Home and apartment owners in Martin Drive, Pulaski Park and St. Joseph’s are now able to borrow money for building improvements through the Target Investment Neighborhood (TIN) program.
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Favorite of 2013: Volunteers dispatched to count Milwaukee homeless
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covered a wide range of stories focused on central city neighborhoods during the past year. In the last of a three-part series, Reporter Brendan O’Brien explains why his story about a one-day effort to count the number of homeless people in the city is his favorite of 2013. It was originally published on Feb. 5.
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Favorite of 2013: Long-awaited Packers field opens in Mitchell Park
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covered a wide range of stories focused on central city neighborhoods during the past year. In the second of a three-part series, Reporter Edgar Mendez explains why his story about the Packers’ football field in Mitchell Park is his favorite of 2013. It was originally published on June 10.
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Favorite of 2013: ‘Wisdom Walk’ leads away from violence, toward change
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covered a wide range of stories focused on central city neighborhoods during the past year. In the first of a three-part series, Reporter Andrea Waxman explains why her story about the “Wisdom Walk” program at the Alma Center is her favorite of 2013. It was originally published on Feb. 18.
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Nia Imani provides women temporary shelter, permanent skills
Nia Imani Family Inc. offers homeless women and children long-term shelter and life skills training in a family setting.
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Cooperative offers alternative to traditional insurance companies
The Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative is a member-owned and governed insurance company with policies available to Milwaukee residents on the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace.
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Low-cost car loan program helps parents get to work
YWCA Southeast Wisconsin’s new Ways to Work program provides affordable loans to repair or purchase cars for low- to moderate-income individuals.
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Big ideas for Bronzeville emerge from community brainstorming session
Architects developers, community leaders and citizens discussed plans for six sites in the Bronzeville Cultural and Entertainment District, which was created in 2005. The city hopes investors will back plans to develop the sites.
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Metcalfe Park community wrestles with housing, jobs
Foreclosed properties and job training were the top concerns raised by residents at a recent Metcalfe Park community forum.
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MANDI award nominees named to ‘Sweet Sixteen’
Finalists for the 2014 Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innnovation, known as the “MANDIs,” were announced Wednesday evening to a crowded room of nominees, community leaders and corporate sponsors.