Cara Spoto
Cara covers nonprofits, healthcare and education for BizTimes. Cara lives in Waukesha with her husband, a teenager, a toddler, a dog named Neutron, a bird named Potter, and a lizard named Peyoye. She loves music, food, and comedy, but not necessarily in that order.
🔒 WHA report: State’s health care workforce isn’t growing fast enough...
Increased demand for health care, especially from the state’s growing elderly population, led to continued high vacancy rates for hospitals in Wisconsin in 2023,...
🔒 Versiti names Derek Tyus as CFO
Versiti has named longtime insurance executive Derek Tyus as its next executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Tyus, who served as senior vice president...
MMAC beefing up opposition to MPS referendum
As the spring election rapidly approaches, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) is calling on, not just its 2,000 members, but voters city-wide,...
Milwaukee Public Museum has now raised $80 million in private donations...
With the start of the construction timeline for a new museum fast approaching, Milwaukee Public Museum’s President and CEO Ellen Censky told county officials...
🔒 Task force to determine future of 86-acre UW-Milwaukee at Waukesha...
As staff and students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha begin to sort out what their next steps might be following the announcement...
UWM to close its Waukesha campus in spring 2025
The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at Waukesha will cease operations after the close of the spring 2025 semester, university officials announced Monday.
The news comes...
🔒 Make-A-Wish Wisconsin president and CEO Patti Gorsky announces retirement
Patti Gorsky, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish Wisconsin for 25 years, will retire from the nonprofit in early 2025.
The organization made the announcement via...
Milwaukee Film to take over operations of Downer Theatre
Milwaukee Film is taking over operations of the Downer Theatre, with plans to reopen the historic East Side movie house in April.
Landmark Theaters, which...
Communication, responsiveness key to successful partnerships between business and education, leaders...
As schools search for ways to harness the power of partnerships with local businesses eager to develop and attract the future workforce, representatives from...
🔒 United Way names new board chair, 2024 Campaign co-chairs
At its annual meeting Thursday, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County  announced that its incoming 2024-25 board chair is George Oliver,...
Construction for Milwaukee Rep’s new theater complex to break ground on...
Construction for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Associated Bank Theater Center project will break ground in early May.
In a press release issued Thursday afternoon, the...
🔒 ThriveOn King project nearing completion
It’s been more than 50 years since the former Schuster’s and Gimbel’s Department store building at Garfield Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
