MATR Newsletter – June 6, 2022
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Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunities – Senior UI/UX Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior User Experience Designer and more…. – PFL

  PFL is the leader in the Hybrid Experience category of software companies that focus on bringing direct mail into the martech stack. We deliver authentic human experiences by orchestrating dynamic…

• Montana Career Opportunities – Product Designer, Data Migration Specialist, Senior DevOps Engineer and more…- Foundant Technologies

  Foundant Technologies is dedicated to maximizing the impact of the philanthropic community through forward-looking technology solutions. Our team lives and works across the country, bringing the benefits of varied lived…

• Montana Career Opportunities – User Experience Designer, Network Administrator Billings, MT Project Manager (CSI) and more…. Zoot Solutions

  No Suits, Montana Roots At Zoot, our employees are committed to providing the best decisioning engines for some of the largest organizations in the world. Zooters are also committed to…

Great Falls Development Authority

• Coming up: Assistance for Business Clinics in Great Falls (6/8) and Lewistown (6/9), QuickBooks, and more

  The Assistance for Business Clinics are designed to assist new and established employers, accountants, bookkeepers, human resource professionals and lawyers to proactively prevent unnecessary claims and/or charges by providing updated reporting of state withholding, UI Tax requirements, workers’ comp. coverage, tax incentives, minimum wage, overtime, new hire reporting, income withholding orders, USERRA laws and regulations.

Montana Economic Development

• Anaconda keeping up with business and population boom

  “Today there’s a lot of success that you can see in all of the retail shops and restaurants and bars and businesses that are opening up in the downtown area.” said Adam Vauthier, executive director of Discover Anaconda.

Montana Business

• Can Do: Addressing Montana’s childcare crisis with Heather Foster, CEO of the Missoula Family YMCA

  Covid-19 exacerbated an already problematic situation, and disproportionately affected women, who were predominantly the ones who left the workforce to provide home care. Montana continues to struggle to provide access to affordable childcare, reflecting the nationwide trends.

• Missoula, Montana’s Butterfly Herbs closes in on 50 years, fueled by Montana Tea and Spice

  Butterfly Herbs resembles a general store strait out of the 1920s. A rolling ladder sits along the back wall with jars of teas and herbs. The lighting is dim and under the cashier’s counter are see-through bins filled with coffee beans from around the world.

• NCAT to hold electronic recycling drive in Butte June 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the NCAT headquarters parking lot.

  https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/ncat-to-hold-electronic-recycling-drive-in-butte

• We look at why economic inequality began soaring in the U.S. four decades ago.

  If you look at historical data on the U.S. economy, you often notice that something changed in the late 1970s or early ’80s. Incomes started growing more slowly for most workers, and inequality surged.

Incubators and R&D

• A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient

  The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with rectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

The Creative and Cultural Economy

• Windgate Foundation gifts $15 million to Montana’s The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts – the most generous gift it’s ever received

  Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (The Bray) was founded at the foothills of the Montana Rockies in 1951 by entrepreneur, brickmaker, and avid arts patron Archie Bray, who intended it to be a place to “make available for all who are seriously interested in the ceramic arts, a fine place to work.” The primary mission is to provide an environment and connection with other serious artists that stimulates creative work in ceramics.

Government News & Events

• Missoula planners eye locations, power for federal electric vehicle charging network

  Members of Missoula’s Transportation Technical Advisory Committee this week began to consider the $7.5 billion allotted by the federal government to build that network of Electric Vehicle charging stations.

Transportation

• Please send us your comments on electric vehicle charging infrastructure TODAY!

  Responses received before the end of June will be considered as we draft the vision and goals for Montana’s Electric Vehicle Deployment Plan. Once the plan is approved, we’ll announce how the State will move forward with funding electric vehicle fast-charging locations across Montana.

• Autonomous cars without drivers can now pick you up, drop off deliveries

  A company that specializes in autonomous vehicle technology has begun operating its vehicles on city streets without a safety driver in the front seat.

• Is This The Electric Vehicle Filling Station of the Future?

  U.K.’s Gridserve opens its first ‘Electric Forecourt’ with 36 low-carbon powered chargers.

• Parking Trends and Ideas for Missoula – TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2022 AT 9 AM – 10 AM – Online event

  Experts and novices alike are invited to participate in this Zoom discussion on trends, ideas, and options for parking in Missoula.
  This Zoom meeting is free and open to the public.

Energy and Climate Change

• This startup helps homeowners go solar in the states with the dirtiest electric grids

  For a monthly subscription, you can help low-income homeowners get solar panels in the places it matters most.

• CBS Sunday Morning – “Oceans Give, Oceans Take” Video: Their role in climate change

  As greenhouse gases warm the Earth, our oceans play a significant role in absorbing heat that helps regulate rising temperatures. But as writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains, there is a huge price to pay for heating the oceans.

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