Courage MKE

We are currently hiring for our newly created AmeriCorps positions!

Courage House Americorp Position • Jobs That Help • Nonprofit Jobs in Wisconsin Share via:Reports to: Courage House Manager The Courage House Resident Care Americorp member is responsible for implementing the daily schedule of activities while modeling healthy life skills. Resident Care workers provide direct supervision to residents to ensure physical safety and program implem...

Want to give back and get your loved one an amazing gift?! Check out our holiday shop below!

📅 Nov 14 | Courage MKE's 2023 Holiday Shop! 12:00AM | This holiday season, give the gift of love that keeps on giving!Every dollar spent on our 2023 Holiday Store will go directly to programs that support LGBTQ+ youth across the state of Wisconsin! With your support, we will continue to make sure no one is left behind!Purchased items can be ....

Remember. End the stigma. End AIDS

“This year’s theme for World AIDS Day is “World AIDS Day 35: Remember and Commit.” This annual event serves as a reminder of the global struggle to end HIV-related stigma, an opportunity to honor those we have lost, and a rallying cry to commit to working toward a day when HIV is no longer a public health threat.”
- HIV.gov

There’s still three hours left! If willing, please give us a vote! ❤️❤️

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Exciting news!

We have outgrown our office space we have been using in the back house of The Courage House so we're moving! This will open additional space for new programming for us! We're looking for volunteers who are interested in volunteering to help get our new space ready (cleaning and light moving) for us to move in on the morning of Monday the 4th (starting at 9am), and helping us to move furniture into the space on Friday the 8th (starting at 10:00am).

We are also in search of a few items for the new space:
1. Large "boardroom" like table and chairs to seat 12
2. Large table to seat 6- 8
2. Refrigerator
3. A small "kitchen cart/island" with wheels

If you can lend a hand on either or both days or have items to donate, please reach out to Marissa at [email protected]. Thank you!

Hey family!

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We're celebrating big this ! Giving Tuesday is a national celebration and was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Today, join your friends at Educators Credit Union by celebrating . Throughout the day, we will be highlighting local nonprofits that call the communities we serve home.

Tag your favorite nonprofit in southeastern Wisconsin below for their chance to receive $2,500 from Educators Credit Union! Nonprofits can receive an unlimited amount of votes.

➡️ Be sure to follow us on Instagram and comment on the post to earn your favorite nonprofit extra entries. https://www.instagram.com/myeducatorscu/

Comments will close at 9 p.m. on November 28. The chosen nonprofit will be announced on November 29.

There’s still time to shop our holiday shop and no Black Friday deals necessary!! 🤣

📅 Nov 14 | Courage MKE's 2023 Holiday Shop! 12:00AM | This holiday season, give the gift of love that keeps on giving!Every dollar spent on our 2023 Holiday Store will go directly to programs that support LGBTQ+ youth across the state of Wisconsin! With your support, we will continue to make sure no one is left behind!Purchased items can be ....

Thank you TMJ4 News❤

Courage MKE gives back to neighborhood families during holiday season In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, the Courage MKE house is filled with holiday cheer from stockings hung with care to a living room tree all aglow.

WHOA!!! For the first time in almost five years, NO ONE fought bath time! 🤣🤣🤣

Last night our Resident Care Worker, KJ and one of our House Volunteers treated our residents to a sound bath.

A sound bath is a meditative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves. These waves are produced by various sources, including healing instruments such as gongs, singing bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself.

Sounds delightful doesn’t it?!?!

Doors open at 6:30 at Zao MKE Church and today’s Trans Day of Remembrance starts at 7pm. 🏳️‍⚧️

At our gala earlier this month, I challenged our family to wear the button at least once a month to random places that youth may see it. Holding myself accountable as I grocery shop for Thanksgiving at The Courage House! Q***R KIDS NEED YOU! .

Check out the photo in the comments for a story by our family member Dañelle Kay! ❤️

-Brad

Can’t wait to see you at open mic night tonight!!!

The Dads | Official Trailer | Netflix In this gentle meditation on fatherhood, brotherhood and manhood, five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard – the father of slain gay college studen...

Family,

Since we opened The Courage House, it has been an important part of our program that the house does a community service project every quarter.

Today, we kick off our 4th Annual Holiday Helpers program to make sure the children around The Courage House have a great holiday. Last week, our residents and staff went door to door, delivering Holiday Wishes letters to 300 of our neighbors.

If you, your family/friends or office are looking for ways to help this holiday season, please consider adopting on of the families from the link below. We ask that all gifts are wrapped, labeled and dropped off to The Courage House by December 15th as our residents will be delivering to each family starting Tuesday, December 19th.

A special thank you to our friends at Target - Grafton for helping grant some of the wishes already.

Click this link to sign up and please share!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D86sWEJhSiItxroNGsxktbpun0waChbdv1hnPTb9iPs/edit?usp=sharing

Courage Gala attendees, if you have any photos of the event you'd like to share we'd love to see them. Please send them by email to [email protected]. Thank you!

Thank you for the nominations Milwaukee, we're elated!

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Courage MKE Courage MKE empowers today’s LGBTQ+ youth to become tomorrow’s leaders

Have you ever been in a room full of people and just known that you were witnessing something truly remarkable? Friday was... absolutely magical! To be in a room filled with that much love, how could it not be? Our gratitude for this community, for this family, is beyond words. Thank you to our supporters, donors, volunteers, and staff - this world is infinitely better because you're in it. Thank you for helping us raise a whopping $123,954.00 to provide housing and resources for q***r youth!

We are so excited to share our hostess of entertainment for our annual drag show this evening will be the incredible Tempest Heat!

Tempest has been part of our Courage Family for many, many years! She has held so many titles including Miss Courage MKE and has performed basically everywhere!

Help us show her and our entire cast this evening some love and what FUN looks like! See you all later tonight!!❤️

We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow!! Here’s a little sneak peek! 😉 Our silent auction is live www.event.gives/Ohana

ONE DAY TO GO!

For those attending we wanted to share as much information with you as possible about the Courage gala.


General Information:

Venue: Mitchell Park Domes, 524 S. Layton Blvd, Milwaukee, 53204

Date: November 3, 2023

Time: Doors open at 5:30pm

Attire: As always, we want you to come as your best self! Our team is going fun and fancy.

New this year! Purchase bottles of wine for your table at the bar during cocktail hour.

Event Timeline:

5:30pm - Arrival/registration, drinks (bars accept cash/credit), Domes tours, meet our Keynote Speaker Brandon Wolf in the Show Dome and find out how you can get a copy of his book, free group photos in the Tropical Dome, merch for purchase in the Desert Dome, and an incredible silent auction!

7:00pm – Program and dinner served

9:00pm – Drag Show

10:15pm – After Party presented by POP


Parking:

Complimentary valet parking will also be available for all guests.

Free parking in front of the Domes entrance is available for all.



Drag Show:

Enjoy a fabulous show from performers from across our state. Cash tips are always appreciated for our performers who will be graciously donating them to Courage. Visit our cashier to make change if needed.

After-Party:

Join us at POP (124 W. National Ave) for a Courage MKE after party, sponsored by Smirnoff. We strongly encourage our guests not to drink and drive. We will have a free shuttle available from the Domes going to POP starting at 10:00pm. Vehicles cannot be left in the Domes parking lot overnight.

Please reach out with any questions at [email protected].

We are beyond excited to see all of you tomorrow!

-Team Courage

With your help, we can make sure no one is left behind.

Gosh, we LOVE our community!! Join us this Friday POP as they host the official after party and fun after our gala! Thank you to Marcus and his amazing team for creating this fabulous event!!!

Join us for the official Courage Gala Afterparty this Friday!

A massive shout out to Quad Graphics and Kohl's for volunteering with us last week! On Friday Kohl's came and helped us paint some of the doors at the C2 Apartments and on Saturday, Quad cleaned and organized our Courage back house basement in preparation for our Holiday Helpers Toy Drive! Quad also did a company wide drive and donated thousands of courage kit items! We're so grateful for their time, energy and support.

Happy Gala Week Family!

We are so excited to share with you that our Ohana! Silent Auction is now live! The best part is that everyone can participate whether you're attending the gala or not! Even better, we all get to recognize and support so many generous businesses that have supported us for so many years!

We'd like to thank everyone who donated to this year's silent auction! Keep checking back as we will be adding a few more items throughout this week! See you on Friday!!

📅 Nov 3 | Ohana Courage MKE 2023 Annual Gala 5:30PM | Join us for the Ohana Family Gala 2023!​We cannot wait to share our favorite night of the year with you!Thank you for making time for our cause and supporting our family.Exciting new event updates: New Venue:  Mitchell Park Domes Tour the Domes with a drink and friends Dinner, Program &a...

He’s back for his third year in a row and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Please welcome our emcee for our gala Montell Ross!

Montell has been part of the Courage family since we started! He’s been Mr. Courage MKE, a sounding board to all of us, and now, with his most important role, he serves as a Courage MKE Board Member.

If you know, you know, but this man lights the house up for us the night of our gala and we are so grateful for his talent of hosting our biggest fundraiser of the year!

We love you Montell!!

Always has and always will take all of us working together!!!

We’re down to the final count down! Only 9 more days until we’re all together! It takes so much to ensure that the generosity from the community the night of our gala goes toward our programmming and youth we serve. Today, we’d like to express our heartfelt gratitude to this year’s gala Presenting Sponsor Riverside Family Dental!

Dr. Blanchard and his team are no strangers to our Courage MKE family. The team at Riverside Family Dental have been providing free dental care for our Residents and has been so generous supporting our staff as well.

Dental care for youth in the social welfare system is very sparse and quite frankly, not that good if existent at all. We are so grateful to Dr. B for ensuring our small Courage Family’s dental health is the best it possibly can be!

See you all at Ohana!! 🌺

ONLY TWO WEEKS TO GO UNTIL OUR ANNUAL GALA! We could not be more excited to welcome our keynote speaker and guest of honor Brandon Wolf! Brandon is a talented writer, activist, and a Pulse Nightclub survivor. His powerful writing had us laughing, crying, and shaking with rage! Brandon's story, like so many, will forever stay imprinted in our hearts, pushing us onward to create and honor safe spaces for q***r youth. ***rkidsneedyou

We are just over two weeks away from our annual gala; Ohana!! The excitement is building and we cannot wait so see all of you on our favorite night of the year!

Our gala team has poured their hearts into this night and we are so grateful. Kristen, Corinn, and Lisa thank you for volunteering to step up and plan this year’s event for us! We know how much work goes into this and cannot wait to see it all come together.

For those attending, please check your emails as we are days away from needing to provide our caterer with final counts!

We will begin to send “Gala need to knows” later next week!!