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Need workers? Transitional jobs program expanding into northeastern Wisconsin can help
Green Bay Press Gazette
GREEN BAY - A program that helped more than 700 people secure jobs in 2019 will expand into northeastern Wisconsin and is looking for local companies with jobs to fill.
United Migrant Opportunity Services Inc., better known as UMOS, received a $1.3 million grant from the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families to provide transitional job services to 150 eligible residents in Brown, Outagamie, Winnebago, Oconto and Marinette counties. The organization received another $595,000 grant to expand the program into Kenosha County, too.
Eligible residents live in one of the five counties and have been previously incarcerated...
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Digital marketing clinic pairs small businesses, UW Oshkosh interns
Wisconsin Small Business Development Center
OSHKOSH – The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network hopes to help up to 150 small businesses rebound through no-cost, tailored digital marketing services. The new statewide Digital Marketing Clinic expands upon an already successful model at UW Oshkosh, which pairs interns with businesses under the direction of Kathy Fredrickson, adjunct professor in the College of Business and award-winning marketing strategist.
During the spring and fall 2020 semesters, 98 Digital Marketing SOS Project students identified needs for 52 businesses and delivered solutions...
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Local organization promoting Black-owned businesses during Black History Month
NBC 26 Green Bay
GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — February is Black History Month, and one local organization is celebrating by promoting black businesses.
We All Rise is a local group that promotes a vibrant African American community here in Northeast Wisconsin. They are proud to promote so many incredible black-owned businesses. “Instead of going to different stores in the area that are ran by millionaires, this is a store that is ran by somebody just like you. So when you come here and you support and you spend a little bit of money, it helps in a bigger way than you would think...
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Amcor Student Discovery series now free, virtual
WBAY
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - Officials with the Grand Oshkosh has announced that the Amcor Student Discovery Series is now offered in a free - and virtual - format. With Amcor as the program sponsor, the Grand Oshkosh is able to continue providing education of the arts in the area.
The series, now entering its 27th season, is the longest running educational series in the Fox Valley that provides to more than 100 schools.
The full-length program is offered to every grade....
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Evers dedicates $43 million to rural initiatives in budget
The Daily Reporter
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers’ two-year state budget will include $43 million in spending designed to help the state’s rural economy, he announced Friday.
Evers, a Democrat, submits his budget to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Feb. 16, which will take the next several months rewriting it before passing their version sometime in the summer.
Evers’ plan includes many of the recommendations made by a commission he created that submitted a report in December. Evers’ budget proposal includes plans to...
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Five UW System schools to put higher education counselors into targeted high schools to help guide students to college
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In a novel initiative to address a series of challenges on Wisconsin campuses — projections of declining enrollment, recruiting and supporting students of color and the damage of COVID-19 — five universities are putting counselors in targeted high schools to help guide students to higher education.
The University of Wisconsin campuses will each put $200,000 toward helping high school students, particularly those who are the first in their families to attend college, navigate what can seem like one hurdle after another. That help could take the form of helping fill out financial aid and scholarship applications, ACT/SAT prep work, career planning and understanding...
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