The 22nd annual Community Day returned to its roots, building community on campus while also serving the community around us.
About 350 students, faculty and staff donated their time and skills to a variety of causes. Rather than sending hundreds of volunteers to locations throughout the city, this year the majority of participants stayed on campus, but the impact was just as powerful. Here is just some of what was accomplished:
100 winter kits were assembled for people who are unhoused
70 sandwiches were made for St. Ben’s meal program
32 hats were crocheted for a variety of causes
31 bowls were made for Empty Bowls
30 tee shirt bags were made for the Alverno food pantry
18 blankets were made for Ronald McDonald House
10 bags of trash were collected at Jackson Park
In addition, teams removed invasive plants from the Alverno bioswale, winterized and expanded the campus rain garden, created craft projects to share as random acts of kindness, worked with disabled adults from the Milwaukee Center for Independence, cleaned the windows at the Early Learning Center, built a Little Free Library and more!
Over the course of 22 years, more than 7,900 Alverno community members have given more than 25,400 hours of service. That’s the definition of “Alverno Strong!”
