MILWAUKEE – The Common Ground Community Health Volunteers, a program that follows up with patients who test positive for COVID-19 and are sent home to heal, helped its 600th patient last week. This program is a partnership between Common Ground, a community organization of 39 member institutions in and around Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Public Health Department. In 5 months, volunteers have made over 6,000 calls to patients to monitor their wellbeing (using the pulse oximeters lent to patients) and provide reassurance in their moments of need.
One group of unsung heroes is the volunteers of the Common Ground Community Health Program. Composed of 46 Common Ground leaders, this group has dedicated more than 10,000 hours of their time. A large portion of these volunteers call patients every day for 8 days on average, giving people a sense of ease while going through the healing process. This impact is immeasurable. A participant in this program, Alex Hardy, stated, “This progr
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Historically Black Delaware State University received a two-year, $1 million donation from JPMorgan Chase to expand the university’s Career Pathways office for students, ensuring that they begin portfolio building in the freshman year and can get access to real-world, experiential opportunities early in their college career, including internships. This award will also enhance faculty development. Faculty will complete a Quality Matters training to adapt educational tools to fit market trends across industries, which will help better position students as they transition into their professional careers.
Consortium offers grants for most promising proposals to improve education of young Black males. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
“Design Your Future” is built on the outreach work of groups like MPS’ Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement, or BLMA. Here participants of BLMA pose after a screening of “Black Panther” in 2018. Photo provided by MPS.
Do you have an idea for how to improve high school education? You might be able to get paid to make that idea happen.
Milwaukee Succeeds, a partnership of educational leaders across government, nonprofit and private sectors, has launched a pitch competition called “Design Your Future.”
Paul J. Jones. Photo courtesy of Marquette University.
Paul Jones as its new vice president and general counsel, President
Michael R. Lovell announced today. Jones, who has served as intrapreneur-in-residence in Marquette’s 707 Innovation Hub since February 2020, will begin in his new role on Jan. 4, 2021.
Jones joins Marquette after spending 10 years as an executive officer at Harley-Davidson as the company’s chief legal officer, as well as other strategic business roles. He represented Harley-Davidson in co-founding the Near West Side Partners, of which Marquette is an anchor institution, and served as a member of the NWSP Board of Directors and chair of the Steering Committee.
Plus: A rundown of the week s real estate news. By Jeramey Jannene - Dec 20th, 2020 06:11 pm //end headline wrapper ?>3658-3660 N. Teutonia Ave. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
A one-story building in Milwaukee’s Arlington Heights neighborhood could become a home for 20 small businesses.
That’s according to a plan from
Eric Brown. He secured approval for a $166,000 loan from the Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation‘s loan and finance committee on Wednesday.
Brown would purchase and rehabilitate the one-story, 7,939-square-foot building at 3658-3660 N. Teutonia Ave. It would become an “entrepreneur incubator hub” with 20 micro suites. The structure was built in 1966 according to city records.