Program areas at Center for Community Stewardship
Alliance for the 7th generation hosted a series of Community events called soup sessions in the madison area championing art and healing. They hosted an event in south africa (hiphop healing festival) that reached many people.
Open doors for refugees collected furniture and home supplies and set up approximately 24 apartments for arriving refugees and provided winter wear to dozens of arriving refugee families. They also held several Community events and celebrations.
Natural circles of support worked with several school districts to reduce racial disproportionality and improve student achievement.
Alzheimer's poetry project provided a series of poetry workshops to people living with alzheimer's.
Anesis mental health program provided free drop in health clinics across the madison region and well as crisis response counselling.
The badger project published their largest annual amount of posts and raised more than $80,000. Their news stories were picked up by several news organizations across the state.
Core distributed nearly $48,000 via c4cs to 21 programs along with coaching and advising services to the recipients of the funds.
Edot midwest regional jewish diversity collaborative held a variety of activities focused on affirming jewish racial and ethnic diversity across communities in the midwest region.
Eoto culturally rooted served over 57 area black owned businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through our ujamaa business network program. Their byaya! Program worked with young people via their work in mmsd schools & department of corrections institutions.
Get kids outside served 125 kids in 2023 and held several events for the children.
Healthtide completed Community conversations in black, latino, and tribal communities across Wisconsin to learn more about their barriers to engage in healthy eating and active living and share ideas for overcoming these barriers.
I am we has partnered with mmsd, the ywca, edgewood college, stoughton and deforest school districts to offer classroom and Community discussions to 720 participants.
The institute for collective wellbeing met in south africa and burlington, Vermont to solidy their funding and programming strategies. They also convened a monthly practice with their partners.
Madison cooperative development coalition held several cooperative educational series and provided more than $80,000 to Community partners supporting worker co-ops.
Mi Wisconsin continued to receive funds to support minority journalism and created the first syndicated content in spanish to help their Community with their daily mental health issues.
Progress Center for black women worked with entrepreneurs to strengthen their professional development, wellness, and financial health.
Rock county jumpstart held several entrepreneurial training cohorts and supported and coached entrepreneurs in rock county
The tiny sangha project doubled the number of its online small groups. They also hired two new small group facilitators.
Tiyuv recruited and funded 4 new fellows for the 2023-2024 tiyuv evaluator training and mentoring program. They also attended two evaluation conferences together.
United madison continued to build awareness on the presence of sex trafficking in our Community which was accomplished through media campaigns, group meetings and training sessions, and collaboration within the Community.
Wi ecolatinos continued outreach in the latino Community in environmental education and sustainability. They also hosted the second earth day bilingual environmental conservation fair.
The Wisconsin lacrosse alumni foundation did fund raising at their 50 year reunion to buy new uniforms and helmets for the uw lacrosse team.
Yafa created an online virtual yoga platform that people can join on a sliding scale basis, to make accessible yoga available to more people. They also added a new class at bayview Community Center and completed a new yoga series for people who are deaf.
Dane county youth action board supported the opening of dane county's first system navigation Center for young people and supported the implementation of two brand new housing programs for young people.
Seein' is believin' successfully hosted 4 youth mental health retreats and obtained $30,000 under dane county violence prevention funding.
The summer youth violence prevention initiative aimed to provide job shadowing and professional development activities for teens during summer break.
Restorative places partnered with rooted to strengthen school garden partnerships in Wisconsin. They also worked in partnership with early childhood providers in Wisconsin on an innovative early care & education (ece) gardening & outdoor learning video series.
Stoughton resettlement continued to serve 18 families with assistance and casework needs. They also added 2 venezuelan families to our Community.
Be well madison transitioned to a different style of organizational communication and updated their website to reflect these changes.
Smartcohort delivered 10 programs that served 125+ leaders and included major representation for advocacy and completed the un local pathways fellowship on localizing sdg11.
Back2basics empowered youth, educators and local businesses to help address economic and health disparities and held an annual santa's workshop event at the sylvee.
Midwest mujeres held their annual event in which they were able to highlight six women of color and their stories of surviving the gender wage gap. They were also highlighted on Wisconsin public radio where a few of their members and stories were broadcast.
Madison vegan fest was successfully held in september and had 3,000-5,000 attendees.
In 2023, the Center for Community Stewardship provided accounting, capacity building, budgeting, and hr services to over 70 different fiscally sponsored organizations.