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It’s hard to imagine Madison without its many nonprofit organizations, and perhaps no nonprofit has contributed more to the community than the Rotary Club of Madison, which will observe its 100th birthday this spring. The service organization, which is part of Rotary International, was founded on June 2, 1913. As it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, the names of its founders – McKenna, Law, and Jackson, et al. – have been replaced with names like Ramey and Waldbillig and Woit, but its driving motivation of “Service Above Self” carries on. |
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For Tom Eggert, there’s no question that business is the solution rather than the problem when it comes to forging a greener future. As business sustainability outreach director at the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council, Eggert is eager to quash any suggestion that the business community needs to be dragged into the 21st century with respect to its sustainability efforts. On the contrary, he says, businesses are consistently and earnestly blazing greener paths for the rest of society. |
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You might say Amy Gannon was tired of seeing the same old faces at the entrepreneurial events she attended in the Greater Madison area – or rather, she was hoping to see a few more new faces sprinkled in with the old. As a professor in the School of Business at Madison’s Edgewood College, Gannon often works with aspiring entrepreneurs, and so she has a keen interest in networking opportunities and workshops designed to nurture the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. But she was witnessing a disturbing pattern at most of these get-togethers: Women were staying away in droves. |
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