Next Door is celebrating one of its flagship programs this summer with a 30th birthday celebration for Books for Kids. For three decades, Books for Kids has provided more than a million free books – through community donations – to Next Door students and children across Milwaukee to help them build their home libraries, early literacy skills and a love of reading.

Next Door is partnering with Milwaukee County Parks to present the city’s first StoryWalk® for our community to enjoy. Families can visit Washington Park from May 22-29, 2021 and walk “page by page” along a path reading the popular children’s story “The Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

The Walk for Children is Next Door’s largest community event of the year, raising awareness and funding for the critical early childhood education programs the agency delivers to central city families.

Next Door – a leading provider of high quality early childhood education in Milwaukee – increased its minimum wage to $15/hour starting July 1, 2020.

Next Door – a leading provider of high quality early childhood education in Milwaukee – is thrilled to partner with Colectivo for the non-profit organization’s 50th Anniversary this year.

Next Door — a leading provider of high quality early childhood education in Milwaukee — is looking for volunteer readers to fill up 60 classrooms with more than 600 children for a Community Read with Me event on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

Next Door — a leading provider of high quality early childhood education in Milwaukee — is partnering with the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Milwaukee Succeeds and United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County to present a free screening of the new documentary, No Small Matter, on Wednesday, February 27, 2019.

From family dining rooms to the Pfister Hotel, more than 5,000 people across the Milwaukee area engaged in a recent dialogue in hopes of building new relationships and ideas to strengthen our community.