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
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
We have been selected as the nonprofit to receive proceeds from Give Boxes of Love , a local nonprofit where youth bakes cookies and delivers them locally. Purchase some cookies and support We Got This! If you are in the Milwaukee area, Give Boxes of Love will be having We Got This (corner of 9th...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 paid out $16,000 to kids who came and worked Saturdays. Will you join us in donating so that we can give out more in 2024? Can we count...Read More
When the We Got This leadership team built the budget for the 2023 summer program, we did so hoping to average 30 kids a week during the 12 weeks of the summer program and set the budget for paying kids at $7,200. We are grateful and thankful to be able to say that We Got...Read More
We wanted to update you on an exciting challenge we are facing at We Got This. From We Got This’ inception, a weekly activity for the group is walking through the neighborhood and picking up trash. Growing up in a clean neighborhood is a luxury that many of our young people do not have, and...Read More
