Foundation awards grants in Waukesha

Jan. 12, 2012
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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Jan. 12, 2012 0

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has announced $53,000 in grants to Waukesha County agencies, including $20,000 to NAMI Waukesha to support independent housing and advocacy programs for people with mental illness.

The NAMI grant matches a federal grant for the program, started in 2009.

The fourth quarter grants include $15,000 to the University of Wisconsin Extension-Waukesha County to support projects associated with the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative in a Waukesha west side neighborhood.

Another $18,000 was awarded Family Service of Waukesha to replace digital recording equipment for its Child Advocacy and Resource Center, which brings together law enforcement, medical and social service providers on forensic interviews needed in cases of child abuse.

The Waukesha County grants were part of $632,932 awarded in the fourth quarter to organizations in Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha and Milwaukee counties.

About Laurel Walker
Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.
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