Community Action – Milwaukee
We are committed to investing our time, resources, and expertise to create positive local impact. From pro bono work to partnering with organizations dedicated to relieving hunger and improving lives, we are honored to engage with our community and beyond.
For more information, please contact our Milwaukee Community Action Representatives Lyssa Olker and Hannah Rupprecht.
Our engagement with
Revitalize Milwaukee
Revitalize Milwaukee is an organization that helps underserved populations in Milwaukee with necessary home repairs. Their largest event is Block Build Milwaukee, where teams go around to various neighborhoods in Milwaukee and do home repairs for 30-40 homes in the area. These homes are sponsored by various companies throughout the city and employees volunteer their time to complete these repairs. HGA has participated for over five years with repairs ranging from accessibility additions, siding applications, lawn care, painting, and more!
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Milwaukee Riverkeeper
Milwaukee Riverkeeper is an organization that aims to educate and help keep our bodies of water clean and healthy. Each year they host the annual Milwaukee River Clean Up, which our office has participated in for many years. Recently, we cleaned up the Boone and Crocket site near the our office location. Employees, friends, and families made up over 25 of the nearly 100 volunteers that cleaned up this area.
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CANstruction
CANstruction is an event put on by AIA Wisconsin and Wisco NOMA where teams from architecture firms around Milwaukee present a design made out of any canned food items they want. One of the most recent themes was “I CAN Dream.” Our team chose to draw inspiration from the newly completed mural of Giannis Antetokounmpo, who we feel is the epitome of pursuing your dreams to the fullest. Our design used over 1,300 cans of food including tuna, green beans, corn, and Manwich. The event in total donated over 15,000 cans to the Jewish Community Center.
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Sherman Phoenix
Sherman Phoenix is a marketplace for Black-owned businesses in Milwaukee. Situated in West Milwaukee, this market hall features everything from food options, barber shop, photography dark rooms, recording studios, and more. HGA helped design the interior of their space to accommodate all of their various vendor needs, as well as make the space innovative and inviting. Our Community Action group helped complete much of the painting, landscaping, and furniture assembly.
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Kathy's House
Kathy’s House is located on Froedtert's campus and provides free housing to those whose family's members are receiving treatment at the hospital. HGA recently completed a brand new facility with over 40 individual apartments for families. Kathy’s House provides meals to families while they stay, often provided by local companies. Our volunteers have helped prepare and serve dinners for multiple years for the residents staying at this location.
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Driftless Region
Youth Flight
Drifttless Region Youth Flight (DRYF) is an organization in La Crosse, Wisconsin, that provides training, education, and resources to those interest in the aviation field with the goal of increasing young people in the pipeline to progress to various aviation jobs. DRYF participated in the annual Design Workshop in Minneapolis where the team helped to develop preliminary floor plans, renderings, code analysis, and cost estimates pro bono.
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Kinship Community
Food Center
Kinship is a food pantry located in Riverwest that provides food security, education, and other resources to those in need in the community. Rooted in the principle that food brings people together, Kinship has both a food pantry and gathering space, as well as an urban farm where much of the produce is grown where individuals are able to shop for during food distribution times. As this organization grows and helps more and more people have access to necessary resources, HGA is in the process of helping them imagine a new space to better serve their workers and community members.
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Lead2Change
Lead2Change is an organization that provides after school mentorship and resources to teens in Milwaukee. Their spaces was in need of a refresh so our Community Action team assisted them re-imagine their space and provided an interior finish and furniture refresh to enhance creativity and inspiration.
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Communities of Crocus
Communities of Crocus is an organization that strives to provide housing for adults with cognitive disabilities and those on the autism spectrum. They are centered on providing affordable, quality care while providing a sense of community for the individuals and their caregivers. This community features a blend of apartment-style and shared-home living options, accompanied by a range of supportive services for residents and caregivers. These services encompass therapy spaces, training zones, wellness rooms, and more.
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Food Center
Mentorship
HGA's Milwaukee office, in partnership with other local area firms, started the inaugural Milwaukee chapter of The ACE Mentor Program. This organization's mission is to engage, excite, and enlighten high school students to pursue careers in architecture, engineering, and construction through mentoring and continued support for their advancement into the industry. Through weekly sessions, high school students are provided with a general education of the various careers available in the AEC industries and later sessions involve working on a final design project that is presented to all their peers and families at the conclusion of the program.
Social Impact Week
Social Impact Week unites HGA's offices across the country to participate in various days of service to celebrate the week, ranging from resource drives to park clean ups. HGA's Milwaukee office supported Kinship Food Community Center by hosting a presentation from their director on The Face of Hunger in Milwaukee, a food drive where we collected over 250 pounds of food, and participated in a food distribution event.
Beyond good design.
Design for good.
Inspired by our founders’ early work in education and the arts, and propelled by current employees’ commitment to civic engagement, HGA invests time, resources, and expertise to create positive local impact. We believe it’s not just corporate responsibility: it’s human responsibility. Learn more about HGA's Community Action.