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Community
Shares of Greater Milwaukee |
In 1981,
a handful of socially conscious nonprofit groups created a federation
called ACHOICE. Their mission was to give Milwaukeeans "a choice"
of whom they could support in their workplace-giving programs. The
eight groups represented civil rights, social justice and environmental
issues; none of them could find funding through the area's existing
workplace-giving agency.
 Over
the next 20 years, ACHOICE grew in size and scope, offering convenient,
flexible workplace-giving options like payroll-deduction. By 2002,
a new name was found to better convey its role in this federation
of independent organizations: Community Shares of Greater
Milwaukee.
How is
Community Shares unique?
- Community Shares has the greatest diversity of nonprofit organizations
in the Milwaukee area.
- Community Shares believes:
- The donor is best qualified to determine where his or her
money should go.
- Workplace giving is the most effective way for citizens
at large to change the course of their community.
- Community Shares agencies work for social justice through many
channels: legal assistance to those who can’t afford it,
consumer protection, workplace safety, peace education, neighborhood
revitalization, child advocacy, environmental awareness, and safeguarding
civil liberties. Others help ex-offenders rebuild shattered lives,
provide animal welfare, job training or youth programs.
- Community Shares is the area's only social justice federation
that has always encouraged donors to designate their dollars to
the charity of their choice – whether the recipient agencies
are part of Community Shares or some other federation.
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