A $300,000 contribution to the Urban League of Greater Madison to help build a new headquarters and “center of economic development” in south Madison leads a list of 120 grants totaling about $2 million announced today by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
The grants, which are made possible by the will of the late William T. Evjue, the founder and longtime editor and publisher of The Capital Times, include $708,805 to the University of Wisconsin for 32 special projects during the coming year and $1,222,500 to 88 civic, cultural and nonprofit organizations, mostly in Madison and Dane County.