Can you add more cookies to our order? Our attendance has gone up since last year and I don’t want to run out of your yummy and beautiful cookies….
- Lyn A. Hildenbrand, Executive Director
What is the Gathering?
The Gathering is a local nonprofit hunger-relief organization focused on feeding Milwaukee’s hungry and homeless. Our Community Meal Programs - in operation since 1982 - serve 60,000 free home-cooked meals annually. We are one of Wisconsin’s largest volunteer-based meal programs with 1,500-2,000 volunteers yearly. The Gathering began as a Saturday lunch and weekday breakfast out of St. James Episcopal Church. Fr. Michael Stolpman in collaboration with leaders from other faith communities instituted this ministry of hospitality and food to meet the needs of those homeless walking Wisconsin Avenue.