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At Outpost, we envision an ideal world where our community has access to organically and locally produced goods, is educated about choices that impact the environment, and supports a locally-based economy.

Outpost Community Partners is one way we strive to achieve this vision.

Every year four locally-based non-profit organizations are given the opportunity to partner with Outpost in order to build greater community awareness of the group and also raise much needed funds. Each organization will receive a $3000 donation from Outpost, one-fourth of the earned interest from Outpost’s Co-op Community Fund and opportunities to partner with Outpost on additional fundraising events.

Spring 2012: Milwaukee Riverkeeper

In an Ideal World..."All people within the Milwaukee River Basin will enjoy clean drinking water and fishable swimmable rivers."

Paul Schwarzkopf
 

Outreach Coordinator at Milwaukee Riverkeeper

To attend, please RSVP at http://mkeriverkeeper.eventbrite.com or

Don’t delay - Space is limited for this event!

The Community Partners for 2012

Winter: Center for Resilient Cities www.resilientcities.org

From its early focus as a land trust on open space investment and preservation, the Center for Resilient Cities has grown both in size and scope. Currently comprised of landscape architects, planners, urban food system activists and social and environmental justice advocates, the organization now works with urban Milwaukee communities to identify and build the physical and intellectual infrastructures they need to better nourish themselves and manage changing economic, social and environmental stressors in ways that are just.

photo: Jeff Rainwater

Spring: Milwaukee Riverkeeper www.milwaukeeriverkeeper.org

While their name, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, suggests they only protect Milwaukee’s rivers, they actually work to protect all waters within the Milwaukee River Basin, stretching from Kewaskum down to the Southside of Milwaukee and all the way to Brookfield. This area is home to more than one million people and this diverse community deserves access to public non-polluted water sources. Milwaukee Riverkeeper believes our river areas should be a clean safe oasis where urban residents can escape the city and enjoy the beauties of a natural world located in their own backyard.

photo: Milwaukee Riverkeeper

Summer: Milwaukee Urban Gardens www.milwaukeeurbangardens.org

Milwaukee Urban Gardens is a part of the good food revolution and urban agriculture movement going on in Milwaukee and across the country. It’s their mission to secure community access to land and partner with neighborhood residents to establish, grow and preserve successful community gardens. Milwaukee Urban Gardens remains the only citywide organization in Milwaukee focused on the community’s land tenure needs for gardens, along with providing knowledge and resources needed for garden success.

photo: Jan Christensen

Fall: Milwaukee Empty Bowls www.milwaukeeemptybowls.org

Milwaukee Empty Bowls is an annual event that combines the visual arts and culinary arts to fill one of humanities basic needs: food. Each year over 2,000 handmade bowls are donated to this event and over 50 area restaurants donate handmade soup to support the community’s passion to feed one another with fresh and healthy choices. The twenty organizations that have received funds from their efforts over the past twelve years help fulfill the growing needs of a diverse community.

photo: Suzanne Garr