JANESVILLE, WI – KANDU Industries is collaborating with the Alzheimer’s Association and the Alzheimer’s Support Center to present a free seminar discussing the ten warning signs of Alzheimer’s. The seminar will be held Thursday, January 26, 2012, from 6 to 7 pm in KANDU’s Banquet Hall at 1741 Adel Street, Janesville. This seminar is open to the public.Emily Hilker of the Alzheimer’s Association will speak on the topic. Following the discussion, Julie Smith of KANDU will give a tour of KANDU’s Day Services/Memory Care facilities. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please call Emily Hilker at 608-203-8500 or Julie Smith at 608-755-4123, extension 321. You may also visit www.alz.org.

KANDU is a not-for-profit organization that creates, promotes and provides diverse opportunities within the community that offer persons with disabilities or disadvantages the opportunity to pursue greater independence and meet their full potential.

JANESVILLE, WI – KANDU Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce tickets are already available for Wine Wonderland, featuring celebrity sommeliers on Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 6-9 pm. Tickets are $45 per person in advance and make perfect holiday gifts and stocking stuffers. You may also purchase tickets at the door for $55.

Tickets can be purchased from any celebrity sommelier or by calling KANDU at 608-755-4123. Badger Spirits also has tickets available in their stores at 2621 Prairie Avenue, Beloit, or their new location at 1507 Center Avenue, Janesville.

Wine Wonderland will be held at the Best Events banquet facility at 1741 Adel St., Janesville. Guests will enjoy sampling various domestic and international wines, pairing wine with delicious hors d’oeuvres, all while enjoying live mellow acoustical music. This will be the perfect cure to “Cabin Fever.”

For more information, please visit kanduindustries.com or call (608) 755-4123 extension 751.

JANESVILLE, WI – KANDU Industries, Inc. recently received a $1,500 grant from the Walmart Foundation on behalf of the Janesville Sam’s Club. The grant helped to purchase floor scrubbers. These scrubbers are easy to use and will enable KANDU’s client workers to clean the floors at KANDU facilities. This will reduce overall agency costs while providing jobs and income to client workers.KANDU creates, promotes and provides diverse opportunities within the community that offer persons with disabilities or disadvantages the opportunity to pursue greater independence and meet their full potential.

For more information about donating to KANDU, please call Jim McMullen at 608-755-4123.

JANESVILLE, WI – KANDU Industries, Inc. recently received a donation for $1,356.94 from the Cawkins-Harding family. These funds will be used to purchase holiday gifts for KANDU clients, as per the families’ request.The families donated the money in memory of Doug Cawkins, a long-time worker at KANDU. This year, the family held the third annual Dougfest in order to give back to the organization that made such a difference in Doug’s life. Dougfest is a bicycle ride from New Glarus to Brodhead, Wisconsin. To participate, riders pay an entry fee, which in turn is a donation to KANDU.

KANDU creates, promotes and provides diverse opportunities within the community that offer persons with disabilities or disadvantages the opportunity to pursue greater independence and meet their full potential.

For more information about donating to KANDU, please call Jim McMullen at 608-755-4123.

JANESVILLE, WI – Companies with a fiscal year start date of August 1, 2011 or after can claim tax credits for contracted work to qualified non-profit Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs). This legislation allows businesses that have tax liabilities in Wisconsin to deduct 5% of the value of the labor portion of their contracts with CRPs up to a maximum of $25,000 per year, per CRP. These businesses will be allowed to carry forward any unused portion of their credits for a period of five yearsKANDU Industries is an example of a qualified non-profit CRP. “We think this will give us an edge to gain some of the projects that were going to other countries,” says Amy Golackson, Sales Manager at KANDU Industries in Janesville.

This will create an incentive for businesses to outsource manufacturing and other commercial services to CRPs, which will increase work opportunities for people with disabilities. The savings created by the tax credit may help some companies choose to outsource some processes so they can refocus their employees on higher-return core competency activities.

Companies interested in learning more about this new tax credit should consult their tax preparation expert.

For more information on using KANDU’s contracted labor services, please contact Amy Golackson, Sales Manager, at 755-4123, extension 330.