About Us
Our Mission & Values
Milwaukee Community Crossroads cultivates a vibrant Milwaukee community by helping individuals, families and neighborhoods access basic needs, overcome barriers and connect to opportunities.
Community
We are stronger with the commitment of the diverse people, partners and systems of our community, making opportunities grow.
Collaboration
We are empowered when we work closely together with many partners and people to make communities thrive.
Adaptability
We are effective when we continuously improve in response to the needs and strengths of our communities.
Endurance
We are committed to delivering reliable, high-quality programs led by dedicated individuals because consistency matters.
Foundation
Our foundation is in the communities we serve. Individuals who deeply understand the communities we serve provide invaluable leadership to the broader MCC community.
Our Focus Areas
To build a multifaceted, thriving community, we offer an all-encompassing range of programs with the breadth and depth to help all types of people. After all, a community is built one person at a time.
Youth Development
We can’t build community without a future to continue the building. Our programs for young people encourage well-rounded learning and growth.
To stop a threat as strong and pervasive as violence requires wide-ranging solutions, like our host of programs aimed at preventing, mediating and eradicating violent conflict.
This program with a holistic view of community can see opportunities for development and revitalization that a more focused view could miss. Then, we take action.
It’s not a community without a place to live. Whether it’s building new homes, improving old homes or providing access to affordable homes, we have a program for it.
Health. Safety. Food. Without the building blocks of life, the community won’t grow. These programs ensure those basics 
are covered.
Older adults deserve to have the opportunity for their golden years to shine. Our Older Adults Programs offer the opportunity for support, connection and healthy living.
Our Impact & Results
There Is No End To Community
Just as our programs impact people of all demographics, they also build a sense of community in all types of neighborhoods. Click on a hotspot to learn about a program or success story from Milwaukee Community Crossroads. Maybe there’s one by you.
Transparency of Results
We value transparent reporting on how your generous contributions affect our programs and how our partnership impacts Milwaukee. Download the reports below to get real numbers and results on our impact.
Why Milwaukee Community Crossroads?
Our mission, values and focus areas all center around community. Our people, passion and pride rely on it. It’s why we gather together every day and why we help others, build others and collaborate with others. Milwaukee Community Crossroads is the place where people come together to cultivate their community. Learn more about the origin of our name and logo.
Our History
From the start, we were all about community.
It’s 1921. In the back of the Southside Baptist Church in the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee, a missionary named Mamie Passolt MacKinnery helps newly arrived immigrants adjust to a foreign land, full of opportunity. Mamie was tasked by the Women’s American Baptist Church Home Mission Society to help those immigrants, along with other neighbors throughout the Southside of Milwaukee. She not only did that, but started the first Head Start-style program over 40 years before the Federal Government followed suit.
From there, the impact and accomplishments spread throughout the Southside. Milwaukee Community Crossroads, then called Milwaukee Christian Center, started the first Golden Age Club, a social club for seniors, as well as the first Elderly Nutrition Program in Milwaukee county. Then, came community programs at United Church on 29th street, a coffee shop for teens on 6th street, a leading role in creating the Bayview Community Center and the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center. The more neighborhoods and people we helped, the more we wanted to do.
A move of our headquarters to a new location when the freeway was built allowed us to expand our offerings both there and directly in the community itself, widening our focus to include youth programs and housing. In 1975, the Neighborhood Improvement Project helped low-income people repair their homes, while simultaneously training young people. We’ve been adding programs that enrich community ever since.
Today, our programs, and their effect, are spread throughout the city of Milwaukee and beyond.
Our Leadership Team
Executive Team
Terrell Johnson
Executive Director
Sharon Cross
Director of Development and Communications
Andre Robinson
Director of Violence Prevention Programming
Song Xiong-Buck
Director of Older Adults Center
Jake Weiler
Director of Housing
Mary Hintz
Director of Finance
Board of Directors
Erica Reib
Board President
O'Neil, Cannon, Holloman, DeJong & Laing S.C.
Jade Phelps
Board Vice President
Eric Elfner
Board Treasurer
C.G. Schmidt
Eduardo Santiago
Board Secretary
Milwaukee County
Amanda Clark
The Dominican Center for Women
Moiz Dawoodbhai
Northwestern Mutual
John Alvis Jones IV
American Baptist Home Mission Society Community Volunteer
Montavius Jones
Narvarte Development
John Newland
TerraNova Real Estate
Joel Peterson
Speak Life Agency
Patrick Roberts
First Baptist Church of Kenosha
Brandon Rule
Rule Enterprises
Craig Schedler
Intuit Ventures
Camara Tyler
City of Milwaukee
Betty Ulmer
Brookdale Senior Living Inc.
Anna Warren
Owner of Tactile Craftworks
Eric Wynn
The Boldt Company
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Milwaukee Community Crossroads
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