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BizTimes Media’s fifth annual Giving Guide serves the region’s business community as a vehicle to engage with area nonprofit organizations and discover opportunities for philanthropic involvement.

Holey Moley is dedicating its doughnuts to a community cause throughout April as it supports United Performing Arts Fund’s 2015 campaign through an initiative dubbed “The DOUGHnate to the Performing Arts” program.

A recent Northwestern Mutual Foundation grant gifted to Discovery World will allow the museum to add Monday hours to its hours of operations this spring and summer.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation will ease public transit riders’ commutes on April 28, when rides will be free on transit systems in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties.

“Have a baby too young and it'll control your life” the ad reads. You may have seen these recent ads at bus shelters – they're designed to make teens think twice before becoming parents. The ad campaign (see image below) is the latest public awareness effort for Milwaukee's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, a collaborative effort led by United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County.

A $6.2 million redevelopment project led by Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, Inc. and Impact Seven, Inc. earned recognition from Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago this week as the organizations were honored with the bank's Community First Partnership Award.

As City Year Milwaukee turns 5 years old, the education-based nonprofit organization will honor Julia Uihlein during its annual dinner fundraiser in May.

BizTimes Media’s fifth annual Giving Guide serves the region’s business community as a vehicle to engage with area nonprofit organizations and discover opportunities for philanthropic involvement.

Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, Inc. celebrated the neighborhood development progress it has made in the last two decades during its 2015 Executive Breakfast, held March 19 at Alverno College. The event, in its ninth year, highlighted LBWN's 20th anniversary while also calling attention to the nonprofit's pool of stakeholders. LBWN, founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, has leveraged more than $40 million in neighborhood investments throughout its history. The breakfast event included networking, remarks from community leaders and public officials, and a panel discussion featuring insight from neighborhood residents.

Under a new business model that positions United Way of Washington County as a community problem solver and a convener, the nonprofit organization is pivoting much of its focus toward a solution for the county's workforce crisis.