Author: Correspondent

Governor Tony Evers announced two new competitive grant programs on August 24 to help communities across Wisconsin rebound and recover from the coronavirus pandemic by providing $250 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to help communities build long-term, sustainable economic success. The announcement included a $200 million Neighborhood Investment Fund grant program, as well as a $50 million Healthcare Infrastructure Capital Investment grant program for transformational capital projects that will help neighborhoods recover from the pandemic and that address the equity gap in state—like housing projects, transit and childcare solutions, and increasing access to healthcare in underserved...

Medically tailored meals will be delivered to thousands more food-insecure and chronically and critically ill people nationwide through the Food is Medicine Accelerator, a project providing technical assistance and training to nonprofit food agencies so that they can launch the life-saving health intervention in currently unserved or underserved communities. Four nonprofit agencies – Feeding Tampa Bay in Florida, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Meals on Wheels People of Portland and the New Hampshire Food Bank – recently completed a yearlong, intensive training program through the Accelerator. The project has expanded the number of medically tailored meals (MTM) providers to...