When the physical needs of children and their families are met, they are more likely to thrive in their schools, their jobs, and their communities. Our Basic Needs portfolio helps children and families access stable housing, healthy food, and other essential subsidies, so that they can learn and grow.
Providing opportunities for homeless children and their families to achieve self-determined goals and affordable, stable housing.
Below you will find a list of current partners supported by our Basic Needs program. You can also sort our grantees by program and location.
Dedicated to fighting poverty and ending hunger.
Visit websiteSupporting its culturally diverse, low-income families in realizing their aspirations by providing affordable housing, fostering cultural pride, and building community through the arts, education, and recreation.
Visit websiteProviding services dedicated to improving and strengthing the lives of youth, their families and the community.
Visit websiteProviding high-quality, culturally competent social services to people who are most vulnerable.
Visit websiteSupporting and preserving the vitality of neighborhoods in the Madison Metropolitan area.
Visit websiteTransforming our communities by fostering conditions where everyone can achieve social and economic security.
Visit websiteBringing the community together with 70 nonprofits, raising funds for, and awareness of, the local social and environmental justice movement.
Visit websiteJoining together in friendship to grow spiritually by providing person-to-person services to our neighbors in need.
Visit websiteAsisting very low-income rural Wisconsin residents at risk of homelessness with information, Security deposit when required to move, delinquent rent, mortgage when at risk of foreclosure and property taxes when at risk of losing your home.
Visit websiteBuilding strength, stability, and self-reliance through home ownership.
Visit websiteInspiring action and promoting access to opportunity for every kid, every family, and every community in Wisconsin.
Visit websiteLiberating land for the benefit of historically marginalized populations at the lowest incomes possible, preserving urban space for community use, and creating deeply and permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for those typically exploited by the housing market.
Visit websiteFighting to aid children in poverty and end childhood hunger.
Visit websiteJoining together to create a more humane and sustainable world, one tiny idea at a time.
Visit websiteEmpowering, educating, and guiding communities of color towards homeownership, wealth, and financial freedom with a goal to expose and eradicate racist structural barriers.
Visit websiteStriving to reduce homelessness in Dane County by collaborating with the community to provide shelter, affordable housing, and supportive services that eliminate barriers and empower the individuals and families we serve.
Visit websiteTransforming communities, economies and lives through the power of good food.
Visit websiteProviding food, resources, and faith to build a stronger, fully nourished community.
Visit websiteEnding hunger in southwestern Wisconsin.
Visit websiteTransforming through shelter, support, and hope.
Visit websiteProviding food, clothing, child outreach, and other vital services to anyone in need.
Visit websitepromoting positive relations between rental housing consumers (tenants) and providers (landlords) throughout Wisconsinas as a primary means of increasing housing stability.
Visit websiteProviding opportunities for homeless children and their families to achieve self-determined goals and affordable, stable housing.
Visit websiteSupporting families with young children to find and keep stable housing.
Visit websitePreaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and meeting human needs in His name without discrimination.
Visit websiteEradicating diaper need to improve the physical, mental and emotional health of the families we serve.
Visit websiteStrengthening families and promote “Comm-Unity” by providing information about the resources available to support positive lifestyles and to promote the health and well-being of families and children of all ages and providing activities that strengthen the parent child relationship and the community they live in.
Visit websiteEnsuring that African Americans and other community members are educated, employed and empowered to live well, advance professionally and contribute to the common good in the 21st Century.
Visit websiteFostering Black families’ self-sufficiency, community leadership, advocacy, and family success through psychoeducation, community engagement, trauma response, and cultural heritage.
Visit websiteBringing our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.
Visit websiteCreating economic opportunity and supporting community-based solutions to poverty.
Visit websiteEliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
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