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Jay Patel, LIFT Wisconsin’s Advisory Board Member, Named to Wisconsin’s 34 Most Influential Asian American Leaders by Madison365!
Henry Sanders, Jr CEO, 365 Media Foundation Publisher, Madison365 and FoxValley365 Jay Patel is an investment portfolio manager at American Family Insurance. He helped found the company’s social impact venture capital unit. As a Founding Curator in the World Economic...
LIFT Wisconsin is Hiring: Full Time Legal Services Coordinator for Dane and Racine Counties
The Economic Justice Institute, Inc., a Wisconsin-based non-profit that runs LIFT Wisconsin, is dedicated to ensuring equitable access to justice for Wisconsinites. LIFT offers an online tool, legaltuneup.org, to streamline solutions to common legal barriers to...
State Bar of Wisconsin 2021 Legal Innovation Awards Honors LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up!
The legal innovator award recognizes LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up, an online app developed on behalf of the thousands of Wisconsin residents who have criminal or eviction records that prevent them from accessing employment or housing opportunities. The Legal Tune...
LIFT Dane Launches Legal Tune Up to Provide Legal Assistance to Clear Civil Legal Barriers
Madison 365 By Angelica Euseary May 28, 2021 LIFT Dane has come out with a new legal intervention for transforming Dane County. The Legal Tune Up Tool is a free, automated tool to help people clean their criminal records and provide them access to new opportunities....
LIFT Wisconsin™ Launches Criminal Record Clearing Tool
Press Release LIFT Wisconsin™ Launches Criminal Record Clearing Tool New online tool helps Wisconsin residents proactively find and resolve legal issues through the use of public data. Madison, Wisconsin – May 25, 2021 "Every person leaving incarceration should have...
Expanding Access to Justice with Increased Civil Legal Aid in Wisconsin
The Access to Justice Community is well aware of the barriers and gaps in civil legal aid across the country. Justice barriers are highlighted again and again – most recently in the Measuring Justice For All report issued by the Academy of Arts and Sciences earlier...
Happy New Year From the LIFT Dane team!
LIFT is working hard to make economic equality a reality for more Dane County residents. We are proud to announce that we made the Milwaukee Business Journal’s list of 20 Wisconsin Start-Ups to Watch in 2020! To that end, we have engaged Theory & Principle, a...
LIFT Dane News – March 2020
Although many of you may be reading this post from the comfort and safety of your home, LIFT Dane continues its work developing technology and providing services in our community. Our Marketing Director, Fred Lauing, from Employment and Training, Inc. (EATA), has...
Due to the COVID-19 Crisis, More Support Is Needed in Our Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a reinterpretation of what poverty means as more and more Dane County residents lose their jobs. Many Dane County families cannot pay rent, buy food, or afford medical care. In response to this global pandemic, state and federal...
LIFT Dane – Standing and Taking Action in Solidarity
The 14th Amendment of our country’s constitution guarantees equal protection under the law along with the guarantees of life, liberty, and equal justice. The killings of black citizens are a tragic reminder of our failure as a country to ensure these rights to all....