Inspiring Hope. Creating Real Change.

MUM was formed by First Congregational UCC Servants on the Errands Committee, with other congregations signing on.

Project Home, as part of MUM, creats Over 55 Employment Service and spins off from MUM.

Eastside Community Health Center is developed-eventually merged with Mifflin St. Community Health Center.

MUM is officially designated a non-profit agency.

Beginning of MUM and Clergy informational and dialogue Meetings. MUM initiates a year of seminars on Understanding Prejudice and begins producing a newsletter about social action.

MUM Community Education Task Force is formed to block closing of inner-city schools and the Downtown Organizations and Volunteers for the Elderly (DOVE) is formed to provide free meals for seniors twice per year.

MUM forms a Task Force to conduct pilot and 3 conferences 1981 on Power, Poverty, and Politics.

Beginning of Task Force for Weford Ridge Project, which lead to the development of Wexford Ridge Community Center and Food Pantry.

Church Labor Task Force initiated to support labor unions in Dane County.

MUM begins to focus on homelessness- leads to development of the Drop in Shelter for the Homeless and Transitional Housing Inc, which later became Porchlight.

The Drop-In Shelter, in the works since 1984, spun off and became Transitional Housing Inc.

MUM is asked to facilitate the formation of a Housing Coalition to address access to affordable housing, develop a housing project model, and advocate for homeless individuals.

MUM and religious communities advocated against budget cuts to welfare benefits to the County Board Supervisors, and some proposed budget cuts were restored.

MUM begins a series of Assembly meetings on the underlying causes of violence. Topics include gun control, international conflict, economic violence, and violence in the home.

Allied area Clergy prayer group becomes Allied Partners, MUM’s first Congregational Cluster Group, which eventually supported Allied Neighborhood Association and associated programs.

Peace and Justice Group becomes MUM’s Justice Issue Task Force and MUM hosts Dialogue Series: Judgement, Guilt, and Forgiveness.

Call to Renewal Roundtable on racism forms as part of a nat’l. organization, Chuck Pfeifer retires as Director of MUM after 25 years, Rev. Mary Kay Baum begins as Director of MUM, and MUM is changed to Madison-Area Urban Ministry to reflect county-wide work.

MUM participates in Money, Education, and Prison and Howard Zehr Restorative Justice Conferences. MUM hosts Dialogue Series “The Peace Filled Community: What Does Justice Require of Us?”

Family Connections is created to provide monthly transportation for children to visit their mothers at Taycheedah Correctional Institute in Fond du Lac, which ran for 20 years.

Through a combination of private donors and congregations, MUM starts the Circles of Support program and advocates for more assistance for homeless people in our community, leading to the creation of the Warming House.

Howard Zehr, internationally known Restorative Justice prioneer, speaks at MUM’s conference with Returning Prisoner Simulation and in MUM’s video “Today’s Prisoner’s Tomorrow’s Neighbors.”

MUM recieves a federal grant to start Mentoring Connections, a program to provide children who have an incarcerated parent with a mentor, This program still operates today, 20 years later!

MUM is selected by the United Way of Dane County to provide reentry services to people returning from prison through their signature initiative The Journey Home. Family Conections spins off from MUM.

Mary Kay Baum retires as MUM’s Director after XX years & Linda Ketcham is selected as MUM’s new director. MUM also works with the WI Council of Churches & the WI Network for Peace & Justice to oppose the reinstatement of the death penalty in Wisconsin.