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Your PLEDGE Makes a Difference! Your PLEDGE makes a difference! Your gift of $1 per month: Helps provide critical educational support to low-income and first-generation students to ensure they can graduate from college and increase their lifetime earnings by an average of $1 million. (America’s Charities) Provides four soccer balls; recreation offers immediate and lasting psychological, physical, and social benefits to children coping with crisis. (Global Impact) Provides basic hygiene kits for seven children. (Neighbor to Nation) Your gift of $5 per month: Supplies a bag of high quality dog treats for rescue dogs, used for training dogs so they can live inside with a new home and family. (Independent Charities of America) Purchases supplies for students’ shitake mushroom garden. (Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation) Covers the cost of work permits for eight youth placed in jobs. (Community Shares) Your gift of $10 per month: Creates and maintains 10 miles of new Ice Age Trail. (EarthShare Wisconsin) Provides one month of energy assistance to someone with disabilities. (Community Health Charities) Will buy a summer supply of tempera paint for a camp arts & crafts program. (Access to Community Services) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful commited citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only that that ever has.” –Margaret Mead 1 LOCAL/STATEWIDE UMBRELLAS AND CHARITIES Community Shares Hunger Relief Fund of Wisconsin (administered by Hunger Task Force, Inc.) Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation EarthShare Wisconsin Community Health Charities of Wisconsin United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Your gift of just $1 per pay period can: Provide an at-risk middle school student with a day of Academy A.L.D.O, an after school program to learn how to preserve and protect our natural world. (Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation) Support attendance at a proactive health journaling workshop for one woman (Community Health Charities of Wisconsin Supply specialized infant formula for an at-risk baby (Hunger Relief Fund) Help pay for a social justice training and leadership development for LGBTQ+ youth of color (Community Shares) Buy 15 bus tickets for individuals seeking employment. (United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County) Adopt an acre of land in the Military Ridge Prairie Area and help maintain its ecological value to plants, animals, and humans. (EarthShare Wisconsin) 2 200 ● Community Shares, (608) 256-1066 Community Shares is a collaboration between Community Shares of Wisconsin and Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee representing nearly 80 grassroots organizations in Dane County, Milwaukee County and through-out Wisconsin. Community Shares connects donors with local grassroots organizations that effect change in their communities. Member charities focus on building social and economic equity and a healthy environment. Employees can contribute to any of the member organizations listed in this section, as well as directly to Community Shares. Designations to specific organizations go directly to those charities. Gifts directed to Community Shares provide support to all of their member organizations including training, technical assistance, development and collaboration. www.community-shares.org 248 ● 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Inc., (608) 259-1000 A leading proponent of land use policies and activities that advance healthy communities, positive economic outcomes, and environmental benefits in Wisconsin. www.1kfriends.org 242 ● ABC for Health Inc., (608) 261-6939 A public interest law firm working to improve health care access and coverage through advocacy, benefits counseling, and legal services for low-income families. www.abcforhealth.org 227 ● American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin Foundation Inc., (414) 272-4032 Works to protect and promote civil liberties and civil rights of all Wisconsin residents through litigation, advocacy, public education, research, and organizing. www.aclu- wi.org 209 ● Bayview Foundation Inc., (608) 256-7808 Sponsors the Annual Triangle Ethnic Fest. Houses 102 low- to moderate-income families and encourages their development through education and the arts. Serves the greater Madison area. www.bayviewfoundation.org 4605 ● Benedict Center, (414) 347-1774 Enhances public safety and wellbeing by advocating rational justice reform and providing restorative alternatives to imprisonment for women, outreach and community service. www.benedictcenter.org 4603 ● Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Education Foundation, Inc., (608) 251- 4456 Contributions help us to promote bicycling, to educate adults and children, and provide for safe bicycling, to pass legislation and improve the state’s bicycling infrastructure. www.wisconsinbikefed.org 249 ● Center for Resilient Cities, (608) 255-9877 Uniting neighborhood “systems” that define how we build community, feed ourselves, educate children, produce energy, manage resources, create jobs, design buildings, and reclaim our neighborhood spaces. www.resilientcities.org 263 ● Center for Media and Democracy Inc., (608) 260-9713 National watchdog group exposing corporate influence on democracy; aiding activists to protect our environment, schools, and economy; and breaking news stories. www.prwatch.org 3 228 ● Chrysalis Inc., (608) 256-3102 Creates and supports work opportunities for adults living with mental illness. Chrysalis believes that all people deserve an equal right to find meaningful work. www.workwithchrysalis.org 4608 ● Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, (414) 476-4501 A statewide organization headquartered in the Walker's Point neighborhood, dedicated to expanding economic opportunity, guaranteeing affordable health car, and protecting the right to vote. www.citizenactionwifund.org 247 ● Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB), (608) 643-3124 Working for a healthy and sustainable future for the environment and ecology of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant lands. www.cswab.org 206 ● Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin Inc., (608) 251-3322 The only organization in Wisconsin devoted entirely to protecting the rights of residential utility customers, fighting utility rate increases and electric deregulation plans that hurt consumers. www.wiscub.org 224 ● Clean Wisconsin Inc., (608) 251-7020 Protecting and preserving Wisconsin’s air and water, and creating a cleaner environment, by being the leading voice for environmental protection. www.cleanwisconsin.org 232 ● Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, (608) 224-0606 Statewide grassroots advocacy organization with more than 600 groups representing 125,000 individuals working to ensure access to basic legal and social services for Wisconsin’s older citizens. www.cwag.org 204 ● Common Wealth Development Inc., (608) 256-3527 Builds a more connected community through affordable housing, financial literacy and job training for youth, support for small businesses, and community organizing. www.cwd.org 264 ● Community GroundWorks Inc., (608) 240-0409 Connects people to nature and local food. Through hands-on education, children and adults learn gardening, urban farming, healthy eating, and natural areas restoration. www.communitygroundworks.org 4624 ● Cream City Foundation, (414) 225-0244 Envisions the full realization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights in Southeastern Wisconsin. www.creamcityfoundation.org 265 ● Dane County Time Bank, (608) 663-0400 Creates a network in which members earn credits by helping others, then spend those credits on help they need themselves. Empowers people of all abilities and incomes. www.danecountytimebank.org 245 ● Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc., (608) 267-0214 Through advocacy, investigation, and education, DRW challenges systems and society to ensure that all people with disabilities enjoy full rights and enhanced quality of life. www.disabilityrightswi.org 231 ● End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, (608) 255-0539 As the leading voice for victims of domestic abuse in Wisconsin, we raise awareness and provide safety and support to prevent and end domestic abuse. www.endabusewi.org 4 251 ● Fair Housing Center of Greater Madison Inc.(aka Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council), (608) 257-0853 Ensures equal housing opportunity and the exercise of fair housing rights by investigating alleged illegal discrimination, educating housing providers and consumers, and investigating institutional forms of discrimination. www.fairhousingwisconsin.com 277 ● FairShare CSA Coalition Inc., (608) 266-0300 Working to strengthen the community-supported agriculture (CSA) movement, support small-scale vegetable farmers, build local economies, ensure food access, and sustain a healthy environment. www.csacoalition.org 201 ● Fair Wisconsin Education Fund Inc., (608) 441-0143 The statewide education, grassroots organizing, and civic engagement organization dedicated to advancing, achieving, and protecting the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Wisconsinites. www.fairwisconsin.com 266 ● Freedom Inc., (608) 661-4089 Helps educate, mobilize, and organize women, youth, and victims of abuse to build leadership in low-income minority communities. Challenges the root causes of violence, racism, and poverty. www.freedom-inc.org 211 ● Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Inc., (608) 264-8994 Enhances, preserves, restores, and promotes the Wisconsin State Park System by making parks more attractive, better understood, and more accessible. www.fwsp.org 212 ● Gathering Waters Conservancy Inc., (608) 251-9131 Helps communities, land
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