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By Zilber Family Foundation - May 4th, 2021 10:02 am
MILWAUKEE – The Zilber Family Foundation announced today that its Board of Directors has awarded $1.7 million in grants to 19 nonprofit organizations in Milwaukee, WI and Hawaii. Funding was awarded in alignment with the Foundation’s primary focus areas, including affordable housing, community economic development, and basic human needs.
Ten grants target Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights, Clarke Square, and Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods where the Foundation has directed much of its investment for more than a decade through the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative (ZNI). These grants support community-based organizations to coordinate and implement projects and programs that increase access to quality, affordable housing; provide financial education and skill building opportunities; develop minority-owned small businesses; and build the capacity and effectiveness of residents and nonprofits leadin
Walnut Way establishes new Lindsay Heights headquarters for its landscaping business
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Walnut Way executive director Antonio Butts discussed the growth of Blue Skies Landscaping over the past 12 years.
Walnut Way Conservation Corp. is converting a collection of four properties along West Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee into the new headquarters for the organization’s workforce development arm, Blue Skies Landscaping.
Leaders of the neighborhood nonprofit organization celebrated the social enterprise’s new home, located at 1414 W. Fond du Lac Ave. in the city’s Lindsay Heights neighborhood, with a flag-raising ceremony Tuesday.
Blue Skies Landscaping, which was founded in 2012, provides landscaping, environmental and green infrastructure services in greater Milwaukee. Over the years, the organization has developed multiple pocket parks on city-owned properties, installed green infrastructure throughout the area and removed pavement and impermeable surfaces to accommodat