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The Montana Jobs Network wins grant to retain educated

The Montana Jobs Network has been awarded a $5,000 grant to help in its efforts to keep Montana-educated people in the state and attract back those who have left.

By the Missoulian news staff

The grant, through Qwest-Montana Economic Developers Association, will go toward the Building A Better Economy Grant for the Come Home project.

The grant will fund Internet forums and a database that contains information about Montana communities’ assets, challenges and visions. The community information is the result of a MEDA effort in which volunteer resource teams have been going into those communities and helping them identify assets, challenges and visions.

The forums will allow community members to communicate with entrepreneurs who have left and now would like to come home or explore the possibility of locating to one of Montana’s towns.

The Come Home project will kick off with the following communities: Cut Bank, Conrad, Forsyth, Polson, Liberty County, Rocky Boy, Judith Basin, Big Sandy and Harlem.

A series of workshops will take place to teach community members the basics of using the forums and database.

The Montana Jobs Network is a nonprofit Internet-based talent portal. Its mission in part is to help keep those educated in Montana here and help to bring back those who wish to return.

Primary partners responsible for implementation and planning on the project are MEDA’s Gloria O’Rourke, Craig Erickson, planner and economic development specialist at Bear Paw Development, and Julie Foster, the executive director of the Montana Jobs Network.

On the Net

For more information on the Montana Jobs Network’s efforts to keep educated residents in the state and attract back those who have left, see http://www.montana-jobs.net/comehome beginning June 30.

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