Northern Initiatives and Our Customers are On the Move

As the holiday season approaches, the hustle and bustle we normally experience is different.   Throughout the year, we have heard just how important it…

My name is Elissa Sangalli and I’m the new CEO of Northern Initiatives. After serving on the Northern Initiatives board for two years, I joined…

We are pleased to announce, Elissa Sangalli has been selected as Northern Initiatives new President.   Northern Initiatives is a Community Development Financial Institution. Since…

Collaboration........   A project that Northern Initiatives developed with the US Small Business Administration was to capture operations and best practices across users of the…

  Communities We Serve   The Census provided the 2019 population estimates and so in the November 2019 dataset below, you can see which counties…

  Communities We Serve   What the October data is showing in terms of jobless rates: Both Michigan and Wisconsin had a one-tenth decrease The…

I have consistently been charged with stewardship campaigns throughout my church-going life. The message is pretty simple, “if we all do what we can, it…

Tis the season for generous gifting, from your mother to the mail carrier, consumers tend to spend the last few weeks of the year frantically…

As the information age has changed business practices, the concept of corporate responsibility has become a factor in the way business owners make decisions about…