The “Powering Milwaukee Forward” initiative is set to enhance access to essential services and maternal healthcare in vulnerable communities across Milwaukee. Launched by GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC), the GE HealthCare Foundation, and the Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation (CAFF), this philanthropic effort will allocate $1 million in grants to ten local nonprofits.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, power forward for the Milwaukee Bucks and founder of CAFF, emphasized the importance of this initiative: “The City of Milwaukee has done so much for me and my family, but many in this community struggle to access basic needs. It’s time to support these underserved neighborhoods and provide what they need to thrive. I’m excited to partner with GE HealthCare and the GE HealthCare Foundation to take action and leave a lasting legacy for Milwaukee.”
Research from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Health and Human Services underscores the significant impact of social determinants of health—essentially the access to basic needs—on overall wellbeing. In Milwaukee, stark health disparities are closely linked to racial and socio-economic factors, with neighborhoods experiencing high rates of heart disease, infant mortality, and lung cancer often also facing low homeownership rates, household incomes, and high poverty rates. The initiative will focus on tailored interventions addressing access to fair housing, education, healthy food, safe environments, and maternal healthcare.
Peter J. Arduini, President and CEO of GE HealthCare, stated, “GE HealthCare has a unique responsibility to help address barriers to care that create health inequities in our communities. With thousands of GE HealthCare colleagues across Greater Milwaukee and Wisconsin, we are honored to collaborate with CAFF and nonprofits on Powering Milwaukee Forward to tackle the individual, societal, and environmental challenges in the region.”
Powering Milwaukee Forward aims for a lasting impact through measurable and scalable initiatives. The program will improve access to:
- Housing: Partnering with Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity and Acts Housing.
- Education: Collaborating with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee and YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee.
- Healthy Food: Working with Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin and Hunger Task Force.
- Safe Environments: Teaming up with Milwaukee Parks Foundation and Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers.
Additionally, in line with its priorities for maternal and infant healthcare, the GE HealthCare Foundation will provide grants to the African American Breastfeeding Network and Children’s Wisconsin Foundation to support this initiative.
About GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, dedicated to providing integrated solutions, services, and data analytics to make hospitals more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier and happier. Serving patients and providers for more than 125 years, GE HealthCare is advancing personalized, connected, and compassionate care, while simplifying the patient’s journey across the care pathway. Together our Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics businesses help improve patient care from diagnosis, to therapy, to monitoring. We are a $19.6 billion business with approximately 51,000 colleagues working to create a world where healthcare has no limits.
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About the GE HealthCare Foundation
The GE HealthCare Foundation is a charitable entity incorporated separately from GE HealthCare, focused on advancing equitable access to precision healthcare. The Foundation was launched in March 2024. In its inaugural year, the Foundation is focusing on the maternal health crisis around the world to address the disparities in care for mothers and babies in low- and middle-income countries and underserved communities. The Foundation is working with a small number of nonprofit organizations with proven track records of improving the lives of moms and babies in the US, Kenya, and Indonesia.
