MATR Newsletter – August 31, 2022
The state with the best education wins!

TOMIS

• Montana Career Opportunities – Product Solutions Manager, Marketing Manager, Sales Manager, and More…. TOMIS

  Why We Get Out of Bed Every Morning We are on an epic mission to positively transform the global activities and travel industry by creating innovative software and implementing robust…

• Missoula-based TOMIS Holdings and Cognizant Technology Services Receive Big Sky Trust Fund Grant Funds for New Job Generation

  “TOMIS helps grow tour operator businesses.  Through marketing software and expert services, TOMIS generates more direct bookings for your business, makes sense of your marketing and sales data, and streamlines your operations.”

Come Home Montana

• Biden administration partnering with job search companies to help fill teacher shortages

  The Biden administration will partner with several major job search companies to try to address teacher shortages that have plagued many of the country’s school districts – moves that aim to boost a profession increasingly under attack.

Montana Department of Commerce

• Montana Business Attraction Newsletter Aug/Sept 2022

  Meet a Montanan –

  Department of Commerce Director Osterman

• SURVEY: You Can Help Close the Digital Divide in Montana – Please Complete This Survey

  An internet connection is crucial for residents for school, work, and staying in touch with friends and family. As such, the Montana Department of Administration’s ConnectMT broadband effort is conducting research to increase broadband access and quality across the state. To meet the needs of as many Montana residents as possible, it is important that officials understand the experiences and opinions of both individuals and community groups.

• Four Montana Communities Receive Grants to Plan Infrastructure, Community Development Projects

  “Commerce’s CDGB planning grants provide funding and technical assistance to help local governments plan for future growth and development, while creating and retaining good paying jobs for local workers,” said Montana Department of Commerce Director Scott Osterman.

Great Falls Development Authority

• GFDA – Upcoming trainings: Learn first-hand how to secure government contracts, Email Marketing Tips and more!

  Small Business Webinar Series: Managing the Human Side of Change:

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• Five innovations helping charities

  From an NFT marketplace for good causes, to an app that connects donors to the homeless, discover innovations that are helping charities and non-profits to thrive

• Montana Economic Developers Association (MEDA) Fall Conference Registration Open! Ticket Sales are now available.

  Space is limited – get your tickets early.

• City of Helena Commission selects Andy Shirtliff to fill open seat

  “It’s going to be a good experience – like I said, an incredible honor to be here,” Shirtliff said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do.”

• Last Chance for Early Bird Discounts to the Montana Startup Summit! Oct. 1 – Bozeman

  Get your tickets now for the Montana Startup Showcase. Attend to check out some of the highest-potential startups coming out of Montana and see who will be crowned the Montana Startup of the Year!

Next Generation Broadband in Montana

• Elon Musk Is Bringing Cell Service to the Backcountry

  Behold, direct satellite-to-phone connectivity “anywhere you can see the sky”

• Comcast and Charter face a grim new reality: Actual competition

  Cheap home internet from T-Mobile and Verizon is here, and it’s already threatening the cable giants.

Montana Business and Govt. Agency Collaboration Success

• Missoula – Assistance for Business Clinic – 10/4 – Missoula College

  The Assistance for Business Clinics are designed to provide new and established businesses, accountants, bookkeepers, human resource professionals, and attorneys with updated information on topics such as the Montana Department of Revenue’s new Form MW-4 and their E-Services, Unemployment Insurance Tax requirements, workers’ compensation coverage, Independent Contractor regulations, using Labor Market Information to make business decisions, the Registered Apprenticeship Program, tax incentives, minimum wage, overtime, new hire reporting, child support services, USERRA laws, and regulations.

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte

• Montana Governor Gianforte appeals BLM decision on American Prairie bison grazing

  “Given the level of public interest in the proposal, BLM initiated an increased effort to engage local and state cooperators and the interested public to the greatest extent possible. Consultation, cooperation and coordination requirements were met, or exceeded prior to (issuing this decision),” Darrington wrote.

Montana Ambassadors

• Synthetic Milk Is Coming, And It Could Radically Shake Up Dairy

  Synthetic milk does not require cows or other animals. It can have the same biochemical make up as animal milk, but is grown using an emerging biotechnology technique know as “precision fermentation” that produces biomass cultured from cells.

Developing a more Entrepreneurial Montana

• C2M Beta Accelerator- Apply Now!

  Our 12-week “hands on” program is designed to empower entrepreneurs to put their business ideas on a bold path to remarkable results.

Funding and Building your Business

• It’s Time To Do Away With The Exit Interview And Two Weeks’ Notice Period

  The pandemic has changed most of the formal, restrictive protocols.

Idaho News & Events

• Controversy in Kuna, Idaho: Meta’s new data center draws mixed response

  Some accused the company of looking to bring in “their horrible views and ways of thinking” or “shift the voting demographic” to represent the company’s “progressive ideology.” One person decried Meta’s presence in the state calling them “an enemy to Idaho and our views.”

Come Home Wyoming

• Navigating the wilderness, avoiding predators urban and rural (Wyoming)

  “In the woods, by myself, it was stormy, and I was getting wet and mad,” Don’Zeal recalled.

  And yet, when asked to compare his time in the wilderness with life in his hometown, there was no contest.

Wyoming Business

• CBS Sunday Morning – Vertical farming: A new form of agriculture in Jackson, Wyoming

  In downtown Jackson, Wyoming, a small plot of land, 30 by 150 feet, produces 100,000 pounds of produce a year, thanks to a farm that soars in the air. Correspondent Martha Teichner looks at the growing industry of locally-sourced vertical farms for urban communities.

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

• For Some Top Colleges ‘Rural Students’ Are Coming into Focus
  Admissions officers at Yale and Purdue are innovating ways to identify, encourage, and admit more rural students. They’re learning some important lessons along the way.
• Announcing Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses

  I’m delighted to share with you matters close to my heart, ideas that I find stimulating, and some practical tips and leads that you might find useful. At the heart, of course, you’ll find emotional intelligence. But my interests also go far beyond; you’ll get a taste of that range here. PLUS news you can put to use in your life or work – or in both. Please join me each month.

Government News & Events

• Can high-tech windows help slow climate change? We’re about to find out

  Among the Inflation Reduction Act’s little-noticed yet potentially game-changing provisions: a big incentive for “smart glass,” which can make buildings significantly more energy efficient

Government Technology

• Montana welcomes electric cars, but the state isn’t ready for long hauls

  Montana’s plan is to fill in some charging station gaps as its first step, assuring that there is a quick charge on the major interstates at least every 100 miles, which means construction in the first year with Interstates 15 and 94 getting some attention.

Transportation

• Curb Management Firm Populus Raises $11M Amid Expansion

  The growing understanding of the value of the city curb — that real estate is becoming hotter thanks to ride-sharing, delivery services and other factors, attracting the attention of more local officials and government technology firms.

• Driving Toward the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future

  GM president Mark Reuss talks with WIRED about how to sell EVs, his optimism for robot cars, and why the company shifted more of its supply chain back to the US.

• Monthly Rail Pass In Germany Cuts Carbon Emissions By 1.8 Million Tons

  Germany has just completed a 3 month trial that offered unlimited trips on public transportation for one low fare.

• A New Approach to Car Batteries Is About to Transform EVs

  Auto companies are designing ways to build a car’s fuel cells into its frame, making electric rides cheaper, roomier, and able to hit ranges of 620 miles.

• Back to School… Two ways to do the school run. An elementary school in North Carolina vs. one in #Holland.

  Fun fact: “For the first time in two centuries, children in the United States are expected to live shorter lives than their parents did.”

Energy and Climate Change

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