Posts from Community

As the growing and successful Interfaith-MPS Tutor Program stays on track to expand from 50 MPS elementary and K-8 schools in 2012-13 to 71 in 2013-14, MPS and Interfaith Older Adult Programs are seeking more volunteer tutors. A majority of tutored students outscored national averages and/or saw their scores grow at a higher rate than […]

Community Advocates is now accepting applications for the Stay Strong Milwaukee Project. Stay Strong Milwaukee funds are to promote alcohol and drug abuse (AODA) prevention activities in Milwaukee County. Funding for Stay Strong Milwaukee is made possible through the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. Community Advocates will allocate approximately $250,000 in funding for calendar year […]

George Hinton is no stranger to leading an organization. He served as President of Aurora Sinai Medical Center for four years and has now taken on a new task… Interim CEO at the Social Development Commission (SDC). Hinton was selected by the SDC Board of Commissioners in September to take the Interim post at the […]

This year we march as a community, we march in peace together in honor of those Children and All of our Loved Ones who have passed into Death. Please join us for our 4th Annual El Día de los Muertos Parade:Noche de Niños. We dedicate this entire parade to all of Los Niños/ The Children. […]

A program that helps refugees seeking to start up their own home childcare business is recruiting for its next class. The SDC Refugee Childcare Microenterprise Development Project is beginning signup for its next class.  The program is designed to train refugees and asylees (persons who have been granted asylum) to become state certified home-based family […]

After several years of limited arts programming due to budgetary constraints, the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee will reintroduce regular visual arts programming, thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund. The YMCA will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee Institute of Art and […]

Fathers across the Milwaukee area are faced with many challenges.  They will be offered tools they can use to become stronger fathers and cope with those challenges at the 8th Annual Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit. The Fatherhood Summit will be held Friday and Saturday, October 4th and 5th at Destiny Youth Plaza at 7210 N. 76th […]

Students trying to complete their GED tests before a December deadline are being offered a testing site by the Social Development Commission (SDC). SDC provides state-certified testing at its 4041 N. Richards Street building.  The program offers the GED tests in both English and Spanish for students seeking to earn their diploma.  Adult students need […]