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The Northwestern Mutual Foundation recently donated 26 grants totaling nearly $1.4 million to 23 Wisconsin nonprofits that promote childhood literacy and increase access to higher education.

The United Performing Arts Fund has announced its 2012 goal of raising $10 million by mid-June. The 2012 UPAF Campaign co-chairs are David J. Lubar, president and chief executive officer of Lubar & Co. and Carlene Ziegler, managing director of Artisan Partners Limited Partnership. Dollars raised by UPAF support 36 performing arts groups in southeastern Wisconsin.

Michael Grandillo has been named the new president of Lakeland College in Sheboygan. Grandillo, 54 succeeds Stephen Gould, who was named Lakeland’s president in 1998 and will retire in May after serving the college for 42 years as a teacher and administrator. Grandillo is the 15th president of Lakeland.

NEWaukee young professionals organization will launch its first week-long event series dedicated exclusively to Milwaukee’s young professionals from Monday, April 16 through Saturday, April 21.

Ben Rouse, season ticket holder for the Milwaukee Brewers has a goal of attending all 162 games in the Brewers season and the team has offered to help him reach his goal in 2012.

The number of first-time unemployment claims in the United States fell to a four-year low last week, as employers continued to hire at a healthy pace.

The Brewers will pick up Friday right where they left off in 2011 - battling the St. Louis Cardinals.


Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was once asked what made him so great. His response was that he did not skate to where the puck was at. He skated to where the puck was going.

Madison is well known for stem cell achievements: UW-Madison's James Thomson was the first scientist, in 1998, to grow human embryonic stem cells in a lab.

Michael Grandillo, a veteran of more than three decades of private higher education and community leadership, today was introduced as the new president of Lakeland College in Sheboygan.