Northwest Michigan Council of Governments

Highlights

Michigan Works! Helps Elk Rapids Chamber With Business Expo and Job Fair

The Elk Rapids Chamber of Commerce hosted the Northern Michigan Business Expo and Job Fair and got some help with the event from Northwest Michigan Works! Watch the video to find out more.

IT Career Fair Connects Job Seekers with Employers

 

Dozens of job seekers turned out for the Northwest Michigan Works! IT Career Fair in Traverse City.

Cadillac Culvert Wins 2012 Best Small Business Award

Cadillac Culvert is one of twelve companies from around the state of Michigan that has been selected to receive the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center’s Best Small Business Award. These companies were chosen from over 13,000 small businesses that received confidential counseling and training from MI-SBTDC in 2012.

B&P Manufacturing Selected as PTAC Contractor of the Year

Northwest PTAC selected B&P Manufacturing, an aluminum fabrication company, as its Government Contractor of the Year for 2011.

 

IT Career Fair Connects Job Seekers with Employers

 

Dozens of job seekers turned out for the Northwest Michigan Works! IT Career Fair in Traverse City.

YouthBuild Students Learn About NMC's Technical Programs

YouthBuild Northwest students toured the Aero Park Campus of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City where they learned about NMC's technical programs including construction technology, automotive technology, and welding.

9&10 News: Getting a Job or New Career with Makeover and Michigan Works Help

It is one of the most popular New Year's Resolution's each year--to get a job. Three lucky job seekers got a makeover to help them get ready for their search.

Michigan Works! Helps Woman End Three Years of Unemployment

Even though Kay Purdey has two jobs she knows what it's like to be unemployed. She spent three years looking for work after losing her previous manufacturing job.

Job Helps Teen Look to the Future After a Challenging Past

Most teens probably would not want to spend a big chunk of their summer at the library, but Pajas Erickson enjoys going to the Kalkaska County Library every day because she is there for her first real job.

Learning Lab Helps Woman Graduate From College

Cindy Hopp came to the Northwest Michigan Works! Adult Education Learning Lab to improve her skills so she could enroll in college over 30 years after she left high school.

Free Job-Seeking & Career Development Workshops at Northwest Michigan Works!

Michigan Works! of Cadillac, Kalkaska, Manistee, Petoskey, and Traverse City announce their workshop line-up for August.

Jobseeker Thanks Northwest Michigan Works! For Helping Him Land a New Job

Jonathan Leeds attended a job fair and two practice your pitch events offered through Northwest Michigan Works!

 

Northwest Michigan Works! Alumnus of the Year Recognized in Lansing

"Without the help from Northwest Michigan Works! I don't know where I would be."

Northwest Michigan Works! Connects Jobseeker With Professional Job

"This job and my résumé couldn't have matched more perfectly," Sharon Swogger said.

"It was just perfect the way it worked out. They really helped and made my job search much, much easier."

 

 

Poverty Simulation Shows What It's Like to Live in Poverty

The "Survive a 'Month' in Poverty" workshop in Traverse City, hosted by the Traverse Bay Poverty Reduction Initiative (PRI), and co-sponsored by Northwestern Michigan College and Michigan State University North, helped give more than 100 participants a better understanding of what it is like to live in poverty.

Poverty 101 Workshop Reaches Social Service Providers

Kelly Roy knows firsthand what it is like to live in poverty and wants to share what she knows with social service providers and others who help people in poverty.

Initiatives Seek to Reduce Poverty in NW Michigan

The Traverse Bay Poverty Reduction Initiative and the Char-Em Poverty Reduction Initiative are hard at work seeking to reduce poverty in seven northwest lower Michigan counties.

Webinar: Planning and Zoning for Small Scale Alternative Energy

 
During this webinar, planning commissioners will learn about zoning for small scale wind, solar and wood energy systems which are gaining popularity in northwest Michigan. 
 

Financial Dashboard for Local Governments

Munetrix Financial Dashboard for local governments in Northwest Lower Michigan is provided by Northwest Michigan Council of Governments.

Benchmarks Northwest

Quality of life indicators and assessment tool for to assess and monitor quality of life issues in 10 counties of Northwest Lower Michigan.