Program areas at Center for Community Stewardship
Alliance for the 7th generation a7g has continued to forge an international alliance of education scholars, practitioners, activists and artists. In 2022, we began supporting a school district in Arizona better support the wellbeing of their staff and students in an effort to improve mental health outcomes, staff retention, and wellbeing.
Open doors for refugees provides translation, transportation, esl, childcare, and employment services for arriving refugees. This year odfr supported 25 refugee families in setting up apartments and supporting skill-building. They consist of 46 adults and 55 children, 101 total.
Natural circles of support provided mentoring circles for african american students to promote social emotional well-being and to provide safe space to validate and affirm their identity. We facilitated weekly mentoring circles in one elementary school and two middle schools in madison metropolitan school district and grade 3-12 african american students who participated in circles in mcfarland school district. We offered three professional development trainings in mcfarland district to those who take part in their schools and district-wide equity initiatives.
Edot midwest works to support bipoc jews in the midwest region; this past year, we served an estimated 1,454 individuals through programs, partnerships, leadership development, and responses to emergent requests. We launched two new efforts to support Community members facing emergencies and to support grassroots changemaking.
Yoga accessible for all offered 8 different yoga classes serving a variety of people, in Community centers, senior centers, myarts, just bakery, and virtually.
Tiyuv launched the tiyuv new evaluator training and mentoring fellowship program in september 2022 and selected a cohort of four jews of color (joc) evaluators.
Progress Center for black women added additional staff, saw focus help entrepreneurs open their doors, get funded, and our overall social Community grew.
United madison focused on building Community awareness of sex trafficking in our Community, kicking off with a seminar in april attended by 80+ people. In addition, we ran media placements on local tv and radio stations, as well as social media outlets.
Icw rwjf completed 100 interviews with organizational leaders across the globe and produced an interactive systems map with lessons learned from our research about well being.
Healthtide provided workforce capacity building and developed a training around an assessment tool included in youngstar, Wisconsin's quality rating and improvement system. They continued to facilitate healthy early. Provided the leaders of Wisconsin's snap-ed program with guidance on meeting and agenda planning and collaboration.
Core distributed more than $38,000 to at least 10 nonprofit organizations and 8 individuals along with coaching and advising services to the recipients of the funds.
Dane county youth action board led yhdp through Community planning and into implementation; presented about youth homelessness, youth advocacy, disability rights, and other topics at a national level.
Dear diary empowered black girls and women to write their own narratives for social and economic advancement. This includes hosting our signature event that serves as a pinnacle of celebration and empowerment for our girls.
During 2022 miwisconsin media increased the readership and follower 20%; started the hispanic resource fair for cities without any latino/hispanic organization.
Tiny sangha launched our pilot group of 10 people, getting positive feedback, and are evaluating it.
Mann scholars worked with 15 high school and college scholars to ensure graduation and full participation in scholastic experience.
I am we global village is committed to disrupting and dismantling the barriers and biases that prevent people from seeing each other's full humanity by creating and sustaining collaborative learning, healing, and growing spaces with a justice-centered approach. In 2022, we worked with a number of schools to disrupt the cycle of violence and heal the trauma affecting youth through mindfulness, music and poetry.
Alzheimer's poetry project offered 27 memory cafes state-wide; 8 "arts and poetry cafes," 8 "honoring elders, drumming, storytelling and poetry," lac du flambeau; serving 620 people; and 47 poetry workshops.
Community agency bridging the gap provided mental health services to over 30 families and 50 individuals.
Badger project is a nonpartisan journalism nonprofit hosted online which had nearly 160,000 visitors in 2022.
Rock county jumpstart is a collaborative initiative designed to improve the likelihood of success of minority business owners. In 2022, we trained entrepreneurs from the rock county region (in three cohorts) in the ready, set, go! Incubator and accelerator programs.
Lakefront porch: our goal is to transform underused space to be an artistic, comfortable, and engaging destination. In 2022, we raised money to build a park on the lakefront of lake monona at the crowley station platform.
Restorative places: in 2022, we worked with Wisconsin early childcare association to support the goals of the national school garden support organization network.
Eoto culturally rooted did peer support training, and worked with mmsd/metro school - juvenile retention Center (jrc) and youth shelter to increase Community support for at-risk youth. They also held a number of black business days throughout the year.
In 2022 the Center for Community Stewardship provided accounting,capacity building, budgeting, and hr services to over 70 differentfiscally sponsored organizations.