Course and site listing for Colleen Moore
CMST 3200: Organizational Communication
Procedure:
- Sign-up for a placement in the Service Learning Program office, room 303 of the 707 building (next to Cobeen)
- Contact the agency you selected using the information below. When you contact the agency, please set up an orientation and agree upon the day/time you will complete service.
- Attend the orientation and ask that your site contact sign your service learning contract. Turn your contract in to your professor.
- Fill out your timesheet throughout the semester, get it signed by your site contact, and turn it into your professor during the last week of class.
- If you encounter any problems or difficulties, please contact Patrick McGinn immediately at (414) 288 – 3262 or by email at patrick.mcginn@marquette.edu
City of Milwaukee Department of Employee Relations
Limit: 1 student
Contact: Marti Cargile, Human Resources Representative
Phone: (414) 286-8767
Address: 200 E. Wells St, Room 706 (City Hall)
Transportation: Get on the #31 State - Highland (Direction:Downtown) at 12th and Wisconsin. Take to Water and Wisconsin. Get off and walk to Wells. City Hall will be on your left.
Approximate travel time by car: 5 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 20 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm, though afternoons are preferred. Arrange specific times with Marti – will work around student’s class schedule.
Description of Agency/Activities: The employees in the Department of Employee Relations perform a wide variety of important human resources related duties and responsibilities. These activities directly contribute to the selection, development, and retention of a productive and diverse workforce that carries out the City's mission for its citizens. The Staffing Department oversees the staffing needs of the Fire and Police Departments for non-sworn personnel, the Milwaukee Public Schools, and the City of Milwaukee, including the I-9 process, pre-employment drug testing, and other activities. The Compensation Department deals with the following: salary administration, minimum wage, payroll, and other topics. The Employee Benefits Department deals with employee leave of absence, medical leave, worker's compensation, employee medical benefits, and other related issues.
Student Role at Agency: The main area that the student will be assisting with is in the Staffing Division. A Service Learner may perform a variety of tasks, such as conducting surveys, helping in recruiting new employees, and reviewing applications for minimum requirements. The person may use the phone, a computer (Excel, Word), and may, on occasion, have the opportunity to work at an off-site location assisting with test administration.
Orientation: Orientation will be set up individually with Marti.
City of Milwaukee Public Information Division (Common Council – City Clerk’s Office)
Limit: 1 student
Contact: Bill Arnold
Phone: (414) 286-3285
Address: 200 E. Wells St, Room 301-K (City Hall)
Transportation: Get on the #30 or #10 State - Highland (Direction:Downtown) at 12th and Wisconsin. Take to Water and Wisconsin. Get off and walk north on Water St. City Hall is located at 200 E. Wells St.
Approximate travel time by car: 5 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 20 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Flexible- will work with your schedule: Monday through Friday 8:30am – 4:45pm
Description of Agency: The Public Information Division is responsible for all marketing/PR, social media, web, and media relations for the Milwaukee Common Council – City Clerk’s Office.
Student Role at Agency: Projects include: writing media advisories, conducting research analysis, web writing, updating social media pages, writing newsletter material, etc. Students might also attend various events such as news conferences, common council meetings, news events, and internal or community receptions. The student should have an interest in communications, public relations, politics, writing, social media and media relations.
Orientation: Students will need to contact Bill to set up an individual orientation.
Special Requirements: A department manager who handles HR duties will explain “work rules” on or near the service learner’s first day, and will also likely conduct an “exit interview” when the service learner’s service time is at or near the end.
Hunger Task Force
Limit: 1 student
Contact: Scott Marshall
Phone: (414) 238-6474
Address: 201 Hawley Court
Transportation: Take the #10 west from 16th and Wisconsin Ave. Get off at 55th and Wisconsin. Walk one block west to Hawley and take the #64 south on Hawley. Get off at Hawley and Parkhill.
Approximate travel time by car: 10 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 25 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Thursday 2:00pm-5:00pm or Friday 9:00am-12:00pm or Friday 2:00-5:00pm
Description of Agency/Activities: Ending Hunger is Our Mission. Hunger Task Force believes that every person has a right to adequate food obtained with dignity. Hunger Task Force works to prevent hunger and malnutrition by providing food to people in need today and by promoting social policies to achieve a hunger free community tomorrow. We attack the issue of Hunger on two fronts: Advocacy and Food Banking.
Student Role at Agency: Service Learners will update the Hunger Task Force website and Facebook page with public food drive information. The work will consist mostly of data entry with a little graphic design. Service learners will be in an office environment with many people to answer questions about office culture and methods of communication.
Orientation: Students will need to contact Scott to set-up an individual orientation.
Jewish Home and Care Center
Limit: 2 students
Contact: Beth Draper
Phone: (414) 277-8848
Address: 1414 N. Prospect Avenue
Transportation: Get on the #30 at 16th or 10th and Wisconsin towards downtown. Get off Prospect and Curtis.
Approximate travel time by car: 10 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 15 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
Description of Agency/Activities: Jewish Home and Care Center provides our Jewish community with those services that enable our seniors or infirm to be a part of a quality Jewish environment, with comfort, independence, and dignity. Jewish Home and Care Center provides services to people of all faiths needing short-term rehabilitation care and therapy, as well as those in need of long-term residential care.
Student Role at Agency: Students can take on various roles within the Jewish Home and Care Center. They have the opportunity to assist the activities staff in providing enriching programming experiences both at the facility and out in the community at large. Students can help in conducting research as well as creating/updating social media pages. The students can assist in creating a volunteer newsletter and designing other brochures. Other projects available for service learners include, but are not limited to, devising communication plan and assisting in the department of Human Resources with hiring and screening.
Orientation: Students can call Beth to set-up an individual orientation.
Special Requirements: Jewish Home and Care Center requires all volunteers to fill out JHCC volunteer applications, and background check forms. They are required to go through a one hour on-site orientation, and our students are asked to perform at least two hours of service per week during the semester. Students must also have had a flu shot.
Journey House
Limit: 2 students
Contact: Cherise Myers
Phone: (414) 647-0548 ext. 2224
Address: 2110 W. Scott Street
Transportation:Catch any bus going south (#14) across the 16th St. bridge; get off at Scott Street; walk five blocks west to 21st Street.
Approximate Travel Time By Bus: 17 minutes
Approximate Travel Time By Car: 8 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday 9:00am – 3:00pm (preferred hours), but evenings are fine.
Description of Agency/Activities: Established in 1969, Journey House is grounded in the philosophy that Education is a Family Journey. We embody this belief through our mission of working with the community utilizing a self-help philosophy in order to increase education, reduce unemployment and crime, strengthen families, and revitalize neighborhoods. Journey House begins with the conviction that everyone has (a) the right to a high quality of life and (b) the basic assets for attaining it. At the same time, members of urban Milwaukee communities face challenges to their quality of life, and must therefore develop specific academic, employment, and life skills in order to become full participants in the benefits and responsibilities of civic society. For this reason, Journey House exists as a community-based opportunity oasis where men, women, and children on Milwaukee’s diverse Near South Side can build these vital skills and reach their goals.
Student Role at Agency: Students will be working in the community relations department and will assist with any of the following: events, marketing, social media, website content, and generating flyers and brochures.
Orientation: Students will need to call Cherise to set-up an individual orientation.
Messmer High School
Limit: 2 students
Contact: Rose Richard
Phone: 414.264.5440 ext. 1262
Address: 742 W. Capitol Drive
Transportation: Option 1: Take the #30 bus towards downtown. Disembark on 6th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Transfer to the #80 bus towards App-Villard (north). After about 25 stops, disembark on Capitol Drive and head east. Messmer High School is located just east of Highway 43 on the corner of Capitol Drive and N. 7th Street.
Approximate Time By Car:10 minutes
Approximate Time By Bus:35 minutes
Days/hours of Operations: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm
Description of Agency:Messmer High School is dedicated to serving a diverse, urban population and providing its students with an education that represents the school’s Catholic heritage.
Student Role at Agency: Students may choose to either work in Messmer’s Development Office, assisting with event planning, organizing databases, writing articles, and drafting letters or to work with Rose and help launch a new Community Learning Center at Messmer.
Orientation: Contact Rose to set up an orientation.
Special Requirements: Messmer Human Resource Office will perform background checks.
Milwaukee Christian Center
Limit: 2 students
Contact: Bernadette Arellano
Phone: 414-645-5350
Address:2137 W. Greenfield Avenue
Transportation:Take a westbound Wisconsin Ave. bus (#10, #30, #31) to 27th St. Get off and take the #27 bus SOUTH to Greenfield Ave. Get off and take either the #19 bus east to 21st or walk to 22nd St.
Approximate Travel Time by Bus: 20 minutes
Approximate Travel Time by Car: 9 minutes
Days hours of Operations: Flexible, 2 to 3 hours per week, Monday through Friday hours are 9:00am to 3:00pm. Hours need to be consistent each week.
Description of Agency:The Milwaukee Christian Center (MCC), was founded in 1921 by an American Baptist missionary to meet the needs of newly arrived immigrant children on the south side of Milwaukee. Over time, MCC developed into a multi-faceted social service and neighborhood development agency that serves families, youth, and the elderly. MCC believes that all people have the inherent worth and deserve to be treated with compassion, dignity and love. MCC exists to offer hope and support to individuals and families while providing a safe and nurturing environment to people of all cultures, faiths and walks of life. MCC currently offers a variety of programs including: an emergency food pantry, senior adult program, neighborhood improvement project, juvenile justice programs and youth programs at 3 separate sites.
Student Role at Agency: Service learners will be directly responsible for rewriting all of MCC current brochures and content for our website. Other opportunities will present for students upon timing. Students will have the ability to work directly with all supervisors and managers at MCC to learn more about each program MCC offers to our community. Students will rewrite the following:
- Website material
- Agency brochures
- Articles/stories of our clients
- Quarterly newsletter to donors
Orientation: Overview of the agency will be given. Please contact Bernadette to set up an orientation.
Special Requirements: Background check.
March of Dimes
Limit: 2 - 3 students
Contact: Courtney Rogaczewski
Phone: (414) 203-3119
Email: crogaczewski@marchofdimes.com
Address: 5225 N. Ironwood Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217(Located only ½ a mile from Bayshore Towne Center)
Transportation: Take the #49 West towards downtown from 10th and Wisconsin. Get off at North Shore and Parkride. (15 minutes total walking) Walk South on Port Washington Rd. Turn right onto Lexington Blvd. Then take a left onto N. Ironwood Rd.
Approximate travel time by car: 12 Minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 30 Minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm
Description of Agency/Activities: The Mission of the March of Dimes is to prevent prematurity, birth defects and infant mortality by funding research, programs and advocacy nationwide. Our history goes back to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the eradication of polio via the polio vaccine given to every baby. The March of Dimes Milwaukee Division is the fundraising arm that supports programs in Southeastern Wisconsin. We fundraise for the cause through 3 major events: March for Babies, Signature Chef’s Auction and Drive for Babies.
Student Role at Agency: Service Learners will be asked to assist with communications, website and social media updates, marketing, fundraising (assisting with proposals and phone calls), and special events. In particular, Service Learners will help prepare for Signature Chefs on September 27 and March for Babies in April.
Commitment: Orientation at the site, 4 hours per week scheduled by student and agency.Students need to dress professionally at this office place. Recommended for students with cars because of the travel distance.
Orientation: Students must email or call Courtney to set up an orientation. Paperwork to be filled out at site.
Pan African Community Association
Limit: 7
Contact: Michael Grochowski
Phone: (414) 442-5864
Email: MGrochowski@panafricoma.org
Address: 4063 North 64th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53216
Transportation:
Approximate travel time by car: 15 minutes
Head South on North 11th Street toward West Wisconsin Avenue, take the ramp onto I-94 West, take exit 308C to merge onto US 41 North, turn left onto West Lisbon Avenue, slight right onto West Appleton Avenue, turn right onto West Capitol Drive, turn left onto North 64th Street, and the destination will be on the left.
Approximate travel time by bus: 40 minutes
Walk to Wisconsin and North 10th Street, get on the BLU bus towards Fdl-National Metroexpress to Park PI/Liberty, get off at Fond du Lac and Capitol, get on the 62 Bus towards 76th Street-Via Capitol, and walk to Capitol and North 64th Street.
Days/Hours of Operation: The Service Learners are welcome any time between 9:00am and 5:00pm.
Description of Agency/Activities: The Pan-African Community Association, a non-profit community organization unites all people of African descent in the Greater Milwaukee area and beyond with the motto of "Many Faces, One Strength!" It brings resources and expertise together and matches them with the needs of our community; especially recent African Immigrants and Refugees, helping them transition and integrate smoothly into a new society and economic structure.
Student Role at Agency: Students will work with the PR Director to assist with outreach for the organization in general and for the fundraiser.
Special Consideration: It is essential for students who wish to be placed here to be self-motivated and work with little direction. Projects will be assigned, but it is up to the students themselves to be able to take the project and run with it. Students should have an interest in assisting a small community organization with outreach and connecting with local businesses and organizations.
Orientation: TBD
Volunteers of America of Wisconsin, Inc.
Limit: 1 Student
Contact: Theresa Clark
Phone: (414) 847-1515
Address: 1661 N. Water Street, Suite 410
Transportation: Take the #30 Sherman-Wisconsin (Direction: Maryland) from 14th and Wisconsin east to the intersection of Wisconsin and Plankinton. Walk across river and Water Street to bus stop. Get on #15 Oakland-Kinnickinnic (Direction: Bayshore) and take to Water and Jackson. Destination is back one block down Water at 1661 N Water.
Approximate travel time by car: 8 Minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 22 Minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
(Pick 2 hour shift, must be different if 2 students sign up)
Description of Agency/Activities: A national, nonprofit, spiritually based organization providing local human service programs, and other opportunities for individual and community involvement.
Student Role at Agency: Student role would include general HR Assistant duties such as filing, data entry, and personnel file creation, all at an organization that provides 24-hour care for adults with disabilities.
Orientation: Students much fill out volunteer application and schedule an individual volunteer interview/orientation with Theresa.
Artists Working in Education Inc.
Limit: 2 students
Contact: Reanna Ottoson
Phone: (414) 933-3877
Email: Reanna@awe-inc.org
Address: 4315 W. Vilet St. Milwaukee, WI 53208
Transportation: Catch the #30 bus going west on Wisconsin Ave. Get off at Highland and Vliet St. Walk west three blocks on Vliet St.
Approximate travel time by car: 10 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 20 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday, 8:30-2:00
Description of Agency/Activities: Artists Working in Education, Inc. (A.W.E.), sponsors professional artists to nurture the imaginations of Milwaukee children by bringing creative visual arts experiences directly to schools, community centers and informal settings such as parks, playgrounds and community events. A.W.E. artists guide children through the process of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Hands-on art activities with professional artists help children develop new ways of seeing the world, enhanced inquisitiveness, creativity, flexibility, imagination, and confidence. A.W.E. believes children deserve the opportunity not only to look at art, talk about art and write about art, but to create art.
Student Role at Agency: A.W.E. is flexible and can accommodate a number of interests relating to organizational communication. Students may work on various projects including: social media management (regularly updating their Facebook, Twitter, and MKE 123 pages as well as two blogs), working on marketing and fund raising events, and conducting interviews to record in archives.
Orientation: Students need to call Reanna to set-up an individual orientation.
Special Requirements: Students will have to be interviewed and need to complete a volunteer application and a background check prior to that interview which can be found at the following website: http://awe-inc.org/media/volunteer%20form/Volunteer%20interest%20form.pdf or on http://awe-inc.org/support-a.w.e./donate-time.php
Voces de la Frontera
Limit: 1 student
Contact: Joe Shansky
Phone: (414) 218-3331
Email: joe@vdlf.org
Address: 1027 S. 5th St. Milwaukee, WI 53204
Transportation: Walk to 6th and Wisconsin Ave. Then take the #80 south towards the airport. Get off at 6th and Washington. Walk one block east on Washington and then half a block north on 5th St.
Approximate travel time by car: 8 minutes
Approximate travel time by bus: 25 minutes
Days/Hours of Operation: 9:00am-5:00pm. Schedule is flexible and some work could be done remotely.
Description of Agency/Activities: Voces de la Frontera has provides dedicated leadership to immigrant, worker & civil rights.Onsite is a low-wage and immigrant worker's center that opened in Nov. 2001. The center was created to respond to the immediate problems low-wage immigrant workers face. The center provides a legal clinic where workers can obtain free legal advice about labor and civil rights, as well as ongoing English language and citizenship classes. The agency also engages in organizing with low wage and immigrant workers and students (high school and college) for positive community change. Ongoing campaigns include humane immigration reform and access to higher education for immigrants.
Student Role at Agency: at least 2 hours/week. Helping to coordinate monthly newspaper and promotional materials (writing, reporting, photography, video, research). Archiving news articles, photographs, media lists, and databases. Graphic design/web design ability a plus. Bilingual speakers preferred, but not required. Seeking someone with a strong interest in social justice
Orientation: Student will need to contact Joe to set-up an individual orientation.
Special Requirements: Student MUST be competent in either graphic design or web design. Student should have an interest in social justice and worker rights. Bilingual (Spanish/English) is a plus, but not necessary. Interested applicants should send a resume and short email explaining why you'd like to work with Voces, to joe@vdlf.org.
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