Kohl’s Hometown Giving Program Donates More Than $500,000 to Nonprofits Serving Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties
January 10 2023 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
To kick off the new year, Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS) is donating more
than $500,000 to more than 20 nonprofits serving families in
Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties through the Kohl’s Hometown Giving
Program. The Kohl’s Hometown Giving Program, now in its fifth year,
is an important part of the retailer’s local community support and
provides another funding opportunity for nonprofits looking to
expand and develop their programming to further enhance the health
and wellness of families.
“Kohl’s is such a big part of the greater Milwaukee area, so
it’s especially important that we give back here through our
philanthropic work in a significant way,” said Tara Geiter, Kohl’s
director of community relations. “We’re proud to provide funding
through Kohl’s Hometown Giving Program, among many other local
initiatives, to help support our communities through the
incredible, impactful work these nonprofits are doing year-round to
enhance and improve family health and wellness.”
Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000 and are made possible
through the Kohl’s Cares® merchandise program, which sells
children’s books and plush toys and donates 100 percent of the net
profit to health and wellness organizations nationwide.
This year’s Kohl’s Hometown Giving Program grant recipients
are:
- The Ability Center
- Commonbond Communities
- Friends of the Domes
- Friends of Retzer Nature Center
- Friends of Wehr Nature Center
- Future Urban Leaders
- Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County
- La Casa de Esperanza
- Latino Arts, Inc.
- Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan,
Inc.
- Milwaukee Repertory Theater
- Neu-Life Community Development
- Revitalize Milwaukee
- The Salvation Army of Waukesha County
- Silver Spring Neighborhood Center
- Susan G. Komen - Wisconsin
- Tricia's Troops
- TRUE Skool
- United Methodist Children’s Services of Wisconsin, Inc.
- Walker’s Point Youth & Family Center
- Wellpoint Care Network
- Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association
- The Women's Center
Grants will be used by the nonprofit organizations in a variety
of ways, including, but not limited to:
- Contributing to The Ability Center’s adaptive Open Gym program
with a $25,000 donation to help purchase a new truck with adaptive
hand controls, trailer, 25 adaptive wheelchairs and two specialized
adaptive wheelchairs to meet the increased number of requests from
schools, nonprofits, and community-based organizations. “The
Ability Center's Open Gym program provides an atmosphere where all
can feel welcome, wanted and comfortable. Disability or not, Open
Gym invites everybody to play together in an inclusive,
non-competitive, friendly environment where friends, family and
peers can play together in a ‘Different Pair of Shoes.’ Thanks to
Kohl’s, we’ll be able to fulfill our big plans of bringing Open Gym
and adaptive recreation to more communities and more partners."
-Damian Buchman, Founder and Executive Director of The Ability
Center
- Helping to fund the Discovery Trail at Retzer Nature Center
through a $25,000 grant, which will provide an opportunity for
interactive outdoor education stations designed and constructed for
access by people of all physical and cognitive abilities and ages.
“The Friends of Retzer Nature Center are most thankful to Kohl’s
for their generous support over the years, and specifically for
this grant, which will do so much to advance the Nature Center’s
current educational projects and efforts. The Friends of Retzer try
to help the Nature Center in all its activities and efforts. We
share the Nature Center’s dedication to giving kids and families
fun, educational, discovery-based experiences, to help them come to
a value and love for the land and nature, and to become good
stewards for our planet.” -Larry Kascht, President of the Friends
of Retzer Nature Center
- Supporting Future Urban Leaders’ implementation of additional
STEM, arts and humanities, health and wellness, leadership, and
college and career readiness curriculum through a $23,700 donation
to expose scholars to multiple opportunities and increase their
access to real-world applicable learning. “We want our kids to be
the future leaders of their community, come back and help to make
good change in the community that they’re from. We started out
really small with 12 kids and now we’ve grown to over 150 kids all
the way from K-4 through 12th grade. We’ve also got kids that are
in college now on full rides, so it’s all coming together. This is
kind of one of those moments where we’re going to look back and say
this is where we took that next step to the next phase because of
the grant we got from Kohl’s, so thank you from the bottom of my
heart.” -Ross Romenesko, Future Urban Leaders
Co-Founder/Development Director
- Assisting Neu-Life Community Development by providing a $25,000
grant to cover costs associated with their Artists-In-Residence
program, which exposes youth to art by bringing in experienced
artists from the community to share their creative processes and
techniques, and collaboratively plan and create an exhibit. “This
grant is going to help fund our Artists-In-Residence program and
youth art show, which happens once a year. It will support the
different artists that we bring in to work on projects with the
kids, that the kids will actually have a say in working with the
artists on. The theme for our next show is going to be happiness,
so we’re going to find artists to do projects around happiness and
the kids will get to have full creative freedom with where they
take that theme. We’re so proud to be funded by Kohl’s and be a
partner. We’re just so excited.” -Jody Rhodes, Neu-Life Community
Development Executive Director
- Providing a $25,000 grant to Walker’s Point Youth & Family
Center to buy supplies, such as food, hygiene items, clothes,
school and therapy supplies, as well as any other resources a young
person would need during their three-week stay. “Coming out of the
pandemic, the need has grown exponentially. We’re seeing more
high-acuity youth that have mental health needs that just have not
been addressed. We’re seeing a housing crisis because there just
isn’t enough affordable housing for anyone. And we’re seeing youth
aging out of the foster care system without anywhere to go. For our
housing program, we have about 40 slots and, at any given time,
there’s about 200 young people on our waiting list. Our shelter can
serve up to eight youth at a time and we know that, at any given
time, there's probably around 250 homeless youth in Milwaukee. So
having someone like Kohl’s come in and give us this big infusion
right at the holidays, it’s going to mean the world to our young
people.” -Audra O’Connell, Walker’s Point Youth & Family Center
Executive Director
Since the inception of Kohl’s Hometown Giving Program, the
company has donated more than $2.5 million to nonprofit
organizations in the Milwaukee area. Previous funding has supported
a range of initiatives, including Street Angels’ mobile outreach
program, Digital Bridge’s digital literacy workshops, Keep Greater
Milwaukee Beautiful’s litter clean-ups, ABCD: After Breast Cancer
Diagnosis’ breast cancer education and resources for Black, Latinx
and Native American women, All-in Milwaukee’s advising for high
school seniors through their college graduation, and Wild Space
Dance Company’s dance productions in under-served communities.
Throughout Kohl’s history, and across a variety of programs,
Kohl's and Kohl’s Cares have given more than $144 million locally.
To learn more about how Kohl’s gives back to communities
nationwide, visit Corporate.Kohls.com.
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