Member Spotlight
Our Member Spotlight Program focuses on highlighting and promoting our Chamber members. This is a great way for members to get the word out about their business/organization and what products/services they offer. One member will be featured each month. Please email Cameron Day if you would like to be featured.
9/5: Tutor Doctor Sun Prairie
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Tutor Doctor Sun Prairie is a locally owned business.
We specialize in customized one-on-one tutoring services in your home. We believe in a collaborative, one-to-one approach, and work together with your child to identify the perfect tutor, and the right strategies, to help them succeed. Our tutors find ways to guide wandering minds back to their studies by engaging them and their abilities.
We come to you, wherever you are, at a time that is convenient. In the comfort of your own home, we provide individualized tutoring and give your child the caring and confidence that they need to succeed.
We are committed to provide tutoring services and helping kids in the following communities: Sun Prairie, Marshall, Deforest/Windsor, Cottage Grove, Johnson Creek, Lake Mills, Waterloo, and Watertown
Click HERE to learn more.
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
We have been a member with the chamber for just under 1 year. We joined to make connections with the community, local businesses, and the Sun Prairie School district.
3. What are your organization's core values?
Our brand values are at the core of everything we do at Tutor Doctor. They are the principles that shape how we support our students, treat people, and perform our roles.
- Understanding: We begin by presuming the goodwill of others. We seek first to hear, not tell. To empathize, not criticize. To know before we do.
- Curiosity: We demonstrate the power of learning by learning. We’re interested and inquisitive, looking beyond what is to what could be.
- Ingenuity: We imagine, create, devise and design. We fashion, we fit, and we form. We do what it takes to meet the needs of those we serve.
- Ownership: We're accountable for all that we do. We step up and seek responsibility. We own our work and earn our results.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
The mission of Tutor Doctor is to change the trajectory of students’ lives.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
We enjoy the monthly chamber meetings, the guest speakers from the businesses, and meeting with local businesses during the Friday Coffee Chats.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
Sun Prairie is a special place for me because I grew up in Sun Prairie and I still have family in Sun Prairie. I am a graduate of the class of 1992.
We love the mission of the business, and that we impact families in the community as well as hire tutors locally to work with students.
We feel that partnership with the Sun Prairie school district and other communities is another way to make the biggest impact.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
The networking is the aspect that we value the most.
Creative ways to continue to connect synergetic businesses is appreciated.
7/25: Olive + Herb
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
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2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
3. What are your organization's core values?
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
I am very happy to be part of the Sun Prairie business community. Sun Prairie is a very welcoming environment for me, my staff, and customers. It’s easy to get around in, has lots of variety for activities, shopping, and a good mix of unique, small businesses.
5/17: Office Furniture Resources
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Office Furniture Resources (OFR), headquartered in Milwaukee, WI since 1991, is the Midwest’s largest office furniture liquidator.
OFR is a full service dealership offering New, Used and Refurbished office furniture and related services including Space Planning & Design, and Delivery & Installation. With warehouse store locations in Milwaukee, Chicago and Sun Prairie, OFR has more than 200,000 sq ft of furniture in stock ready for delivery, all at up to 70% savings over the cost of new. OFR is a certified Woman Owned Small Business.
The Sun Prairie OFR is located at 1261 West Main Street in Sun Prairie. We are open Tuesday-Friday 9-5 and Monday’s by appointment.
We currently have 3 employees at our Sun Prairie retail location- Stephanie, Reena and Nina.
Click HERE to learn more.
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
Our Sun Prairie location opened in 2020, and we have been a member since then. We joined the Sun Prairie Chamber to grow our local business connections.
3. What are your organization's core values?
As a company our goal is to give high quality pre-owned office furniture a chance at a second life. We are proudly Women Owned and work closely with local charities to help our mission of keeping product out of landfill. For the most responsible furniture removal, Office Furniture Resources offers our ReThink99 Landfill Diversion Service. This signature level of re-purposing adds Waste to Energy processing to bring the Landfill Diversion Rate to 99%.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
As a company our goal is to give high quality pre-owned office furniture a chance at a second life.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
We enjoy having a local connection to the Sun Prairie community and enjoy participating in the various events as much as we are able.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
We are a proud member of the Sun Prairie community and love to be involved with other local small businesses through business relationships or through our charitable efforts. For example this summer between June 12-16th we are donating 10% of our proceeds to the local food pantry- The Sunshine Place! We are committed to buying local, and 2 of our 3 employees at the Sun Prairie location live in Sun Prairie and are happy to be a part of the community here.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
We would be interested to know if we can be listed under multiple categories within the chamber business directory as our current categorization doesn’t capture the scope of our business.
We are currently only listed under “shopping and specialty retail”.
We would like to be listed under “Business and professional services”, “Utilities and environment” and “Real estate moving and storage” as we help businesses move, handle waste and recycling, can store product, and offer interior design services for office furniture.
I think this would help give OFR a more balanced presence in the chamber that is a little more representative of our offered services.
3/14: Springs at Sun Prairie
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Springs at Sun Prairie was built in 2018 and offers 228 townhome style apartment homes. We are open 7 days a week and located at 650 Spring Street in Sun Prairie. We have a 24 hour fitness center, clubhouse, pool, car wash area, dog park, and pet spa available for all of our residents. At the Springs at Sun Prairie we take the time to get to know our neighbors and their pets. You can come into our office any time and be greeted with smiles, and we remember our residents' names and faces, even their pets!
Click HERE to learn more.
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
Springs at Sun Prairie has been a member of the Chamber since opening in 2018. We joined the chamber to meet other businesses in the community and create a relationship with the community.
3. What are your organization's core values?
Integrity, Inclusivity, Honesty, and Respect
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
Since 2001, the award-winning Springs Apartments has provided residents with a unique luxury living experience in convenient locations throughout the country. Featuring quiet living in a townhome-style design with private entrances, modern finishes, abundant natural light, resort-style amenities, pet-friendly policies, and friendly onsite customer service teams, Springs communities are the perfect place to call home.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
We joined the chamber for a chance to network with other businesses and build relationships within the city of Sun Prairie.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
The Sun Prairie community is home to us and our residents. It is continually growing and developing to better our community and we love that!
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
We would love to see more networking events and community outreach!
2/3: Upper Iowa University
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Upper Iowa University [UIU] is a private non-profit university founded in 1857. The UIU Madison Center has been in the Madison area since the early 1980’s. UIU caters to the working adult who wants to either finish a degree program they started earlier in life or complete a new degree program that will enhance their career.
UIU offers accessible and flexible course options in an online or self-paced platform. We offer four Associate’s, nineteen Bachelor’s, and six Master’s degree programs. We have many grant and scholarship opportunities, have local academic advisors to assist student needs immediately, and our generous transfer credit policy will take up to 78 college credits from 2-year institutions and up to 90 credits from 4-year institutions.
The UIU Madison Center is located at 1651 John Q Hammons Drive (2nd floor of the Starion Bank) in Middleton, WI.
Click HERE for more information.
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
UIU Madison Center has been a member of the Sun Prairie Chamber for two months. We have done a few job fairs and sponsored last years Corn Festival. That really made us feel that Sun Prairie and its business community would be a great place to explore collaborative efforts.
3. What are your organization's core values?
The UIU set of Core Values include: Integrity, Excellence, Accessibility, Respect, and Stewardship.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
The mission of UIU is to provide quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives. Our vision is to be recognized internationally for academic excellence and continual innovation in student-centered learning.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
The UIU Madison Center staff has had nothing but positive contacts with the chamber staff. Cameron was a huge help last year assisting us in our Corn Festival sponsorship. Barbara and Mary have been very good at letting us know what they need from us and are always attentive to our interests. Christina did our new member orientation and welcomed us into the chamber. That positivity and energy from the chamber staff energizes the membership, no doubt!
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
The UIU Madison Center Director has many fond memories of Sun Prairie growing up. His Dad was born in SP in the early 1930’s, went to Sacred Hearts, graduated from SPHS, and got married at Sacred Hearts as well. His Dad was also one of the Corn Festival’s very first “drivers” bringing the corn in from the fields in the early days of the festival.
SP has changed a lot in the last four or five decades. It has been fun watching that progression (and the memories of listening to the “Sound of Sun Prairie” at the 1983 National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, MI). Those were the days
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
UIU Madison Center is just excited to work in conjunction with the SP community. We would love to let everyone know about some unique HR grants that businesses could use to assist in recruiting and retaining their workforce. Once we have time to assess, we will work together to help move the chamber forward. We are happy to be a part of this organization. Thank You!
1/20: The Baker's Table
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
The Baker's Table of Sun Prairie is a small-batch home-based baking business that specializes in freshly made pastries, baked using locally sourced ingredients. My husband and I started The Baker's Table of Sun Prairie during the height of the pandemic after I was furloughed from my job at the time. What started as a hobby that I would periodically post about on social media quickly grew into a small business that can now be found at the Sun Prairie Farmer's Market on Saturdays in the Summer months. What makes this business special is the community that helped bring it all together. From our ingredients to our location, we would not be anywhere if not for the love and support of the folks of Sun Prairie.
Click HERE for more information
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
We've been members of the Chamber for a little less than a year. We decided to join after watching, through Facebook, all of the work the Chamber puts into helping small business owners grow and succeed.
3. What are your organization's core values?
Community and integrity are two of the most important to us. As stated earlier, we would be nothing without this community, so we owe it to them to provide the best products we can.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
We are not out here to change the world. We just want to provide a little sweetness to your day.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
So far, I enjoy being a part of the Chamber because of their investment in the businesses they serve. The folks of the Chamber seem to care, personally, about the success and well-being of each of their members.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
Sun Prairie is home for us. It's where my husband and I would visit for date nights when we were just starting out as a couple. It's where we moved to after finally saving enough to become homeowners. It's where this business was born, and where we finally started our family. We've always felt supported here, and are looking forward to seeing what lies ahead in the years to come.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
So far, I think the Chamber is doing just about all it needs to do!
11/23: Peak Performance Chiropractic & Rehab
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Our clinic was started to help people experience evidenced based chiropractic care. We want to provide the people of Sun Prairie with an opportunity to experience a different type of care, one that does not sell long care treatment plans that can be financially crippling to people in need. We are a sports chiropractic clinic that combines chiropractic care with strength and conditioning to help people achieve their goals fast and provide them the tools they need to stay healthy on their own. We offer chiropractic care, physiotherapy exercises, dry needling, cupping, scrapping, Normatec compression therapy, and strength training. We are located right next to the Bank of Sun Prairie football stadium off of West Main Street.
Click HERE for more information
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
We have been a member of the chamber for 2 years, and Dr. Logan Georgeson has been an ambassador for both years. This year he is the vice president chair ambassador.
3. What are your organization's core values?
Our company core values are honesty, integrity, and innovation.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
Our mission is to provide the people of Sun Prairie with the best musculoskeletal care possible. Helping people get back to their daily lives and athletes back to performing at their best.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
We enjoy the community events and local meet ups. Everyone in the chamber has been very helpful and are great resources if we need anything.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
The Sun Prairie community is strong and close knit. To be lucky enough to be considered a part of this strong and close knit community means everything to us. It has gone through a lot in its time and its still growing and adding new people everyday because of how welcoming the people are. When people are in need, the Sun Prairie community gets together to help them, which makes us proud to be apart of it.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
The chamber is doing a wonderful job. I cannot think of anything else they can work on. They have been a great support and are always trying to help every business that is a member. They even go above and beyond and will offer a helping hand to non-members, which is a reflection of this great community.
10/10: Cassoulet
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
Cassoulet was founded in 2017. We are a mother/daughter business. Nancy had spent 40 years in the banking industry and Alissa was a teacher for 18 years while working nights in restaurants. Seeing a need for fast and healthy meals in our community, we decided to create Cassoulet. We are a freezer to oven meal service company, helping families make mealtime easier. Customers can stop in and shop what we have made in the freezers or they can order online for pick up or home delivery. We also serve hot lunch to go from 11-1:30 Monday-Thursday each week. We have a staff of 8 people and are located at 1112 North Bristol Street in Sun Prairie. www.mealsbycassoulet.com
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
We have been a member of the Chamber since we moved to our Sun Prairie location in 2019. We wanted to join the Chamber in order to build connections, network with other business owners and access local resources.
3. What are your organization's core values?
At Cassoulet, we believe in family. We are a family run business and we strive to support your family through good food you can feel good about eating, even when you don't have time or energy to cook. We believe in quality ingredients and making as much from scratch as we can. Even our pasta is handmade.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
Our Mission at Cassoulet is to support local farmers through sourcing and ingredients, to create meals that can be enjoyed even on your busiest days and to do this all at a cost lower than taking your family out to eat.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
We love the opportunity to connect with other business owners and the visibility in our community.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
As a Sun Prairie resident, I have seen firsthand the strength, resilience and true sense of community we have here. I have raised my kids and started a business in this community. Throughout the pandemic especially, small businesses were supported by the people in this community. We have also witnessed true compassion by the number of people who have stopped to get meals for neighbors and friends as they deal with illness, injury or loss in their lives. What a great gift to give someone! A warm meal is always an appreciated gift. We are happy to be a part of that.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
We hope to see a continued support of small businesses in our city. Helping through networking, marketing and getting the word out to residents to let them know the services offered by small businesses throughout Sun Prairie.
9/26: Specific Health Massage Therapy
1. Give us some background on your business/organization. What makes your business/organization stand out? What are your products/services? How many staff? Where are you located?
I am a Licensed massage therapy business with over 9 years of experience. I opened up back in October of 2021 when I got a great opportunity to run my own business and share a space with other local small business owners. I provide therapeutic based massage with a relaxing feel, I have specialized training in hospice care, sports massage and Swedish techniques along with many others. I have a massage healthcare background with previously working in hospitals and hospice organizations, using a wide variety of techniques working with people and adapting my skills to their needs. I am a single person business owner located right off Main Street, 530 W. Main Street in Sun Prairie.
2. How long have you been a member of the Chamber? Why did you want to join the Chamber?
I have been a member of the chamber for less then 6 months. I wanted to be apart of a larger community of like minded individuals and businesses. I enjoy doing more for the community I work in and Sun Prairie has proven to be a great place to start a business and grow.
3. What are your organization's core values?
Respect, Compassion and Comfort. Providing an environment that is comfortable and safe for all through healing touch. I want my clients to have an overall great experience as soon as they walk in the door and walk out feeling like they have been heard and taken care of.
4. What are your business's goals and overall mission?
My goal is to provide quality care massages through a variety of techniques and modalities. Massage is more then a luxury and is inclusive to all no matter the age or condition. My overall mission is to provide massage to those seeking an alternative form of treatment in there lives though touch. I would love to be able to bring my skills and talents into other facilities and businesses and start and onsite program and in home services.
5. What are some reasons you enjoy being a part of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce?
I have enjoyed meeting other individuals in the area who want to contribute there time to the community and meeting new people. I enjoy interacting with others and making business connections and finding ways to help the community. This has proven to be a great experience of referrals and other business connections.
6. What does the Sun Prairie community mean to you?
Sun Prairie is where I originally started my career early on when given the opportunity to work with another local business. When given the chance to come back into the area and be my own business I jumped at the chance. The area has been so welcoming early on and I wanted to continue to provide my skills and talents to a community that helped me early on in my career. The area has been more then welcoming and continues to grow.
7. What more would you like to see the Chamber do?
I think the chamber has done a great job of bringing the community and local businesses today and providing events to share Information and bring together connections.