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Our Youth, Our Future

June 29, 2012 By admin

Our Youth, Our Future On the tail end of the Flathead Reservation, the town of Arlee nestles in the Jocko Valley of Montana’s Mission Mountains. While many small towns suffer from a slowing inertia, Arlee residents are bringing new life to their community through innovative initiatives. From Chocolate Festivals to art mentoring, Arlee residents are […]

Filed Under: Aquatic Center, Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Community-Based Approach, Educational Opportunities, Family Entertainment and Activities, Montana, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Rural Business Development, Youth, Youth Leadership

Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People

June 29, 2012 By admin

Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People Hot Springs, Montana, is tucked away between the beautiful Salish and Cabinet Mountain ranges in western Montana on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish, Kootenai, and Pend D’Oreille peoples. Many of the residents in this tiny community of 500+ people are local Salish/Kootenai tribal members. Others […]

Filed Under: Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Creating a More Localized Food System, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Green Products, Healthful Products, Montana, Natural and Cultural History, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Organic, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Tourism and Recreation, Women-owned Enterprises

Big Sky Business Runs On eBay Energy

June 29, 2012 By admin

Brockway Mercantile Brockway, Montana When most folks buy something off eBay, it arrives through the mail in a box. Not for Brigitte and Doug Dubin – e-Bay connected them with a new home and lifestyle. When they purchased the Brockway Mercantile building off eBay, they traded an urban smog-filled Los Angeles lifestyle for starry skies, […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business Retention and Development, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet and High-tech, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Montana, Small Business, Starting a Business

Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives Diverse Family Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Hell Creek Music & More, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and E-Tana Glendive, MT Most businesses can sum up their core focus in a sentence or two. For the creative Bury family in Glendive, Montana, you better pull up a chair and sit a spell. Originally from Seattle, Christie and Steve Bury, along with their teenage […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Retention and Development, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Marketing, Montana, Music, Natural and Cultural History, Performing Arts, Program - non-profit, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Social Marketing, Social Marketing: Linking Consumers to Producers, Starting a Business, Tourism and Recreation, Youth, Youth Businesses

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