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May 15, 2009

Foundation backs Teach for America program

Tom Held:

A $150,000 grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation will help support a corps of 90 teachers recruited for Milwaukee Public Schools through the Teach for America program.

The allocation is part of the $6.2 million in grants the community foundation distributed in the first quarter of 2009. Earlier in the year, the foundation awarded $362,500 from a Basic Needs fund it created to support food pantries and shelters struggling to meet an increasing demand for services.

The foundation's education grant and support for a job training program are targeted to slow the growth of poverty that has strained the area's emergency services.

More than 150 community leaders targeted those priorities in a series of recent interviews, said Doug Jansson, president of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 15, 2009 2:11 AM
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