Northern Lakes Economic Alliance and Michigan Economic Development Corporation presents….
Pure Michigan Business Connect-“Resources to Grow Your Business Forum”
- Funding for Growth
- Finding Talent & Training Options
- Marketing Assistance & Locating New Markets
12:30-1:00PM: Resource Partners get to pitch their services
1:00-2:00PM: Speak individually with each resource partner
231-582-6482 or tom@northernlakes.net
PMBC-Resources to Grow Your Business-PDF
Join other like-minded communities as we learn programs and resources, share best practices and ideas, empower ourselves and others to assist entrepreneurs in growing our local communities at the annual Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities (CEC) Conference.
A Workshop on Cybersecurity: How To Make Your Business Information and Data More Secure
Join us for this opportunity to learn about hot planning topics in Charlevoix County. Experts from MSU Extension and local agencies will be on hand to lead a panel discussion and concurrent sessions.Master Citizen Planners are eligible to receive 4 MCP credits.
Click here to learn more and register
The MSU Product Center presents the EIGHTH annual
Making It In Michigan Conference and Marketplace Trade Show.
Tuesday, November 10th at the Lansing Center
Mark your calendar! Click here for more details.
Learn to cut waste and cost out of your process while earning certification as a Lean Champion. Deliverables: build internal capacity, facilitated Kaizen at your location, sustain continuous improvement, lean manufacturing simulation and project planning, facilitator and kata skills, problem solving, current and future state mapping with lean metrics, 5S workplace organization, cellular flow, kanban pull system, standard work and poke-yoke, SMED, and TPM. Class meets two full days each month for six months.
Schedule
August 11 & 18, 2015
September 15 & 22, 2015
October 13 & 20, 2015
November 10 & 17, 2015
December 15 & 22, 2015
January 12 & 19, 2016
Training is held Tuesdays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Learn to cut waste and cost out of your process while earning certification as a Lean Champion. Deliverables: build internal capacity, facilitated Kaizen at your location, sustain continuous improvement, lean manufacturing simulation and project planning, facilitator and kata skills, problem solving, current and future state mapping with lean metrics, 5S workplace organization, cellular flow, kanban pull system, standard work and poke-yoke, SMED, and TPM. Class meets two full days each month for six months.
Schedule
August 11 & 18, 2015
September 15 & 22, 2015
October 13 & 20, 2015
November 10 & 17, 2015
December 15 & 22, 2015
January 12 & 19, 2016
Training is held Tuesdays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
This session is being co-sponsored by the Char-Em United Way.
Are you comfortable that your nonprofit is meeting the legal requirements for its fund development program? Do you know how to appropriately evaluate, acknowledgeable and non-cash donations including cars, boats and real estate? Do you understand how to report raffle items and winnings, and determine a donor’s tax deductible contribution? During this session we’ll discuss the common mistakes nonprofits make in gift acceptance and how to avoid these mistakes through appropriate policies and business practices. We’ll also discuss the Donor Bill of Rights and the donor stewardship practices of leading nonprofit organizations.
Instructor: Pam Evans, MS, CFRM, NorthSky Consultant
NorthSky Certified Training Track: Fund Development
Take advantage of the substantial savings your company is eligible for beginning 1/1/16, as a result of the August 2014 MMA-led successful ballot campaign to eliminate the Personal Property Tax (PPT). Learn the steps you need to take to file for your exemption and start saving on the local manufacturing personal property tax (PPT).
Join Mike Johnston, MMA vice president of government affairs, as MMA hosts experts from the Michigan Department of Treasury and Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn, LLP at four meetings around the state. Attendees will learn necessary filing deadlines, coming in early 2016, and the required information to qualify for exemption.