The Partners in Equity Grants (PIE) – Addressing Systematic Racial Inequities Community-based organizations can now apply for the Partners in Equity Grant and the Partners in Equity Food Project Grant programs. The Partners in Equity Grant Program supports Dane County-based community groups that propose to use funding to address systemic racial inequities in the criminal justice […]
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Claudia Wiederholt is a Bilingual Spanish support staff for Extension Dane County. She was born in Mexico City and moved to Madison in February 2006. For the past 11 years Claudia served in the banking industry where she provided high quality public service. She lives in Madison and her volunteer community service is a very important part of […]
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Pollinators aid plant reproduction by transferring pollen from flower to flower. Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators to reproduce. Wisconsin’s pollinator dependent crops account for $44 million in annual production. Wisconsin pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, flower flies, beetles, wasps, and hummingbirds. Pollinators and bees in particular are currently threatened by an […]
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Windicators The UW-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development (CCED) has announced a new series on the Wisconsin economy. This new series, referred to as “WIndicators”, is available here: http://cced.ces.uwex.edu/windicators/ The first issue in this new series discusses income inequality in Wisconsin. Future topics will include exploration of the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Index, and patterns in housing stress […]
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