Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, with assistance from the ACLU of Wisconsin and Center for Youth Engagement releases "Finding Us in Ferguson: A Resource Toolkit for Youth Workers, Youth Activists and Youth-Serving Organizations in Milwaukee." We offer these resources to organizations looking for help in supporting the young people they work with in addressing current events and racial justice - in particular, issues surrounding police killings of unarmed men in Ferguson, New York and Milwaukee.

For more information and to download the toolkit, please see the Boys & Men of Color website.

The Common Council recently approved a recommendation of the Community and Economic Development Committee to allocate $300,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding for the Milwaukee Promise initiative - the multifaceted city effort to address systemic poverty, joblessness, poor health, crime and low educational achievement in city neighborhoods.

Alderman Ashanti Hamilton, author of the legislation that created the Milwaukee Promise, said the funding will provide "a bright flame that can ignite revitalization of neighborhoods and lives" across Milwaukee.