MATR Newsletter – December 27, 2019
The state with the best education wins!

Montana 2020 Business Days at the Capitol – 1/6-7 – Helena

The premier business networking event of the year brings together lawmakers, business executives, and experts to discuss trending business issues and identify solutions.

Flathead Valley Business of the Year: Montana West Economic Development

MWED is a private nonprofit that serves as a key resource for, and collaborator with, a broad range of “business professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, governments, and community organizations to strengthen the Flathead’s business and lifestyle assets’”

Today’s MATR Newsletter is sponsored by:

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

Montana 2020 Business Days at the Capitol – 1/6-7 – Helena
The premier business networking event of the year brings together lawmakers, business executives, and experts to discuss trending business issues and identify solutions.
12 Axioms for Economic Development Groups with Ron Kitchens
Ron Kitchens with Southwest Michigan First is back to share 12 axioms his organization has adopted and is graciously willing to share them with you.

Opportunity Zones

Getting Creative with Opportunity Zones
…getting creative when pulling together an economic development deal.

Montana West Economic Development

Flathead Valley Business of the Year: Montana West Economic Development
MWED is a private nonprofit that serves as a key resource for, and collaborator with, a broad range of “business professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, governments, and community organizations to strengthen the Flathead’s business and lifestyle assets’”

Funding and Building your Business

23 tools to make social media management easier
Tools to find the best emoji, create and edit cinematic video, remove people or backgrounds from photos and optimize calendars

The Creative and Cultural Economy

‘CITIZENS UNITING to Restore our Democracy’ by Missoula, Montana’s Daniel Kemmis will be published the summer of 2020.
We’re creating a web and social media presence for the book and the citizen activity it invites.

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

Reaching for the stars from Montana Western in Dillon
The Dillon campus operates under a plan it calls Experience One where students takes one class at a time, for several hours each day for a few days.

Rural Communities

Getting Solar Power to the Rural Communities That Need It Most
Adapting policies and supporting innovation could get more solar-power production to lower-income communities, where cost savings could have their biggest impact, a new report says.