volunteer

Possible places to volunteer:

• Betty Brinn Children's Museum
• Discovery World
• Habitat for Humanity
• Hunger Task Force
• Local nursing homes
• Schlitz Audobon Nature Center
• Service Club of Milwaukee
• St. Francis Children's Center
• Summit Educational Association (become a role model/tutor for inner city students) www.summitea.org
• Soup kitchens
• Urban Ecology Center
• Zoological Society of Milwaukee Education (zoosociety.org/education)  

Other resources:

Bay Volunteer program:  The summer program provides youth entering 9th thru 12th grade an opportunity to become leaders in the community by working with students in preschool to 8th grade in summer day camp settings. Applications can be found at the high school, middle school and Whitefish Bay Recreation and Community Education Department.  Application materials should be returned to the WFB Rec. Dept. by March 15th.

Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program:  This paid summer Counselor-in Training program is for teens entering their senior year of high school where they are mentored and trained to be youth camp counselors.  It is an 8 week commitment consisting of 25 hours a week at either Cumberland or Richards Day Camps. 

www.volunteermatch.org

www.dosomething.org

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