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2004 Milwaukee Empty Bowls Recipients

The Salvation Army
Southeastern Wisconsin–Greater Milwaukee
www.samilwaukee.org

The Salvation Army has been serving Greater Milwaukee for over 100 years. Today they have a variety of programs to meet the needs of the people in the communities were they serve. Last year they provided over 300,000 meals to more than 40,000 people. They provided shelter for 1,000 individuals and helped them to find jobs and take control of their lives.

The Salvation Army of Greater Milwaukee's mission is to identify and serve the spiritual, emotional and material needs of the community in an effective, responsible and accountable manner. Funds from Milwaukee Empty Bowls will benefit the Salvation Army Food Pantry.

Contact the Salvation Army Divisional Headquarters at (414) 302-4300. To make a private donation, checks can be mailed to the following address:

The Salvation Army
P.O. Box 26019, Wauwatosa, WI 53226

The Gathering
804 East Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
(414) 272-4122
www.thegatheringwis.org

The Gathering works to insure that the homeless and hungry in Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin will have adequate food. From its beginning 21 years ago, The Gathering has grown to sponsor meals at 5 sites, to provide food to after school youth programs, and to support a transitional living community. They also cooperatively sponsor back to work programs and leadership development seminars. The Gathering routinely involve thousands of community volunteers in their mission to feed the hungry, as well as to offer other direct referral and advocacy services to the homeless and poor.

Contact The Gathering at (414) 272-4122.

Milwaukee Christian Center
2137 W. Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, WI
(414) 645-5350
www.mccwi.org

Serving Milwaukee’s Southside community for 83 years, the Milwaukee Christian Center offers numerous services that include a daycare for children 6 weeks to 12 years of age; a Neighborhood Improvement Project that does home rehabilitation for low income residents; youth programs located at three sites including Doerfler School and United Church; and elderly program specializing in outreach to the Hmong elderly; and an emergency food pantry. In the past two years the emergency food pantry is refocusing its efforts to provide more ethnically appropriate food for its clients that include purchasing Southeast Asian and Hispanic food offered as a three-day emergency supply of food. Funds from Milwaukee Empty Bowls will benefit the Food Pantry.

Contact The Milwaukee Christian Center at (414) 645-5350.