Silver Spring Neighborhood Center: $25,000 for the Adult Services Pathways Program, a job readiness program that serves men and women between the ages of 18 and 64 who are either unemployed or underemployed and reside within Milwaukee’s northwest side.
Wisconsin Reading Corps: $54,227 to add five full-time tutors who will provide one-on-one supplemental reading instruction to a minimum of 75 students reading below grade level during the 2017-2018 school year.
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation: $35,000 to hire additional bilingual early literacy educators as part of its Ready to Read program who will serve Spanish-speaking preschool classrooms and expand bilingual parent workshops for non-English speaking families.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee: $25,000 to support its SPARK early literacy program, which will serve 225 students in K5 through third grade reading below grade level during the 2017-2018 school year.
SHARP Literacy: $25,000 for its program in Waukesha, which will serve about 200 students who will help produce the book “We Love to Learn,” specifically for Waukesha County schools.
Seton Catholic Schools: $17,500 for the school’s master reading instructors to work with 300 third graders reading below grade level.
Penfield Children’s Center: $15,000 to support 114 K3 through first grade Montessori students achieve measurable growth based on the Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards.
More than $330,000 invested into area visual arts programming>
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