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Case IH, Service Motor Co., and Fox Valley Technical College forged a new 10-year, $1.5 million partnership to provide the college’s agriculture-related programs with the latest agricultural equipment and precision farming technologies. The new collaboration will give graduates of the college’s 60 plus-year history of agriculture training advanced skills to hit the job market ahead of the technology curve. The partnership is the first of its kind for a technical college in Wisconsin.

The Benedictine Women of Madison’s Holy Wisdom Monastery has been named a 2009 Top Project by Wisconsin Builder magazine. The 34,000-square-foot monastery, designed and built by Hoffman LLC of Appleton, will be honored at the Top Projects awards dinner in Waukesha April 21. Holy Wisdom Monastery has been submitted to the US Green Building Council and is pursuing a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification and the highest LEED rating in the country.

Jewelers Mutual Insurance Co., Neenah, contributed $5,000 through the Jewelers Mutual Charitable Giving fund to the American Red Cross–Outagamie Chapter to support their International Response Fund for Haiti Relief. In addition, Jewelers Mutual sponsored an employee and agent match program for donations made to the same organization. Through this match program, Jewelers Mutual collected a total of $5,430 in employee and agent donations. After the week-long program, Jewelers Mutual was able to present a check for $14,385 to the American Red Cross–Outagamie Chapter.