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
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The AECF is a development institution which supports businesses to innovate, create jobs, leverage investments and markets to create resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa. Launched in 2008, the AECF has so far supported 268 companies in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa across 40 value chains in our focal sectors of agribusiness and renewable energy.
In delivering on the strategy, AECF, through the Investments Advisory Services (IAS) department provides value addition support to AECF investee companies in Africa to accelerate their business growth, sustainability, and impact delivery. AECF works with the investee companies to identify both business capacity and capital gaps through conducting business diagnostics, prioritizing of capacity and capital needs and planning for delivery of services that will increase business performance, resilience, and delivery of social
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