Project Report
| May 4, 2026
Continuing Our Path For HERS
By Ajer Qureshi | Program Manager
Our HERS Group remains a major part of Community Initiatives of Wisconsin! This support group for single mothers and women of underserved communities continues to provide a large impact towards the women who attend our programs, as we share and discuss the struggles of their lives and give words of support along with access to free resources such as diapers for their young ones.
And as CIW continues to expand, so too does HERS. CIW has recently acquired a new office space in New Berlin, WI with the aim of bringing our programs to the people and communities of New Berlin. HERS will play a major role in our New Berlin office as we plan and schedule new meetings with clients from New Berlin and provide resources for them.
We look forward to seeing where the growth gets bigger and larger.
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Jan 6, 2026
New Location, Same Goals!
By Ajer Qureshi | Program Manager
PCI has been through a major change these past couple of weeks. We have rebranded our organization from Pointters to Community Initiatives of Wisconsin. We feel that this name better emphasizes what we do as a non-profit, providing community support across the state of Wisconsin, not just restricted to the Fox Valley area. In addition, PCI has changed it's location from the Goodwill office in Menasha to the LEAVEN's building that is also located in Menasha. As a major non-profit in the area, we created a joint partnership to serve more members of our community, from African mothers to fathers looking for work to support their families, and many more individuals.
Ultimately, the goals of CIW are the same as they were with Pointters, but with a drive to improve and make stronger our commitments and reach. We are in the process of negotiating for a Berlin office to serve members in the Berlin community as well.
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Sep 9, 2025
Graduation of SFP and the Road Ahead
By Ajer Qureshi | Program Manager
This past Saturday (September 6th, 2025), Pointters was very pleased to announce the graduation of several families of our Strengthening Families Program, a multi-week long initiative that brought families of minority communities together to discuss and learn ways of strengthening family bonds and improving mental health across family members. 6 families graduated from our program this year, and we have plans to bring the program to more members of the community in the following years.
We've noticed that many families in our community, particularly families of black single mothers, have often faced incredible hardships, as the stresses of their attempts to make a living, raise kids, and ensure healthy mental health among their families, compile up to almost moral-breaking levels. With the SFP Program, our goal was to provide these single black mothers with the opportunity to learn and grow to form stronger bonds with their family, which in turn would reduce mental health stress and ensure that the family stays together, connected, and supportive of each other.
Each one of our weekly meetings was greeted with enthusiasm from our families we shared the program with, and there was always an eagerness to see what came next. Now that the program is done for the year, Pointters is on the path to building the curriculum and processes for next year, bringing more families together to learn bond strengthening exercises and ways to improve familial love and bonds.
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