State Bank of Cross Plains Reinvests in Local Communities to Celebrate 110-Year Anniversary

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State Bank of Cross Plains Reinvests in Local Communities to Celebrate 110-Year Anniversary

January 2019, MADISON, Wisconsin— January 2019 marks the end of a year-long anniversary celebration that focused on the community aspect of community banking. To commemorate 110 years as an independent community bank, State Bank of Cross Plains (SBCP) enabled its employees to donate $110 each as an investment back into the communities served by the 10 SBCP locations.

Nearly 160 employees directed more than $17,000 in total donations as part of this gesture.

“We were looking for a way to thank our customers and the communities where we live and work,” shares Jim Tubbs, President and CEO at State Bank of Cross Plains. “Anniversaries are about celebrating strong relationships. We wanted to give an anniversary gift that represents how much we cherish these relationships.”

SBCP employees could choose any cause or organization to support. The only guideline was the $110 amount and the local focus. As a result, employees donated to more than 90 different organizations – and in most cases, they hand-delivered the checks. Despite the variety of groups, the causes often fell into a handful of broad categories, such as:

• Taking care of our communities’ older adults

• Supporting animal welfare and animal service relationships

• Investing in community housing, services, and overall development (parks, schools, and more)

• Creating safe and healthy places to live (food pantries, domestic abuse survivor support, environmental cleanup, and other similar groups)

• Providing care and supporting research for a variety of health issues and diseases

While the majority of the gifts were single donations, there were some popular causes that received multiple gifts, including:

• $1,320 to Dane County Humane Society

• $660 to NorthWest Dane Senior Services

• $550 each to Domestic Abuse Intervention Service (DAIS) and Agrace Foundation

• $440 each to Gilda’s Club, Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish, Habitat for Humanity of Dane County, Middleton Outreach Ministry (MOM), Waunakee Neighborhood Connection, and the Alzheimer’s & Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin

“From Honor Flights to the Clean Lakes Alliance to OccuPaws Guide Dog Association, these organizations share our mission to make our communities vibrant and diverse places to connect, grow, and succeed,” says Tubbs. “Our bank family did a great job of embracing this celebration and living out our mission through these simple connections.”

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Established in 1908, State Bank of Cross Plains is a $1 billion bank, offering a full range of business and personal financial services. The largest independent community bank in Dane County, State Bank of Cross Plains recently announced plans to merge with Union Bank & Trust in spring 2019 to expand services into adjacent counties and communities. SBCP is known for our modern, progressive approach to supporting consumers and small-to-mid-sized businesses by offering services more typical of larger financial institutions in an environment that values one-on-one personal relationships and community involvement.

For additional information, please visit sbcp.bank or contact VP-Marketing Director Darin Tessier at 608-826-3514. 

Downtown Breakfast Eatery offers Better Together: A V-Day celebration of love in all its forms

Contact:

Andrea Collins, Director of Sustainability

Short Stack Eatery, 301 W. Johnson St.

andrea@shortstackeats.com 608.709.5569

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Downtown Breakfast Eatery offers Better Together: A V-Day celebration of love in all its forms

Madison, WI — January 18, 2019

Everyone loves breakfast, and for the second year in a row Short Stack Eatery is proud to offer Better Together, an event celebrating love in all its forms for Valentine’s Day 2019. Short Stack believes that we are all Better Together, so you can be sure that your race, religion, age, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other label that might be cause for consternation when dining somewhere new will be honored and welcome.

Brunch-lovers are invited to enjoy locally sourced, made-from-scratch favorites such as the eggs benedict, biscuits and gravy, pecan streusel French toast, or decadent sweet potato oatmeal pancakes with maple bourbon mascarpone. Better Together will also feature LGBTQ+ inclusive drink specials named to honor major figures and milestones in the LGBTQ+ movement, both globally and locally.

Do you love breakfast, but want to try something new? The “blind special” gives customers the opportunity to try a chef’s special mystery dish that isn’t included on the regular menu. The blind special changes daily and can be ordered for just $7 if customers don’t ask what it is!

Like last year during Better Together, blind specials will be VEGAN! Unlike last year, they will be vegan the ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY!

A fun, open-minded, quirky local breakfast eatery, Short Stack’s tables are adorned with old love letters, postcards, and even notes and letters from old employees and loyal customers. Natural light illuminates the restaurant through wall-sized windows and lively green plants bring a touch of natural beauty to the space. Most importantly, the Trans Pride flag and Philadelphia Pride Flag (which includes an added black and brown stripe) are proudly displayed in the windows in the restaurant, to show solidarity with the trans community and LGBTQA+ people of color.

This year, Short Stack is picking up a page from the online community art project PostSecret and we’re inviting the community to engage with us by writing postcards to SSE (anonymously or otherwise), touching upon these two questions:

“Who do you love?” and “What does love mean to you?”

Submissions can be homemade, or folks have the opportunity to take advantage of the materials in Anthology’s craft room (230 State Street) or at Short Stack itself to craft about love in the weeks prior to Better Together. The windows and walls of Short Stack will be adorned with these PostSecrets during Better Together to celebrate love — whatever that means to you.

Through their Organization of the Month (OTM) program, Short Stack supports a different non-profit organization by donating a portion of each month’s sales and utilizing space in the restaurant and on social media platforms to spread the word. In the month of February, GSAFE will be their OTM. An organization that supports K-12 LGBTQ+ youth, GSAFE works with students, educators, and families to create schools — and a world — free from oppression based on gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, race, or other identities.

By eating at Short Stack during the entire month of February, you will directly support the important work that GSAFE does state-wide.

Co-owners, Sinéad McHugh and Alex Lindenmeyer, have been very clear about setting their intentions for creating a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere for all – and not just for Valentine’s Day.

“If you’ve ever had negative connotations about Valentine’s Day, we’ve got you,” says Lindenmeyer. “When you’re sick of the roses and chocolate and you just want to come and have pancakes with the person or people you love, we’re holding a space for you.”

SSE is proud to now officially have restrooms that are not qualified by a gender. Instead, a sign is affixed on each restroom door that describes the facilities available inside so that each customer may choose whichever restroom best suits their needs. SSE celebrates gender diversity and recognizes the threat that gendered restrooms impose on queer communities. Everyone can feel empowered and confident in choosing the restroom they feel comfortable choosing.

“All people are always welcome in our restaurant. We also recognize that Valentine’s Day is a very heteronormative celebration and that there are endless connections between which love thrives.” says Andrea Collins, Short Stack’s Director of Sustainability. “During Better Together, we intentionally invite communities who might feel like Valentine’s Day is not for them into our space to celebrate love, connection, togetherness, and pancakes.”

Short Stack Eatery will be open during its regular hours for the week of Valentine’s Day:

Wednesday 6am-3pm

Thursday 6am-midnight
Friday 6am-midnight
Saturday 6am – Sunday 9pm (yes, the whole time!)

Mailing address: 301 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53703

Check out their Facebook page for more information!

EZ Office Products to Contribute to Second Harvest Food Bank During Community Initiative in December

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CONTACT: Laurel Cavalluzzo, lcavalluzzo@sortismarketing.com, (703) 629-5693
EZ Office Products to Contribute to Second Harvest Food Bank During Community Initiative in December
Madison, WI – December 3, 2018 – In support of Second Harvest Food Bank of Southern Wisconsin, EZ Office Products is donating three meals for each order placed with the company in December.
According to Second Harvest, approximately 1 in 10 people in the community don’t know where or how they will obtain their next meal. Since 1986, the organization has provided more than 100 million meals to people who face hunger. Despite the vast quantity of meals donated, there is still not enough to meet the need.
EZ Office Products President Rose Molz is looking to help close the gap between availability and need before the end of 2018.
Molz explains that Second Harvest has a special place in her heart, especially when it comes to helping hungry children in the community. “An important part of Second Harvest’s mission is to provide food to children. For me, this is important as I look to support charitable causes that directly help our next generation. This December, I am excited that EZ Office Products – as well as our customers – will have a hand in providing support to such a fantastic organization!”
More details about this initiative with Second Harvest Food Bank is available here.
ABOUT EZ Office Products
EZ Office Products is the only independent office supply company in the greater-Madison area. A Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) company, EZ Office Products was founded in 2006 by Rose and Gary Molz. The company embraces old-fashioned values and principles that include honesty, great products at fair prices, friendly and knowledgeable service, and has the desire to make a positive difference in the world by giving back to the local and global community.
The company has been an MPower Business Champion, a nationally recognized model for achieving sustainability success from within an organization.
More information: www.ezofficeproducts.com or 608-310-4300.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ezofficeproducts
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ezoffice
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Ford Motor Company donates to Nationwide Trophy Recycling Program

For over 30 years Total Awards & Promotions has been accepting old trophies that people couldn’t throw away but wanted them to have a second life. They recycled the parts and re-gifted some to non profits.
In 2007 it became the Nationwide Trophy Recycling Program that would ‘Pay it Forward’ to nonprofits across the country. TrophyRecyclingProgram.com
Every day boxes full of people’s trophies, medals and awards are received that are then recycled and reused. This saves all the marble from going to the landfill as well as rods, nuts, columns, and figures. Those parts are then remade into new trophies that are donated for free to 501c3′s nationwide.
The recycling program supports nonprofits by giving them awards and recognition they don’t have a budget to purchase. This allows them to recognize volunteers, award members, sponsors, and give out at fund raising events.
This year the Ford Motor Company found the Trophy Recycling Program and is donating thousands of certificate holders, diploma covers, and certificate plaques, to give to nonprofits.
With a certificate holder you can give the recipient more than just a piece of paper, but something that they can actually hang on the wall or upright on their desk.
In order to help support the program the company will be selling a portion of the certificate holders to the public. The proceeds will help support the trophy recycling program and help ‘Pay it Forward’ to nonprofits everywhere.
If your nonprofit could use certificate holders, awards, and recognition, give us a call today to discuss the options.

Dental Health Associates Gives Back to the Community

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Jamie Gindt

Marketing Strategist

608-661-6334

jgindt@dhamadison.com

DENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

New Patient Big Give Donation Begins in November

Madison, WI (November 5, 2018) Dental Health Associates announces Big Give Donation Event. This event will support local organizations with a monetary donation of $75.00 on behalf of new patients in November and December. The Big Give will start on November 1, 2018 and continue through December 31, 2018 at 6 of their General Dentistry Clinics: East, Downtown, University, Old Sauk, Gammon, and Fitchburg. In January all new patient donations will be announced and distributed in person to these organizations. This will be the first Big Give Donation Event for Dental Health Associates.

To qualify, new patients are required to visit one of 6 designated Dental Health Associates Clinics and their appointment must include an exam, cleaning, and x-rays. Participating patients must mention the Big Give Event when they call to schedule their appointment or during their new patient visit. After the event is mentioned the patient will have the opportunity to choose one of these non-profit organizations: Dane County Humane Society, Ronald McDonald House, Gilda’s Club, or More Smiles Wisconsin.

Dental Health Associates has a network of 7 dental clinics located in the area. Over the years, they have grown from only performing general dentistry to also having orthodontics, periodontics, and endodontics.

“The Big Give Event is a great opportunity for us to support local organizations that will use these funds to help Madison continue to be a great place to live and work. We are excited to partner with our new patients and support organizations that are important to them. As a company, we are dedicated to promoting the well-being of our patients, employees, and communities,” said Dr. Brian Sweeney, a General Dentist and Partner of Dental Health Associates. Over the years Dental Health Associates has supported hundreds of events and local organizations in Madison and surrounding communities.

In 1969, a group of five dentists formed Dental Health Associates of Madison, Ltd. They saw the need for a complete range of services at a single location. Since their inception, the concept of dentists joining together has provided many benefits for both the patients and the practitioners. They have 32 dentists and auxiliary staffing over 250. They have grown from one location to seven locations throughout Madison: Downtown, University, East, Gammon, Old Sauk, West Orthodontics, and Fitchburg. To learn more about Dental Health Associates you can visit their website at: www.dhamadison.com

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