Nonprofit

Although United Way in Waukesha County fell short of its $4.75 million campaign goal last year, the organization is on the rebound with a $4.4 million goal for its 2014 campaign, according to an announcement made Wednesday.

BizTimes Media is wrapping up the final week of the nomination process for the inaugural BizTimes Media Nonprofit Excellence Awards.

BizTimes Media is wrapping up the final week of the nomination process for the inaugural BizTimes Media Nonprofit Excellence Awards.

Ebenezer Child Centers, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit agency that provides early childhood programming and care, has announced its 2014 board of directors.

BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation Inc. announced it has partnered with gener8tor to invest in technology-enabled, rapidly scalable early stage companies.

The Wisconsin Humane Society plans to open a spay/neuter clinic in Milwaukee in June 2015.

*Friday, Sept. 5, Horizon Home Care & Hospice will hold its eighth annual “Life Lights” candlelit stroll and dinner....

As BizTimes Media pulls together its fifth annual Giving Guide, its editorial team is seeking story ideas on corporate leaders and employees who make significant community contributions through their time, talent and treasure.

A collaborative team of researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute, and BloodCenter of Wisconsin has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin to study genomic factors that impact necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe form of bowel disease that develops in 5 to 10 percent of premature infants and has a mortality rate of 25 to 40 percent.

The Bradley Family Foundation and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation have opened up the application process for the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program.