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Dane Buy Local Office Has Moved

Our new office is located on 6300 Enterprise Lane with our wonderful members Pushing7 and New Self Renewal Center.

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Staff, Board, & Committees

Staff

Lark Paulson
Director of Membership Services

Kristin Schneider
Intern

Board of Directors

Chair
Colin Murray
Sales Manager, Isthmus Publishing

Vice President
Jim Bradley
President and CEO, Home Savings Bank

Secretary, Executive and Governance Committee Chair
Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board, WYOU Community Access Television

Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair
Anne Whalen
Owner, Anne Whalen Consulting

At Large

Josie Pradella
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Owner, TerraSource Gourmet Chocolates

Kelly Starr-King
Vice President of Operations, Drake & Company Staffing Specialists

Rick Brooks
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Outreach Program Manager,
UW-Madison Professional Dvpmt & Applied Studies

Yvette Jones, Marketing Committee Chair
Owner, designCraft Advertising

 

Committees

EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Chair
Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board, WYOU Community Access Television

Members
Jim Bradley
President and CEO, Home Savings Bank

Josie Pradella
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Owner, TerraSource Gourmet Chocolates

Rick Brooks
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Outreach Program Manager,
UW-Madison Professional Dvpmt & Applied Studies

Yvette Jones
Owner, designCraft Advertising

 

EXECUTIVE and GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Chair
Colin Murray
Sales Manager, Isthmus Publishing

Members
Jim Bradley
President and CEO, Home Savings Bank

Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board, WYOU Community Access Television

 

FINANCE COMMITTEE
Chair
Anne Whalen
Owner, Anne Whalen Consulting

Members
Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board,
WYOU Community Access Television

 

MARKETING COMMITTEE
Chair
Yvette Jones
Owner, designCraft Advertising

Members
Amy Onofrey
Owner, Senior Living Solutions

Erin Lambert-Conohan
Marketing Supervisor, University Book Store

J.J. Giese
Corporate Sales Consultant, Econoprint

Jill Sullivan
Owner,Wildtree All Natural Foods

Jim Bradley
President and CEO, Home Savings Bank

Josie Pradella
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Owner, TerraSource Gourmet Chocolates

Michelle Reddington
Director of Sales, BRAVA Enterprises

Rick Brooks
Co-founder, Dane Buy Local
Outreach Program Manager,
UW-Madison Professional Dvpmt & Applied Studies

Sandy Torkildson
Owner, A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore

 

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Chair

Sara Alvarado
Owner, Alvarado Real Estate Group

Members

Dan Schubring
Account Executive, The Murphy Insurance Group

David Skupas
Owner, Mother Earth Cleaners

Kristin Verstegen
Agent, Harms Insurance Group

Lark Paulson
Director of Membership Services, Dane Buy Local

Liesel Olson
PR-Project Manager, The Creative Company

Regina Wheat
Relationship Manager/Personal & Business Banker, Home Savings Bank

 

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
Chair
Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board, WYOU Community Access Television

 

TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
Chair
Diane Jensen
Client Relationship Manager, Yahara Software

Members

Kevin Swiggum
Owner, Radial Web Solutions
Administrator and Developer, Salesforce.com and Force.com Platforms

Lark Paulson
Director of Membership Services, Dane Buy Local

Lennart Johansson
Owner, Webstix, Inc

Rick Richards
Chairman of the Board, WYOU Community Access Television

Rose Molz
President, EZ Office Products

 


Testimonials

Our company, Total Awards & Promotions / AwardsMall.com, is enjoying the great relationships we're building as members of Dane Buy Local. Working on a committee has helped us to meet and get to know other members. We're proud to be part of an organization that believes in members helping members. The monthly membership events are becoming known as "The place t...

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Reasons for Buying Local

Ensure a solid foundation for local nonprofit organizations who serve us. Locally owned businesses give more.
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Did You Know?

"A local economy values the real over the virtual. An investment on a computer screen is one thing; an investment in a company in your hometown quite another."
--Woody Tasch, Founder, Slow Money 
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