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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. I am still evaluating the lessons learned.

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Resilience Rides the Waves of Disruption

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Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. The goals were to talk about the great things that restaurants do in their communities. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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Study offers lessons on public health efforts to prevent gun violence

Candid

Engaging with local community leaders and residents early and often is key to implementing public health and racial justice approaches to preventing gun violence successfully, a report from the Annie E. Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta And Milwaukee." Annie E.

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Join Us! Great Rivers Conference 2024

VisionLink

Visionlink is pleased to be a Gold Sponsor of the Great Rivers Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 19-21st. We are excited to have doubled the number of 211 call centers in the last year and would love to talk to you about your operations, your development of multi-agency solutions, and community information exchanges.

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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of…

TechCrunch

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. “These communities are taking their dollars and investing it elsewhere. . “These communities are taking their dollars and investing it elsewhere.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Leaders must explore internal and external shifts required to diversify an organization based on community needs. Seeking out young community leaders to help recruit those in their networks creates new champions for a mission and potential donors in return. They also want to feel welcome when supporting organizations.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

And Fiveable , a Milwaukee-based startup, fits the growing demand. Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Its Discord community, launched in 2021, has over 25,000 users. More than 7.3