Neighborhood House is honored and grateful to have team Maple #7 from AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) in residence at the Nature Center this Spring. The versatile ten-member team from the NCCC North Central Region campus of Vinton, Iowa has been assisting with outdoor education as well as land management. Nature Center visitors will have seen them this month…
Things That Fly is the theme for Neighborhood House outdoor education programs this year. NH kids launched into the subject in typical hands-on fashion by making and launching bottle rockets during spring break. This year Neighborhood House had extra support from Maple #7, a crew of AmeriCorps NCCC workers in residence at the Neighborhood House Nature Center in Dodge…
This summer, Lead & Learn Nature Camp for Urban Kids got over 300 kids outdoors – kids from Neighborhood House, Guadalupe School, United Community Center, Kosciuszko Center, and other community centers. Led by Lead Environmental Educator Christina Hill and four talented interns, kids explored the process of pollination, the role of pollinators in our food supply, and how human actions affect the well-being…
Congratulations to Community Learning Center Site Coordinator Talisa Smith and Early Childhood Services Manager Phan Sanford for successfully completing the K-8 After-school and Youth Development Quality Project with Quinn Wilder (pictured with Talisa above) at the Youth Work Learning Center at UWM. The Youth Work Learning Center is an education, research and staff development resource for child and…
A garden dream came true this Earth Day, Wednesday April 22nd 2015 as volunteers from Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association (WLCA), Metro Milwaukee Chapter installed garden beds, picnic tables, and play areas for the new Neighborhood House Garden Park on a vacant corner of W. 27th St. and Richardson Place. The ground-breaking ceremony featured park project donors, WISN TV’s Mark Baden, Milwaukee Alderman Robert…