Conn named CEO of Grinspoon Foundation
Former Madisonian Kate C. Conn in June joined the Harold Grinspoon Foundation in a newly-created position of chief executive officer.
“Together with its founder, Harold Grinspoon, she will work to further the foundation’s philanthropic mission to enhance Jewish and community life in North America, Israel and beyond, and develop innovative strategies as the organization celebrates 20 years of philanthropy,” according to a news release from the foundation.
Conn, 56, most recently served as founding executive director and president of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Inc., an educational and entrepreneurial nonprofit in Madison.
She has served in leadership capacities at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and several cultural organizations, philanthropic, and policy institutions.
Since its inception in 1993, the Massachusetts-based Grinspoon Foundation has given more than $120 million in philanthropic support of Jewish programs.
The award is presented to the lawyer whose career achievements in law practice and community service demonstrate consistent excellence.
Habush received the award at the MBA’s annual meeting and luncheon on June 11 at the Italian Conference Center.
Habush’s career spans more than five decades. The Trial Lawyer of the Year Award given by the Wisconsin Association of Justice bears his name.
He has also been a professor at both of Wisconsin’s law schools, an author, a lecturer locally and nationally, and a philanthropist. He has funded scholarships at Marquette Law school and a moot court fund at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
He served as Milwaukee Jewish Federation campaign chair in 1994 and 1995, and chaired the MJF Israel Emergency Campaign in 2002.
City Winery Chicago and Phillip Katz Project Development received the Urban Land Institute’s “Vision Award for Adaptive Reuse” at the awards ceremony on June 5 at the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago.
The ULI Vision Awards honor visionaries in the land use and development fields, according to a news release from the Milwaukee firm.
City Winery Chicago, which opened in August 2012, is the 2.0 version of owner and founder Michael Dorf’s City Winery in New York City. Dorf and Katz, former and current Milwaukeeans respectively, were joined by former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, who is now the executive director of the Congress for New Urbanism.
The project created “Chicago’s first, fully functional urban winery and music venue,” transforming “a blighted, obsolete frozen food storage building into one of the premier entertainment destinations in Chicago,” the release states.
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