Guaranty Bank
Guaranty Bank has moved its headquarters from Brown Deer to Glendale after selling the subsidiary Shelter Mortgage LLC to a Chicago private equity firm. The division is now known as Shelter Mortgage Co. and is a tenant at the Brown Deer building owned by Guaranty. The majority of Guaranty retail bank employees in Brown Deer have moved to Guaranty’s Bayshore Town Center offices in Glendale. Some Guaranty employees have remained in Brown Deer to assist with the IT transition. The company has 1,300 employees including about 280 at the Glendale headquarters and 75 in Brown Deer.
The United Community Center
The United Community Center (UCC) has been recognized by the NAMM Foundation with a Best Communities for Music Education designation (BCME). The BCME highlights school districts that have exceptionally maintained music in the schools’ curriculum. Each district completes a BCME survey about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, facilities and other aspects of the music program. The UCC operates the Bruce-Guadalupe Community School, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee charter school for grades K4 through 8th grade. More than 300 students at Bruce Guadalupe Community School take music education, which includes the Middle School Jazz Band and a partnership with the Latino Arts Strings award-winning in-school and after-school program. The BCME designation supports the NAMM Foundation’s music advocacy efforts. More than 300 districts across the country were recognized this year.
Alverno College
Alverno College will launch a new BA in management completion program in October. The program will combine online and in-classroom learning to enable women with an associate degree to finish their bachelor’s in 18 months. Those with an associate degree (AA or AAS) can complete the program in nine eight-week course blocks beginning in either October or February. Alverno College’s School of Business wants this program to help women advance in business and management. To learn more about the BA in management completion program, visit www.alverno.edu/aaba or call the admissions office at (414)-382-6100.
Startup Milwaukee
Startup Milwaukee has created a Startup Internship Program that will match college students with local technology startups for paid and credit internships this summer. More than 25 startup companies will participate in the internship program. Startup Milwaukee has teamed up with accelerator programs Gener8tor and Vetransfer to recruit more companies for the program, which is intended to attract and retain young entrepreneurial-minded people in Milwaukee. Startup Milwaukee’s mission is to build and network Milwaukee’s emerging startup community by offering resources to help others launch technological businesses.
Swimming Pool Services
Swimming Pool Services Inc., based in Waukesha, won a Best of Show and Gold Award in the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP) 2012 Awards of Excellence Competition. The company was honored in the “Residential Vinyl Liner 600 Square Feet and Over” category for the APSP Midwest Chapter. The awards recognize a project that incorporated unique pool design and natural features. Swimming Pool Services faced the challenge of building a large play area for three children for the client complete with a diving board, a curved pool design and enough lap swimming length. The company’s creativity and innovation helped produce an award-winning design. Swimming Pool Services serves homeowners in southeastern Wisconsin with design, production and maintenance of custom pools and spas. APSP’s members include independent pool and spa manufacturers, distributors, builders, retailers and service entities that agree to follow national industry standards.
