Getting involved in our Milwaukee community!

The 2023 Movers for Moms® campaign is in full swing!

Each year, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® locations all across the country participate in this very special campaign. For the month leading up to Mother's Day, we place donation boxes at local partnering businesses and collect essential care items, which we then deliver in our moving trucks to a local women's shelter right before Mother’s Day.

We have been actively working with our recipient shelter, Milwaukee Women’s Center, a division of Community Advocates, since 2012. They tell us that this drive sets them up with supplies for a full six months! That means they can spend their time on people and programs, instead of shampoo and toilet paper! We are humbled to help make life just a little easier for women who find themselves in a shelter on Mother’s Day. 

CONTACT-FREE DONATIONS

The link to make a monetary donation to The Milwaukee Women's Center is here.

The link to Milwaukee Women's Center's Amazon Wish List is here. 

We are accepting physical donations at our TWO MEN AND A TRUCK office, located at 11800 W Burleigh Street in Wauwatosa, through Tuesday, May 11. Donations may be dropped at the amazing community partner sites below. Just look for the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK box!

We all know someone in need, and there is no better time than the present to make a positive change in a woman's life. Thanks to all of our amazing 2023 Community Partners who are hosting physical donation boxes! We love serving our communities with you!

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Milwaukee Partners With FirstBook® to Provide Books for Kids

At the beginning of Career Move Month in April, the biggest hiring month for TWO MEN AND A TRUCK International each year, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee pledged to donate five books to local school children for each hire made.

As a result of a successful hiring initiative, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee will donate 145 copies of "When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree" to the Wauwatosa School District through their new partnership with First Book. First Book has provided equal access to quality education for kids in need since 1992.

"TWO MEN AND A TRUCK is dedicated to Moving People Forward® with their careers," said Heather Knight, vice president of marketing and communications, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee, "and the First Book partnership is a wonderful collaboration to move children and their education forward as well."

Interested candidates should visit https://careers.twomenandatruck.com/jobs/wi/milwaukee to search for TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee job opportunities.

Did you know that approximately 7.6 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide annually? That’s why TWO MEN AND A TRUCK created Movers For Mutts®. In partnership with local businesses and organizations, essential pet items will be collected this fall season to help animal shelters that support and foster strays.Donate pet supplies to assist animal shelters that care for these homeless animals.

Call our office today to find out how you can get involved!

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK is proud to help with the heavy lifting for the Milwaukee Pet walk yearly. The Pet Walk is an annual family friendly walk and festival to raise funds for the Wisconsin Humane Society. Lots of entertainment, vendors, contests food and fun fun fun for the whole family.

The holidays are that special time of year when we give thanks for what we have and give to those who don't have much. In December 2016, we were proud to be a sponsor of "B93.3's Feeding the Hungry" as we teamed up with local companies and Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin to provide holiday meals to families that are less fortunate. We look forward to being involved in the community again next year.

Since 2014, we have collaborated with GE Healthcare for their annual community service project in which approximately 2,500 GE employees spent one day improving Milwaukee and Waukesha public schools.  In preparation for the beginning of the school year, schools are painted, landscaped, cleaned, and other projects are performed as necessary. At TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Milwaukee, we volunteer our time and our trucks to deliver tools and equipment to each of the schools. We believe in their mission, and are honored to be a part of this annual tradition of giving back to the community!

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK hosted a statewide Stuff-A-Truck event on December 2, 2017, to collect new, unwrapped toys to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots® throughout Wisconsin.

The toy drive, in partnership with Toys “R” Us®, aimed to collect new toys for families in need during the holiday. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK had a truck parked on-site and staff were on hand at these participating Toys “R” Us® locations on Saturday, Dec. 2. The public came out to locations all over Wisconsin.

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK then delivered the donated toys to their local  U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots® coordinator to benefit children in each local community. It was a huge success and can't wait to see what happens in 2018!

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Milwaukee joined forces with FM102.1, B93.3, Milwaukee’s True Oldies Station, and other area sponsors to present the Teddy Bear Posse in 2016. With the support of the local community, we collectively, with all the sponsors, were able to donate over 2600 new teddy bears and stuffed animals that were distributed to area police and fire departments to comfort small children involved in traumatic situations.

We thank everyone who participated for making this event a huge success! 

In 2014, we donated our services to the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Coalition’s event, the “Rare Chair Affair,” to transport much needed items from location to location. Each year, they invite 15 to 20 breast cancer survivors to participate in workshops throughout the summer to paint and decorate chairs for this event’s live auction.

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Milwaukee Partners with First Book to Donate Books to School Children

During the month of April, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK held its annual Career Move Month aimed at raising recruiting awareness and opportunities that exist with the company nationwide. The Milwaukee franchise received hired 40 new movers and drivers.

Additionally, a key message during Career Move Month was to highlight positions at TWO MEN AND A TRUCK are not simply jobs but careers. More than 75 percent of TWO MEN AND A TRUCK location management, and even its franchisees, started in front-line positions and worked their way up.

“We are thrilled to have been able to add so much great talent at our Milwaukee franchise in April,” said Lisa Paley, president, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee.  “Having the right employees allows us to provide exceptional customer service, and we look forward to the opportunity to help even more customers during this busiest season of our year.”

As a result of the successful hiring initiative, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK will donate 2,500 books through its new partnership with First Book to local organizations that help children gain access to books and develop their reading skills. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee is patterning with First Book to make its donation to the Wauwatosa School District. First Book has provided equal access to quality education for kids in need since 1992. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK is dedicated to Moving People Forward® with their careers, and the First Book partnership is a wonderful collaboration to move children and their education forward as well.

Interested candidates should visit www.twomenandatruck.com/job-opportunities to search for TWO MEN AND A TRUCK job opportunities across the country.

Local TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Franchise Group Wraps Successful Hiring Season

Celebrates by donating books to local elementary school

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Sept. 29, 2021) – During Career Move Month in April, Lightner Management Group, a local Southeast and Southwest Wisconsin-based franchise group, received nearly 700 applications and hired 34 new team members in all fields, including movers, drivers, and move consultants. For each hire made, its TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee location pledged to donate five copies of “When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree,” by Jamie L.B. Deenihan, to Lincoln Elementary School, located in Wauwatosa.

In conjunction with the gift, a Read Aloud event, hosted by TWO MEN AND A TRUCK, will be held in an outdoor classroom next to the playground. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Recruiting & Retention Manager Nina Nevins, a BFA in acting, will theatrically bring the book to life for a young audience of 1st or 2nd graders. The event will include photo opportunities and a Facebook live streaming event.

The TWO MEN AND A TRUCK book selection pays homage to THE GRANDMA RULE®, a TWO MEN AND A TRUCK corporate value: “To treat everyone the way you would want your grandma to be treated.” It also celebrates the pleasures of patience, hard work, nature, community, and putting down electronic devices for just a while.

“We are thrilled to celebrate our successful recruitment season with the students at Lincoln Elementary School,” said Tim Lightner, owner of Lightner Management Group, a TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Wisconsin-based franchise. “As a parent myself, I know there’s no better way to give back to a community than to invest in its young people.”  

Through a new partnership with First Book, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK donated 2,500 books nationwide to local organizations that help children gain access to books and develop their reading skills. First Book has provided equal access to quality education for kids in need since 1992. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK is dedicated to Moving People Forward® in their careers, and the First Book partnership is a wonderful collaboration to also move children and their education forward.

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Milwaukee’s Career Move Month in April is an annual hiring initiative to get more people on board during the busiest moving season of the year. This year, it also turned into a fun field trip for a group of Wauwatosa elementary school students. When students at Lincoln Elementary School in Wauwatosa were told to take a field trip out to their school's playground, the last thing they expected to see was—a grandma holding a lemon tree?!

"Sometimes you listen to your grandma a little bit better," said Nina Nevins, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK recruiting and retention manager.

But looks can be deceiving – because the “grandma” was actually a lot younger than she appeared—and she wasn’t there to just read a story to the students. She was there to bring it to life—and make a big donation.

Above: Nina Nevins, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK recruiting and retention manager shares the company's "Grandma Rule®" with the students at Lincoln Elementary School.

"So for every hire that we made in the month of April, we donated five books to the school through our partnership with First Book,” Nevins said. "We worked our butts off, but I’ll tell you what—we had over 700 applicants and made a lot of hires."

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK donated 145 copies of the book "When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree,” by Jamie L. B. Deenihan, to Wauwatosa School District libraries.

"Well, as a librarian, I’m not going to turn down a donation of books!” said Meegan Archambo, Wauwatosa School District librarian. "To have that moment with outsiders, sharing that with our kids, once again brings home that community is where you live and we all need to do our best to support it."

Above: Nina Nevins, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK recruiting and retention manager brings alive the book "When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree" for the students at Lincoln Elementary School.

A story of community, togetherness, and company core values, as told by a pretend grandma. "Treat everyone like you would your grandma, which is even better than you would treat yourself," Nevins shared, in her "grandma" personae.

So if your grandma ever gives you a lemon tree … “You make lemonade!” Nevins said. But be sure to share it with others.

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK is always looking for great job applicants who understand the power of community and exceptional customer service. Learn more about securing a job with the company.