[CPEO-BIF] Milwaukee (WI) philanthropy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Zilber unveils $50 million donation to revitalize Milwaukee

Milwaukee Small Business Times (WI)
May 12, 2008

Milwaukee real estate developer and philanthropist Joseph Zilber 
formally announced today that he will donate $50 million to "revitalize 
Milwaukee's neighborhoods and reconnect all of her citizens to social 
and economic opportunity."

As the BizTimes Daily first reported on Friday, Zilber, the 90-year-old 
founder and chairman of Zilber Ltd. and Towne Realty Inc., announced his 
commitment to "rebuild" his hometown.

"We all recognize that Milwaukee is at an important crossroads. We have 
suffered the loss of too many good jobs over the past four decades. Our 
rates of crime, of poverty, of drug addiction, of neighborhoods in bad 
shape, of individuals and families of despair, of hunger and 
homelessness are much too high. Such conditions make some people 
skeptical about the prospects for Milwaukee," Zilber said in his 
announcement at Milwaukee City Hall this morning.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/5/12/zilber-unveils-50-million-donation-to-revitalize-milwaukee

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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