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Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
Collaboration helps students develop skills for long-term careers
WBAY GREEN BAY -- Several well-known names in the community are forging a new partnership to help students find careers. Goodwill, Rawhide Youth Services and Fox Valley Technical College are collaborating to launch Career EXCELerate Wisconsin. The program starts in the new year, but work on it has already begun. The aim is to help students develop skills that will help them find careers for the long term. Classes in health, construction, manufacturing and maintenance are part of this program. The courses and services specifically help students who went to school during the pandemic and are now looking for jobs. Some of these students are navigating mental health challenges.....
Read More 1> Research and Trends in NE Wisconsin
Wisconsin job gains continue with growth in leisure and hospitality, manufacturing and construction
DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (DWD)
MADISON – The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for the month of September 2022.
For September, total nonfarm jobs increased 7,000 over the month and 63,000 over the year. Wisconsin's unemployment rate of 3.2% now stands at 0.3 percentage points below the national rate of 3.5%.
Place of Work Data: Within the category of total nonfarm wage and salary jobs, Wisconsin added 14,400 private sector jobs during the month of September and 62,400 over the year, with monthly and annual gains in construction, manufacturing, and leisure and hospitality. State government jobs are down 700 over the year...
Read More 2> Promoting the Regional Brand
St. Norbert College announces Founder’s Day award recipients
ST. NORBERT COLLEGE St. Norbert College has selected Chrystal Woller, Mike Counter and Faith Mertzig as recipients of its 2022 Founder’s Day Awards. The awards are given in recognition of dedication to the Norbertine traditions of a community committed to service, peace-building and reconciliation, prayer, and radical hospitality were presented at the St. Norbert College Founder’s Day prayer breakfast on Oct. 11. Chrystal Woller is the director of health and wellness. She has served the college since 2016 with 16 years of governmental public health experience, including serving as health director for the city of De Pere. According to her nominator, she “exemplifies communio” and is “respectful of everyone - faculty, staff, students and family members - regardless of their opinions and how they approach her.” Mike Counter is the director of media relations and has taught courses in the Master of Business Administration program through the Donald J. Schneider School of Business and Economics. He joined St. Norbert College in 2003 with 21 years spent in both television and radio broadcasting. One of his former interns wrote: “Mike is the reason I love marketing and communications. …Mike treated me as an equal who he could teach and who he could also learn from.”..
Promoting the Regional Brand
Fox Cities Habitat Rocks The Block In Menasha, Fox Crossing
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to ensure that everyone has a decent, safe place to live. Fox Cities Habitat’s Rock the Block program helps us fulfill that mission by providing low-income residents the opportunity to fix up their homes while adding safety features, reducing hazards and increasing pride in their home within the community. These repairs and enhancements are made affordable by reducing costs through volunteer labor and by offering a 0% deferred loan for homeowners.
Homeowners may have the means to pay their mortgage and home utilities, but sometimes lack the funds or physical ability for necessary home maintenance projects. Many residents are elderly and can’t take care of landscaping, maintain porches and railings or even afford new windows which help with energy efficiency and possibly eliminate mold risks...
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| | | Over 160 volunteers, many who were employees of generous sponsors, put in hundreds of hours working on more than 20 projects throughout Menasha and Fox Crossing from Sept. 29 - Oct. 1. They worked side-by-side with homeowners and the Fox Cities Habitat Senior Crew to accomplish these projects. Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region story above. |
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