Please tune your radio to Milwaukee’s NPR affiliate 89.7 WUWM at 10am tomorrow (Tuesday 10/18) morning to listen to our education team interviewed on Lake Effect!
You can either listen live or find it in the archive. You can also subscribe to the Lake Effect Podcast here.
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Each month a new Building on Common Ground will be produced and distributed to all our member organizations along with being posted on our website and our facebook page!
Here is our inaugural issue of our newly revised monthly newsletter!
Each month a new Building on Common Ground will be produced and distributed to all our member organizations along with being posted on our website and our facebook page!
First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee (First Church)
1342 N Astor Street, Milwaukee (SE corner of Astor & Ogden)
Meeting is on 2nd floor in Otto Hall. Enter through the green-glass doors just south of the sanctuary, follow the hallway to the end & take stairs or elevator.
Parking: Lincoln Center School (one block west at Ogden & Marshall) parking lot. There is no parking lot at the church, some on-street parking may be available.
GreatSchools is the country’s leading source of information on school performance. With listings of 200,000 public and private schools serving students from preschool through high school and more than 800,000 parent ratings and reviews, GreatSchools has become the go-to guide for parents aiming to make a smart school choice. Check out their website HERE.
Child Care is available, please click here to RSVP so we ensure we have a space for your child(ren). $5 for two kids with an additional $3 for more children.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS IN THIS SERIES:
8/9/11 – Abby Ramirez, co-founder of Schools That Can which identifies high performing schools across the country and share best practices to create more high performing schools in the Milwaukee are which include public, choice and charter. Their vision is to get 20,000 students in high performing urban schools by 2020. Click HERE to go to their website.
7/21/11 – Leigh Anne Fraley, Senior Site Advisor for Talent Development spoke about The New Teacher Project, a national non-profit dedicated to closing the achievement gap by ensuring that high-need students get outstanding teachers.
5/31/11 – Alan Borsuk, Longtime Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter and Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy, at Marquette University Law School.
Leader to Contact: Keisha Krumm, Lead Organizer: Email
See a complete and updated listing of the homes we have finished and that are ready for sale here.
Journal/Sentinel front page Local Section, August 11, 2011
Wisconsin Group Works with Banks to Address Symptoms of Foreclosure. Read Now.
“One group, however, is taking a very different approach. Southeastern Wisconsin-based Common Ground has been confronting banks directly, asking them to step up and take responsibility for their hand in the foreclosure nightmare sweeping the state. Common Ground’s persistent efforts have already garnered huge benefits for Milwaukee residents.”
88.9′s Neighborhood Project catches up with Common Ground at Sherman Perk. Listen now.
Another success for Milwaukee Rising!
Deutsche Bank has made a commitment to Common Ground
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/124388964.html
Sue Giaimo, Deutsche Bank CEO Mr. Josef Ackermann, Mark Fraley
Photo taken at the 2011 Annual Shareholders Meeting in Germany.
The Greater Milwaukee area has much to offer — and much to fix. We have a health care crisis, there aren’t enough jobs, and crime is out of hand. We created Common Ground to address these critical social issues. Our members come from all races, religions and political backgrounds, but we share a common mission: To replace despair with hope in our community.
