This year’s First Business Bank Charity Golf Invitational raised $46,500 to be shared between Middleton Outreach Ministry, Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, McFarland Food Pantry, Garding Against Cancer, and the Diocese of Madison Foundation.
A program to expand bike share access in Madison will utilize a partnership with the Madison Public Library Foundation to enable riders to use their library card to access one of over 300 electric bikes.
Madison nonprofit Community Living Connections Inc. has been awarded the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber Nonprofit Organization of the Year Award.
Madison Area Technical College announced it has partnered with the Ho-Chunk Nation to collect personal items to help Afghan refugees who have been relocated to Wisconsin.
The new campaign will initially focus on raising funds from members of the Black community with a goal of raising $50,000 by Oct. 15.
As it kicks off its 2021 Community Campaign, the United Way of Dane County has established a fundraising goal of $18.1 million, a $300,000 increase over last year’s goal.
Three housing projects, including ones in Madison and McFarland, that will provide housing to extremely low-income elderly and disabled residents have been awarded a total of $1.3 million in National Housing Trust Fund financing by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA).
As the new school year approaches, nonprofit Madison Reading Project is trying to stretch school district budgets by inviting teachers and others in the Dane County community to bring new, diverse books to area elementary and middle school classrooms.
The Madison Urban League and Goodman Center-Girls Inc. local chapter are the recipients of Enterprise Holdings inaugural ROAD Forward grants.
Habitat for Humanity of Dane County will begin the largest Habitat development in the state in Sun Prairie.
FB4K Madison, a nonprofit organization dedicated to giving free bikes to children, is accepting bike donations beginning Sept. 18 during Madison Bike Week.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) has awarded the Urban League of Greater Madison a $400,000 Capital Catalyst grant to help the organization launch its Black Business Hub Accelerator Fund.
Formerly known as the Tobacco-Free Dane County Coalition, an advocacy group funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and Public Health Madison & Dane County has changed its name to Dane County Alliance Against Commercial Tobacco.
Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes, Department of Workforce Development Secretary Amy Pechacek, and Dr. Ruben Anthony of the Urban League of Greater Madison will announce nearly $700,000 in new grants for Black wealth-building and economic empowerment initiatives on Friday, July 16.
Jerome Frautschi has donated $1 million to the Boy & Girls Clubs of Dane County, joining his wife Pleasant Rowland in supporting the organization.
Nonprofit organization Literacy Network’s COVID-19 vaccine education helped increase vaccination rates among its target population from 26% all the way up to 78%.
Sustain Dane announced the opening of nominations for the Live Forward Awards 2021, acknowledging changemakers and inclusive leaders who are promoting local sustainability and community well-being in Dane County.
Pleasant Rowland, founder of American Girl, has donated $5 million to help the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County launch a multimillion-dollar campaign to develop a workforce center to train young people for jobs in skilled trades.
Wisconsin nonprofit organizations that provide cultural programming in the humanities may now apply for individual grants of up to $20,000 from Wisconsin Humanities, a statewide cultural organization.
RENEW Wisconsin’s Solar for Good program has awarded over $150,000 in cash grants and solar panels to Wisconsin nonprofits for installing on-site solar energy systems.
