Owners of a Madison company that recycles information technology have donated $100,000 to the UW-Madison School of Business to assist in the education of a student as an entrepreneur. Neil and Jessica Peters-Michaud, co-owners of Cascade Asset Management, will give $20,000 annually over the next five years as a fellowship to support a graduate student through the Business School's Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship program.
Alliant Energy, 4902 N. Biltmore Lane, has been recognized by the United Way of Dane County for working with its labor union to increase employee contributions. The United Way's annual Key Club awards recognized those companies that did an outstanding job of motivating their employees to give at the highest level. Key Club members are donors whose annual household contributions exceed $500. Other awards: ? Largest Key Club dollar increase: Springs Window Fashions.
- Largest number of new Key Club donors: WPS Health Insurance.
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- Largest average gift from a company with more than four employees: AAA Wisconsin.
- Largest percent increase in Key Club dollars: Bergstrom Cadillac Oldsmobile Hummer.
The Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee has launched an online jobs resource for people looking for career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. The new service, at www.jobsthatserve.com, lists job openings at nonprofit organizations across the state. The site also provides links to training and educational events on a variety of human resources, organizational development and staff skills topics.
Amcore Bank has donated $5,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County toward a new center in the Allied Drive-Dunn's Marsh neighborhood.
Employees of Verizon Communications in Sun Prairie have collected 569 books and donated them to the Dodgeville District Reading Program and the Family Literacy Network of East Madison.
General Casualty Insurance in Sun Prairie has donated $30,500 to the American Red Cross International Response Fund for tsunami relief in southeast Asia.
Alliant Energy, 4902 N. Biltmore Lane, recently provided money for electronics, security systems and murals for the new orientation theater at the UW Arboretum.
Knupp & Watson, an advertising, marketing and public relations firm at 5201 Old Middleton Road, donated $360,000 worth of services to 20 area nonprofit agencies during Goodstock 2004, a 24-hour event in December in which Knupp & Watson brainstormed and produced advertising materials for the agencies.
Electronic Theatre Controls in Middleton, a manufacturer of entertainment and architectural lighting, has raised $150,369 to benefit the victims of December's tsunami in Asia.
First Weber Group Realtors, 429 Gammon Place, donated more than $50,000 to charitable organizations in Madison and southcentral Wisconsin in 2004.
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, 1265 John Q. Hammons Drive, recently donated $1,000 to Safe Community Coalition of Madison and Dane County, a non-profit group that works to prevent injuries.
Employees of Marshall Erdman & Associates, 5117 University Ave., recently collected more than 3,700 pounds of food for the Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, an organization that distributes food to dozens of food pantries in Dane County.
Attic Angel has awarded an $8,000 grant to Safe Harbor of Dane County for the organization's Safe Step Program. Other grants awarded were: $7,332 to Prevent Blindness Wisconsin for the group's Dane County Preschool Vision Screening program; $6,300 to Child Care Inclusion Resources for the group's Green Light for Inclusion program; $5,000 to Research, Education, Action and Policy on Food Group for the group's Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch program; $5,000 to Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin to provide fresh milk, formula and diapers to Dane County families; $5,000 to Girl Scouts of Black Hawk Council for the organization's Studio 2B After School Program.
