Winter Items Needed — Community Coat Drive We’ve been hearing from our neighbors that many families could use cold-weather essentials. So We Got This is hosting a coat and winter gear drive to help our community stay warm this season. Drop off warm weather gear at Flour Girl & Flame, Cafe Corazon Riverwest, Vantage Health...Read More
Accessing Food Assistance in 53206 Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code is home to strong, resilient neighbors who support one another through challenges. For families facing food insecurity, several local food pantries provide free groceries, fresh produce, and essential household items. These community resources help make sure no one has to go hungry. How to Support Food Pantries in 53206 If...Read More
Our flower fields are bursting with blooms—and we want to share them with you! Event Details:📍 We Got This Flower Farm — 3169 N 9th St, Milwaukee, WI 53206📅 September 13th⏰ Time: 2pm – 3:30🎟️ Free & open to the public (donations welcome to support our youth program) Come join us for Afternoon Bouquets, where you can:✨ Walk through our flower fields...Read More
We’re honored to be one of the hosting sites for America’s Black Holocaust Museum‘s Book Club this month! In partnership with the museum’s Jr. Griots (high school summer docents), We Got This will be reading Malcolm Lives!, a powerful new book by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, written especially for young readers. We’ll be giving out...Read More
On this day of service, let’s clean up the community! If you are interested in joining us feel free to stop by and grab a trash picker or a garbage bag anytime between noon and and 2 pm on January 20, 2025 on the corner of 9th and Ring. If you are interested in donating...Read More
Culture is super important at We Got This. Culture is the tool we use to build a stronger community one kid at a time. Each week the young people at We Got This leave the garden with 5 gallon buckets and trash pickers and clean up the neighborhood. Together, that group of kids picked up over...Read More
Today is Giving First Day – a day that flips the script on Giving Tuesday and asks you to give before Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This summer, We Got This averaged 112 kids each of the twelve Saturdays we ran our summer program. That totals over 3,000 hours of service to the community by young people which included...Read More
This year we are projecting to average 85 kids per week over the 12 Saturdays of We Got This, which means we are hoping to give out over $20,000 to young people for making their neighborhood a better place to grow up in. Paying the kids to work is by far our biggest expense and we are...Read More
Due to the cold weather we will be rescheduling The We Got This Garden, located on 9th and Ring, has been working to change the narrative around the Borchert Field neighborhood and the 53206 zip code for the last 13 years. For 12 weeks in the summer up to 100 young people come work to...Read More
