The Greater Milwaukee Committee is a private sector civic organization whose mission is to contribute to the cultural and economic base of the Milwaukee Metropolitan area.
Read more »The Talent Dividend is a GMC-sponsored initiative built upon regional collaborations between businesses, institutions of higher education, K-12 school systems, service providers, community organizations, economic and workforce development agencies and community leaders to grow the regional talent pool to match the human capital needs of existing and emerging businesses.
Read more »The Greater Milwaukee Committee aligns our region’s assets in advanced manufacturing and our global innovation companies through MiKE (Innovation in Milwaukee), a design, technology and innovation cluster that serves as a catalytic source for rapid innovation and talent to compete on the world stage.
Read more »After being approached by MPS Superintendent Dr. Greg Thornton, the GMC and its education committee launched the "teachtown" initiative to help MPS address the impending loss of human capital. Teachtown will help MPS widen their talent pool, and create some important supports for them so that new teachers are able to access our community and make meaningful connections to their students and to Milwaukee.
Read more »Our membership – comprised of our region’s business, labor, academic, philanthropic, nonprofit and civic leadership – believes that intelligent, active interest in public affairs is the true measure of citizenship, and the foundation for community.
Grant will fund art projects to connect and animate communities in Harambee, West Wisconsin Avenue
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – (May 20, 2013) – ArtPlace America announces today the award of a $350,000 grant to the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) initiative for ‘Creational Trails, a new program in Milwaukee. ‘Creational Trails was chosen from over 1,200 applications as an exceptional example of creative placemaking.
Read more here: http://innovationinmilwaukee.com/greater-milwaukee-committee-receives-350000-grant-from-artplace-america/
ArtPlace Interim Director Jeremy Nowak speaks while Mayor Tom Barrett and GMC President Julia Taylor look on
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At the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s May Membership Meeting, GMC member and Quad/Graphics president, chairman and CEO Joel Quadracci discussed his experience as leader of his family’s company, Quad/Graphics, and the substantial changes the company has undergone in the past decade. Mr. Quadracci demonstrated a new technology used by Quad, augmented reality, which allows printed pages to come to life on the screen of an iPad or other smart device. He was then interviewed by three of his GMC peers: R.W. Baird managing director and director of asset management Mary Ellen Stanek, Lubar & Co. president David Lubar, and Godfrey & Kahn attorney Peter Sommerhauser.
Mr. Quadracci’s presentation was covered by both the Journal Sentinel and the Business Journal.
Flying Car, presented by the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) Initiative, is an annual destination event to inspire minds with the year’s brightest technological advances and empower them to launch their own world-changing ideas into the marketplace. Formerly known as Milwaukee Innovation Week, Flying Car 2013 takes off for ten days of workshops, networking, pitches, and our signature gala. Inventors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and members of the future-loving public are invited to create—and celebrate—a better tomorrow in our positive, retro-50s environment.
For more information and to check out the week’s event, please visit the Flying Car website.
Versant CEO Will Ruch and former Xerox CHRO Pat Nazemetz, authors of the book HR and Marketing: Power Partners, addressed GMC members at the April membership meeting on the importance of integrating HR and marketing strategies within companies.
Ruch and Nazemetz moderated a panel featuring:
For more information and takeaways from the event, please visit the special event page. The event was also featured in BizTimes.
Milwaukee to “Scale-Up” Local High Growth Ventures using OPEN for Enterprise Model Commissioned by American Express OPEN
— First-Ever Project in the U.S. to Build upon Expert Daniel Isenberg’s Methodologies to Foster Self-Sustaining Entrepreneurship Ecosystems—
Milwaukee, WI [March 28, 2013] – Today, the Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC), a coalition of the region’s business, labor, academic, philanthropic, nonprofit and civic leadership, announced that Milwaukee will be the first community in the U.S. to develop an entrepreneurship program using a model developed by Daniel Isenberg, founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Projects. The initiative is backed by Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett as part of a bipartisan effort to grow the economy by stimulating high-growth ventures and encouraging job creation.
OPEN for Enterprise: Coalitions for High-Growth Entrepreneurship is designed to help high potential urban communities connect a diverse group of stakeholders, including city planners, private investors, academics, entrepreneurs and public officials, to help maximize the social and economic value of the community’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Merging their collective expertise, the coalition can help to develop community programs that identify new ways to stimulate, support and “scale up” new and existing ventures.
Milwaukee, with its strong focus on urban planning, engineering and a strategic priority to reclaim manufacturing excellence, is a natural choice for this initiative. Working closely with GMC, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Administration (WHEDA) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), the Coalition will produce an actionable blueprint for Milwaukee that can help lead to a measurable increase in growth driven start-ups and successful scale-ups.
Read the full press release here and learn more on the Scale UP Milwaukee website.
