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Greater Milwaukee Foundation awards grants to Waukesha County agencies

Oct. 13, 2009
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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Oct. 13, 2009 0

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has awarded grants totaling $416,119 to a number of non-profit organizations in Waukesha County, including $100,000 to La Casa de Esperanza for expansion of its income tax filing assistance program.

La Casa's Earned Income Tax Credit SupersSites program last year helped tax form filers with 842 returns that netted $1.8 million in earned income tax credits and refunds, the agency said. The new grant will enable La Casa to offer three financial fairs and two "Super Saturday" events and to recruit tax preparers and bilingual volunteers.

Among the other grants announced by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Tuesday were: $20,000 to the Waukesha Training Center for help in merging with Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin; $20,000 to the Lake Area Free Clinic for electronic medical record and disease management; $10,000 to Family Service of Waukesha for child abuse community education efforts; $10,000 to Oconomowoc Silver Streak elderly transportation service for a replacement vehicle; $25,000 for La Casa's weatherization program; and $25,000 for several Waukesha high school youth activities, including creation of a documentary on local poverty, drug and alcohol abuse prevention efforts, training in social networking as a way to find jobs and student construction of a nature trail.

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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