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"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." -- Elbert Hubbard
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Boomtown Institute
Come Home Montana
- Economic-development expert, Jack Schultz of the Boomtown Institute, to speak at Great Falls health conference on Friday
The public is invited to hear Jack Schultz, CEO of the Boomtown Institute and economic development professional specializing in rural communities, from 10 a.m. to noon Friday at the Hampton Inn.
Montana Education Excellence
- Montana Career Opportunity - Economic Development Planner
The Headwaters RC&D/EDD region straddles the Great Continental Divide and is home to the headwters of both the mighty Missouri River and the Clark Fork of the Columbia River.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Human Resources - Montana Department of Revenue
The Montana Department of Revenue is looking for a highly effective human resource leader who can deliver practical and effective solutions for human resource initiatives.
- Montana Job Opportunity - Economic and Business Development Analyst - Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
- 'Horizons' program from the Northwest Area Foundation infuses life into rural communities in Montana and other regional states.
The program, sponsored by the Minnesota-based Northwest Area Foundation, relies on leadership training to combat poverty and to turn small-town stagnation into small-town pride, said Peggy Iba, a Glendive resident who serves as Horizons regional director.
- Montana Career Opportunity - Mechanical Engineer - The University of Montana- Missoula
Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline and EIT required, PE preferred.
2007 Montana Legislature
- Susie Burch thrives in career of continuing education as the new director of economic development and continuing education at Flathead Valley Community College
Her job, she said, is to link a valley full of brains together into a plan for the future. What if home building and real estate were to flatten out, or, she hardly dares say it, reverse? What would be left to prop up the local economic stool?
Montana Meth Project
- Montana wants businesses to step up in energy development. Energy development, utility regs top legislative agenda
For all his talk about energy development in Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer isn't charging into the 2007 Legislature with high-profile proposals to pave the way for big coal, wind-power and other projects.
Montana Economic Development
- Toxic brew: University of Montana researcher unlocks harm done to children from poisons in meth
Even in its infancy, Wells' research is the only study of its kind to try and identify the health effects related to meth exposure, positioning UM as a national leader.
Funding and Building your Business
- Austrian thermal solar energy company seeking business partners
Solar-Plexus, along with FUTUS are looking for business partners worldwide to produce their products under license as this this will save on shipping costs.
- Berkeley Pit blight could spur Butte, Montana's revival
Though the notion has been nationally lampooned, the town has been able to draw 20,000 to 35,000 visitors a year to a viewing deck. To heighten public fascination, scientists have made a bizarre discovery in the pit's rising acidic waters that kill any fish or migrating waterfowl.
- Tapping the brakes on Montana's economy and population growth
Western Montana's economy is gently tapping its brakes, even as it continues to steer away from the economic traditions driving the rest of the state.
- January 2007 Montana Economic Developers Association Online News
Start the New Year right by catching up on MEDA’s news.
Regional Economic Development
- The Making of an Employee Handbook
An employee handbook should explain more than rules. It offers you the opportunity to set expectations and communicate your company's mission and culture as well.
- What's Your Company Worth Now?
The market is flooded with capital, and more investors are putting it into private companies. That's just one reason you need to know the value of your business. Here's how to find it.
- The Entrepreneur's New Year's Resolution: "I Will Fix My Pitch"
A good pitch is rare because it is so hard to execute on everything else that has to be done to build a successful company. But the ability to pitch is a key indicator for investors—if the entrepreneur doesn’t know how to sell, how can he or she build a great company?
- L.L. Bean story is primer on values, business
He practiced, according to Gorman, this golden rule: "Sell good merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings, and they'll always come back."
- H.R. can help owners with new year planning
At the start of a new year, many small business owners are focused on plotting their companies' financial course for the next 12 months. A more holistic approach is to plan for the year from a human resources perspective, taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of a company's staff and projecting its hiring needs.
- Proper delegation is critical to company's success
What is your time worth?
- A New Way to Gauge a Start-Up’s Worth - “Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation”
The new approach is the brainchild of Andrew Metrick, an associate professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Miscellaneous Ramblings
- NY State Senate minority leader calls for regional approach to economic development
Government-related costs of living and doing business in New York are more than $35 billion higher than if they matched such costs across the nation, according to a new study by the Public Policy Institute of New York State.
Non-Profit News
- Top 10 articles requested by MATR readers for 2006 and a big Thankyou to our Sponsors and Supporters
Thought you might be interested in seeing the 10 most requested stories from the 5 years of MATR archives.
Energy
- Missoula based Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to receive $247,500 HUD grant
Since the organization began in 1984, it has protected and enhanced more than 4.7 million acres of wildlife habitat across elk country and funded more than 4,900 stewardship, conservation-education and hunting-heritage projects in 49 states and eight Canadian provinces, the release said.
- Best Blogs: Social Calls. Three blogs take you inside the nonprofit world
Want to learn how social entrepreneurs do good (or not)? Three blogs take you inside the nonprofit world and show how organizations deliver results.
- Tight job market hurts recruiting at nonprofits
A strengthening economy is making it tougher for nonprofits to hire top talent.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Small wind turbines gain fans among Montana's city-dwellers
"We're the fifth-best wind region in the nation,"
- Engineered Cattle Immune to Mad Cow
Scientists said yesterday that they have used genetic engineering techniques to produce the first cattle that may be biologically incapable of getting mad cow disease.
- Remotely Activated Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer
Targeted nanotech-based treatments will enter clinical trials in 2007.
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