Note: a gift to the Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Impact Area will benefit each of the following programs:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee
(414) 267-8100
- SPARK (Spheres of Proud Achievement in Reading for Kids) - Improves literacy among kids through the three spheres of a young child's life, including the school day, after-school hours and evening family time.
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Centro de la Comunidad Unida / United Community Center
(414) 384-3100
- Leyendo juntos - Increases literacy for four- and five-year-olds, many of whom speak Spanish as a first language, through culturally suitable activities that bring reading into the home.
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City of Milwaukee Health Department
(414) 286-3521
- Milwaukee Plain Talk - Teaches parents and other adults the skills and tools they need to communicate effectively with their children and other young people about abstinence, healthy relationships, and sexual behavior.
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COA Youth and Family Centers
(414) 263-8383
- Making Proud Choices! - Empowers young adolescents to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk for both pregnancy and becoming infected with HIV and other STIs.
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Council for the Spanish Speaking, Inc.
(414) 384-3700
- S.A.L.S.A. (Strengthening Adolescent Latinas Socially & Academically) - Provides youth with the skills necessary to reduce their risk of tenn pregnancy through discussing self-esteem, attitudes, decision making, sexual violence and healthy relationships using the Making Proud Choices! curriculum.
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CTK Development
(414) 371-5000
- Making Proud Choices! - Reaches youth ages 10-18 and their parents with unique programming that creates a positive peer network to empower young adolescents to change their behavior in ways thatt will reduce their risk for pregnancy.
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HeartLove Place
(414) 372-1500
- Prostart Culinary Arts Job Training Program - Provides intense, innovative hands-on training program designed to train and prepare participants to obtain entrylevel careers in the food service and hospitality industry.
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Hmong American Friendship Association Inc.
(414) 344-6575
- Southeast Asian Job Training & Retention - Provides job training, counseling and placement while working to break down language and cultural barriers for participants and potential employers.
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Horizon Home Care and Hospice
(414) 365-8300
- Nursing Career Development - Trains and mentors underprivileged individuals to gain employment as certified nursing assistants.
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Interfaith Older Adults Programs
(414) 291-7500
- Employment Services - Coordinates seasonal employment for unemployed older adults, people with disabilities and displaced homemakers.
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La Causa, Inc.
(414) 647-5980
- La Causa Early Literacy Program - Enhances preschool children's literacy and reading skills through a bilingual program aimed to prepare children to succeed in an academic environment and throughout their lives.
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Milwaukee HIRE Center and Community Partner
(414) 385-6920
- Latino Industrial Skills Training Opportunites Project (LISTO) - Delivers bilingual technical insturction and soft-skills enhancement to Milwaukee's expanding Hispanic population in partnership with the HIRE Center, MATC, Spanish Center and the AFL-CIO Labor Education and Traning Center (LETC).
Neu-Life Community Resource Center
(414) 933-3924
- Healthy Choices - Provides youth development program paricipants ages 11-15 with the knowledge and skills to reduce thie risk for teen pregnancy using the Making Proud Choices! curriculum.
The Parenting Network
(414) 671-5575
- Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters in Milwaukee (HIPPY) - Expands the COA Youth & Family Center's HIPPY program to establish parents as the first teachers and the home as the first learning environment so children enter school with age-appropiate skills and parents develop lifelong patterns of parental involvement in education.
Website Volunteer Opportunities
Pathfinders
(414) 271-2565
- Hand in Hand - Uses the Making Proud Choices! curriculum to focus on decision-making and behavior changes related to safer sex practices, in addition to incorporating a city-wide campaign to raise awareness about youth in ciris, including teen pregnacny and sexaul violence.
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PEARLS for Teen Girls
(414) 265-7555
- Making Proud Choices! - Provides comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programming that builds self-sufficiency, communication, goal setting, critical thinking and positive decision-making skills.
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Riverworks Development Corporation
(414) 906-9650
- Partnership for an Employed Milwaukee - Supplies job training and placement, one-on-one financial coaching and soft/ life-skills training to move under-and unemployed participants from entry-level employment to career indification and development.
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Silver Spring Neighborhood Center
(414) 463-7950
- Literacy First - Stimulates literacy development through parent / child socialization, school intervention, after-school assistance and community programs to ensure that young, at-risk children have the necessary skills to read at age-appropiate levels.
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UMOS Latina Resource Center
(414) 389-6500
- Expect Respect - Targets Latino youth and forces on recognizing abusive relationships, defining healthy relationships, sharing the facts of dating violence and safety planning and providing skills to help friends in abusive situations.
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Wisconsin Community Services
(414) 271-2512
- Work of Work - Provides intensive employment-bases re-entry services to incarcerated Milwaukee County adults who may encounter significant barriers to employment as they return to the community.
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Wisconsin Regional Training Partners/BIG STEP
(414) 906-4204
- Center for Excellence - Provides disadvantaged workers access to careers in the manufacturing and construction trades, including direct placement for qualified workers, pre-employment training for entry-level jobs and apprenticeship preparation programs.
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YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee
(414) 224-9622
- Making Proud Choices! - Enhances Girl's Night Out and Youth Leadership Academy programs through empowering youth to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk for teen pegnancy and STIs/ HIV.
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YWCA of Greater Milwaukee
(414) 374-1800
- Partners in Health Care Workforce Development - Provides job readiness, training, and placement services to improve job retention and increase career advancement opportunities in the health care sector.
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