That was a committee with a tough decision to make! And Shiva Bidar-Sielaff volunteered to be there!
Here’s what they decided – they funded $200,000 of the $449,261 requested by these organizations:
2013 Emerging Opportunities Program Applications: Conference Committee Recommendations
Allied-Dunns Marsh Neighborhood Association – Brotherhood: Giving Young Black Males a Chance to
Requested 10,000, Received 5,000Common Wealth Development Inc – Southwest Transitional Employment Project
Requested 24,000, Received 19,000DSS Community Center Inc. Brentwood Children and Youth Programs
Requested 90,000, Received 22,000Freedom Inc. – Great Gray/Owl Creek Women’s Group – Neighborhood Leadership
Requested 17,938, Received 10,000Goodman Community Center – Women of Worthington – Neighborhood Leadership
Requested 35,817, Received 27,000Jessie Crawford Recovery Center, Inc – JCRC – Motivation for Change – Prisoner Re-entry
Requested 129,600, Received 22,000Mellowhood Foundation – Elementary/Youth
Requested 10,000, Received 5,000River Food Pantry – Sustenance to Sustanability: Culinary Employment Skills
Requested 23,829, Received 13,000Tenant Resource Center – Tenant Resource Center Materials Updates and Training
Requested 38,120, Received 26,500Theresa/Hammersley Leadership Group – Preventing Violence in the Theresa/Hammersley Neighborhood
Requested 20,547, Received 20,500Today Not Tomorrow Inc. – The Peacemakers
Requested 9,410, Received 5,000Worker’s Rights Center, Inc – Madison Wage Theft Mitigation Project
Requested 20,000, Received 10,000Youth Services of Southern Wisconsin – Street Outreach to Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Youth
Requested 20,000, Received 15,000
They also decided to fund the following with the “bureaucratic equivalent of looking under the couch cushions”, more found money they expect to have available:
Kennedy Heights Community Center – Elementary School Age Summer Program
Requested: 15,613, Received 12,500Mellowhood Foundation
Additional 2,500Porchlight, Inc. – Shelter & Library Outreach Worker
Requested 7,000, Received 7,000Shine608, Inc. – Winter Case Management at Central Library
Requested 24,750, Received 15,000Vera Court Neighborhood Center/Latino Children and Families Council Prevention program
Requested 15,000, Received 7,500
And additional 44,500.
The long list of proposals and initial staff recommendations are here (disappeared from website).
