GREEN BAY - As the summer of 2021 heads into its final stretch in the month of August, downtown Green Bay continues to add more events to the calendar.
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Economic Development Feature
With help from federal grant, Appleton airport to offer nonstop service to Dallas
WLUK
GREENVILLE -- Appleton International Airport has received a $750,000 grant from the federal government, and some of the money will go toward establishing a new route.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office announced the grant from the Department of Transportation’s Small Community Air Service Development Program Wednesday....
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Encourage Educational Attainment
Inmates graduate and receive bachelor's degrees, first class of people in DOC program
WLUK
WAUPUN -- Tuesday was a first for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Twenty inmates became the first class of people in a DOC-sponsored program to graduate with a liberal arts bachelor’s degree.
“We are voices that matter and that must be heard,” said graduate August White during his student response speech at the ceremony. “We are everything they say we are, but so much more. And, after today, we will be able to say, we are college graduates!”...
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Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
NWTC receives grant to increase diversity among nursing students
WBAY
GREEN BAY -- Thanks to a federal grant, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is set to embark on an effort to increase diversity within the area’s nursing workforce.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, the number of minority nurses in Northeast Wisconsin is far below the national average for regions of similar size.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently delivered NWTC some major financial support to try and change that...
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Economic Development Feature
AARP Wisconsin: Six Wisconsin communities win AARP Challenge Grants
WIS BUSINESS
MADISON – Six organizations located in the Wisconsin communities of
Green Bay, Appleton, La Crosse, Madison, Ashland, and Chilton are among 244
projects across the country that will receive 2021 Community Challenge grants
totaling more than $3.2 million this year, AARP Wisconsin State Director Sam
Wilson announced today.
AARP Wisconsin will distribute nearly $88,000 to these six grantees, which are
among those that are developing “quick-action” projects across all 50 states,
Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project will help
communities make immediate improvements while jumpstarting long-term
progress to support residents of all ages...
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Leadership in the New North
Fox Cities Chamber president and CEO joins national board
FOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
FOX CITIES — Becky Bartoszek, President and CEO of the Fox Cities (Wisconsin) Chamber of Commerce, has been elected to serve on the board of directors for ACCE, the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, an Alexandria, Va.-based association of more than 9,000 professionals who work for and with more than 1,600 chambers of commerce.
Members of ACCE’s board of directors represent more than 50 organizations, including many of the world’s largest and most influential regional chambers of commerce...
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