Waukesha - The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has awarded grants for Waukesha County non-profit agencies totaling $900,000, including $20,000 to help finance a temporary daytime drop-in shelter in Waukesha for the homeless.
Hope Center, formerly Cooperating Congregations of Waukesha County, opened the daytime shelter to offer a destination for homeless men who are served at a night-time shelter at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, run by Hebron House of Hospitality.
Most of the Foundation's grants - $632,320 - came from funds earmarked for specific purposes by donors.
Other grants awarded competitively included $25,000 to redesign and expand the Family Service of Waukesha County's Center for Prevention of Family Violence, a treatment program for batterers. Another $20,000 went to Prevention and Protection of Abused Children and its program called Parenting Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders, which provides advocacy, support and training for parents of children with autism and similar disorders.
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