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For Immediate Release: Contact: Rose Lynch, 608-266-6753 $563,500 provided for community-based organizations Madison – Governor Jim Doyle today announced the Joint Committee on Finance approved a request for additional funding of $563,500 to address family violence arising from cultural adjustment issues faced by refugees as they assimilate into new communities within Wisconsin. The Refugee Family Strengthening (RFS) Project provides funding to several community-based...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (4-14-04) Contact: Tom Still or Sally Muller at 608-442-7557 To register for the conference, go to www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com MILWAUKEE – Turning big ideas into even bigger businesses is the theme of the second Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference to be held June 1-2 in Milwaukee, conference organizers announced Wednesday. The second annual Entrepreneurs’ Conference will feature: Winners of the first Wisconsin Governor’s Business...

When Madison's Guild started in 1985, the art marketing company relied on heavy paper catalogs and sourcebooks to market the work of its artists to architects and designers. Then, in the '90s as personal computers became more widespread, Guild founder Toni Sikes began brainstorming ways to use technology to market art. The Internet boom of the late '90s gave Sikes...

DATE: Wednesday, April 14. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., lunch 12:00, program 12:30 SPEAKER(S): John Biondi, CEO, nPoint and Dan Vander Wyde, UW Madison Engineering LOCATION: Holiday Inn Campus, 2703 Craig Rd, Eau Claire COST: (includes lunch): Corp WIN members $0; Individual WIN members $10; Momentum Chippewa Valley Members $10; Non-members $15; Students $5 PHONE: 888-443-5285 E-MAIL: sallym@wisconsintechnologycouncil.com REGISTRATION: www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com CONTACT NAME: Sally Muller,...

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This column first appeared in Corporate Report Wisconsin http://www.crwmag.com/CRW/crw.html By John Byrnes Executive Managing Director Mason Wells In the past year, Wisconsin hosted the Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Conference, the Wisconsin Life Science and Venture Conference, the fourth Wisconsin Economic Summit, the Evolving Healthcare Technology Conference, and the Governor's Conference on Economic Development. These events were attended by people representing the now familiar government agencies, community development organizations, schools and universities, law...

By Joanne HaasWisBusiness.comGov. Jim Doyle on Monday reiterated his pledge to support stem cell research -- notably the work under way at the Waisman Center, the UW-Madison center devoted to human development, developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The Democratic governor toured the campus center in the morning,...