The Milwaukee Art Museum has welcomed three new employees to its staff at Café Calatrava, its onsite restaurant and catering company. Tony Bilot, sales and events manager, will oversee weddings and social events for the museum. Mike Mahan, catering manager for Café Calatrava, has more than 14 years of restaurant and catering experience and Josh Stefanko, has been promoted to Chef de Cusine for Café Calatrava.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has hired Kathryn Dunn, a community investment officer at the Helen Bader Foundation in Milwaukee, as its new vice president of community investment. In the position, Dunn will be responsible for the strategic direction, development and management of the Foundation’s grantmaking, scholarships, leadership initiatives and the evaluation of grant outcomes and impact. Dunn has spent the past 14 years at the Bader Foundation, where she specialized in community and economic development and workforce issues.
Jacklyn Mortenson has joined Milwaukee-based Gilda’s Club Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. as fund development officer. Mortenson comes to Gilda’s Club from the American Cancer Society where she served as premier events coordinator and manager of “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.” Prior to that time, Mortenson served as executive and development director of the Mequon-Thiensville Education Foundation.
Kevin Stalheim, artistic director at Present Music was recently selected as one of four recipients for the 2011 UWM Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 1966, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association established the Distinguished Alumnus Award to honor outstanding alumni of the University.
Stalheim is the founder and artistic director of Present Music, a new music ensemble in Milwaukee that was established in 1982. Present Music commissions, performs, records and tours the music of today’s most important living composers from emerging voices to Pulitzer Prize winners. In the past quarter century, more than 55 new works have come into existence because of Present Music.
Stalheim will be recognized at the Alumni Association Awards Ceremony and Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Wisconsin Room of the UWM Union at 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tri-Adathon nonprofit spotlight
The Tri-Adathon venture between Elm Grove-based Clear Verve Marketing and Milwaukee firms Catral Doyle Creative and the Welke Group recently presented 32 area nonprofit organizations with pro-bono marketing services as part of its 24-hour nonstop creative work marathon.
“The event was a huge success,” said Christina Steder, president of Clear Verve Marketing. “The general reaction was that the organizations were all really excited about the work that they got.”
The services provided included marketing and communications planning, public relations programs, website design, radio spot creation, graphic design and media planning.
According to Steder, the creative teams worked longer this year because the projects they took on were more extensive, but overall they were happy with the work that was produced.
Tri-Adathon worked closely with local vendors who donated on air time, printing services and other amenities to the selected organizations, she said.
Tri-Adathon received 115 requests for work from nonprofit organizations in the community; more than double what they received last year, Stedar said.
Nonprofit organizations were able to submit an application for pro-bono work through the Tri-Adathon website until early January. Organizations were selected based on need and the skills of the marketing companies involved, Steder said.
BizTimes Nonprofit Weekly will highlight the organizations selected, and the work they received, over the next few weeks. Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin currently consists of 40 Habitat affiliates in locations throughout the state of Wisconsin. Many affiliates are quite small, with little to no paid staff, and do not have access to enough resources to build more than one home per year. Habitat for Humanity got involved in the Triadathon effort for assistance in developing a website for the organization that could spread the message to the general public as well as connect the smaller affiliates throughout the state. Catral Doyle Creative managed to create a website for the organization that accomplished that goal. As part of the organization’s immediate goals following Triadathon, Habitat for Humanity Wisconsin plans to utilize the website to help affiliate organizations gain access to the resources they need to serve more lower income families as well as provide general information and resources to those looking to volunteer or get involved in the organization.
Nonprofit Name: Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin
Nonprofit Address: 279 S 17th Avenue, Suite 7, West Bend, WI 53095
Web site: www.habitatwisconsin.org
Leadership: Sara Kierzek, acting executive director
Board President: Tim Schwan, Church and Community Engagement, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
VicePresident: Russ Wanta, executive director, Habitat for Humanity of Washington County
Treasurer: Todd Restel, CFO, First Supply, Inc.
Secretary: Steve Baker, ReStore Director, LaCrosse Area Habitat for Humanity
Mission: To unite Habitat affiliates throughout the state of Wisconsin in a coordinated effort to eliminate substandard housing.
Is your organization looking for board members? "We are looking for at-large board members from all parts of the state of Wisconsin, to give us a statewide representation and reach."
How can the business community help this nonprofit? "Business people and the community can help Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin with donations to the organization to get us up and running so that we can bring more resources to our local affiliates throughout the state. We can also help companies arrange volunteer opportunities for their employees, particularly if they have locations all over the state. And, people in our community can help by becoming advocates for the critical need for affordable housing in our state."
