The Rotary Club of Milwaukee (the Club) today announced plans to distribute $20,000 across five local organizations combating food insecurity in the Johnsons Park neighborhood – a neighborhood of focus for the Club.
Johnsons Park renovation complete for summer
Today, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and community leaders celebrated the completion of Johnsons Park, a $2 million revitalization initiative in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood. The Johnsons Park Initiative action plan called for nurturing the health and safety of the community by improving the physical and programmatic infrastructure at three adjacent locations: (1) Alice’s Garden […]
The Rotary Club of Milwaukee honors Sr. Edna Lonergan as its person of the year
The Rotary Club of Milwaukee has named Sister Edna Lonergan, OSF as its 2016 Person of the Year. Sr. Edna is the President of St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, a highly respected organization that introduced dementia-specific day care to this area and was among the pioneers of fully integrated intergenerational day care in the […]
Johnsons Park Initiative receives major gifts from two Milwaukee foundations
The boards of directors of Zilber Family Foundation and the Rotary Club of Milwaukee today jointly announced gifts totaling $350,000 toward the revitalization of Johnsons Park. With this announcement, the $1.23 million final capital campaign phase of the Johnsons Park Initiative, led by the Center for Resilient Cities, has reached half its goal. The Zilber […]