Author: Correspondent

Strong relationships with growers, innovative techniques at breweries and favorable weather lead to significant reductions in water use for last year. MillerCoors announced it used 15 billion fewer gallons of water across its value chain in 2016. The reduction can be attributed to changes in farming techniques that include innovative tools and irrigation initiatives that use less water while still producing high-quality barley, along with increased brewery efficiencies. Wet weather also contributed to the 2016 reduction MillerCoors used 16.9 percent less water compared to 2015, equivalent to more than 500 million kegs of beer. “When it comes to water...

Mayor Tom Barrett, the Citi Foundation, and Living Cities announced the expansion of the City Accelerator program to Milwaukee. Five cities, including Milwaukee, will work together over the next year to refine approaches to procurement spending, pursuing at least one new strategy to increase the diversity of municipal vendors and contractors and direct more spending to local minority-owned businesses. This collaboration supports the goal of City Accelerator, to support innovation in local government that has a significant impact on the lives of residents, especially those with low incomes. The City will work will the African American Chamber of Commerce,...

The Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has attained national accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health, making it the first accredited school of public health in Wisconsin. Accreditation for the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) is a rigorous process in which peer institutions judge whether an applicant has met standards in more than 20 areas, including curriculum, research, community engagement, and faculty and student recruitment and retention. “We are delighted with this significant accomplishment which makes UWM’s Zilber School the only accredited school of public health in Wisconsin,”...

At its spring meeting, the board of directors of the Zilber Family Foundation awarded 27 grants totaling $2,196,100 to nonprofit organizations in Milwaukee. The Foundation provides grants that address the causes and consequences of poverty in Clarke Square, Layton Boulevard West, Lindsay Heights, and other city neighborhoods. In keeping with the Foundation’s mission, the 27 grants support local efforts to meet basic needs and enhance personal safety, increase access to social and economic opportunity, and improve the quality of community life. Recently awarded grants include: $115,000 over two years to Artists Working in Education (A.W.E.) to enroll 1,500 children...

This is The Rep’s first capital campaign since the mid-1990s and will fulfill its strategic plan by funding physical infrastructure repairs, community engagement, new play development, a new production of A Christmas Carol, and the endowment. At Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s annual meeting, Artistic Director Mark Clements and Managing Director Chad Bauman, alongside Campaign chairs Judy Hansen and Catherine Robinson, unveiled the “Created in Milwaukee” Capital Campaign to raise $10 million for several major initiatives over the next few years, which will solidify The Rep as a major player on the national theatrical scene and a cornerstone of Milwaukee’s cultural...

Hundreds of faith leaders, community advocates, and formerly іncаrcеrаtеd people gathered recently at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and then marched to the Milwaukee Sеcurе Dеtеntіon Fаcіlіty (ΜSDF) to launch a campaign led by Еx-Prіsоners Organizing (ЕXPО) to close the prіsоn. People іncаrcеrаtеd at ΜSDF are locked in their cеIIs for 22 hours a day without access to outdoor recreation, denied in-person visits, and suffer routine abuses including extreme heat and poor ventilation, causing severe medical problems and even dеаth. Many people subjected to these deplorable conditions have not been chаrgеd with new crіmеs but are at ΜSDF due...