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Denise Matyka Awarded CSW “Lifetime Achievement Award”

September 03, 2025

This year’s Community Shares of Wisconsin (CSW) “Lifetime Achievement Award” winner is Denise Matyka. With over forty years of community service, highlighted by her co-founding CSW in 1985, and currently Executive Director of Project Home. According to Matyka, rent prices has risen by 47% in the past 5 years, and Project Home’s assistance programs serve low-to-moderate income residents in Dane and Green County, including senior citizens, veterans, single-parent families and people with health issues & disabilities, with the goal to be able to allow them to stay in their homes.

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