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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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SBA announces grant funding for Native American-owned businesses

 Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 33 million

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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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Profile: Latino Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin

Founded as the Latino Chamber of Commerce of Dane County, the organization expanded to a statewide scope in 2021. “One of the reasons

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Two Black woman owned businesses celebrate grand openings on Madison’s east side

Though they’ve been open for almost six months, two Black woman-owned businesses celebrated their move to prominent storefronts with ribbon cutting ceremonies Sunday.

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From horse farms to HR: how Frankie Rodriguez is connecting employers with Wisconsin’s Latino workforce

“You can envision something, but then something else comes about.” That’s what Frankie Rodriguez says about the evolution of his current venture, AgriStaff

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