Help Highlighted: Around the State Orange Dots Raise Awareness

June 10, 2008

Aimee McQuilkin, owner of Betty’s Divine, has placed orange dots on her bags in support of the Missoula Community Development Corp., a nonprofit that helped her open the clothing store. “They’re on every bag that goes ou...
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Hear about Social Investing at City Club Missoula on June 9

June 5, 2008

How are the fortunes of entrepreneurs of the past being recycled to help the entrepreneurs of today in Missoula, Montana? At City Club Missoula’s June 9 forum, hear about the opportunities for individuals to invest t...

4th Annual Small Log Conference by MCDC’s “SUN”

June 3, 2008

Plan now to attend “Living Locally, Surviving Globally”, a unique conference bringing together national and international players specializing in small diameter log utilization. Held March 25-27 at the Coeur d’Alene Res...

MCDC Client Big Sky Shavings Wins $250,000 Forest Service Grant

January 6, 2008

Big Sky Shavings is a new business in Hall Montana that makes wood shavings for horse bedding from small diameter timber. With the assistance of Craig Rawlings, of MCDC’s Smallwood Utilization Institute (SUN), the owner...
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Missoulian Article - Stevensville Pipemaker draws $1.5 Million from nation fund!

December 21, 2006

Check out this link to read this Missoulian article posted 12/20/06....

First Came Coco Then Came Rue

October 2, 2006

Less than one year ago MCDC helped Alice Marquardt and Kim Richardson open COCO Atelier, a women's boutique located in downtown Missoula. As veterans of the downtown Missoula retail scene, Marquardt and Richardson had id...
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Forest Service Spotlights MCDC Smallwood Work

June 20, 2006

MCDC is prominently featured in a recent Forest Service Fact Sheet on the Smallwood Enterprise Program. MCDC program director Craig Rawlings is quoted as saying that his "job is to help entrepreneurs answer the question ...

Summer Biz Buzz Newsletter Now Available

June 6, 2006

MCDCs Summer 2006 Biz Buzz Newsletter is now available online. Read about MCDC's biggest day ever, its loan to the North Missoula Community Development Corporation, and its big p...

Rattlesnake Creek Pedestrian Bridge

April 26, 2006

Balloons and dancers decorated the new pedestrian bridge over the Rattlesnake Creek last Friday as the US Forest Service, Friends of Missoula Parks, Montana Community Development Corporation and many other local organiza...
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MCDC receives USDA Grant

April 24, 2006

Agriculture Under Secretary Thomas Dorr today announced nearly $4.2 million in grants to 18 small enterprises to develop innovative uses for woody biomass in national forests as sources of renewable energy and new produc...

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