MATR Newsletter – October 18, 2019
The state with the best education wins!

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunity – Virtual Systems Administrator – Anderson ZurMuehlen Technology Services (AZTS)
  Montana’s leading Information Technology Consulting Company is looking for Virtual Systems Administrators. Anderson ZurMuehlen Technology Services (AZTS) provides Information Technology solutions for customers across the United States
• Montana Career Opportunity – Technical Support Specialist – Anderson ZurMuehlen Technology Services (AZTS)
  As a Technical Support Specialist, the successful candidate will work as a member of our Service Desk supporting our end users and providing exceptional customer service.
• Montana Career Opportunity – Major Gifts Program Manager – Montana PBS

  The Major Gifts Manager will have revenue targets to meet each fiscal year and will be expected to utilize the moves management process of identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship to meet goals.

• Montana Career Opportunities – Software Engineer, Key Account Manager, Sales Representative – Bridger Photonics

  At Bridger, we love working hard on cutting-edge, meaningful LiDAR products that positively impact society. We love science and getting outdoors. We love building strong and lasting relationships with our customers and partners.

• Montana Career Opportunities – CFO, Plastic Products Technical Engineer, Production Team Member and more…. – West Paw

  Our people are our greatest assets and we treat them that way. At West Paw we empower our employees so they have a voice in the decisions that affect business success and workplace satisfaction.

Northwestern Energy

• Missoula schools planning to use Northwestern Energy solar panels for research

  “Our future leadership is in the schools coming up, and they need to understand as much as they can about renewable energy, solar in particular, and this is an opportunity to do that.”

Great Falls Development Authority

• Join GFDA for Development Coffee, Friday, November 1st at 7am

  Join GFDA at NeighborWorks Great Falls as we chat with fellow and potential investors for monthly Development Coffee

• Economic development outlook for Great Falls

  “We are the trade center and the trade hub and so we have more of those skilled jobs.”

• Montana’s Small Business Development Centers Expand Access to Services and Rural Outreach

  “The increased efforts in our rural areas are designed to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem as strong as the ones already existing in Montana’s fastest growing urban centers,” said GFDA Vice President and Great Falls SBDC Regional Director Jason Nitschke.

• Win the Bid: How to Prepare a Proposal – 10/23 – Great Falls, Montana

  This workshop walks businesses planning to bid on local, state, or federal contracts with a governmental agency through the process of writing a winning proposal.

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• America’s New Business Plan expands what it means to be ‘pro-business’

  For policymakers who want to do something to help entrepreneurs, here’s a roadmap to what they need, and it starts with opportunity, funding, knowledge, and support.

• Lessons from Centralia: Washington coal town shows how Montana’s coal country might endure

  “I want to help create a future for high-wage jobs in this area because they are few and far between,” Guenther said.

  Guenther sees the same potential for Montana.

• Experimentation and Entrepreneurship – 11/13 – Missoula

  Participants from all sectors and levels or experiences–from student to seasoned entrepreneur–are welcome.

The Telecommuting and Gig Workforce in Montana

• 4 Managerial Downsides of Remote Work (and How to Deal With Them)

  The option is certainly trending upwards, but does present difficulties.

Gov. Steve Bullock

• Montana’s entrepreneurs drive our economy – Governor Steve Bullock

  Thank you for everything you do to make Montana the best state in the nation to live, work, play, start a business and raise a family.

Funding and Building your Business

• 4 Tips to Create Stronger Emotional Connections With Your Stakeholders

  What about your customers?

Incubators and R&D

• State of Idaho, Idaho National Laboratory celebrate opening of new computing and cybersecurity buildings 

  The C3 and CIC buildings represent an endeavor by the state and INL to expand collaboration and employment opportunities for Idaho university students.

• ‘Exercise prescriptions’ benefit cancer patients

  Doctors should give “exercise prescriptions” to people living with and beyond cancer in the same way they prescribe medications, researchers leading a new initiative argue.

Business Plan Forums

• Helena Entrepreneurs showcase their new businesses at Demo Night

  “This is a really big opportunity for me to pitch my products and my brand, to a whole bunch of people that I don’t know, which is such a big deal.”

Regional Economic Development

• Idaho’s Conference on Recreation and Tourism: October 21-23, 2019 – Sun Valley, Idaho

  Tourism is already one of Idaho’s top three industry sectors, and our outdoor recreation economy is expected to grow 18% over the next decade.

Regional Business News

• Economists identify an unseen force holding back affordable housing

  The economists find this dwindling competition has cost the country approximately 150,000 additional homes a year — all else being equal.

Come Home Idaho

• Idaho Talent in Technology

  The Idaho Department of Commerce projects a 20% growth rate in tech/science during the decade to come.

Idaho News & Events

• When Intuit bought Eagle, Idaho’s TSheets, there were questions. Major expansion is planned

  “This space will allow us to accommodate future growth of more than 900 total seats and will bring new workplace amenities and services to the campus,”

Come Home Wyoming

• University of Wyoming board approves timeline for hiring next president

  The governor urged the board to avoid the temptation to pick a “familiar face.”

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

• Missoula’s after-school Flagship program seeks funding, volunteers

  Flagship offers three to four after-school programs every day in schools around Missoula.

Transportation

• San Francisco approves plans for a car-free Market Street

  “I urge your approval of this project so we can transform Market Street to be safer, more reliable for transit, and more inviting for anyone enjoying our city.” Mayor London Breed

Cool Stuff That’s Coming

• Slinky-like patch may boost physical therapy after joint injury

  A new sensor patch could bring the assessment of human joints into the 21st century, researchers report.

Energy and Climate Change

• Montana officials disagree over how to address climate change

  Sen. Scott Sales, R-Bozeman doesn’t think the government can or should do anything to address climate change, especially because he said the climate has been changing throughout human history and the warming occurring today isn’t solely human-caused.

• State of Climate Change in Montana

  Chronicle journalists fanned out across the state over several months in 2019 to report on the impacts of climate change, the changes to come and how people are responding.

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