“Bridge the City”, a podcast launched two years ago, ends each episode with concrete steps that individuals can take to help improve their community.
NNS Spotlight
An occasional series that highlights groups and people worth knowing in Milwaukee.
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NNS Spotlight: Program teaches Milwaukee’s next generation of gardeners
The MyPlant program allows kids to pot and take home their own herb plant in hopes of reconnecting younger generations to gardening.
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NNS Spotlight: Meet Milwaukee’s youngest champion for mental and behavioral health for kids
When Derell Sultan started having trouble at school, his mother looked for help and found it in her neighborhood at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Midtown Clinic. Both recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional leaders.
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NNS Spotlight: ‘Something lit up for me’: Her mission is tackling Haiti’s sanitation crisis
Inspired by a 2006 medical mission trip, Gigi Pomerantz formed Youthaiti to help alleviate Haiti’s sanitation crisis.
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NNS Spotlight: ‘Living in two worlds’: Indian Community School connects students with culture
The Indian Community School offers its pupils lessons in the classroom – and out. The school serves Native American students who live in the Milwaukee area.
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NNS Spotlight: The ‘quiet warrior’: How a 95-year-old female veteran made history
Anna Mae Robertson once spent her time evading Nazi U-boats in war-torn Europe as a member of the only all-female African American battalion that served overseas in World War II.
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NNS Spotlight: Helping people live healthy lives, one plate at a time
Sammy Smith has gone from burning his mom’s stoves to blazing new trails as the owner of a health-focused meal-prep business.
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NNS Spotlight: ‘I want to help people feel the way I feel’: How business is also pleasure for this entrepreneur
Joanna Brooks used to hate hot yoga. These days, she teaches it – at her own Sherman Phoenix yoga studio.
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Adult graduates finally get their day in the spotlight
About 225 adult students were honored last week for earning General Educational Development, or GED, certificates, High School Equivalency diplomas and Emerging Scholars diplomas during a special ceremony at Milwaukee Area Technical College’s downtown campus.
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NNS Spotlight: ‘We want to be part of the conversation’: Group aims to elevate fellow Asian Pacific Americans
After constantly being the “only Asian Americans in the room,” a group created ElevAsian to connect members of the Asian Pacific community and to build bridges across the city.