We’re an editorially led, public-driven group of staff and contributors creating content, experiences, and connections for readers and leaders across a broad demographic spectrum. In short, we use media — print, digital, video, social — to positively impact and shape the region we serve with community-sourced ideas, stories, and design. It’s a collective feedback loop geared to inspire us all to reach toward a better future — culturally, socially, and economically — for our little piece of Wisconsin.

To that media landscape we layer in rich, real-life experiences leveraging food, music, art, recreation, education, and local shopping to create dynamic community events that engage people with the innovation, talent, and opportunities around them.

As a group of nearly two-dozen editors, designers, developers, marketers, photographers, writers, retailers, and business thinkers, we have a high-energy, creative culture. We are idealistic but practical. We work pretty damn hard, but yes, we leave time for fun too. And no, our fun isn’t just bad dad jokes and holiday potlucks.

We’re talking brewery tours, paintball outings, curling classes, bowl-a-thons, go-kart races, pedal pub rides, and more. We mean semi-annual kayak floats down the Eau Claire River, a yearly pre-Thanksgiving staff breakfast, and even the occasional community-wide April Fool’s Day Pillow Fight.

Why all this foolishness? Because experiencing all this community has to offer is just part of our company DNA. And since our staff is at the heart of everything we do, we offer considerable time off (including half-day Fridays all summer!), personal flexibility, and general understanding as our employees’ lives change and evolve. Excessively long hours, overly rigid methodologies, and “that’s the way we’ve always done it” attitudes generally don’t have a home here.

We’re lucky in that as a highly public organization, our friends, family, and neighbors see the things we make and do every day, because nearly everything we create is shared with and consumed by this community. So we get to hear and feel people’s appreciation for what we do all the time.

It’s a cycle of feedback that helps guide our thinking and reinforces our purpose. And as the most diverse media brand in our market, we stretch what it means to think and act local, striding beyond the norm to create a varied portfolio of impactful work, including:

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Volume One Magazine

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VolumeOne.org

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Digital Marketing

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Best of the Chippewa Valley

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Social Media

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Video & Photography Studio

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Design

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Community Events

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Event Ticketing

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The Local Store

If you’re not all that familiar with Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley, but are considering applying to come work with us here … holy cats have you come to the right place. We live and breathe the landscape, people, and places of this little corner of the world.

So much so that we partnered with the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce a while back to launch ThinkEauClaire.com – a whole deep-dive website and a couple of fun videos to help tell the story of the transformation happening in this city. And word is getting out, too – to the point that it’s become the second-fastest growing metro in the State, only behind our state capital.

So rather than lay it all out here again, scoot on over to ThinkEauClaire.com and take a look for yourself at what we put together. And while you’re at it, a stop by VisitEauClaire.com, another longtime partner of ours, would be a good idea too.

Volume One has always celebrated diversity in our community-focused content, featuring stories on individuals, businesses, organizations, and movements from as many walks of life as we can uncover throughout the valley. We also continue to carve out space for and elevate paid contributions directly from BIPOC, LGTBQ, and other community stakeholders whose voices matter to us, and matter to this place we all love.

With these efforts in mind, we are further committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills from throughout the Chippewa Valley and beyond. We believe that the more inclusive of an employee and contributor environment we can create, the better our work in support of this community will be.

As such, we are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Everything we do has an innate element of support for this community. When our publications cover a local nonprofit or fledgling business upstart, we’re working to nurture their endeavors with awareness and attention. When we offer more than 20 large-scale, free events in the city each year, we’re striving to offer more affordable cultural opportunities for individuals of all socioeconomic backgrounds. When we carve out editorial space for underrepresented voices across the Valley, we’re creating opportunities to continue critical dialogues and foster understanding across an increasingly diverse community. These are but a few examples of the way we give back, because this sort of support is at the heart of why we exist.

However, we also choose to give back more actively and directly. Each year, above and beyond our daily endeavors, we further pledge at least 3% of our annual top-line revenue (not just profits) to support a variety of community organizations and non-profit organizations through full-cash contributions, event fundraisers, media sponsorships, retail-profit sharing, promotional support, video production, paid staff volunteer time, and more.

We use these methods to support local organizations that address a range of community issues, including food security, literacy, families in need, cultural accessibility, diversity initiatives, and much more, as well as for philanthropic capital campaign donations toward legacy community projects like the Pablo Center at the Confluence, the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library Story Builder project, and the forthcoming new Children’s Museum of Eau Claire.

Beyond working for Volume One, our staff is involved in the city and state through invitations to serve on the Board of Directors of a variety of community organizations, including:

As an organization, Volume One gains praise both locally and nationally, garnering awards for our work in the Chippewa Valley community. A few more recent ones include: