Current Happenings
Navigating National Quitters Day: Propel Your Small Business with SBDC Support
As the initial enthusiasm for New Year's resolutions begins to weaken, we find ourselves on National Quitters Day, January 12th; it's the perfect moment to reignite your entrepreneurial spirit and transform your business aspirations into reality. In 2019, Strava...
3rd Minnow Tank Business Plan Competition: Uniting Northeastern Montana for Economic Growth
Great Northern Development Corporation and the Small Business Development Center present the 3rd Minnow Tank Business Plan Competition: Uniting Northeastern Montana for Economic GrowthGreat Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) and the Small Business Development...
Public Review Needed for Economic Strategy
WOLF POINT, MONTANA (Sept. 21, 2022) – Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) is seeking community feedback on its next Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and Economic Recovery and Resiliency Addendum. The five-year CEDS will be used to shape...
Housing Networking Event Hosted by GNDC
We all need a roof over our head and sometimes achieving that can be more difficult than we anticipate, particularly in rural areas such as Northeast Montana. So let's talk about it...past successes, current opportunities and future goals. In collaboration with the...
Community Survey
Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) is seeking community input in developing its next five-year Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). For the past 26 years, GNDC has provided professional business counseling, community development technical...
Eastern MT Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws (BIL) Workshop
On Thursday, June 23rd, Eastern Montana community leaders are invited to attend this workshop to hear from guest speakers knowledgeable about the opportunities available for infrastructure development through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The main topics...
Assistance for Business Clinic
GNDC is partnering with the Montana Department of Labor & Industry to offer the Assistance for Business Clinic. The Assistance for Business Clinics are designed to provide new and established businesses, accountants, bookkeepers, human resource professionals, and...
Cows & Carbon Workshop: What’s there to know?
Join us on Wednesday, June 29th for this learning opportunity! The workshop will be presented by Western Sustainability Exchange (WSE), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Native, a public benefit corporation. Topics to be discussed include soil health,...
Announcement of the 2022 Minnow Tank Finalist’s
Great Northern Development Corporation, the Small Business Development Center, and the MDT Small Business Enterprise program would like to congratulate the 2022 Minnow Tank Business Plan Competition finalists. Finalists will present their business plan ideas to...
Request for Proposals
Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC), a regional non-profit economic and community development organization, is soliciting a Request for Proposals for the development of a six county, regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and COVID-19 Recovery...
A SNAPSHOT OF THE FOOD SYSTEM IN AN 11-COUNTY REGION OF NORTHEASTERN AND EASTERN MONTANA
REGIONAL FOOD ECONOMY STUDY:A SNAPSHOT OF THE FOOD SYSTEM IN AN 11-COUNTY REGIONOF NORTHEASTERN AND EASTERN MONTANA The Regional Food Economy Study is complete! In July 2021, Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) received $14,000 in grant funding from No Kid...
Rise and Restore Press Release
November 2nd, 2022, Statewide, Montana - In response to COVID-19, Great Northern Development Corporation has partnered with Headwaters RC&D, America's Small Business Development Center of Montana, Big Sky Economic Development, and the MDT Small Business Enterprise...
2021 Success Story – Farris Farm and Auto
After almost 25 years of being an employee at Carquest, Mike Farris went from spinning wrenches in the shop and helping customers at the front desk to purchasing the business with his wife, Steph.
SBDC’S MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT – NOVEMBER
Sarah was a chemist who found herself in Mexico setting up a cement lab for her employer, which is when she met her husband. After moving to Eastern Montana Sarah found herself needing a challenge. “Being a stay-at-home mom was fulfilling but I felt the pull to do...
SBDC’s Monthly Spotlight – October
When you walk into Sugg Primary Care Clinic in Glasgow, you will feel right at home with a warm welcome and a comfortable atmosphere. Dawn Sugg, FNP-C was a nurse for 18 years and always felt a calling to do more and help her patients find the root cause of...
GNDC Success Story
Beth Conroy has been a nurse for 27 years. Working in numerous specialties from short term care, long term care and hospice. Beth and her father Eddy Beery shared a dream of opening an assisted living facility to keep residents in the community as there currently was...
City of Glasgow Housing Stabilization Program
GNDC is administering the CDBG Housing Stabilization Program for the City of Glasgow. The program provides families and individuals access to homes through infill construction and rehabilitation of homes within a target area. By addressing health, safety and...
USDA Housing Preservation Grant
GNDC received $38,000 in grant funds from USDA Rural Development to address housing rehabilitation needs across GNDC’s 6-county region including the Fort Peck Reservation. The funds will be used to address health and safety issues of up to 50 very low income owner...
Regional Food Economy Study
Great Northern Development Corporation (GNDC) received $14,000 in grant funding from No Kid Hungry to conduct a regional food study to further understand the challenges and opportunities in our region’s food system. With funding in part through the Eastern Plains...
Rise and Restore Small Business Virtual Summit
Emergency Housing Assistance Program
If you are having difficulty paying your rent or mortgage due to COVID-related loss of income, we urge to apply for the Emergency Housing Assistance Program through the state of Montana.This program provides rent, security deposit, mortgage payment assistance, and/or...