Kids Forward works to build the best future possible for every kid and every family in Wisconsin—especially for children and families of color and those furthest from opportunity.
A significant part of that work is the Race to Equity Project. Race to Equity is a comprehensive approach to engaging leaders and community members in Dane County in a broader, solution-oriented dialogue aimed at reducing the profound and persistent racial disparities in health, education, child welfare, criminal justice, employment, and income that plague the nation, state, and county.
Learn more at the Race to Equity website.
If the Census Bureau proceeds with its plan to cut short efforts to count every person in the 2020 Census, the census won’t be a true portrait of America. And as a result, every community will have to live for the next decade under the harm of an incomplete count, with millions of people, especially those hit hardest by the pandemic,...
In a time when we don’t answer our phones if we don’t recognize the number and we don’t answer our doors if we aren’t expecting visitors, Census Takers are taking on a challenging but important job. Starting July 30, census takers will begin interviewing households in Eastern Wisconsin. Click here to see if your community is included. ...
Kids Forward staff is angry, devastated, and distraught by the killing of George Floyd, another victim of brutality, in a long line of callous and violent disregard for Black lives in this country, in our state, and in our home city of Madison, Wisconsin. The perpetrator of this brutality is white supremacy and the extraordinarily rigid...
Wisconsinites have experienced years of redistricting, maps analyzed in private meetings, and fingers pointed over gerrymandering. All of this leaves a bad taste over how some Wisconsinites are represented in our government. While the federal courts have delayed the trial date in Wisconsin’s partisan redistricting, one thing we can...
As our nation begins to transition in to the next phase of our pandemic response, which includes planning for reopening states and our larger economy, we must center the well-being and basic needs of those essential frontline workers that have continued to be overworked, underpaid, and left out of the healing process – our immigrant...
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