CANCELLED – Montana Student Summer Program Opportunity: National Education for Women’s Leadership – June 1-4 – Missoula
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.
Montana Property Search Project Delta ***** Project Due Friday Feb 21, 2025 at Noon
As Project Delta prepares for significant expansion, they are seeking a suitable facility to establish operations. Specifically, they require a 7,000-9,000 square foot space to accommodate manufacturing, research and development, and administrative functions.
Montana Department of Commerce Launches the Opportunities in Rural Economies Program
Today, the Montana Department of Commerce launched the Opportunities in Rural Economies Program, a new initiative aimed at fostering economic growth, supporting business expansion and creating high-paying jobs in rural communities across the state.
How Local Governments Can Improve Economic Mobility for Residents in Their Communities
The Urban Institute and the Gates Foundation are working together to support local leaders in improving economic mobility through the Upward Mobility Framework. This framework provides definitions, metrics, and tools to help local leaders understand economic challenges in their communities and how they can effectively address them.
DOT Memo Directs Transportation Funding to Communities With Higher Marriage and Birth Rates, Compliance with Immigration Officials and No Mask Mandates
The memo ties immigration enforcement to federal funding and prohibits mask or vaccine mandates.
The Montana Free Press digital guide to help you track the Montana Legislature is back
The 2025 Montana Capitol Tracker includes live information on the bills, votes and lawmakers.
Jockeying intensifies for state quantum (photonics) leadership – The Montana Headwaters Tech Hub
The New Mexico center will focus on photonics technologies — the science of light — which helps advance ion quantum computing technologies that use light to control qubits, the basic unit of information quantum computing is built upon.
Please Help The Montana Media Coalition save 1300 Filmmaker Jobs!
If we don’t work together to get our bill passed, filmmaking could come to almost a halt in Montana. We are at a crossroads to either sustain our industry or see it falter. However, we have a powerful plan to create 60% sideboards and a cap increase to benefit Montana and Montana filmmakers moving forward but we need funds to do this work.
Banks hesitate to lend in Indian Country. New loan aims to help Native entrepreneurs
The Mountain | Plains Regional Native CDFI Coalition — a group of nine Native CDFIs from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota — was recently awarded funds to do this work at scale. Part of a federal Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the coalition received $21 million meant for loans.
Zero to Five launches grant program to boost childcare access in Montana
Caitlin Jensen, Executive Director of Zero to Five, explained the details of the program. “It’s, grants that will range from $10,000 to $100,000, depending on the size and the scope of the project plan that an employer submits,” Jensen said. “And it’s a way for us to really, have a better understanding around what are the needs of employers and how we can help to increase private public partnerships.”