 | For more than two decades, Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has provided meals for hungry children, safe places to stay, supplemented youth education and much more through Heart of Canal Street. PHC donated $1,031,543 to 31 local children’s charities last Friday; the third straight year the program has surpassed the $1 million mark. In total, the Casino has donated nearly $16 million since 1994. Thirty charities received $31,051, while Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s Charity of Choice, Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, received the first $100,000 of funds raised. |
“The issue of gun violence affects everyone in southeastern Wisconsin,” said Director of Youth Services at Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board, Rob Cherry. “Our partnership with Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, along with their generous donation, allows us to take substantial steps in pursuing prevention of gun violence among our youth.”
Here’s a complete list of benefiting charities:
Here’s a complete list of benefiting charities:
- Arts @ Large
- ArtWorks for Milwaukee
- Aurora Health Care on behalf of Aurora @ Home
- Best Buddies Wisconsin
- Betty Brinn Children’s Museum—presented by OnMilwaukee.com
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dodge County & Watertown
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee—presented by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Casa Guadalupe Education Center
- City Year Milwaukee—presented by the Lamar Outdoor
- COPE Services—presented by Entercom Radio
- Family Center of Washington County
- Florentine Opera Company
- Homeless Assistance Leadership Organization (HALO)—presented by iHeart Media
- Hunger Task Force—presented by Milwaukee Radio Group
- Know Thyself
- Mequon Nature Preserve
- Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board —PHC Charity of Choice
- Milwaukee Public Library Foundation—presented by WITI FOX 6
- Nehemiah Project
- Renaissance Theaterworks
- River Revitalization Foundation
- Riveredge Nature Center
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin—presented by Clear Channel Outdoor
- RUACH Inc. Arts Organization
- Safe & Sound
- Sharon Lynne Wilson Center of the Arts—presented by WISN TV 12
- Sunset Playhouse
- The Threshold
- The Women’s Center—presented by Scripps
- Urban Ecology Center
- Wildlife In Need Center
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