I smile when I read articles like this.
Kapco Inc., a Wisconsin metal fabricator and stamper, didn’t get noticed nationally because it expanded its metal fabrication capability during the past decade; because it continued to grow throughout the worst of the recession; or because the firm operates debt-free.
But it did get national attention--on NBC’s “Dateline”--when the company’s charity, Hometown Heroes, Family Edition, reached out to the community in a big way. According to the Biz Times, a Milwaukee-area business newspaper, the charity “helped coordinate more than 1,000 volunteers that renovated and expanded the home of a Grafton [Wis.] family. The family is headed by a single mother of three who was diagnosed with breast cancer; two of her children have cerebral palsy.”
