Kenosha Area Business Alliance

KABA President Nicole Ryf recently participated in a panel discussion for Gateway Technical College students interested in board leadership and community engagement through the the college's Level-Up Leadership Program. With her on the panel was Ron Tatum, Kenosha Area Family & Aging Services, Inc.; Dineshi Burchi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Barbara Farrar, The LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin. It's exciting to see young people exploring the importance of serving their community and engaging with nonprofits doing the work to make it better for everyone!

The Kenosha County Housing Task Force is hard at work! Earlier this week, Tekla Kilpatrick from KABA and Savannah Meyers, MPH from UW-Madison Extension Kenosha County attended the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) annual conference in Madison. The theme this year was "How Housing Happens". The conference brings awareness to different financial resources and programs available for municipalities and organizations. Tekla & Savannah were excited to return with lots of information to help bring HOUSING FOR ALL residents of Kenosha County. #KenoshaCountyHousingTaskForce #HousingForAll #HousingKenosha #LiveHere #WHEDA #HowHousingHappens

Come celebrate the season with your fellow KABA investors and partners on December 4! KABA invites its investors to this purely social event to kick off the holiday season. The evening will be an open house with delicious hearty appetizers, drinks, networking, and festive live music. Our nonprofit partner this year is Kenosha Area Family & Aging Services, Inc.. A portion of proceeds from the event will be donated to the impactful organization, whose mission is to promote healthy aging, strong families, and a connected community. Learn more at kafasi.org. Thank you to our generous sponsors: Catalyst Exhibits and Johnson Financial Group! We hope you can join us! More info/registration: https://bit.ly/3YScHjM.

Here or there? Area HR leaders weigh in on remote vs. in-office work in a recent survey by MMAC. "Since the spring of 2020, many of us have found ourselves putting in eight hours from behind laptops in the comfort of our homes. For more and more, going back into the office – at least part-time – is reality. Several members of our Executive Roundtable weighed in on how their companies are approaching the issue." Read more: https://bit.ly/4f9Tkta

Welcome new KABA investor: Kenosha Literacy Council! Kenosha Literacy Council (KLC) is a non-profit comprised of teachers, learners, tutors, volunteers, and donors all working together to improve adult literacy in Kenosha County. Learn more - https://lnkd.in/giJDgMbA #ThankYou #NewInvestor #WelcomeToKABA #ReadSucceedLead

Congratulations to Kem Krest in Pleasant Prairie on the grand opening of their beautiful, new in-house health care clinic serving employees and their families! "Kem Krest wants to revolutionizie the employee experience and become an employer of choice in Pleasant Prairie," said Director of Operations Robert Shufelt at a ribbon cutting ceremony in October.

Rust-oleum expanding; KABA Holiday Social is Dec. 4th...read all this and more in the November KABA Update: https://lnkd.in/gDAU43ry

Thank you to all who joined us last week for KABA's last Manufacturing Forum of the year about leveraging your employees to improve safety & quality. Thank you to WMEP Manufacturing Solutions and to our sponsors: Community State Bank (WI) and OFFSITE, LLC. We are excited to partner with WMEP again in 2025 - stay tuned for topics & dates!

KABA and its partners had a great kick off meeting yesterday for?the Kenosha County Housing Task Force. The task force, co-led by Kenosha County and KABA, is a collection of developers, municipal and nonprofit leaders, financing experts, realtors, and other community members interested in encouraging more housing for all throughout Kenosha County. The task force will divide into three working groups: Planning, Zoning & Design Standards; Financial Tools; and Promotion (Public Engagement, Communication & Marketing). Thank you to everyone who joined us.?Look for updates and recommendations coming soon.

Welcome new KABA investor: Eli Lilly and Company! Lilly, headquartered in Indiana, unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people worldwide. The pharmaceutical company recently purchased a manufacturing facility in Prairie Highlands Corporate Park previously owned by Nexus Pharmaceuticals. Learn more - https://www.lilly.com/ #ThankYou #NewInvestor #WelcomeToKABA