They’re looking to take 15 businesses from multiple showcases happening across Montana and the first-place winner receives $50,000 in investment money.
The dinner is an effort to raise money for the project’s biggest year to date with entry into three new cities as they work towards becoming a 501c3 nonprofit, said executive director Marc Moss.
The Executive Director for the Salish Kootenai College Foundation (SKCF) is responsible for working to achieve the Foundation’s mission and financial objectives. The position activities include fundraising, alumni relations, donor relations and administration of day-to-day operations and management of staff.
They’re looking to take 15 businesses from multiple showcases happening across Montana and the first-place winner receives $50,000 in investment money.
The Department of Commerce will bring five Montana businesses to a Western Canadian tradeshow focused on building and construction products and services Feb. 12-13.
“The county has taken the easy route the last 10 years and simply imposed it on their own,” O’Leary told The Montana Standard. “But that leaves the taxpayers — the people who are footing the bill — out of the picture.”
Voters in Columbia Falls will consider a resort tax in June; if enacted, more than half of revenue would go to public safety and 25 percent to property tax relief
Figures presented to lawmakers last month indicate the answer varies widely across different parts of the state, ranging from as low as $125 annually per capita in McCone County to as high as $15,794 per capita in Madison County.
VectorPoint Ventures is a seed stage through growth stage purpose-driven impact venture firm and advisory practice that is focused on life sciences & health and clean technology sector companies that are primarily based in the greater Northwest region.
Because this year like every even-numbered year is a budget session, lawmakers will spend much of their time and energy on balancing revenue and expenditures for the 2021-22 biennium.
Researchers and industry experts at a seminar in Bozeman Wednesday say there aren’t enough skilled applicants. But educators say they see opportunities in more apprenticeships.
Commissioner Dave Strohmaier will take the draft to a meeting of the Montana Association of Counties in Great Falls next week, looking for other county partners to join the authority.
“There are businesses that want to come down here,” said Young. “If we can give them a nice street, a walkable street, an inviting street – that’s the goal.”
The system will save the USC an estimated $100 million in electricity costs over the next 25 years, and it will prevent 100,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere.
