Industries

Three organizations, First Book, New Threads of Hope and M&I, a part of BMO Financial Group, have teamed up to offer Milwaukee area children and children across the country the ability to access hundreds of thousands of brand new books.

The Milwaukee Jewish Day School has announced that an anonymous donor has made a sizeable donation to the school through the Building Our Future grant program.

Wauwatosa-based Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin, part of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, has selected former Green Bay Packer George Koonce as its spokesperson for the Family Finding Fatherhood Engagement Program. Koonce will meet with various media sources and provide personal appearances representing the organization.

Verizon Wireless, in partnership with the National Purchasing Partners, has begun offering discounted services and equipment to nonprofit organizations that are members of National Purchasing Partners.

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee Emerging Leaders recently launched a new Emerging Readers program that provides an opportunity for volunteers to share the joy of reading with local children. The organization is still looking to fill some of those volunteer positions.

Geneva Bolton Johnson, a person known and respected locally, nationally and internationally for her work in nonprofit management, will receive the inaugural Leadership Award from the Volunteers of America of Wisconsin on Friday, May 4 at the Pfister Hotel.

Easter Seals, a national nonprofit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities and other special needs, will host an online ‘flash mob’ on Twitter today at 10 a.m.

Journal Communications Inc. today reported first quarter net earnings of $2.9 million, down from $3.4 million in the same period a year ago.

When researchers used federal funding to genetically mutate the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus to make it capable of respiratory transmission between ferrets, the U.S. government was caught flat-footed on how to proceed with this potentially dangerous research.

BoothTag, a mobile barcode game developed by Milwaukee-based Finn Digital was named the best overall winner of the Marquette University’s 10th annual Business Plan Competition.