Our mission is to utilize human connection and innovative ideas to drive positive change. We partner with organizations grounded in an unwavering commitment to culture, inclusive audiences, and vibrant experiences to enrich our community. Our foundation grounds itself on 5 pillars:
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- Local: We fund organizations run and enjoyed by the people who call Wisconsin home
- Community: Experiences contribute to an engaged, enriched, and inclusive audience
- Innovation: Ideas that challenge convention and transform practices
- Partnership: Trusted human connection shapes and catalyzes growth
- Female Leaders: Empowering female leaders and entrepreneurs
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Learn more about the impact the Lacey Sadoff Foundation has made through some of the organizations we support below.
Milwaukee Film is dedicated to entertaining, educating, and engaging the community through cinematic experiences. In addition to the annual Milwaukee Film Festival, MKE Film operates and programs the historic Oriental Theatre and Downer Theatre year-round. Film and the filmgoing experience are powerful vehicles for social change and personal introspection. MKE Film seeks to make Milwaukee, its communities, and the world better places by sharing cinematic experiences, instigating meaningful dialogues, and cultivating the local filmmaking economy.
As a teaching museum, the Haggerty seeks to enhance the undergraduate educational experience by engaging students in various disciplines to think about the world and their subject matter through the lenses of the visual arts. The Haggerty features approximately eight to nine exhibitions each year. Representing the diversity of work in its permanent collection, the museum has offered exhibitions celebrating the contributions of the Italian Renaissance “Petite Masters"; American self-taught artists; works addressing social change issues; modern American printmaking and photography; and contemporary art from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Wisconsin.
Through music and stories created for a culturally open-minded community, Radio Milwaukee is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive and engaged Milwaukee. We champion Milwaukee — our music, arts and culture, neighborhoods and community organizations. We celebrate diversity and encourage community engagement. We aspire to be a force that breaks down barriers and brings people together.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre believes that theater's unique value lives in connecting us more deeply to our common humanity in the service of inspiring new connections. Our goal is to create a desegregated, intersectional space built around the shared experience of live theater in which every one who feels a connection to Milwaukee know they are not only welcome but essential to the ongoing conversation about how our community can be its best self for all who call it home.
MCT produces intimate, high-quality, professional theatrical works of literary merit that engage and challenge the audience, while employing and nurturing principally local theatre artists.
MCT produces intimate, high-quality, professional theatrical works of literary merit that engage and challenge the audience, while employing and nurturing principally local theatre artists.
