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MATR Newsletter – August 22, 2024
The state with the best education wins!




TONIGHT

Pearl Jam Announces FREE “Our Village” Festival Before August 22 Missoula Show

Over 30 local nonprofits are participating in the festival, each bringing an interactive, family-friendly activity or sharing a visual display. Activities range from face painting, art projects, and lawn games, to instrument building, bicycle repair demonstrations, photo booths, and various amazing displays. 



Be with someone that makes you happy.  

Banksy


Today’s MATR Newsletter is sponsored by:

Come Home Montana

  • Request for Proposals: Volunteer Landscape Scan – Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA)

    Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) is seeking proposals for a contractor to perform a landscape scan of volunteerism in Montana. This contractor will help identify stakeholders, resources, bright spots, and threats to the state of volunteerism across Montana. The product of this RFP will enable MNA to have a better understanding of stakeholders, trends, and opportunities to support organizations as they seek to engage volunteers in their work. Central questions to be answered in this scope of work include who is volunteering and why, how demographic shifts impact volunteering, what resources exist to support organizations and volunteers, how organizations find new…

  • Nonprofit Career Opportunities – Northwest Local Food Coordinator, Director of Finance , Foundation Executive Director and More….

    Join MNA today! We invite you to join MNA’s growing membership dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector in Montana! MNA has two types of membership; Nonprofit and Affiliate. Nonprofit membership is limited to 501(c)(3) organizations. Affiliate membership is for all other exempt organizations, governmental entities, businesses, consultants, and individuals.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

Flathead Valley Community College

Great Falls Development Alliance

  • GFDA Top Ten for 8-20-24

    The final competitive round of the Montana State Small Business Credit Initiative 2.0 (SSBCI 2.0) low interest rate program opened. If you have a project that could move forward with the benefit of low interest rate funding, start talking to GFDA now as these funds are very limited. If you have a business that can benefit from these funds contact Jill at [email protected] or 1-406-590-1056.

  • GFDA Business Trainings

    Whether you’re just getting started, looking for new customers,

    wanting to grow sales through e-commerce, or focusing on workforce.

    We’re here to help.

Montana’s Headwaters Tech Hub

Montana Business

  • Household Vehicles Were Parked 95% on a Typical Day in 2022 — So Much Time & Opportunity for EV Charging

    Household vehicles were driven an average of 64.6 minutes on a typical day in 2022 (including all trips made that day) and parked for the remainder of the time (95%). Drivers in all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) averaged between 61 minutes and 68 minutes per day with the longest driving time of 67.6 minutes for those in MSAs with 1-3 million people. Household vehicles being parked for 95% of a 24-hour day offers opportunity for EV charging.

Housing

Visit Montana

  • Missoula airport opens to non-ticket holders

    The new program, which launched on Monday, enables non-ticketed guests to venture past the security checkpoint – something that once was commonplace but ended after 9/11 more than two decades ago.

Biotech

21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

City Club Missoula



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