Mission

The primary goal of MKE Fellows is the creation of a strong pipeline of young, African American male college graduates ready to return to Wisconsin to excel in their careers, build wealth, and become engaged leaders capable of moving our region’s African-American communities into a new era of greater health, vitality, and prosperity.

Case for Support

The trajectory-changing careers being generated through the MKE Fellows initiative encompass corporate identities like BlackRock, Google, the NFL, Wells Fargo, and many other business, civic organizations, and Fortune 500 companies nationwide. Literally hundreds of MKE Fellows with similar outcomes provide documented proof of our design’s authenticity and validity. Of critical importance is the immediate demand for young professionals of this caliber in career fields across the spectrum.

The MKE Fellows currently support 200 students annually matriculating at over 30 colleges and universities nationwide. The program is managed by a small, streamlined but highly-engaged staff. The strategic design was implemented to facilitate purposeful, personal interaction with each and every individual MKE Fellow in the program. Student involvement with mentors, business leaders, and career advisors provides a rigorous and productive structure which for over a decade now has delivered a transformative academic and professional development experience to young students of color that has been recognized nationally.