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GFDA Business Education Calendar: Up Next – The LaunchPoint and Webinar Series: Employee Retention

Here are our upcoming educational events for business owners, managers, and professionals through the end of 2017:

Veterans learn that their service can help them succeed in business – There is assistance available for you and your company

"I wish this resource would have been around when we started our business," said Clemons, a 26-year Army veteran, adding that he and his wife drained their savings and maxed out their credit cards establishing their business years ago.

GFDA Top 10 – Here is our Top 17 for this week, celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen our Great Falls regional economy.

Thank you to our investors and partners for your support. You make what we do possible! We are getting close on some new exciting deals. Now BE SURE TO VOTE!

Here is our Top 21 for this week, celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen our Great Falls regional economy.

GFDA Job Opening –

Loan Servicing & Data Processing Associate

GFDA Quarterly Investor Letter

Latest government data shows that in 2016 we grew the Great Falls MSA (Cascade County) GDP faster than any other metro area in Montana; another indication that we are making progress.

Please vote YES on the Cascade County Economic Development Mill Levy

Keep our local economy moving forward, creating higher wage jobs and building our tax base.

Great Falls Montana Development Authority Chosen as a Montana Food & Ag Development Center

"Standing up the Great Falls Food & Ag Development Center will boost our long-standing efforts to expand and diversify food and agricultural processing in Great Falls, the Golden Triangle and beyond, " says Brett Doney, President & CEO of the Great Falls Montana Development Authority. "Our new Center will allow us to increase efforts to help existing businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups, and to attract out of state businesses to expand into Montana."

2017 Vetrepreneur Symposium, "Moments That Matter" – 11/3 – Billings, Montana

Learn more about how Big Sky Economic Development and the Veterans Business Outreach Center(VBOC) are impacting Veteran Entrepreneurs in our six-state region.

Associated Chambers of Commerce Recruiting Small Business Saturday Participants

Held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving each year, Small Business Saturday promotes supporting the small, local businesses that help create jobs, boost the economy, and invigorate neighborhoods across the Flathead Valley and Northwest Montana.

Montana Technology Innovation Partnership introduces fast phase 0!

MTIP is pleased to present a new and exciting opportunity. Fast Phase 0 is designed to reimburse Montana small businesses for costs associated with applying to the Phase I SBIR/STTR program.