The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation is the fifth community foundation to invest in its community through Northern Initiatives. “Impact investing, also known as Program Related Investing, is an important…
Mark Sanchez of MIBiz talked with Amanda Blondea, Chief Strategy Officer for Northern Initiatives, about the Shared Success funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington, D.C.-based…
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 the staff in March…
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 their best practices, such as…
Communities We Serve Overall Michigan saw its jobless rate lower, easing closer to the national rate. In spite of that, seasonality, particularly in the more rural parts of…
Communities We Serve Nearly everywhere in our service area experienced improvement in jobless rates for September. You can view the County breakdown in the 2018 Latest Data. Jobless…
Communities We Serve August’s jobless numbers finally brought summer seasonality into full view. Only one county had its jobless rate rise, one stayed the same (both in Wisconsin),…
Communities We Serve The July numbers saw jobless rates go down for the country and the state, but they went down in only 25 of the 78 counties…
Communities We Serve One would expect along with seasonality taking its course in Michigan that jobless rates would have dropped in June. That would also be a fair…
How Our Target Area Fared As one would expect, seasonality begins its run in May in earnest, with the rural communities of Michigan all seeing drops in jobless…
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