The purpose of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes is to save lives and promote healthy beginnings by providing pasteurized donor human donor milk by prescription to preterm and ill babies. Another part of our mission is to inform area health professionals and families about human milk as the standard of care.

We are now raising funds to establish our processing and distribution facility, which—when up and running—will improve area health outcomes by providing thousands of ounces of life-saving milk to at-risk Illinois and Wisconsin families. The Mothers' Milk Association of Wisconsin (MMAW), one of the two organizations that united to form our milk bank team, is a 501C3 nonprofit organization, and all contributions made to MMAW will go to the milk bank.