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BizTimes Milwaukee invites southeastern Wisconsin nonprofit organizations to take advantage of a year-long marketing opportunity by submitting information to be featured in the 2013 BizTimes Giving Guide, a print and digital publication to showcase nonprofit organizations seeking support from the business community.

Horizon Home Care & Hospice, headquartered in Brown Deer, is seeking nominations for the 2013 Touching Lives Award, which recognizes community members who have made a significant impact on others’ lives.

C.H. Coakley, based in Milwaukee, is encouraging area businesses to participate in the Hunger Task Force’s annual Food For Families Food Drive by offering its own food drive initiative, Dinner on the Mayflower.

BizTimes Media is accepting nominations for its annual Health Care Heroes Awards, which honor people in southeastern Wisconsin who are making a difference on the front lines of health care.

*Saturday, Oct. 13, Milwaukee Empty Bowls will hold its 14th Annual Milwaukee Empty Bowls event at MATC-Oak Creek Campus,...

Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. announced it will complete its delivery of nearly $1 million in donated generators and pressure washers to an additional 58 American Red Cross chapters nationwide.

A 45-foot Ferris wheel is being assembled inside ACUITY’s corporate headquarters in Sheboygan in preparation for the company’s “Cirque du NICU,” a fundraiser to be hosted by the property and casualty insurer on Oct. 13.

State and local officials, business owners, Nissan Americas' executives and Russ Darrow and Mike Darrow gathered together Wednesday to celebrate the opening of Russ Darrow Nissan in the Metro Auto Mall on the Milwaukee's northwest side.

Startup Weekend, a three-day entrepreneurial initiative devoted to the development of new area companies, will host its first event Friday, Nov. 9, through Sunday, Nov. 11, at Marquette University’s Discovery Learning Complex, 1637 W. Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee.

Foreclosure filings in Wisconsin were down 12 percent in the third quarter, according to a new report from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.