365 Amplified

Voting starts today for the 365 Leadership Community Choice Awards, The Center for Black Excellence and Culture is getting closer to its fundraising goal, and to no one’s surprise the arrival of F-35 fighter jets at Truax Field have north siders covering their ears. Angelica Euseary joins us to talk through her reporting on the impact and the community’s reaction.

Links for today's show:

https://madison365.com/awards

https://madison365.com/the-center-for-black-excellence-and-culture-is-3m-from-breaking-ground-debt-free-in-spring-2024/

https://madison365.com/madison-residents-still-negatively-impacted-by-arrival-of-f-35-fighter-jets/

Madison Nonprofit Day is coming next week, a coalition of nonprofits is sending 500 bicycles to Ghana, and one of Wisconsin's most influential Latina leaders joins the show.

Here are the stories we’re talking about today:

https://madison365.com/500-bikes-on-their-way-to-ghana-from-madison-via-collaboration-efforts/

https://madison365.com/madison-nonprofit-day-returns-with-dr-sagashus-levingston-as-keynote-speaker/

Forward Madison bows out of the playoffs. Plus, Muriel's Place will host four-course community dinners for the next four weeks, Jasmin Treske has joined Bader Philanthropies and Rebecca Comfort is building a jewelry business out of wild rice.

The Pass the Mic Intergenerational Hip Hop Festival gets underway tonight, you can unlock some fundraising secrets at the 365 Leadership Summit, and if you're having trouble focusing at work, you might need more sleep. Dr. Jay Balachandran joins the show to talk about the signs that you’re not getting enough.

Here are the stories we’re talking about today:

https://madison365.com/17th-annual-passing-the-mic-festival-to-return-with-new-hip-hop-arts-residency-program-and-featured-artist-shannon-matesky/

https://madison365.com/boys-and-girls-club-ceo-michael-johnson-to-give-fundraising-masterclass-at-365-leadership-summit/

https://blueprint365.org/featured/having-trouble-focusing-at-work-you-might-need-more-sleep

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The Urban League will help you clean up your record, a proposal would create a task force on missing and murdered Black women, and an award-winning environmentalist will keynote the Sustain Dane Summit.

Here are the stories we’re talking about today:

https://madison365.com/urban-league-of-greater-madison-to-offer-free-expungement-clinic-oct-26/

https://madison365.com/bill-to-create-taskforce-on-missing-murdered-black-women-and-girls-proposed-in-state-legislature/

https://madison365.com/award-winning-environmental-justice-activist-diamond-spratling-to-keynote-2023-sustain-dane-summit/

The entire DEI sector is under attack, and we asked the experts what the future holds. Plus, Goodman Community Center is facing unprecedented need for thanksgiving dinners and Madison College men’s soccer has a new all time leading scorer.

Here are the stories we're talking about today:

https://blueprint365.org/human-capital/is-dei-dead/

https://madison365.com/goodman-community-center-sets-new-record-on-first-day-of-thanksgiving-basket-registration/

https://madison365.com/gabe-vuong-breaks-all-time-scoring-record-for-madison-college-mens-soccer/

Women’s Medical Fund has its first-ever executive director, many Milwaukee schools still don’t have air conditioning, and an event tonight examines what AI can do for the arts.

Here are the stories we’re talking about today:

 https://madison365.com/wmf-wisconsin-welcomes-ali-muldrow-as-its-first-ever-executive-director/

https://madison365.com/milwaukee-schools-lack-air-conditioning-despite-rising-temperatures-heres-what-we-know/

https://madison365.com/artificial-imagination-exploring-the-convergence-of-arts-and-ai/

The Young, Gifted and Black Youth Arts competition is set for next month, and your FMFC Mingos are headed to the playoffs! It’s Metcalfe’s Monday - today’s episode is brought to you by Metcalfe’s Markets.

The 2013 Race to Equity report was a seminal moment in the history of the Madison area, as it made clear that racial disparities here – our liberal bastion of tolerance – were worse than anywhere else in the nation. A new report is out today, and while it isn’t exactly a 10-year update on the first report, the bottom line is that disparities haven’t gotten much better. One of the new report’s lead authors, Kids Forward Senior Racial Equity Policy Analyst Carte'cia Lawrence, joins us today to dig into the report, what it says, what it doesn’t say, and where we go from here.

The head of the small business administration visits Green Bay, the Progress Center for Black Women partners on a hot yoga experience and planning for the 365 Leadership Summit is well underway - - and you should register now at 365leadershipsummit.com