Nonprofit

Summerfest operator Milwaukee World Festival Inc. has named former Milwaukee deputy city attorney Mary Schanning as the nonprofit organization's general counsel and chief administrative officer.

Waukesha-based nonprofit organization La Casa de Esperanza has promoted its chief operating officer Shari Campbell to chief executive officer.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum has received a $10 million commitment from an anonymous donor to fund its reopening next year and sustain its operations moving forward.

An anonymous couple is committing $10 million to improve Marquette University’s campus health and wellness services.

Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc. plans to relocate some of its administrative services and programs to the Summit Place office complex in West Allis when it moves out of its Greendale campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced it will offer multiple full-ride scholarships for Milwaukee students pursuing tech-related degrees next fall.

The Milwaukee Common Council has approved the sale of 41 vacant lots in the city's Harambee neighborhood to Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity, paving the way for the organization to move forward with its initiative to build 80 new homes in the north-side neighborhood.

Milwaukee-based Public Allies, a national nonprofit that prepares underrepresented young people for grassroots leadership, has received a $10 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett.

In keeping with its mission to help prevent chronic disease before it happens by supporting local programs focused on health and wellness, the Dohmen Company Foundation announced it is investing $1.6 million in several nonprofits.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum has received a multimillion-dollar commitment from an anonymous donor to support its new museum and plans to open an adjacent building for academic programming.