WE'RE ON A MISSION »
To sustain transformation by advancing an economically diverse and abundant community through civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and creating venues for prosperity.
WE’VE SET A VISION »
A transformed Community with cooperative economics, healthy social networks, and thriving people, places, and spaces.
Roots & Progress
Since our purposeful beginnings in 2000, we have restored dilapidated homes, built a vibrant community center, transformed vacant lots into gardens and orchards, developed new venues for economic development, and pathways to meaningful employment, created innovative wellness programs, and engaged residents of all ages in neighborhood revitalization activities.
Our Neighborhood
Walnut Way works in the heart of the 110-block Lindsay Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee’s near-Northside from Walnut to Locust Street and I-43 to 20th Street. Home to over 2,700 families, Lindsay Heights is a vibrant African American community building on its assets to face complex challenges. We are deeply committed to sustaining economically diverse and abundant communities through civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and creating venues for prosperity.
Quality of Life Plan
From the beginning, we have understood that the way we work together matters. Together with residents, young people, business owners, non-profits, and a range of other stakeholders we created a vision of what Lindsay Heights can be. Over 200 residents and partners developed the Lindsay Heights Quality of Life plan that sets our vision and guides our work in health and wellness, economic prosperity, and environmental stewardship.
Our Story
Walnut Way Conservation Corp. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit neighborhood organization founded in 2000 by Lindsay Heights residents to reclaim and redevelop the economic health and vitality of their community.
In the years since, Walnut Way and its partners have rolled out a series of successful and innovative programs and initiatives addressing the neighborhood’s most pressing economic, environmental, and health issues.
Board of Directors
President
LaVonda Graham
Vice President
Annie Robinson
Secretary
Monique Graham
Treasurer
X’Zayvion McCoy
Member
Heidi Moore
Member
Rev. Gregory Lewis