Gifts and grants totalling $1,110,270 to area educational, cultural and civic organizations for 2011 have been announced by John H. ?Jack? Lussier, president of The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
Included in the grants is $351,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, $200,000 of which is the fourth installment of a $1 million, five-year pledge for a William T. Evjue professorship in the School of Journalism, plus $151,000 to support 20 other programs for students and faculty at the university.