The Campaign for a Sustainable Milwaukee

A Good Idea

This practice has been Archived and is no longer maintained.

Description

The Campaign for a Sustainable Milwaukee is a broad-based community effort to define and implement an alternative economic development plan for the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Unions, community organizations and political leaders are working together to create and retain family-supporting jobs, build healthy
communities and restore natural environments.

Goal / Mission

Sustainable Milwaukee's four task forces address major priorities: jobs and training, credit, transportation and the environment, and education.

Results / Accomplishments

Sustainable Milwaukee focused on wages and transit in 1997. One success, called the "dignity campaign," resulted in an increased number of care providers per nursing home care patient.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Sustainable Milwaukee
Topics
Economy / Employment
Community / Transportation
Organization(s)
Sustainable Milwaukee
Source
Sustainable Communities Network
Date of publication
1997
Date of implementation
1993
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
Milwaukee, WI

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.