Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation distributes $1 million to UW, area nonprofits
Checks totaling more than $1 million have been sent to 74 area nonprofits and to 17 project managers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
Included in the grants, announced Wednesday by foundation President John H. “Jack” Lussier, is $258,000 to the university, including $40,000 to the Waisman Center to help reduce its long waiting list of autistic children.
The 74 community nonprofits shared in $822,000 grants voted on recently by the Foundation’s 15-member board of directors. Included is a $50,000 gift to Domestic Abuse Intervention Services toward its new building project, $75,000 for the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission that goes to worthy school and youth projects throughout the county and $25,000 to the Foundation for Madison’s Public Schools to support special projects in individual classrooms.
Grants to the Waisman Center include:
Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center — $6,000 to assist a research program designed to determine the mechanisms by which chronic stress contributes to the development of inflammatory response in asthma.
The Waisman Center Clinical Services — $40,000 to help with the cost of increasing the capacity of the center’s clinical services staff to serve families who are on the waiting list for autism evaluations.