--Our Next Generation Volunteers--
With children being our magnificent future, Our Next Generation knows their potential must be harvested, while being given every possibility available. ONG believes, “helping children achieve their full potential, envision a better tomorrow and grow into well adjusted and successful adults is a right… all children have”.
ONG works with their volunteers to help make children excited about learning and develop positive beliefs about their futures and dreams. Volunteers also work to help students learn about decisions which may affect not only their current lives, but also their futures; these issues involve drug use, various social behaviors, and gang affiliation.
Codi Johnson Alger, Our Next Generation’s Public Relations and Volunteer Intake Manager, shared considerable information about their incredible volunteer program. With a large amount of ONG’s volunteers being local college students working with their service learning programs, they are able to work closely with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Marquette students just to name a few. Many of the volunteers work with ONG because they feel passionately about their mission and wish to make a difference in the lives of young students. However, volunteers are not exclusively from colleges, ONG also works with an assortment of individuals from congregations around the Milwaukee area, with some having partaken in ONG’s mission for over 14 years.
Many of the volunteers wish to provide, “central city youth with academic mentoring programs” they also, “understand the great need for those programs in the community we serve” as Codi Johnson Alger described. With many of the service learning student volunteers being social services or education majors, look at working with ONG as a great opportunity to help prepare themselves for the professional world.
When asked about the practices of many of their volunteers, it was inquired if the volunteers work exclusively with ONG, or help at an assortment of other places, Codi stated, “Both, Philanthropy is contagious, many of our long standing volunteers do volunteer elsewhere, knowing that it takes community effort to make a difference”. With charity being contagious, ONG has been able to help their community for sixteen years. With those years behind them, ONG has been able to see children who started with the program, graduated high school, and are currently attending college; these students have been fortunate enough to revisit ONG and discuss the importance of secondary education with the current students.
ONG helps the community in an immense amount of ways, including their homework club, volunteers, community partnerships, tutoring, high school connection, service learning, the gathering, and collaborative programming, to name a few. Having so many wonderful programs, it is hard to learn about every one offered by ONG. With such a wonderful organization, it is no surprise that people learn about ONG from not only their webpage, but also the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee, friends, family, or current volunteers, to name just a few.
ONG works with their volunteers to help make children excited about learning and develop positive beliefs about their futures and dreams. Volunteers also work to help students learn about decisions which may affect not only their current lives, but also their futures; these issues involve drug use, various social behaviors, and gang affiliation.
Codi Johnson Alger, Our Next Generation’s Public Relations and Volunteer Intake Manager, shared considerable information about their incredible volunteer program. With a large amount of ONG’s volunteers being local college students working with their service learning programs, they are able to work closely with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Marquette students just to name a few. Many of the volunteers work with ONG because they feel passionately about their mission and wish to make a difference in the lives of young students. However, volunteers are not exclusively from colleges, ONG also works with an assortment of individuals from congregations around the Milwaukee area, with some having partaken in ONG’s mission for over 14 years.
Many of the volunteers wish to provide, “central city youth with academic mentoring programs” they also, “understand the great need for those programs in the community we serve” as Codi Johnson Alger described. With many of the service learning student volunteers being social services or education majors, look at working with ONG as a great opportunity to help prepare themselves for the professional world.
When asked about the practices of many of their volunteers, it was inquired if the volunteers work exclusively with ONG, or help at an assortment of other places, Codi stated, “Both, Philanthropy is contagious, many of our long standing volunteers do volunteer elsewhere, knowing that it takes community effort to make a difference”. With charity being contagious, ONG has been able to help their community for sixteen years. With those years behind them, ONG has been able to see children who started with the program, graduated high school, and are currently attending college; these students have been fortunate enough to revisit ONG and discuss the importance of secondary education with the current students.
ONG helps the community in an immense amount of ways, including their homework club, volunteers, community partnerships, tutoring, high school connection, service learning, the gathering, and collaborative programming, to name a few. Having so many wonderful programs, it is hard to learn about every one offered by ONG. With such a wonderful organization, it is no surprise that people learn about ONG from not only their webpage, but also the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee, friends, family, or current volunteers, to name just a few.
--My Learning Reflection--
I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the community Our Next Generation works with. While not limiting themselves to certain organization or areas, ONG is able to help people all around the Milwaukee area, including Washington Park, Lisbon, Westside Academies I and II, along with a variety of other neighborhoods and communities.
While being able to work with a new organization in a new community, I was excited for the experience. Even with the wonderful opportunity, I was excited to learn more about the community and the surrounding neighborhood. The first part of our semester allowed me to acquire a brief view of the community; however, I desired a more in depth look, a greater knowledge and visualization of it. After discussing with Codi Johnson Alger about Our Next Generation’s volunteers, I spent a large amount of my time observing and interacting within the community. I was shocked at the vast differences contained in only a few city blocks; one part of the neighborhood possessed newly renovated roads and a visually appealing library, while the other part consisted of various building and houses with dilapidated construction and an assortment of garbage littering their yard.
My visuals were able to display my focus and intrigue of the community. While I did not incorporate media involving young individuals while studying at ONG, I wanted to show viewers a new side of the community. Allowing them to learn about ONG in a new way, by seeing the community and neighborhood they strive to help, and the differences they have made over the past sixteen years. Imagine where the community and neighborhood will be in another sixteen years with the continued support and help from Our Next Generation and their volunteers.
I enjoyed being able to incorporate a variety of pictures into my blog, showing readers and viewers different images and perspectives. Having had a wide variety of experience volunteering both within the Milwaukee area and outside of it, I have been able to encounter a mixture of organizations, associations, and their missions. I enjoyed being able to take the service learning to a new level and not only spent time with the organization, but also researching its history and the community it serves and resides within. Working outside of the organization allowed me to take more away from the experience; experiencing a new organization, meeting new people, and being able to learn about a different community.
I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the community Our Next Generation works with. While not limiting themselves to certain organization or areas, ONG is able to help people all around the Milwaukee area, including Washington Park, Lisbon, Westside Academies I and II, along with a variety of other neighborhoods and communities.
While being able to work with a new organization in a new community, I was excited for the experience. Even with the wonderful opportunity, I was excited to learn more about the community and the surrounding neighborhood. The first part of our semester allowed me to acquire a brief view of the community; however, I desired a more in depth look, a greater knowledge and visualization of it. After discussing with Codi Johnson Alger about Our Next Generation’s volunteers, I spent a large amount of my time observing and interacting within the community. I was shocked at the vast differences contained in only a few city blocks; one part of the neighborhood possessed newly renovated roads and a visually appealing library, while the other part consisted of various building and houses with dilapidated construction and an assortment of garbage littering their yard.
My visuals were able to display my focus and intrigue of the community. While I did not incorporate media involving young individuals while studying at ONG, I wanted to show viewers a new side of the community. Allowing them to learn about ONG in a new way, by seeing the community and neighborhood they strive to help, and the differences they have made over the past sixteen years. Imagine where the community and neighborhood will be in another sixteen years with the continued support and help from Our Next Generation and their volunteers.
I enjoyed being able to incorporate a variety of pictures into my blog, showing readers and viewers different images and perspectives. Having had a wide variety of experience volunteering both within the Milwaukee area and outside of it, I have been able to encounter a mixture of organizations, associations, and their missions. I enjoyed being able to take the service learning to a new level and not only spent time with the organization, but also researching its history and the community it serves and resides within. Working outside of the organization allowed me to take more away from the experience; experiencing a new organization, meeting new people, and being able to learn about a different community.
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