PROJECT RETURN
  • About Us
    • Our History, Mission, and Support
    • Meet Our Staff
    • Meet Our Board
  • Services
    • Circles of Support
    • Housing
    • Employment
    • AODA
    • Advocacy
    • Outreach
  • Community Impact
    • Our Stories >
      • Clem's Story
      • Dante's Story
      • Emmanuel's Story
      • Erick's Story​
      • Pam's Memorial for Lee Varner
      • Teri's Story
    • Media Mentions
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  • Upcoming Events
    • Event Calendar
    • Golf Outing
    • Celebrate >
      • Celebrate the RETURN 2023
      • Celebrate Highlights >
        • Dante's Story
        • 40th Anniversary Virtual Gala
        • Pam's Memorial for Lee Varner
        • Clem's Story
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  • About Us
    • Our History, Mission, and Support
    • Meet Our Staff
    • Meet Our Board
  • Services
    • Circles of Support
    • Housing
    • Employment
    • AODA
    • Advocacy
    • Outreach
  • Community Impact
    • Our Stories >
      • Clem's Story
      • Dante's Story
      • Emmanuel's Story
      • Erick's Story​
      • Pam's Memorial for Lee Varner
      • Teri's Story
    • Media Mentions
    • Newsletters
  • Upcoming Events
    • Event Calendar
    • Golf Outing
    • Celebrate >
      • Celebrate the RETURN 2023
      • Celebrate Highlights >
        • Dante's Story
        • 40th Anniversary Virtual Gala
        • Pam's Memorial for Lee Varner
        • Clem's Story
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
    • Internship
    • Contact Us
    • Donate
  • Donate
    • Donate Items
    • Donate Funds
Our History, Mission, and Support

Our History

In 1980, Cross Lutheran Church formed Project RETURN to address the challenge of high recidivism in Milwaukee.

​For 40 years, our organization has walked alongside ex-incarcerated people by providing assistance with ​employment, housing, and counseling. 
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Located inside of the Historic Welford Sanders Building, Project
​RETURN is dedicated to the Milwaukee community.
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The Welford Sanders Building as of 2020.

Our Mission

Project RETURN (Returning Ex-incarcerated people To Urban Realities and Neighborhoods) exists to help individuals who have experienced incarceration make a positive, permanent return to community, family and friends.

                  Our Foundation Support

Project RETURN is honored to be supported financially by the following foundations and trusts:

  • Siebert Lutheran Foundation
  • Reva & David Logan Foundation
  • ​Bader Philanthropies
  • Greater Milwaukee Foundation
  • Forest County Potawatomi Foundation
  • The Catholic Community Foundation
  • Patrick & Anna M. Cudahy Fund
  • American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation
  • We Energies Foundation

Thank you for your continued support of our mission and clients!

Project RETURN

2821 Vel R Phillips Ave, Suite 223 
Milwaukee, WI  53212

(414) 374-8029