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Northern Initiatives and Our Customers are On the Move
Good Jobs Cohort Accepting Applications
We're so keen on our Good Jobs Cohort and how much it will help our local economy we want to make it worth your time…
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Sleepy Dog Books gets books in schools
The halls of Fancher and Mary McGuire elementary schools in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., have just received new vending machines. Book vending machines. Northern Initiatives customer…
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2022 Annual Report
Among the accomplishments we're most proud of in 2022: 67% of the businesses we funded in 2022 were startups. 1,600 entrepreneurs were helped by Initiate.…
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Battle Creek women business owners making a mark
In July, Tiffany Blackman's shop–Bread & Basket–will celebrate its second anniversary beating the odds, but not the financial uncertainty that disproportionately impacts many Black women-owned…
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Kellogg Foundation, Northern Initiatives making economic impact
This article, in Second Wave, talks about the strides the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is making in Battle Creek - and Northern Initiatives is a huge…
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Restauranteur works to get it right
John Capers knows his way around a restaurant. He started working in his uncle’s barbecue in Tennessee when he was 8. “I had to work…
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Snackwerks offers ESL classes
Snackwerks, a longtime Northern Initiatives customer, continues to amaze us with their workforce initiatives. The latest, an English as a Second Language class, is yet…
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The Case for the 7 Cs of Credit
This is an essay by Dennis West, past-president of Northern Initiatives, that is still oh-so-relevant. As long as I have been involved in this…
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Putting Down Roots
This article in Second Wave talks about food innovators who stayed in Battle Creek after they had left Kellogg. Jeff Grogg of Snackwerks is mentioned;…
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