Grants Awarded January-February 2007
$10,000.00 to The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, UW–Madison
for Wisconsin Englishes
$10,000.00 to Forgotten Wisdom of Bayfield
for The Settlement Project
$10,000.00 to La Casa de Esperanza of Waukesha
for the Latinos in Waukesha Book Project
$10,000.00 to Arts Wisconsin
for The Good Soldier
$9,973.00 to March on Milwaukee Coordinating Committee of Milwaukee
for March On Milwaukee: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Grants Awarded September-October 2006
$2,000.00 to Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts
for A French/American Youth Cultural Arts and Humanities Exchange Project
$600.00 to New Berlin Public Library
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$400.00 to Neillsville Public Library
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$1,500.00 to Plowshare Center
for Film Festival '07
$2,000.00 to Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
for Sacred Texts/Contemporary Forms: Spiritual Traditions in the Digital Age
$2,000.00 to Musical Offering Ltd.
for In Harmony: At Home with Biedermeier
$10,000.00 to UW-Marathon County
for Shared Reading/Shared Thoughts: A Campus/Community Dialogue about Affluenza
$10,000.00 to UW-Parkside Benevolent Foundation
for The Racine Odyssey Project, a Clemente Course in the Humanities
$9,807.00 to UW-Oshkosh
for "Black Thursday" Remembered: An Oral History of the 1968 African American Student Protests at Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh
$2,910.00 to Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
for Wisconsin's People on the Land
$10,000.00 to Heritage Hill Foundation
for to Chief Oshkosh on Trial
Grants Previously Awarded in 2006
$2,000.00 to Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts
for A French/American Youth Cultural Arts and Humanities Exchange Project
$2,000.00 to Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at UW-La Crosse
for Archaeology Day at Silver Mound
$2,000.00 to TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater of Madison
for The "Tear Up the Front Page" Project
$2,000.00 to Viterbo University of La Crosse
for The Viterbo Women's Studies Symposium, "Women Speak: Listening to Women's Voices Within & Beyond the Academic Disciplines"
$1,500.00 to Wisconsin Public Television
for Community Forums on Race and Diversity
$300.00 to Madison Public Library-Sequoya Branch
for A More Perfect Union: to Establish Justice
$10,000.00 to Fox Cities Children's Museum of Appleton
for En Mi Familia: Celebrating Family Traditions
$9,900.00 to The Center for the Humanities (The Board of Regents of UW-System)
for Don Quixote in Wisconsin
$9,875.00 to D.C. Everest Junior & Senior High Schools of Westin
for The 1920's
$8,795.00 to Literary Arts Committee, Eau Claire Regional Arts Center
for Chippewa Valley Book Festival
$600.00 to Jane Morgan Memorial Library of Cambria
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$2,000.00 to Labor Education & Training Center of Madison
for Madison Sesquicentennial Labor Mural
$1,955.00 to River Falls Community Arts Base
for The River in Literature and History: A Children's Poetry Writing Project
$1,951.00 to Telemark Educational Foundation, Inc. of Cable
for Northwest Wisconsin Children's Book Conference
$931.00 to L.D. Fargo Public Library of Lake Mills
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$800.00 to Superior Public Library
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$700.00 to Walter E. Olson Memorial Library of Eagle River
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$600.00 to Dwight Foster Public Library of Fort Atkinson
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$600.00 to Rusk County Community Library of Ladysmith
for A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice
$2,000.00 to Ashland/Bayfield County League of Women Voters
for Toward A More Perfect Union: League of Women Voters as a Champion of Good Government and Participatory Democracy in Two Rural Wisconsin Counties, 1956-2006
$2,000.00 to Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society of WI, Inc.
for 2006 Summer Chamber Music Festival: Aural Fixation Pre-Concert Chats and Written Program Notes
$2,000.00 to Milwaukee County Historical Society
for Miss Annie Mae's Hats Public Programs
$1,697.00 to Madison Desi Reading Group
for A Night of South Asian Literature
$1,440.00 to Justiceworks, Ltd. of Stevens Point
for Jail in the Justice System: A Symposium on Incarceration in Our Community and Alternatives
$1,100.00 to Forgotten Wisdom, Inc. of Bayfield
for Frank Belanger Settlement Project
$800.00 to Friends of the Dwight Foster Public Library of Fort Atkinson
for Jefferson County Reads 2006