Milwaukee is a city full of neighborhoods that embrace and celebrate various cultures. Together, in Milwaukee, we can create great opportunities where students thrive inside and outside the classroom.
While Milwaukee is widely known for being a vibrant community for academia, business, tech and medicine, some students in Milwaukee face significant challenges every day. At City Year Milwaukee, AmeriCorps members serve in 13 Milwaukee Public Schools serving 8,000 students each and every day.
I moved from Oklahoma, everything and everyone I knew, to serve in a position I knew nothing about. When I joined City Year, I met a group of individuals who taught me how to, “get comfortable with being uncomfortable,” find my strengths build on my weaknesses and allow me to find JOY in every day.
Kaili Gilbert City Year Milwaukee, ‘17
Your corps experience
City Year is a key partner of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) in creating equitable learning opportunities for all students and develop the city’s future leaders. In the 2018–2019 school year, MPS served 75,801 students across 161 schools. 89.2% of Milwaukee Public School students are students of color and district-wide, more than 82.5% of students are economically disadvantaged. AmeriCorps members support teachers and staff in delivering instruction that serves the development of the whole child and is responsive to the diverse racial, cultural and linguistic needs.
With the close-knit community and ample opportunities to develop meaningful personal and professional relationships, Milwaukee is an ideal place to serve.
By engaging students, families and community organizations, City Year and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) are committed to accelerating student achievement, building positive relationships and cultivating leadership. The district’s commitment to improvement continues to show results:
More MPS students are taking college-level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses
The MPS Class of 2018 earned $86.2+ million in scholarships
MPS is home to three of the state and nation’s top high schools according to U.S. News and World Report and the Washington Post
Commuting to and from school
At the start of the year, AmeriCorps members have the option of receiving a free Milwaukee County Transit System bus pass for the year to get to and from school, as many schools are within walking distance from bus lines. However, because taking the bus adds additional travel time, many AmeriCorps members choose to drive or carpool to school.
Being a part of a team
Work with a committed and diverse group of five to 17 City Year Milwaukee AmeriCorps members who share your passion for service and personal growth. Each City Year Milwaukee team is supported by an impact manager and one to two team leaders, who will help you provide excellent service to the students you serve and support you as you navigate your year of service.
Not only are impact managers dedicated to helping students succeed, but they are also committed to helping you process your year of service, reflect, learn and develop professionally and personally as you discover where your year of service will lead you next.
In addition to working closely with your impact manager and team leader, you will also be surrounded by a caring community of staff who will serve as extra support through your year of service. With many of our staff serving as City Year alumni, they have the unique ability to give you advice, perspective and resources they gained from completing a year of service.
Professional development
One of City Year Milwaukee’s priorities is to support the personal and professional growth of AmeriCorps members by offering programming throughout the year designed to help them find their post-service plans and discover ways they can continue to be a leader after their time with City Year.
Leadership after City Year (LACY) liaisons
Planning and the implementation of programming could not be done without our team of liaisons. These 13 AmeriCorps members represent each of the schools we serve in and are the voice for their teams when it comes to the type of programming they would like to see, planning LACY days and getting information about upcoming opportunities to their teams.
Coordinator roles
Each AmeriCorps member will serve in a coordinator role in which they will specialize in a particular aspect of service (i.e. attendance, math, English language arts) and serve as leaders on their team in this area.
18-Minute networking
A networking event hosted by ManpowerGroup that consists of four, 18-minute rotations where AmeriCorps members have the opportunity to speak with professionals in a field that interests them. The networking event ends with a mocktail hour, where corps members have the chance to continue networking while enjoying a nice, cold soda.
Shadow day
Shadow day is an opportunity given to AmeriCorps members to shadow a professional in a field they are interested in to do best practice sharing and learn from them. AmeriCorps members also have the option to visit colleges and receive professional development trainings on topics like interviewing skills and cover letter writing from our Deloitte partners.
Community involvement
Create a positive climate of high expectations and engagement that ripples throughout the greater Milwaukee community. Throughout the year, you will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of service days across Milwaukee and participate in projects such as painting murals at schools, restoring natural habitats and creating garden beds.
At City Year Milwaukee, AmeriCorps members and staff come together to participate in equity summits. An important part of our commitment to being an anti-racist organization...
Over the last 30 years we have built a robust relationship with Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers, families and the community at large. We can’t wait to welcome you.
Today, we saw something that we don’t often see in America: accountability when Black life is taken at the hands of police.
As we, along with communities across the country, waited for this verdict to be announced, we have grappled with the deeply flawed system in which we live and operate: one where we hope for justice for a murder we all watched happen, but knowing that historically, a guilty verdict has rarely been delivered in similar cases.
Today feels like a much-needed step forward, but the work towards justice continues. We continue to stand with the family and friends of George Floyd, with the loved ones of Daunte Wright and countless others who have been killed at the hands of police before and since, and with the Black community.
Above all, we stand with our students, who are both witnessing and participating in this moment. We wrap ourselves in hope and action together with them, with our partners, and with each other in community, until the fact that Black Lives Matter is demonstrated in laws, policies, policing, and in education. We must do this together, in pursuit of a more just and more hopeful future for our students and for all of us.
Art by Thu Anh Nguyen @madebythuanh
[Image description: The words "Black Lives Matter" is surrounded by a wreath of colorful flowers.]...
Join us for THIS WEDNESDAY for our next virtual Ask Me Anything to learn more about City Year's recruitment efforts and AmeriCorps member learning and development! ❤️
We are honored to announce that Dr. Stephanie Maney-Hartlaub has been selected as the organization’s new executive director. Dr. Maney-Hartlaub is an experienced nonprofit leader with exceptional educational and team leadership experience. From Milwaukee, she is a proud graduate of Milwaukee Public Schools’ Riverside University High School. She most recently served as the Senior Director of Talent Strategy and Development for City Forward Collective where she oversaw their talent strategy and the principal licensure program they operate with Alverno College, identifying high potential leaders and developing them through a blend of rigorous study, coaching, and field experience. Prior to joining City Forward Collective, Stephanie was a teacher and administrator with Milwaukee Public Schools. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Maney-Hartlaub.
City Year Milwaukee would like to take this time to thank Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools @milwaukeemps Dr. Keith Posley for speaking with our AmeriCorps members! You, as many other community leaders, are a part of our village, and we appreciate the work you do every day!
We’ve been working with The @starbucks Foundation for more than 10 years, and today we’re excited to continue building on that partnership to advance educational equity. We’re working together with #TheStarbucksFoundation and Starbucks partners across the country to support diversity, equity, inclusion, & belonging and City Year’s 3,000 AmeriCorps members, who serve full time as a student success coaches in more than 300 systematically under resourced schools.
International Women's Day is a global day of celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
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A huge appreciation to all the incredible women on our staff, in our corps, and in our community!
![Today, we saw something that we don’t often see in America: accountability when Black life is taken at the hands of police.
As we, along with communities across the country, waited for this verdict to be announced, we have grappled with the deeply flawed system in which we live and operate: one where we hope for justice for a murder we all watched happen, but knowing that historically, a guilty verdict has rarely been delivered in similar cases.
Today feels like a much-needed step forward, but the work towards justice continues. We continue to stand with the family and friends of George Floyd, with the loved ones of Daunte Wright and countless others who have been killed at the hands of police before and since, and with the Black community.
Above all, we stand with our students, who are both witnessing and participating in this moment. We wrap ourselves in hope and action together with them, with our partners, and with each other in community, until the fact that Black Lives Matter is demonstrated in laws, policies, policing, and in education. We must do this together, in pursuit of a more just and more hopeful future for our students and for all of us.
Art by Thu Anh Nguyen @madebythuanh
[Image description: The words "Black Lives Matter" is surrounded by a wreath of colorful flowers.]](https://www.cityyear.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
