Throughout its year-long 100th anniversary celebration in 2013, the Forum has recognized those civic and business leaders who are continuing the vision of historic figures like Charles Allis and August Vogel by ensuring that metro Milwaukee continues to have one of the nation's only nonpartisan public policy think tanks. We have classified our most generous supporters as "Pillars of Public Policy" and have featured them in recent newsletters.
In this edition, we pay tribute to our sixth Pillar of Public Policy - Quad/Graphics. The Sussex-based company has been one of the Forum's most generous corporate supporters for the past several years. In 2013, Quad/Graphics gave the Forum a $150,000 grant in honor of our 100th anniversary that has been placed in a special reserve to help support the Forum's research for years to come.
Founded by the late Harry V. Quadracci in 1971 in an abandoned millwork factory in Pewaukee, Quad/Graphics today is a leading global provider of print and multichannel solutions for consumer magazines, special interest publications, catalogs, retail inserts/circulars, direct mail, books, directories, and commercial and specialty products with 60-plus print-production facilities on three continents. The company is committed to making its clients' print more cost effective and profitable while also pushing print's boundaries to enhance the value to its clients.
"The Forum could not be more grateful to Quad/Graphics and its Board Chairman, President & CEO, Joel Quadracci, for making such a generous 100th anniversary contribution that will boost the Forum's research capacity well into our next century," says Forum President Rob Henken. "On its website, reference is made to Quad/Graphics' efforts to conduct itself as a 'company with a soul,' and this gift in support of good government is emblematic of that principle."
