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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students Jesse DePinto and Matthew Juranitch started their business, 3D Creations LLC, to bring inexpensive 3D printing to other businesses.

Mukwanago-based level and tool manufacturer Empire Level Mfg. Corp. is growing as construction picks up for its customers.

BMO Harris Bank today announced it is donating $750,000 over three years to United Way of Greater Milwaukee to promote healthy birth outcomes and reduce the city's infant mortality rate.

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek partner John Emanuel has been named secretary/treasurer of the National American Lung Association board of directors.

The Milwaukee Wave of Hope and Milwaukee Wave have named the charity organizations selected as part of the 2012-'13 BMO Harris Bank. Players will sport custom jerseys featuring designs representing a charity during each game. Jerseys will be auctioned off to benefit the charity.

Another year, another trillion dollars in debt. At least that seems to be the trend with President Obama at the helm. This month, the national debt surpassed $16 trillion. Only ten months ago, we had passed the $15 trillion mark. Our government is deep in the red and accumulating debt at an accelerating, and alarming rate.

More than 30 employees from Wells Fargo & Company and Rockwell Automation are teaming up Friday for community service projects focused on enhancing aesthetics and community in the Harambee neighborhood. Employee volunteers will paint and stain porches for homeowners, decorate and fill planters in the neighborhood, and create window boards youth can decorate to hang over boards on abandoned properties.

Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital will use a one-year, $50,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to research a specific type of heart failure and pinpoint biomarkers that could help with earlier diagnosis and treatment. Researchers will focus on identifying biomarkers involved in cardiac dysfunction, which might allow clinicians to diagnose and decide a treatment route before irreversible cardiac damage affects a patient.

Growing Power announced plans to create community food centers at locations across the country with a five-year, $5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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.