Staff and attorneys joined the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County's Emerging Leaders for a Day of Action on June 21st at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School in Milwaukee. United Way Day of Action is an invitation for people and organizations around the world to LIVE UNITED and take action to address a variety of challenges. It is a day that the United Way asks you to help put their mission into action by volunteering to improve the building blocks for a good quality of life – education, financial stability, and health.

This year volunteers from Godfrey & Kahn and the surrounding community helped create resources that focus on education and support local youth. Together, volunteers:

• ASSEMBLED 1,200 PARENT ENGAGEMENT KITS that contain games, questions, resources, and tools to distribute to families with youth participating in United Way funded programs to encourage positive parent-child interactions and develop healthy family relationships.
• BEAUTIFIED THE SCHOOLYARD to create a more aesthetic landscape that will lead to a stronger sense of school pride by mulching the school’s new garden, planting grapevines, and picking up trash.
• REFRESHED 4 CLASSROOMS WITH NEW PAINT to generate an environment that is conducive to learning and has a positive psycho-physiological impact on students and staff.

Godfrey & Kahn is proud to support the United Way!