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Milwaukee
Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality Receives $250,000 Grant
How did Milwaukee end up with
a black infant mortality rate worse than the rate in 56 other countries,
including Jamaica, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Malaysia? And what can be
done about it?
These difficult
questions will be tackled by the Milwaukee Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy
Families (LIHF), a new community coalition that was recently awarded a $250,000 planning grant
from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to develop plans to improve birth
outcomes among African-Americans in Milwaukee.
The Women's Fund and The Planning Council for Health and Human Services, Inc. are facilitating an action
planning process for the Milwaukee LIHF coalition, a group that includes more
than 60 local organizations.
The award allows the
coalition to set a course toward improving access to maternal and child health
resources, strengthening African-American families, and creating an action plan
specific to Milwaukee.
Read more about the coalition.
You can learn more about Milwaukee's black infant mortality crisis at our Social Change Exchange on October 7.
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The 2010 "Social Change Grant" Preliminary Application Process
is Now Open!
The Women's
Fund will award grants (typically up to $10,000) to those
nonprofit agencies and organizations that are doing
the best social change work in our strategic funding areas.
For More
Information
Visit the Grant Seekers section of our website to download the preliminary application. Information about the
application process, guidelines and deadlines are also available at our
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Join
us October 7th for our Annual Women & Public Policy
Luncheon: Empowering women and girls as the primary agents of
change.
10:00 to 11:30am Social Change Exchange
Our continuing series of engaging panel discussions with our Grant Partners. The topic: Closing the Black-White Gap in Birth Outcomes
11:30am to 1:30pm Women & Public Policy Luncheon Guest
Speaker: Philanthropist Jennifer Buffett, a Milwaukee native and
president of the New York-based NoVo Foundation which focuses on
empowering women and girls as the primary agents of change. Jennifer works passionately
to foster a transformation in global society from a culture of domination and
exploitation to collaboration and partnership.
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At Meta House, Families Come First!
Once again, our Grant Partner Meta House is leading the way to advance care for women and their children.
Families Come First is a new collaborative partnership between Meta House, the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare, and the Milwaukee County Children's Court. Begun in February 2010, this initiative is already keeping children safely with mothers who struggle with problems with substance abuse.
Read more about this innovative pilot program.
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Lesbian Fund Hosts July 24th Party
All are invited to join us at a wine tasting party that celebrates diversity. RSVPs requested. For details, visit our website.
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