Since 1994, Vera Court Neighborhood Center’s mission has been to support its community in addressing the needs identified by its residents.

Through the support and guidance of community members, local businesses and nonprofits, and the school district and Madison colleges, the center has grown to touch the lives of more than 5000 Northside residents a year. 

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"Vera Court Neighborhood Center has changed my life by helping me learn how to write, and showing me how to read."

- Andrew, age 9

Read more about the lives that have changed and our plans to continue changing lives in our annual report and strategic plan.

Read our annual report

read our strategic plan

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OUR VISION
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We are committed to providing the academic support, healthy meals, and loving care to help our community's children succeed in school.

The support we provide is comprehensive.

• Nutritious meals, a staple for academic success, are served to all children in after-school and summer camp programming
• Free children and teen programming year-round with tutoring, hands-on education activities, mentors from local colleges, field trips to places they would not otherwise be exposed to, and enrichment activities and project-based learning
• Evening activities for elementary, middle, and high school students including Youth Leadership (civic engagement club) and Girl Neighborhood Power and Life as a Boy (character development clubs)
• Family assistance such as access to a social worker and translator to obtain basic needs
• Cultural events and clubs to support a thriving, supportive community

Students prepare their own snack!

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OUR VALUES
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Family. Community. School. 

For more than two decades, we have worked in tangent with our Vera Court families and Northside schools to develop programming that reflects the changing needs and celebrates the strengths and diversity of our community.

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OUR AGENCY

Vera Court Neighborhood Center is one of two organizations within the umbrella agency Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Inc. The agency as a whole aims to strengthen our community and improve lives by providing quality programming in the areas of education, employment, and well being. You can learn more about the other organization, Bridge Lake Point Waunona Neighborhood Center in our agency’s Annual Report. Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Vera Court and its agency partners make a difference. Our most recent accomplishments include:
- Providing 25,000+ healthy meals annually for our residents, plus a food pantry
- 91% of our bilingual early childhood participants are proficient at math
- 87% of our bilingual early childhood participants are proficient at reading once in elementary school
- Our literacy program for elementary school students below grade level boosted reading proficiency by ½ grade to 1½ grades within a year
- 70% of the middle and high school students that participated in the college preparatory program boosted their GPA to 3.0, or maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher
- 53 Latino adults obtained employment and 125 participants obtained a technical skills certification
- 73 students are on track to receive their GED and 25 students successfully enrolled into Madison College to start their technical careers
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Thank you for your support of Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Inc. and our agency partners!

Special thanks to Alisa Buckingham for the photos featured on this site.