant will support the capital campaign of the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin, which will feature four floors of exhibits, a planetarium, public green spaces, a rooftop butterfly garden and terrace, education and research labs and more. Donations can be made at mpm.edu/wisconsin-wonders.
- HOPE Network for Single Mothers, Menomonee Falls: The matching grant will be used for Pathways to Family Stability & Success Initiative, which supports single mothers and their families. Donations can be made at Donation Payment – HOPE Network for Single Mothers.
- Independence First, Milwaukee. The matching grant will go to the Alternatives in Mobility (AIM) Program, which is expanding into a sustainable regional-support model to provide wheelchair repair, refurbishment, parts reuse, and in-home mobile repair services. Donations can be made at independencefirst.org/IndependenceFirst/Donate.htm.
- Sojourner Family Peace Center, Milwaukee. The matching grant will go to the “Hope Lives Here Campaign,” which safeguards the nonprofit’s programs for survivors of domestic violence. Donations can be made at familypeacecenter.org/you-know-someone/.
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