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Giving Guide Magazine
A guide to investing in our community
🔒 Rebuilding Milwaukee’s housing stock
Wisconsin has a housing crisis. And nowhere is the lack of affordable single-family homes more evident than in Milwaukee’s mostly Black and Latino central...
🔒 Big gifts with big impact from 2023
Southeastern Wisconsin is home to generous individuals and companies supporting a wide range of causes in our community. While gifts of any size can...
Gus Ramirez shares insights on faith, launching Aug Prep and buying the Cardinal Stritch campus
Gus Ramirez and the Ramirez Family Foundation made big news in 2023, buying the former campus of Cardinal Stritch University in Glendale and Fox...
🔒 Get strategic with your philanthropy
Getting involved in philanthropy may start with a tug at the heartstrings, but a good dose of strategy allows donors to make the biggest...
🔒 Strengthen your board service
All it took was one school tour and conversation with founder Chris Her-Xiong in 2009 to sell Jason Handal on the mission of the...
🔒 How to scale up organizational giving
Increasing how much your organization gives back to the community, through financial donations or volunteer work, can sometimes seem challenging. But businesses in Milwaukee...
🔒 Performing arts groups will feel pandemic fallout for years to come
The immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on performing arts groups in Milwaukee was fairly obvious: Government shutdowns meant no shows, no shows meant...
Behind the gift: Joe and Ellen Checota
Joe Checota, chairman and chief executive officer of Landmark Healthcare Facilities LLC, and his wife, Ellen, recently committed $5 million to Milwaukee Area Technical...
What you need to know about planned giving
The act of determining your charitable legacy – like writing a will – is easy to put off for a later date: Perhaps when...
🔒 Why I Volunteer: Brian O’Neill
At the age of 10, my siblings and I were food insecure. I still don’t know how she did it, but our mother hid...
