“Make A Difference”: Milwaukee SCORES | Wrap Up

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 [...]

Interview with America SCORES-Milwaukee

Hello all! Jordan here! I had the pleasure to interview John Eggerbrecht and Kate Carpenter of America SCORES of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee SCORES is a really unique and creative approach to working with some of the children that slip through the cracks of the inner city’s system. During the interview John said, ” What [...]

“Make A Difference”: Milwaukee SCORES | Claudia, Volunteer

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 [...]

“Make A Difference”: Milwaukee SCORES | David, Volunteer

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 [...]

“Make A Difference”: Milwaukee SCORES | Andy, Volunteer

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 [...]

“Make A Difference”: ARCW | Maurice, Client & Volunteer

Listen: An exact description of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) is difficult to give. The services they provide to over 3000 residents of Wisconsin living with the HIV disease are remarkably accessible, high quality, and as close to comprehensive as you can get. In addition to the services they provide their clients, they also [...]

“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 [...]

“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. [...]

“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 [...]