• NWSCDC and Villard Square Featured in Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Newsletter

    NWSCDC and Villard Square Featured in Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Newsletter

    Check out the latest issue of BranchingOut, the newsletter of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation that highlights the Northwest Side CDC and Villard Square.

  • Northwest Side of Milwaukee Featured in National Blog

    Northwest Side of Milwaukee Featured in National Blog

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist David Rohde interviews Northwest Side CDC Executive Director Howard Snyder and First District Alderman Ashanti Hamilton in a piece for Reuters about the dwindling middle class in the Milwaukee area.  

  • Sen. Kohl Announces Grant Award for NWSCDC

    Sen. Kohl Announces Grant Award for NWSCDC

    TWO MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS SHARE $1.28 MILLION IN FEDERAL GRANTS, KOHL ANNOUNCES Funding will be used to strengthen economic and workforce opportunities WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Herb Kohl today announced that Milwaukee’s Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC) has been awarded $740,402 and the Martin Luther King Economic…

  • NWSCDC Featured on Cover of Fed Reserve Bank Magazine

    NWSCDC Featured on Cover of Fed Reserve Bank Magazine

    “The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: transforming the approach to creating positive economic impact in distressed communities” is the cover story of the September issue of Profitwise News and Views published by the Community Development and Policy Studies Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.  See the magazine and article here.

  • NWSCDC and Villard Square Featured on Radio Milwaukee

    NWSCDC and Villard Square Featured on Radio Milwaukee

    The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation and Villard Square project were recently featured on 88.9 Radio Milwaukee.  Click here to listen to the podcast.

  • NWSCDC Receives $100,000 Grant From the U.S. Treasury

    NWSCDC Receives $100,000 Grant From the U.S. Treasury

    Northwest Side Community Development Corporation Receives $100,000 Grant Award From the U.S. Treasury Chicago, IL – Monday, July 18, 2011 — The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC) has a won a $100,000 Technical Assistance award from the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institution Fund. (CDFI Fund) NWSCDC received the…

  • Chicago Fedederal Reserve Building (Source: chicagofed.org)

    NWSCDC Executive Director Speaks at Chicago Federal Reserve Bank

    Howard Snyder, Executive Director of the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation took part in a national panel of speakers June 20, at the Neighborhoods and Labor Markets seminar, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Minneapolis and San Francisco as well as the Urban Institute, the…

  • Villard Groundbreaking (Photo source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

    Tax Credits Will Support Villard Library and Tower Automotive Projects

    The City of Milwaukee will dedicate roughly $3 million from its new markets tax credits program to help redevelop the Tower Automotive site and establish a new public library in the Villard Avenue library redevelopment. For more information click here.

  • NWSCDC Making Headlines

    NWSCDC Making Headlines

    The economic and workforce development efforts of the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation received attention twice in the last week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the state’s largest newspaper. The articles are linked below: Departure of Eaton does not quash optimism Consortium to launch job training initiative Stay tuned for…