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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.

BizTimes Media is currently accepting submissions to update its online and print business directories. Organizations may submit a listing to any of the directories any time throughout the year, but submissions will only be featured in the print directory if completed by the deadlines as noted below. Contact sales and marketing intern Emalee Frase at emalee.frase@biztimes.com with questions about submissions.

Brewers’ second baseman Rickie Weeks has donated $25,000 to the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee to help fund its Swim School, a program based at the Northside YMCA that teaches kids the importance of water safety.

In celebration of its 140th anniversary, Roundy's Supermarkets, headquartered in Milwaukee, will devote a week in October to community outreach efforts in gratitude to the customer base that has largely contributed to its development.

As Americans, we take pride in making things. We also have gotten pretty good at wallowing in things, as well. While there is no doubt the United States faces some significant challenges – many of our own making and some a result of external factors – we seem obsessed these days with proving we understand just how bad things are.

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