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2019-10-01
CF Insights;
From 2008-2017, Metro Milwaukee has benefited from rising opportunities, inspired by the vision that the community and Greater Milwaukee Foundation share for a thriving and equitable region. Milwaukee saw significant progress in education, youth development, neighborhood economic development and other areas, continuing a century-long commitment by the Foundation to strengthen the region through philanthropy. Data and stories reflecting the investment and impact of this 10-year period illustrate the shared success that is achieved through partnership among donors, community stakeholders, and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
2020-06-01
Violence Policy Center;
This study examines the problem of black homicide victimization at the state level by analyzing unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data for black homicide victimization submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The information used for this report is for the year 2017. This is the first analysis of the 2017 data on black homicide victims to offer breakdowns of cases in the 10 states with the highest black homicide victimization rates and the first to rank the states by the rate of black homicide victims.It is important to note that the SHR data used in this report comes from law enforcement reporting at the local level. While there are coding guidelines followed by the law enforcement agencies, the amount of information submitted to the SHR system, and the interpretation that results in the information submitted (for example, gang involvement) will vary from agency to agency. This study is limited by the quantity and degree of detail in the information submitted.
2018-04-01
Center for Popular Democracy;
The systemic criminalization of youth of color, youth with disabilities, and youth of color with disabilities in schools is one of the most blatant and egregious examples of structural racism and violence in this country. The presence of police officers, guns, handcuffs, and metal detectors in schools creates hostile teaching and learning environments that are reinforced by harsh, punitive, and exclusionaryii school discipline policies. Together these practices constitute what is widely referred to as the school-to-prison pipeline. As this report demonstrates, Milwaukee's reliance on punitive approaches to discipline is ineffective, costly, and, most troublingly, racially biased.
2017-10-25
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation & Affiliates;
At Great Lakes we focus on helping students of color, students from low-income families and those who are the first in theirfamilies to attend college. These underserved students have the most to gain from earning a degree or credential, but face the steepest challenges in getting there. One of the first barriers they need to overcome is "summer melt." The purpose of this report is to share lessons learned by three high school districts during the development and launch of a summer melt texting program.
2017-12-14
Greater Milwaukee Foundation;
The report summarizes the outcomes of On the Table MKE, an initiative led by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation that provides a unique opportunity for civil conversation among people interested in building new relationships, generatingideas and igniting action for the benefit of the community and its future.In its pilot year, thousands of people across the four county, metro Milwaukee region gathered in small groups on Oct. 17, 2017, to share a meal and discuss topics that matter as well as corresponding action – both individual and collective – that can improve quality of life in the community.Three themes emerged as the most salient within these discussions: connecting and collaborating, education, and race, equity, and inclusion.
2019-12-17
Center for American Progress;
This report examines how the pernicious problem of partisan gerrymandering stymies efforts toward sensible reforms in several states—including North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia—despite strong public support for gun safety measures. These states provide some of the most extreme examples of gerrymandering: Even though Democrats won a majority of the statewide votes, control of the state legislatures remained with Republicans who, for the most part, have refused to allow meaningful debate on any commonsense gun safety measures. In each of these states, it is likely that, in the absence of partisan gerrymandering, the legislature would have enacted measures to strengthen gun laws—measures that could have saved lives.The report also puts forward a policy solution: States should require independent commissions to draw voter-determined districts based on statewide voter preferences. Implementing this policy would end partisan gerrymandering and increase representation for communities that have too often been shut out of the political system and also suffer the most from the lack of sensible gun safety legislation
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key Findings: The FA system served by The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin provides emergency food for an estimated 140,600 different people annually43% of the members of households served by The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2)54% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1)Among households with children, 73% are food insecure and 27% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1)49% of clients served by The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1)31% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1)23% of households served by The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin included approximately 241 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 239 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 161 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter61% of pantries, 60% of kitchens, and 57% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1)Among programs that existed in 2006, 81% of pantries, 72% of kitchens, and 70% of shelters of The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1)Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 61% of the food distributed by pantries, 55% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 42% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1)As many as 94% of pantries, 89% of kitchens, and 90% of shelters in The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin use volunteers (Table 13.2.1)
2019-04-01
Violence Policy Center;
This report offers select data on lethal gun violence in states located in the Great Lakes region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) drawn from Violence Policy Center (VPC) publications issued in 2018 as well as additional research. Types of gun death detailed in this report are: overall gun death (suicides, homicides, and unintentional deaths); homicide; suicide; black homicide victimization; females killed by males; and, examples of non-self defense killings involving concealed handgun permit holders (for the years 2016, 2017, and 2018)
2007-12-01
Williams Institute;
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this report provides demographic and economic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children in Wisconsin. We compare same-sex "unmarried partners," which the Census Bureau defines as an unmarried couple who "shares living quarters and has a close personal relationship," to different-sex married couples in Wisconsin.
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key findings: The FA system served by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin provides emergency food for an estimated 329,400 different people annually32% of the members of households served by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2)36% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1)Among households with children, 73% are food insecure and 34% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1)41% of clients served by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1)32% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1)29% of households served by America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin included approximately 846 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 717 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 509 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter83% of pantries, 80% of kitchens, and 40% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1)Among programs that existed in 2006, 73% of pantries, 61% of kitchens, and 66% of shelters of America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1)Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 73% of the food distributed by pantries, 58% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 50% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1)As many as 95% of pantries, 88% of kitchens, and 83% of shelters in America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin use volunteers (Table 13.2.1)
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies in the state of Wisconsin. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed in-person interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network.Key Findings:The FA system in Wisconsin provides emergency food for an estimated 573,800 different people annually.37% of the members of client households in Wisconsin are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).43% of client households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).Among client households with children, 71% are food insecure and 32% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1).44% of clients in Wisconsin report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).31% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).28% of clients households in Wisconsin report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)At the administration of this survey, 5 food banks or FROs affiliated with FA operated in Wisconsin. Of the agencies that were served by those organizations, 1,044 agencies that had their operation within the state responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 742 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.75% of pantries, 75% of kitchens, and 44% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).Among programs that existed in 2006, 77% of pantries, 64% of kitchens, and 66% of shelters in Wisconsin reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 69% of the food distributed by pantries, 57% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 52% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).As many as 94% of pantries, 88% of kitchens, and 82% of shelters in Wisconsin use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
