Interview with Milwaukee Mentors

On Tuesday morning, Kathy Munson from YMCA stopped down to the 88NINE Studios to tell us a little bit about Milwaukee Mentors.

Kathy is the Director of Mentoring Programs at the Metropolitan Milwaukee YMCA. She’s also a major part of the Milwaukee Mentors program, which is a collaboration of 5 groups here in the Milwaukee [...]

“Make A Difference”: Milwaukee Mentors | Matt & Joseph, Mentor/Mentee

Listen: Much like volunteering opportunities, there is a wide-range of mentorship programs in Milwaukee. Because they serve a similar population, sometimes they can be easily lumped together into a single entity. However, while their surface level goals may be the same, mentorship has many different faces and many different approaches.
Milwaukee Mentors is an umbrella group of [...]

“Make A Difference”: Meta House | Wrap Up

Listen: I remind myself everyday how lucky I am to have a job that allows me to find and tell stories of good work going on in Milwaukee. Sometimes those stories require a bit of hunting and clever editing, but on rare occasion, the stories come to life on their own. The stories of Meta House [...]

“Be Heard”: 4th Street Forum | Homes, Banks, And The Bubble

This week at the 4th Street Forum: In their second week back on the air for their fall season, the 4th Street Forum takes on a timely issue, one that has received a lot of attention in the national theater and whose effects have been very local. Homes, banks, and the bubble. Although some signs point towards [...]

“Make A Difference”: Meta House | Lisa, Counselor and Volunteer

Listen: Lisa Williams came to Meta House as part of a program to earn her associate’s degree. Before the internship began, she was not entirely sure what to expect from an experience working at a gender-specific rehab center, but from the minute she walked in the door, she knew Meta House was a perfect fit. [...]

In studio with META House

Jordan here. It’s been a while since I posted on the Unified Milwaukee blog. We’ve had some wonderful organizations come through the studios, as a part of the MAKE A DIFFERENCE campaign. This morning I had the opportunity to interview two ladies from the META house.
Lucy Benka, a volunteer with META and [...]

“Make A Difference”: Meta House | Susan, Yoga Instructor and Volunteer

Listen: In my initial conversations with Meta House, I was unsure about what type of interviews I would get. While I had an understanding of what the organization does, the exact role of volunteers didn’t immediately jump out at me. As I discovered, volunteers play a crucial role at Meta House, but they may not [...]

“Make A Difference”: Meta House | Shirley, Program Graduate and Volunteer

Listen: In the first two weeks of our Make A Difference campaign, we brought you the stories of organizations whose volunteer opportunities center around hands on work. This week we change pace, as we take a look inside Meta House, an internationally recognized treatment center that has provided alcohol and drug abuse treatment services designed [...]

“Make A Difference”: Habitat For Humanity | Wrap Up

Listen: My week with Habitat For Humanity met my expectations in some ways, but consistently surpassed them in so many others. When Habitat For Humanity is mentioned, a few very definite ideas come to mind for most people. House building. Volunteering. Jimmy Carter? However, seeing the organization in action, I’ve gained a new appreciation for both [...]

“Be Heard”: 4th Street Forum | Are We Talking Through Our Hats?

This week at the 4th Street Forum: The 4th Street Forum returns to Turner Hall, MPTV, and the airwaves of RadioMilwaukee after a well deserved summer rest — welcome back guys!
The season kicked off with a topic fresh on everybody’s mind — the increasingly fractured tone and tenor of our national media coverage. As the voices [...]