The Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee (NCM) presented the 2017 Inspire by Example Awards to six winners on April 19 at the Tripoli Shrine Center, honoring the dedication and impact of volunteerism in Milwaukee County.
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The Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) held its membership meeting, with a focus on the Scale Up program and regional jobs creation, at the University Club on April 10. Leaders from local corporations and nonprofits attended the April event in support of the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s work and for a progress update. During the meeting it was announced that the GMC program Scale Up Milwaukee had created almost 500 jobs since it began. “Altogether 57 companies have graduated from the six-month Scalerator program over the last three years,” said Julia Taylor, President of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. “In partnership with...
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Images of the Holocaust are forever ingrained in the public memory from old photographs of Jews being put on trains for destinations like Auschwitz or Treblinka, locations where millions were exterminated in secret. But those powerful images showed only half of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest from France, has dedicated his life to telling the story of the more than two million Jews who were kiIIed on Soviet territory. For the opening program of the Holocaust by Bullets at the Milwaukee Jewish Museum, Father Desbois gave a public lecture to a sold...
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More than 3,000 Milwaukee area science supporters added their voices to the unprecedented numbers of people marching worldwide for science on Earth Day in downtown Milwaukee on April 22.
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Rock the Green hosted its 6th Annual Earth Day event on April 22 in Estabrook Park, with a zero waste festival that was dedicated to inform the community about how to live sustainably.
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Volunteers scooped up tons of trash from miles of area rivers on April 22, as part of Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s 22nd Annual Spring River Cleanup.
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