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Hope Street is The Greenhouse for People on 26th and Capitol. They provide housing and community to empower broken men, women, and children to cultivate a relationship with Jesus, themselves, and others to restore hope that flourishing is possible for us all.
At Hope Street, this takes shape in two ways: Homes at Hope Street is a 23-unit apartment building that provides housing for people coming from all sorts of brokenness, including substance abuse and incarceration. Shechem at Hope Street is a community center open to the public. Members of the community can come, play, build community, and feel safe.
This is on the 2nd Saturday of every month from 9-12noon. This is a great opportunity for families, small groups, work teams etc. The group will work on a variety of projects: prepping spaces for new members, cleaning common areas, outside upkeep, or special projects. There are projects for every level and age at Serve Saturday.
Email Katee Holcomb to sign up. (katee@hopestreetministry.org)
Every Tuesday, the community gathers to break bread and build community. Volunteers, staff, board, or members provide the meal for the week. You can gather your family or friends to prepare a meal for 10-15 people. The meal can be dropped off hot by 4:45 pm on Tuesday or delivered to the office between 8:30-3:30 on Monday or Tuesday for staff to heat and put out. This is a drop-off opportunity for volunteers, pray over the meal, and involve your kids or friends to help supply the meal.
Email Kelly Nee for open dates.kelly@ambassadormke.org
Amazon Wishlist:Providing housing at Homes and building community at Shechem requires a lot of items. Hope Street keeps an Amazon wishlist up to date with their highest-needed items to make it easy to click and ship right to Hope Street. Not all items need to be purchased from Amazon; things like household needs, paper products, or cleaning supplies can be picked up at the store and brought to Hope Street. Items like bed frames and mattresses are specific to the needs of Hope Street.
Christmas Store Wishlist:At Hope Street, they create a Christmas Store for Hope Street members to shop for family and friends. They stock the store with brand-new items suggested by their members. The items are greatly discounted for members to purchase. Members and their families experience the magic of Christmas through your generosity.
Gifts don't need to be purchased through the Amazon link, but please check it out for the types of items suggested by members. Clothing or candles are not accepted. Items need to be at Hope Street by Dec. 11th.
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Their programs nourish food security and wellness, foster belonging and community engagement, and empower stability and economic prosperity in our city. On average, Kinship Community Food Center serves 325,000 pounds of food to more than 16,000 community members every year. Though it will provide food to anyone who comes, Kinship Community Food Center primarily serves the 53211, 53212, 53217, 53202, and 53203 area zip codes.
Twice a week Kinship runs a community meal and food distribution in the Riverwest Neighborhood located at 924 E Clarke Street. Over 60 volunteers work together to run this program. They volunteer shifts are Tuesdays from 3:00pm-6:30pm and Saturdays from 7:30am-11:00am
If you would like to join please email us at volunteer@kinshipmke.org to get started!
Every year Kinship distributes over 20,000lbs of fresh produce that is grown at an Urban Farm located at 4355 N Port Washington Road. Depending on the season they need between 30 to 120 volunteers to maintain the 12 hoop houses they grow in. The volunteer shifts vary depending on the season.
Email them at volunteer@kinshipmke.org to learn more!
Kinship relies heavily on donations made by our community to keep their shelves full! If you are interested in donating food, hygiene items, or financially please check out the links below or email them at donations@kinshipmke.org
Financial donations Food & Hygiene DonationsHygiene Amazon Wishlist
Bridge To Brighter assists youth that have “aged out” of foster care. They have been able to provide assistance with housing expenses, food, GED testing, college fees/books, driver’s education, and much more. The Bridge to Brighter family is looking to grow and flourish as they strive to achieve their vision: that all youth in their care feel safe, respected, nurtured, and able to reach their full potential.
Bridge to Brighter manages three housing units with a total of 20 young men. One way to serve is to identify a day and time to provide a meal.
For more information, please reach out to Tina Schulz at tina@bridgetobrighter.org
The homes are in need of some clothing, linen, and cleaning products. Check the Amazon wishlist to see if you can provide something for the homes.
Amazon Wish List
Many of the young men do not have their license or transportation. Being available to give rides to a job/interview, the store, to church, etc., could go a long way!
For more information, please reach out to Tina Schulz at tina@bridgetobrighter.org
Ongoing projects mean there is lots of work to be done in and around the homes. If you are the handy type, this could be an option for you.
For more information, please reach out to Tina Schulz at tina@bridgetobrighter.org
2308 E Belleview Pl.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Contact:
contact@ambassadormke.org
Phone:
(414) 246-0440
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