New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Jewelers Mutual Group donates $500,000 to three organizations in Band Together charitable campaign`
Fox Cities Chamber News
Jewelers Mutual Group announced the culmination of its charitable campaign, Band Together, for 2020, resulting in $500,000 in total donations to three deserving organizations – Feeding America®, Kids In Need Foundation, and Stand Up To Cancer. The amounts donated were based on votes by the company’s personal jewelry policyholders.
“In a year of unprecedented challenges, banding together to help make a difference has been more important than ever before,” said Scott Murphy, Jewelers Mutual president and CEO. “The three organizations chosen are diverse in the causes they support, but all have one thing in common, and that is helping people when they need it most. It was remarkable to see our employees and policyholders come together throughout the past year to support the....
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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Iola Car Show, other events to resume in 2021
FOX 11 News
The Iola Car Show is giving the green light for this year's three-day event after last year's cancellation.
The car show was one of many events put on hold in 2020 due to the pandemic.
"Our show is a very important piece of central Wisconsin and there's just a tremendous amount of people that rely on the success of our show," Iola Car Show executive director Joe Opperman said.
A year without the Iola Car Show doesn't just impact....
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Prevea Health welcomes Renita Robinson as vice president of diversity and inclusion
WBAY
Prevea Health said it recognizes widespread disparities that exist in health outcomes and care in Wisconsin, especially during this pandemic. Prevea is taking action against it by bringing in Renita Robinson who will become the new Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion.
In a recent Action 2 News series, Power 2 Change, we spoke to Robinson, then CEO of Green Bay’s YWCA. Her passion is bringing education to the community about racial disparities that exist, and now in her new role she will do the same.
“We will be giving and providing information that supports people in thinking a little bit differently or maybe even thinking about some of the health disparities in ways that they hadn’t considered,....
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Leadership in the New North
Mayor Eric Genrich appoints chief of staff Celestine Jeffreys to serve as Green Bay’s next city clerk
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Mayor Eric Genrich will appoint his chief of staff to serve as the city's next clerk after the former clerk and deputy clerk resigned in the wake of the November election.
Celestine Jeffreys would move into the job after working as chief of staff to both Genrich and former Mayor Jim Schmitt for nearly five years. Before that, Jeffreys worked for the Greater Green Bay Chamber and served on the Green Bay City Council and Green Bay School Board.
If the City Council confirms her appointment next week, Jeffreys would be the first Black woman to hold the position in Green Bay — a trail she has blazed multiple times throughout her career and....
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State of Wisconsin COVID-19 Relief Efforts
WEDC must also support businesses that are thriving amid pandemic, says CEO Hughes
Milwaukee Business Journal
In 2020, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. distributed nearly $240 million in grants to almost 55,000 businesses in need due to the negative impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ administration used some of the state’s allocation from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to create the We’re All In grant program. The funding was disbursed in three phases over the past...
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