MANDI People's Choice Award Voting

Winners receive $1,000 and the Wells Fargo People's Choice Award at the Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovation on August 10th. Click on any of the nominees to learn more via profiles written by LISC.

MANDI Awards 2023

Thursday, August 10, 2023
More details
Vote

Acts Homeownership Acquisition Fund

Our communities are faced with the challenge of absentee investors purchasing massive quantities of single-family homes for long-term rentals. Acts Homes goes head-to-head with investors to buy these homes for purchase. Act Homes makes those houses available to families in homebuying coaching.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Scale Up Milwaukee

Scale Up Milwaukee hosts impactful events and accelerators designed to infuse growth into every corner and help spread inclusive economic prosperity. Working directly with ambitious business owners, CEOs, and the stakeholders that support them, companies will grow, accelerating the environment that makes growth a core, self-sustaining part of the region.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Coretta Herring

Coretta has dedicated her entire career to breaking the cycle of multi-generational poverty by motivating families to realize their full financial potential. She credits her continued success to the partnerships and collaborations she’s developed over the past 20 years. Coretta serves as a personal financial coach, mentor, and educator, empowering all people to make informed financial decisions.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Marjorie Rucker

Marjorie Rucker is an enthusiastic advocate for the ethnic and diverse business community in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. She has 18 years of experience working in the Milwaukee community. She serves on a multitude of boards and committees that focus on economic development or economic mobility. She earned her bachelors from Mount Mary University and her juris doctorate from Vermont Law School. She is known best for “making the connection(s).”

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

The Ability Center

The Ability Center believes that everyBODY deserves a chance to be fit, healthy, happy and to play! Our tagline says it all – Play Together. At the core of our mission, we help people with disABILTIES play together with those they love most. Friends. Family. Colleagues. Classmates. We welcome ALL abilities to play together in a “different pair of shoes.” EveryBODY plays with The Ability Center!

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Acts Housing

Acts Housing makes it possible for families with barriers (credit, savings, financial, language) to become homeowners. We provide home buyer and financial counseling, real estate brokerage, and rehab expertise and Acts Homes. Acts Housing has helped over 3,000 families buy their own home and create generational wealth."

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Burnham Playfield Renovation

The Burnham Playfield Renovation transformed a dated play space into a vibrant recreation destination featuring a new play area, user activated splash pad, turf soccer field, painted play activities, and basketball courts. Additionally, the updated fieldhouse now features gender neutral and accessible restrooms, along with new windows and LED lightning.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Green Tech Station

Green Tech Station is a catalytic brownfield redevelopment project in Milwaukee’s 30th Street Industrial Corridor. NWSCDC and partners transformed this 3-acre site into an environmental education destination, featuring all types of “green infrastructure” stormwater management technologies. Art installations, pathways, solar panels, and 465 new trees activate the site for visitors.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

The Journal Square Block

The Journal Square Block project transformed the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel headquarters into an educational ecosystem that contributes to Milwaukee's goal to build population density and commercial activity. The property now features apartments to support a young workforce, below-market student housing for MATC students, and a dual-completion high school.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Westlawn Renaissance IV and VI

Westlawn Renaissance IV and VI dramatically transformed five city blocks of distressed, barracks-style public housing into 198 modern, affordable, and energy-efficient housing units – 138 townhomes and 60 mid-rise apartments. Thirty units are paired with supportive services to provide former foster youth with a strong, stable foundation for their adult lives.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Riverworks Business Development HUB

Riverworks Business Development HUB provides one-on-one coaching and comprehensive support at every stage of the entrepreneurship journey while connecting businesses to relevant resources throughout the Milwaukee area. We strive to educate and empower entrepreneurs to foster lasting success and generational wealth within the community.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Scale Up Milwaukee’s SPARC Program

SPARC is a growth-centric virtual training program focused on helping Black, Hispanic, and woman-owned businesses under $1M grow their ventures. SPARC curriculums focus on sales, marketing, finances, operations, and organizational development. Faculty features local and national experts, business owners, and past program alumni.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

MKE FreshAir Collective

MKE FreshAir Collective is a black and brown owned, community-led, air monitoring organization. They deliver real-time air quality information to empower and protect residents, schools, and community. Using advanced equipment, they measure airborne pollutants at the neighborhood level and collaborate with local advocates to influence health policies. Let's build a healthier Milwaukee, together.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Vote

Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers

Sixteenth Street’s vision is to improve the health and well-being of Milwaukee and its surrounding communities by providing quality patient-centered family-based health care, health education, and social services that are free from linguistic, cultural, and economic barriers.

▶ Watch video produced by LISC
Please select your first choice