Local firms participate in National Day of Action

More than 50 volunteers from the Milwaukee business community spent the first day of summer volunteering at COA Youth & Family Centers, 909 E. North Ave., Milwaukee. Volunteers helped COA youth plant flowers, mulch garden beds and do other landscaping.
COA Youth & Family Services brings children, teens and families together to learn, grow and achieve through programs offered at its urban community centers and rural camp facility. Volunteers also donated sunscreen, insect repellent, flashlights and sleeping bags for the ultimate camp experience.
“This effort is all about creating change and making our community a little stronger and the day a little brighter,” said Dani Machata a volunteer leader with Godfrey & Kahn S.C. “It was wonderful to see more than 50 people come together to create a new energy that will help inspire others to act not just on this day, but throughout the year.”
Machata and many of the volunteers are a part of United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s Emerging Leaders program, started in 2006 to engage young leaders and connect them to the community.
Local companies who participated in the Leadership Day of Action included: Reinhardt Boerner Van Deuren, Ernst & Young, A.L. Schutzman, Johnson Controls Inc., Godfrey & Kahn S.C., The Cholive Company, FIS, KPMG – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Energy Corp., Cleary Gull Inc., Northern Trust, Generation Growth Capital, Associated Bank Corp., General Mills, Manpower and Deloitte & Touche.