Non-Profit

Tammy Rivera, executive director and lead organizer at the Southside Organizing Center and one of this year’s Milwaukee Magazine Unity Award recipients, reflects on her work and motivation for community advancement.

The United Way has been distributing diapers in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties since May 2021. In that time, the agency has provided 279,000 baby diapers to its network of 39 local nonprofits. Then nonprofits then distribute the diapers to people directly.

According to a recent study by UW-Milwaukee that looked at the COVID-19 effect on Wisconsin’s nonprofit sector, 5% of Wisconsin’s nonprofits had to shutter their doors.

Global poverty is an enormous challenge – both in developing countries, and even in an economic powerhouse like the United States, where millions try to…

Last week, Milwaukee’s non-partisan Public Policy Forum released its newest report. Under the microscope this time was the health of the area’s non-profit…