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
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
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 get a lot of questions specifically asking for ways to help out at We Got This. We Got This is known for a couple of things. Of course we’re known for our founder, Andre Lee Ellis who is now working at The Cage (check out the work being done at The Cage at https://thecagemke.com)....Read More
Tuesday, November 22 is Giving First day – a day that flips the script on Giving Tuesday and asks you to give before Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We’re setting a goal today to raise $5000, which is what it costs our organization to maintain the garden spaces throughout the year (outside of work kids do on...Read More
The temperature is rising on 9th and Ring and before we know it, dozens of young men will congregate at The We Got This Community Garden at 8 am on Saturday mornings to serve, grow, and garden. Before We Got This Garden Clean UpThe temperature is rising on 9th and Ring and before we know...Read More
People living in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code face tough problems, but on Saturdays, things are different. Thousands of the men from this zip code are in prison or have records. Jobs are scarce; poverty, almost universal. Some people sell drugs or their bodies to make money. However, on Saturdays in the Borchert Field neighborhood, neighbors have...Read More
