Wisconsin Idea Endowment awards granted

The Wisconsin Idea is expansive and inspires mutually beneficial collaborations that address diverse topics that range from collecting Ojibwe language stories in northern Wisconsin to evaluating safe drinking water in the La Crosse area. Seven projects and 10 seed grants from the Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment show the range of how University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty, staff and students can collaborate with community members to co-create and share knowledge and solutions that will benefit and enrich the lives of the people of Wisconsin, the nation and the world...

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Project grants

The seven projects receiving larger grants (up to $120,000) are:

• Anishinaabe-Mishtadimoons Inawendiwin: restoring and awakening the cultural and ecological context
  

• Peer-led trauma therapy for re-entry

• Trans care: An online intervention to reduce symptoms of gender dysphoria

• Building capacity to improve surgery and anesthesia care in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Milwaukee Property Tax Appeals Project

• MaSE: mutual learning for the defense and culturally acceptable use of Indigenous biodiversity

• Indigenous cultural capacity building: Wisconsin-Sámi collaborations