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Forward Community Invesments receives $40 million in New Market Tax Credits

Madison-based Forward Community Investments (FCI) received $40 million from the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program to amplify their investments in Wisconsin communities,

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Lacking Access: Study finds people of color half as likely to own a business in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, people of color are about half as likely than white people to own a business, and those businesses earn less on

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It’s official, it’s family: The Official Cleaners, staffed by five siblings, looks to become Milwaukee’s best

Tou Yeng Pheng Yang’s parents always stressed the importance of going to college. As salutatorian of his class at the Hmong American Peace

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Gamma Ray Bar looks to become the pulse of downtown Madison

More often than you’d think, an entrepreneur isn’t a young up-and-comer just out of business school. Rather, most entrepreneurs spend a career getting

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Appleton’s Shear Images by Carla is a family affair

Allayah Manns didn’t expect to join the family business. Her parents came to Appleton from Mississippi in the early 1990s to plant a

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Hospitality & Heritage: Wisconsin’s Native American tourism economy

Ryon Alloway’s dad wasn’t much of an outdoorsman, so it was his uncles and older cousins who took him out fishing on the

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Artemis Provisions and Cheese opens retail space in Mt. Horeb; restaurant, butcher facility to come

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kingsley and Melissa Gobourne had a problem: 100 chickens on a truck, and nowhere to put them. Artemis

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Profile: Latino Chamber of Commerce of Southeast Wisconsin

Twenty-something years ago, Dr. Nelson Soler was working in economic development outreach at UW-Milwaukee and saw an increasing need: specific outreach to Latino

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Profile: American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin

For nearly 35 years, the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin (AICCW) has supported and advocated for Indigenous-owned businesses statewide. Its origins

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Profile: Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce

One of the oldest ethnic Chambers in Wisconsin, the Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce started to get the government’s attention. “The reason it

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