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Map: Summer meals for youth

Posted by News Content | May 21, 2016 |

SDC’s Summer Food Service Program Provides Free Meals for Youth Stressing the importance of offering nutritious meals to children during the summer months, the Social Development Commission’s (SDC) nutrition services area announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program. For many of the participating service sites, the program will begin the week of June 13. The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and is administered by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, provides nutritious meals to children during the summer, when free and reduced-price school meals are typically unavailable....

Nanotechnology goes big at Discover World

Posted by News Content | May 20, 2016 |

Zoom into Nano celebrates its grand opening at Discovery World on May 21. The new exhibition explores materials at the atomic scale, and becomes another educational venue at the science and technology center along the Milwaukee Lakefront. The public is familiar with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s showcase of prehistoric time, which belonged to dinosaurs and the largest creatures who roamed the earth. But the future is all about being small. Really small. Advances in nanotechnology are changing the way we design and fabricate almost everything. From faster computers, to stain repellent clothes, to new medicines to treat diseases, and...

Milwaukee Art Museum names Dr. Polednik as new director

Posted by News Content | May 19, 2016 |

Marcelle Polednik was selected from field of dozens of national candidates and is poised to harness Museum’s momentum. The Milwaukee Art Museum board of trustees announced today it has selected Dr. Marcelle Polednik as the first Donna and Donald Baumgartner director. Polednik, currently the director and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, joins the Museum at a significant time in its history after an extensive $34 million renovation, reinstallation and expansion project, and the historic acquisition of the O’Donnell Property. Polednik was selected after a robust national search from a field of dozens of candidates. She...

SBA to award $3.95 million for Startup competition

Posted by News Content | May 17, 2016 |

Past Wisconsin winners include the Midwest Energy Research Consortium (M-WERC) in Milwaukee and Launch Box in Racine. For the third year, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is launching an Accelerator Growth Fund competition for accelerators and other entrepreneurial ecosystem models to compete for monetary prizes of $50,000 each, totaling $3.95 million. “Accelerators provide valuable resources to potential startups: a physical infrastructure to work in their infancy, mentoring, business-plan assistance, networking, opportunities to obtain venture capital, and introductions to potential customers, partners and suppliers—all critical elements to ensuring that small businesses flourish and succeed,” said Mark Walsh, Associate Administrator...

Milwaukee’s Harbor District Awarded National Grant

Posted by News Content | May 16, 2016 |

Mayor Barrett announced that Milwaukee’s Harbor District was awarded a national grant to improve public access to the waterfront. Mayor Tom Barrett announced on May 12 that the Harbor District, Inc. (HDI) and the City of Milwaukee Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO) are among eight recipients of the Bloomberg Award for Partners for Places Grant Program – a project of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. Mayor Barrett and HDI will use the $75,000 grant to engage residents near the Harbor District and make physical improvements to improve public access to the waterfront there. A coalition of...

Study details Latino impact on Metro Milwaukee

Posted by News Content | May 14, 2016 |

First-ever comprehensive study of Latino Milwaukee shows community’s impact on region with growth, opportunity, and disparity. The population of Milwaukee would be shrinking if not for the growth of the Latino population, while Latino workers have accounted for all net growth in employment in the four-county area during the last 25 years. A new study commissioned by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation offers an unprecedented look at conditions in the Latino community and the trends that continue to shape the region. Among the many insights found in Latino Milwaukee: A Statistical Portrait: Metro Milwaukee’s Latino population increased by more than 213 percent...