(These two ideas did not win the $500, but they were too good not to share and invite you, the community to get involved or support them. Shea and myself (Chelsea) will be offering some coaching and consulting to help them go for it) -BIG IDEA #2: Joy 2 Ride from Carol M. Kraak To get people out on the trail that have limitations that don't allow them to walk or bike the Betsie Valley Trail … [Read more...]
GRANT WINNER #14 MAY 2019
THE WINNERS!!: Joseph Beyer, Nick Loud and Chris Loud THE BIG IDEA: Northern Michigan Haiku Roadshow! I have permission to do a Northern Michigan version of a fascinating and simple public art project called The Haiku Roadsign. We will create a portable roadside-sign with a series of Haiku poems, curated from submissions by local writers, and managed by The Boardman Review literary journal. … [Read more...]
Casey Petz, Leadership Coach
Casey works with Entrepreneurs, Leadership Teams, and Family Businesses as a Leadership Coach. He helps leaders get clarity on their unique abilities and then get focused on putting their talents to use while also creating more freedom in their personal life. He is also a recovering elementary school teacher, but is also known to friends and acquaintances as an executive at the family business, a … [Read more...]
Dan Fuller, Pathways Preschool
Dan is a teacher and co-owner at Pathways Preschool with his wife Brittni. A northern Michigan native, Dan has been working with young children in the community for over 17 years. He brings his expertise as a meditator, martial artist and musician to the classroom, but more than anything he is a master of play. Through play Dan expands the possibilities in which people experience life and engage … [Read more...]
Courtney Lorenz, Cultured Kombucha
As a left-minded creative soul in a right-minded body, the eccentricities of kombucha brought joy into Courtney’s life. Founder of Northern Michigan’s first kombucha tea brewery, Courtney desires to share the health benefits reaped from living foods. She believes that each body is unique, deserving to be happy, healthy, and filled with joy. Courtney’s background in nutrition and culinary arts … [Read more...]
Troy Daily, Create TC
Troy Daily grew up in Traverse City, whos parents have owned Kilwins Chocolate Shop since 1994. A hospitality business major graduating from MSU in 2008, always the dream since age 9 to open his own Kilwins. After meeting his wife, Whitney his senior year at MSU, they moved to Williamsburg, VA to own and operate a Kilwins franchise until early 2012 where the economy downturn forced the return to … [Read more...]
Jeff Haas, Jazz Musician
Jeff the son of German Jewish immigrants, grew up in Detroit in a home rich with music in the Judaic and classical traditions. He has been a social worker, music teacher, radio show host, composer, and jazz piano performer. He is the founder of Building Bridges with Music Program using his original music as a springboard for interactive discussion about overcoming barriers and creating more … [Read more...]
Sue Kurta, Boss Mouse Cheese
Sue took up cheese making as a hobby while working in corporate finance in New York City. That hobby became a passion, and she furthered her education in cheese making by studying with artisanal cheese makers in Vermont, and an apprenticeship on an organic goat farm in rural Maine. Upon returning to her home state of Michigan in 2010, Sue bought an historic 1867 farm in Kingsley where she started … [Read more...]
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