Last Thursday, I spent the late afternoon with Milwaukee SCORES at Windlake Elementary School, conducting our three volunteer interviews, hanging out with the kids, and getting a chance to see how it all operates. As I was biking away, the pieces already started coming together in my head.
Milwaukee SOCRES is the kind of organization [...]
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Listen: A teacher’s life is immersed in kids. Early mornings, long days, evenings grading papers. So, what would make a teacher want to volunteer her free time working with… students?
Claudia Heller is a 4th grade teacher at Hayes Bilingual School in the Lincoln Village neighborhood who got involved with Milwaukee SCORES almost accidentally — their after [...]
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Listen: As we’ve seen throughout the Make A Difference campaign, people come to volunteering for a variety of personal reasons — family, free time, a personal cause. But how about a fund raising favor for a friend?
David Henderson came to Milwaukee SCORES to help out a friend, Associate Director of SCORES John Eggebrecht, securing some financial [...]
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Listen: You may have to hear this one to believe it — Milwaukee SCORES is an after school program empowering students in urban communities using soccer, creative writing, and service learning. When they contacted us about a month before the Make A Difference campaign started, I did a double take. Not exactly expected, right? I’ve played soccer [...]
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