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Economic Development Feature
Downtown Neenah plaza progresses toward October completion with ice skating to follow in November
APPLETON POST-CRESCENT
NEENAH -- The construction of The Plaza at Gateway Park in downtown Neenah is progressing on schedule toward an Oct. 1 completion.
The Plaza will serve as a year-round gathering place for the community and will feature a refrigerated ice skating rink for public use from November to March.
"From everything that I'm hearing, the community is extremely excited about the project and very much waiting in anticipation for its opening," said Chris Haese, Neenah's director of community development....Read More 4>
Encourage Educational Attainment
Students of Green Bay program aim to be first in their family to graduate from college
WLUK
GREEN BAY -- A local graduation ceremony was six years in the making.
CollegeReady congratulated its first-ever graduating class of The NEW Scholars program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Wednesday.
Through scholarships and college readiness programming, the program is designed to help underserved youth in the Green Bay area who aspire to be the first in their family to graduate from college....
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Technology and Innovation
Microsoft partners with community foundations, news organizations in local journalist collaboration in northeastern Wisconsin
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
Microsoft is teaming up with six Wisconsin news organizations and the community foundations of Green Bay and the Fox Valley to support local journalism in northeastern Wisconsin.
The NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) News Lab is a "collaborative effort providing technology support, capacity building and additional funding to boost local journalism and newsrooms," according to a news release from the community foundations....
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Promoting the Regional Brand
$8.38M in grants awarded to fight poverty
INSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
The Basic Needs Giving Partnership awarded a record-breaking $8.38 million in new grants and $6.39 million grants distributed to 235 nonprofit organizations supporting innovative programs helping those in need throughout Northeast Wisconsin.
Grants are focused on programs in Green Bay, the Fox Valley and Oshkosh that reduce poverty by creating economic stability, increasing access to education, building family support and social connection, and improving health and wellness...
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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
St. Norbert College an unlikely success in admissions
INSIDE HIGHER ED - *national feature story
To succeed in admissions this year, conventional wisdom holds that colleges (public and private alike) should be famous and hard to get into. Why is St. Norbert succeeding?
We've all heard the conventional wisdom about this year's admissions class: students will still travel, far, if they get into Harvard or Stanford University. Or the University of California, Berkeley, or the University of Virginia. Or maybe to a college in a hip urban area. But other than those categories, this year of the pandemic is likely to be a tough one for colleges seeking students...
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