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Our community thrives when we work together for good. Discover how your help furthers our cause and supports our vital programs. Learn how we helped over 80,000 people in 2025.


  • People Helped by Our Basic Needs Division in 2025

    72,376

  • Energy Assistance Applications Processed in 2025

    59,854

  • Individuals Received Milwaukee Women's Center Services in 2025

    2,306

  • Job Seekers Found Free Clothing in the Bottomless Closet in 2025

    437

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Community Advocates provides individuals and families with advocacy and services to meet their basic needs so they may live in dignity. With your help we can make a difference. Learn more and get involved.


News & Notes

March’s Empowerment Coalition of Milwaukee (ECOM) brought together social service professionals looking to learn more about and explore resources relating to legal services.

Thank you to our presenters from Legal Action of Wisconsin, Legal Aid MKE, and the Milwaukee Justice Center for facilitating these important conversations about how community organizations can connect individuals to services that offer civil legal counsel.

February’s Empowerment Coalition of Milwaukee (ECOM) workshop brought together social service professionals to discuss programs and services that support individuals with autism as well as parents and family members of individuals living with a disability.

We were fortunate to have presenters from Children’s Wisconsin’s Center for Child Development and Parent to Parent program, Autism United, Goodwill–Greater Milwaukee and Chicago’s Disability Services, and Children’s Resource Center–Southeast.