Welcome to Community Currents, the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) Community Grantee information hub. This page is intended to provide connection and information for current WPP community grant recipients. Check here for the latest WPP events, funding updates and other news!
Join us to learn about a community-academic partnership between Marshfield Clinic and UW-Stevens Point to improve food security for children and families in rural northern Wisconsin.
Celebrating the Story of Penothés Project: Forest County Potawatomi Autism Support Project
Join us for this community-wide celebration featuring grant partners from Forest County Potawatomi’s WPP-funded Penothés Project, which aims to address equitable access to programs, resources, and services for Indigenous children with autism, as well as presentations by WPP and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Native American Center for Health Professions.
Other Upcoming Events
Submitted by WPP grantee: Achieve Brown County
May 6, 2026
Green Bay
UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies
The UW Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies is accepting applications for the Community Fellowship, an opportunity for a community practitioner to collaborate with our center.
** be sure to visit WPP's table! **
May 19-21, 2026
Wisconsin Dells
Submitted by WPP grantee: Moms Mental Health Initiative
May 30, 2026
Milwaukee
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
WPP's 2026 Community Impact Grant Program Level Two: Accelerate Requests for Partnerships is now open!
Eligible Wisconsin-based nonprofits, public 4K-12 schools and school districts, and tribal, state or local government entities are invited to apply for a Wisconsin Partnership Program 2026 Community Impact Grant Program Level Two: Accelerate grant.
Grants are up to $500,000 over three years. Level Two: Accelerate grants are designed for larger organizations with annual expenses of $1,000,000 or more and require an academic partner. Letters of Intent are due May 28, 2026.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WPP Communications Toolkit available for community grant recipients 📝
Thanks to our current community grant partners who attended our first WPP Learning Collaborative of the year. Attendees heard from Veronica Rueckert, chief communications officer for the SMPH Office of Social Health Sciences and Programs. Community grant recipients are invited to use this Communications Toolkit for information on crafting press releases and pitches, WPP grant acknowledgement guidelines and more.
Grantees in the Spotlight
Chris Frakes, Farm Well Wisconsin director and Dan Wegmueller, farm operator
Farm Well Wisconsin is building resources, resilience and community to address the unique mental health challenges and risks facing Wisconsin farmers. The initiative is funded by a Wisconsin Partnership Program five-year Community Impact Grant to Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program (SWCAP). Over the course of the grant the Farm Well team has opened up dialogue and offered resources to reduce the stigma around mental health and suicide as well as train doctors, family, and community members to recognize signs of distress in farmers.
Farm Well’s outreach programs have reached more than 1,200 participants in the five counties served by SWCAP including Green, Grant, Lafayette, Iowa and Richland; and the resulting network of support and resources has been vital to the health and well-being of the region’s farming community.
With support from local farmers like Dan, Farm Well is positively impacting the health of the region's farming community and creating lasting change in how we talk about and address mental health, suicide prevention and the health needs of our state's farmers.
Meet the WPP team: Natalie Kozitzky
Natalie Kozitzky
WPP is pleased to welcome Natalie Kozitzky as Interim Project Manager for the Wisconsin Partnership Program and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Office of Social Health Sciences and Programs (OSHSP). In this role, she will work closely with WPP grantees, staff and other partners to support WPP’s convening and engagement activities.
Natalie most recently worked as a project manager with the OSHSP Center for Health Disparities Research, where she supported educational and data operations teams by tracking team activities, documenting processes and improving workflow efficiency to strengthen overall project coordination. She will continue to support programs within the OSHSP.
Share your news! Do you have an event or update related to your WPP-funded project that you'd like to share here? Submit to Ashley Benitez at agbenitez@wisc.edu for consideration! Thank you!
