Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself…
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…
Cause Marketing
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…
Data That We Track, October 2018
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…
Data That We Track, September 2018
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…
Data That We Track, August 2018
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),…
Data That We Track, July 2018
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…
Data That We Track, June 2018
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…
Data That We Track, May 2018
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…
Data That We Track, April 2018
How Our Target Area Fared The latest population estimate prepared by the US Census revealed that Michigan grew by 3% between 2016 and 2017. Among the 78 counties…
Data That We Track, March 2018
How Our Target Area Fared Only one county in Michigan and two in Wisconsin saw their jobless rates rise in March, contributing to a 1/10 lowering of Michigan’s…
