PRIORITY AREA: EDUCATION & FAMILYWELL-BEING
COMMUNITY-LED EFFORTS Wisconsin Voices Increases Engagement, Civic Action As the world continues to learn how to connect with
meetings, food pantry, legal services, job fairs and listen to their needs and/or concerns for further to work together. “We strive to work with our partners to energize com- munities with innovative, year-round civic engagement education and action projects,” said -Timothy P. Schindler, Co-Executive Director of Wis- consin Voices. “The Dominican Center is a great partner, and their work helps to increase resident engagement and civic action in a neighborhood that is on the rise in Milwaukee’s central city.”
communities during pandemic times, one community in Mil- waukee made sure residents in the Amani neighborhood knew about the free and/or low cost local and federal resources available to them. In 2021, Wisconsin Voices provided the Dominican Cen- ter (DC) with a $15,000 regrant to connect 3,000 households with resources and information through a robust communi- ty-led civic engagement proj- ect during the summer. “The regrant fromWiscon-
sin Voices really helped to make it possible for us to max- imize our reach,” said Maricha Harris, Executive Director of the Dominican Center. In addition, to working with Wisconsin Voices, DC teamed up with Amani United, the neighborhood resident group, to safely disseminate infor- mational door hangers and magnets to residents to edu- cate them about community
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