Rotary Charities has awarded over a quarter of million dollars in grants to projects that that will implement the Grand Vision.
"We awarded 22 grants during our last grant round," said Rotary Charities Executive Director Marsha Smith. "Of those, seven were directly related to implementation of the Grand Vision...when evaluating grants, we look for proposals that [...]
December 22, 2009 – 12:19 pm
William Rustem is president and CEO of Public Sector Consultants. He served as Gov. William G. Milliken's chief staff advisor on environmental matters. Recently, he was the keynote speaker for The Grand Vision Summit.
This month, Rustem has written an Op-Ed praising The Grand Vision as "a shining beacon of hope for all of Michigan."
Leading the way [...]
December 8, 2009 – 2:40 pm
On October 29 The Grand Vision was featured on Interlochen Public Radio's Points North program.
Guests included Marsha Smith, Executive Director of Rotary Charities and Chair of the Coordinating Group of The Grand Vision, and Matt Skeels, Director of Traverse City Transportation And Land Use Study (TC-TALUS). Also interviewed was Leelanau County Commissioner Jean Watkowski.
Tough questions [...]
December 2, 2009 – 2:29 pm
Implementation of The Grand Vision began on November 19 at the Grand Vision Summit. Six issue areas were introduced: Energy, Food & Farming, Growth and Investment, Housing, Natural Resources and Transportation.
9 and 10 News was there and filed this video report on the summit, including an interview with keynote speaker Bill Rustem, senior vice president [...]
November 20, 2009 – 4:13 pm
In November, members of the six Grand Vision working groups gathered at the Oleson Center at Northwestern Michigan College to share their mission and the goals and the actions they will take to support the six county Grand Vision effort.
Attendees represented regional businesses and nonprofit organizations, as well as local government and citizens at large. [...]
November 5, 2009 – 2:59 pm
This forum previously appeared in the Leelanau Enterprise.
The traditional way to plan for roads is to conduct transportation studies, build roads and then development follows. The Grand Vision, with the full support of the MDOT, made a decision to flip that process around and gather land use input first as the basis for the transportation [...]
November 4, 2009 – 8:06 am
The Northwest Michigan Council of Governments (NWMCOG) and the Traverse City Transportation and Land Use Study (TC-TALUS) are being recognized by the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), for their work on the Grand Vision.
The Excellence in Regional Transportation Awards, a program of NADO’s Rural Planning Organization (RPO) America and the NADO Research Foundation’s Center [...]
November 3, 2009 – 9:17 am
Doug Luciani, President of the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce talks with Evan Smith, chair of the Chamber's transportation committee on Up North 2. Evan is also the chair of the Grand Vision's Transportation Working Group.
Click here to watch Chamber Connection
The Traverse City Record-Eagle article Farm network has Vision takes a look at the newly formed Northwest Michigan Food and Farm Network:
A new local network has some big plans for the region's farming sector -- to double its value over the next decade.
The Northwest Michigan Food and Farm Network formed to follow through on some [...]
Over the last few months there have been a number of mentions of The Grand Vision in the regional and national news. Here's a sampling and if you found another, please post a comment with the link below!
Bill McKibben talks about with Greening of the Great Lakes (mLive/WJR) and highlights The Grand Vision as a [...]
