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Brown Deer-based Badger Meter Inc. has reported its best quarter in company history.

BizTimes Media’s fourth annual Giving Guide offers southeastern Wisconsin’s business community an outlet to connect with area nonprofit organizations for philanthropic involvement.

Marquette University has received two new $1 million gifts, which marks the completion of a nine-month, $15 million fundraising effort to build a new 40,000 square-foot on-campus residence for its community of Jesuit priests.

The Selig family has gifted $2.5 million to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, to be used toward the Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee.

Zachariah’s Acres celebrated the groundbreaking of Zachariah’s Acres Barn on Thursday while also celebrating progress made on Phase I-A of its capital campaign.

The number of nonprofit organizations in the Greater Milwaukee area has grown over the past two decades, but each now has a smaller piece of the revenue pie, according to a new report from the Milwaukee-based Public Policy Forum.

Taking the podium at SHARP Literacy, Inc.’s 2014 “A Novel Event” will be LeVar Burton, an Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, director and author who shares the nonprofit’s drive to engage urban children in reading.

Milwaukee Area Technical College will get $2.6 million in Wisconsin Fast Forward grant funds from the state to train up to 546 workers for in-demand fields, Gov. Scott Walker announced today.

Five new startups have secured spots in the 2014 class at Milwaukee startup accelerator gener8tor. They were chosen from more than 450 applications for the program, which recruits, mentors and trains entrepreneurs leading high-tech business ventures from around the world.

The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP/Big Step) recently announced that Mark Kessenich has been named interim president and chief executive officer.