Support an Entrepreneurial Climate and Small Business Blueprint Green Bay, successful seed accelerator program coming to the Region, powered by Greater Green Bay Chamber and New North WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP (WEDC)
MADISON – A successful seed accelerator program based in Milwaukee is heading north with help from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and its Key Strategic Partners.
Blueprint Green Bay will focus on businesses developing new technology or working in e-commerce or advanced manufacturing. The initiative, which provides entrepreneurship training and helps plug entrepreneurs into networking and funding opportunities, will target businesses owned by people of color, women and veterans....
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Leadership in the New North Marinette Marine names retired Navy captain as new CEO WFRV MARINETTE – Fincantieri Marinette Marine announced a new CEO that will take over starting July 7.
According to officials, Mark Vandroff will replace Jan Allman, who has been in charge since 2014. Vandroff is a retired Navy captain and has been with Fincantieri Marine Group since early in 2021.
Vandroff was previously the senior vice president of business development.....
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Promoting the Regional Brand McCall plant that prints national sewing patterns to close Kansas plant, transfer work to Neenah WBAY MANHATTAN -- A plant in Manhattan that prints sewing patterns for most of national sewing pattern companies is closing after more than 50 years.
McCall Pattern Company officials announced this week the plant will close by the end of the year. It currently employs 85 workers.
A spokeswoman for Design Group, which owns McCall, says the work will be transferred to Neenah, Wisconsin...Read More 3>
Expansion and Business Development in the New North Converting a former newspaper building to affordable apartments took a developer's passion and government assistance to come together APPLETON POST-CRESCENT APPLETON - Since 1932, the Art Deco building at 306 W. Washington St. had been the home of Appleton's The Post-Crescent, where generations of reporters, photographers and editors worked to tell the stories of the Fox Cities.
But now, it'll be an affordable home for individuals and families in the heart of downtown Appleton. The former newsroom is a kitchen where a family will sit down to dinner. Old conference rooms have been turned into bedrooms and bathrooms. The press room, where a mammoth printing press once cranked out thousands of newspapers a day, is now an underground parking garage.ck Tracey, Appleton Airport marketing manager, says ATW has had no issues at all. ..Read More 4> Attract Develop and Retain Diverse Talent Mentor Door County launches new program DOOR COUNTY DAILY NEWS DOOR COUNTY -- Mentor Door county has partnered with We are HOPE Inc. to launch a program for young women between 18 and 30. This program will support these young women in educational opportunities, career support, online programs, and one-on-one mentoring. The hope for this program is to help young women in Door County find their strengths and give them support from mentoring relationships. Dina Boettcher, a member of the advisory team, explains that this program is designed for women seeking guidance for their future and need resources to go into the next steps of their lives... Read More 5> Encourage Educational Attainment Western Illinois University revives student teaching at Wisconsin tribal schools WBAY
MACOMB, Ill. -- Western Illinois University is giving students a chance to gain teaching experience at Native American tribal schools in Wisconsin.
In a news release, the school says that beginning in the fall, students can take part in what’s called the Tribal School Teaching Program.
One student has already been selected to participate in the 16-week program and others are encouraged to apply.
The program is similar to one the school had in the 1970s and 1980s in which students completed their student teaching in Montana.
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