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CSW Member Groups Making Nature More Accessible
CSW member groups Madison Audubon Society and Wisconsin Council on the Blind and Visually Impaired partnered to host workshops to teach community members to bird by ear. Attendees who were blind and visually impaired, as well as those who are sighted, learned ways to...
Arts Wisconsin Emphasizes Creative Growth
Arts Wisconsin believes in growing and strengthening Wisconsin through the arts, culture, creativity, and innovation. Arts Wisconsin, in partnership with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, recently released 21st Century Wisconsin, a report on local, regional, and...
Sierra Club Continues Making a Better Tomorrow
Last year, members of the Sierra Club-John Muir Chapter petitioned the Madison City Council to adopt a community-wide resolution to move to 100% clean energy, which was unanimously passed in May 2017. One Sierra Club member who was part of the effort said:...
Project Home: Over 40 years in Service to the Community
Project Home provides weatherization and other home repairs to seniors, veterans, and low-to-moderate income families to help reduce energy consumption and costs. In their over 40 years of service, Project Home has provided over 6,000 home repairs that have not only...
Housing Initiatives’ Ongoing Support Services Offer Full Continuum of Care
Housing Initiatives works to end homelessness in Dane County, one person at a time. In order to deepen the support they can offer their clients, Housing Initiatives launched a new housing first program for 15 chronically homeless clients with mental illness. What...
Wisconsin Wetlands Association: putting wetlands to work improving local water system health
The Wisconsin Wetlands Association (WWA) provides training, technical support, and field-based outreach to help communities understand and act on opportunities to put wetlands to work to improve local water and watershed health. Recently, WWA worked closely with...
Legal Action Wisconsin Defends Against Unlawful Evictions
Legal Action of Wisconsin (LAW) provides free legal services to community members who could not otherwise afford representation. Earlier this year LAW began the Eviction Defense Project in Dane County. The aim is to provide representation to more tenants facing an...
REAP Food Group Launches Food Truck: bringing healthy, locally-sourced lunches to high schools
Each year, REAP Food Group’s Farm to School program provides over 80,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables for snacks and school lunches in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). In the classroom, kids learn about nutrition, sustainability, farming, and...
NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin: empowering women seeking abortion services with compassionate, affordable care
As a result of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin’s Patient Stays program; which provides free accommodation, transportation and child care to women seeking abortion services in the Madison area; several women were able to receive affordable health care in a compassionate...