For Immediate Release
April 16, 2024
Contact: Deanna Schmidt, City Planner and Zoning Administrator
Phone: (608) 270-4255
Email: deanna.schmidt@fitchburgwi.gov
PRESS RELEASE
City of Fitchburg Healthy Neighborhoods Grant Program 2024 Funding Awards
Fitchburg, WI - The City of Fitchburg is pleased to announce the 2024 Healthy Neighborhood Grant Program funding awards to the following non-profit entities:
- Allied Food Pantry – Good Shepherd Lutheran Church - $6,000
- Badger Prairie Needs Network - $13,000
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Dane County - $12,000
- Boys and Girls Club of Dane County - $9,000
- Catholic Multicultural Center - $14,000
- Centro Hispano of Dane County - $4,000
- JustDane – Allied Dunn’s Marsh Neighborhood Associate - $1,500
- Latino Academy of Workforce Development - $14,000
- Madison Reading Project - $14,000
- Omega School - $6,000
- River Food Pantry - $13,000
- Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin - $10,000
- The Road Home Dane County - $11,500
- Tri 4 Schools - $10,000
Funding awards from the program in 2024 total $138,000. These funding awards will advance the City’s Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative (HNI), focusing on a variety of topics in four northern Fitchburg neighborhoods including adult education, youth mentoring, workforce development, neighborhood engagement and community-building, and food security.
For further information on the City’s HNI, please see the following webpage: https://www.fitchburgwi.gov/2481/Healthy-Neighborhoods-Initiative
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