Hi everyone, Ellie here.
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Meagan Johnson, founder and executive director of the Milwaukee Diaper Mission, and Kate Duffy, founder of Motherhood for Good. From Sept. 7 to Sept. 21, these organizations have been collecting monetary and diaper donations for National Diaper Need Awareness Week.
Meagan and Kate both emphasized the importance of this initiative, explaining the overwhelming expense of diapers and the struggles that many families face when trying to afford them. While you can donate at any time, the National Diaper Need Awareness Week fundraiser ends on Sunday.
Donors to Motherhood for Good will be entered into a drawing for merchandise, while those who donate to the Milwaukee Diaper Mission will be entered into a drawing for a signed Giannis Antetokounmpo jersey. Get those donations in while you can!
Today, we’ll take a deeper look at the fundraising efforts from these organizations, along with other Wisconsin news!
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P.S. Our fall special edition newsletter lands next Friday! Inside: the top Oktoberfests, fun fall festivals, and spooky spots ahead of Halloween. Tell me what you’d like to see more of—I appreciate you being here!
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Milwaukee Diaper Mission volunteers deliver diapers to community members. (Meagan Johnson/Milwaukee Diaper Mission)
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By Ellie Bourdo
The Milwaukee Diaper Mission and Motherhood for Good are working to collect monetary and physical diaper donations for National Diaper Need Awareness Week. The fundraiser runs from now through Sept. 21.
This is the fifth year for the fundraiser, titled “The Big Give Back.” Motherhood for Good has a donation goal of $1,000, while the Milwaukee Diaper Mission’s goal is to raise $50,000. Nuna Baby will match all the donations to double the total amount of money raised.
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Across the country, the future of local news is uncertain. But here at UpNorthNews, we’re staying focused—on you.
Our goal for our fall fundraising campaign is to raise $7,500 by Sept. 30 to keep this kind of coverage strong in Wisconsin.
If you’ve ever read one of our stories and thought, “I wouldn’t have known this otherwise,” we hope you’ll consider supporting our work.
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(Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Reuters Connect)
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By USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
MADISON — Aniya Warren’s Wisconsin volleyball teammates were in for quite the surprise when they saw an Instagram post from the freshman libero.
When Warren was not preparing for her first year of college volleyball this summer, she was writing a now-published children’s book.
“Charlie (Fuerbringer) was like, ‘Aniya, you wrote a book? What is this?’” Warren said. “And then she read it, and she was like, ‘That’s actually really good, I actually really liked it.’”
Warren’s book — “I Am Human,” which is independently published and available for purchase on Amazon — combines her off-the-court writing passion with an important message about it being OK to make mistakes.
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(Caitlin Looby/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Reuters Connect)
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By USA Today via Reuters Connect
BAILEYS HARBOR — In another sign that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery, a wooden schooner hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years has been found — with citizen scientists on board to share the excitement.
Many maritime historians and shipwreck hunters had searched for the 144-foot, three-masted F.J. King over the years. The leaders of a group that went searching for it at the end of June were dumbfounded when the King suddenly appeared on sonar, said Brendon Baillod, president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological Association. Baillod and Bob Jaeck, also with the Underwater Archeological Association, led the effort to find the King off Baileys Harbor.
It “was hidden in plain sight, right where it was supposed to be,” Baillod said.
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