You still have time to stop by Founders Hall and get your Giving Tree ornament to help a needy NMC student provide a happy holiday to their family. Stop by today, November 30, pick out and ornament and get the shopping wish list for the lucky family member you will buy a gift for.
The innovation grant program was established to fund innovative initiatives – ideas and opportunities that emerge during the year and occur outside of normal NMC budget sources and processes.
The next round of innovation grant awards is coming up. Be sure to submit your proposal by December 1.
The innovation grant fund provides approximately $50,000 per year in available funding. Most successful applications are in the range of $500–$5,000. However, applicants are invited to submit proposals for any amount. The Committee may consider multi-year funding, may fund part of your proposal, or may be able to suggest other sources of funding if needed.
The Committee encourages ideas that are innovative based on location, scale, or incorporation of new ideas. We also encourage projects that involve local businesses, community members, and support the community at large.
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This application can be filled out in your browser or the free Acrobat Reader, saved and emailed to foundation@nmc.edu. It includes a built-in budget guide that you can use to automatically calculate the cost of your project by entering individual item costs.
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A free screening of Earth Days, a documentary about the grassroots beginnings of Earth Day and the environmental movement, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in Milliken Auditorium as the centerpiece of Action! an event sponsored by NMC’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.
While the film focuses on the environmental movement, the goal of Action! is to empower and inspire young people that their personal action, of any kind, can make a difference in their community and the world, said event organizer Jessica Abfalter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.
“The key to social change is youth movement,” Abfalter said. “As a diverse group of students, Phi Theta Kappa also recognized the many ways an individual could have an impact on their community or even the world. We created ‘Action!’ from our own experiences with volunteerism and popular culture, sharing the inspiration we gained through film and connecting area youth with local opportunities for action in an interactive, artistic setting.”
Doors open at 6 p.m. The pre-show Action! Fair includes free admission to the Dennos Museum Center, now featuring the video art of Chinese artist Miao Xiaochu,n and opportunities to network with local advocacy and activist groups including H.O.P.E. (Helping Owners with Pet Expenses) NMC PRIDE, the Native American Student Association, 4-H Michigan State University Extension and Bay Bucks local currency.
Participants are also invited to enjoy complimentary food, local music, and browse entries in the recycled art contest. A $50 downtown Traverse City gift card will be awarded to the middle school, high school, and college student with the highest ranking creation.
The film will begin at 7:30 p.m. followed by the announcement of the recycled art contest winners. To enter artwork, please see submission details online or email nmcptk@gmail.com for submission details.
Among other leaders of the modern environmental movement, Earth Days features NMC communications instructor Stephanie Mills. In 1969 Mills catapulted to prominence when she decried overpopulation and natural resource exploitation in a commencement address and vowed never to have children.
NMC faculty and staff are invited to request funding support from the 2013 NMC Barbecue for an NMC special project.
Last year the BBQ awarded more than $48,000 for seven deserving projects.
Funding proposals are due by noon on Friday, Jan, 25, 2013, and the forms and more information are available here:
Each year the annual NMC Employee Holiday Party includes a food drive to benefit Father Fred Foundation patrons. This year we’ll start collecting items early so employees unable to attend the party have the opportunity to participate.
Donation boxes will be placed in offices throughout NMC’s campuses next week. Holiday Party Planning Committee members will collect all donated items on Thursday, December 13, the day before the party.
The Father Fred Foundation helps more than 6,500 local families, with over 15,000 food pantry visits each year. So far in 2012 they’ve seen a 16% increase in the number of people being served.
Below are lists of the items most needed to keep their shelves stocked. Thanks for caring enough to help!
Pantry Items:
Please help Father Fred Foundation work toward less sugar, salt and fat in pantry foods.
Personal care items:
Kudos, to Dave Sexton and KanDee Sheffer for their professionalism, hard work, and contributions at East Hall, the students and staff are very appreciate of both of them.
Kudos, to the Maintenance Services team, for the month of September, they allocated 104 transactions, had $.00 sales tax and all of their receipts and requisitions were received in the Business Office on time! Good job!
Thank you, to the Business academic area, for collecting over 400 items for the food drive. It helped us surpass our goal of 10,000 and reach over 18,000 items.
Thank you, to Lisa Blackford and class for helping us help our community by collecting food and household items for the local pantries. Thank you, for taking the time and resources to help! We appreciate it!
Thank you, Brandon Everest, for coming to help us unload the food for the Food for Thought project. We were excited you were there!
Thank you, to the Osterlin team, for collecting food for our class project! We have some great pictures of you building a huge can pyramid out of all the food you collected. Thank you, for coming together and helping our community!
For 10 years, Elizabeth Stevens has been organizing GirlTECH at NMC. This is a daylong non-traditional career seminar for 10th grade female students in collaboration with TBA-ISD. This year over 200 students from more than 20 school districts attended the event on Wednesday, November 14. Young women met with 10 different female professionals working in non-traditional career fields, such as aviation, maritime, construction, mechanics, information technology, law enforcement and engineering. Elizabeth worked
tirelessly and with great poise under pressure and not only represented NMC as an incredible female leader, but also promoted higher education and STEM career paths for these young women, all of whom could be future NMC students!
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at nmc.edu/jobs. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them!
Dennis Christopher Custodian 24 years Tony MacGirr Custodian 9 years Gary Schettek Grounds 11 years
Relax in style in our new unisex sized women’s fashion flannel pants. We have tanks, tees and hoodies that coordinate with either pattern.
Not the girlie print type? These are also available in a black and white plaid and a green plaid for you or your significant other.
For a closer look at all four prints visit our website.
They can be found in the pants catalog. A great Christmas present! Don’t forget your 10% employee discount.
50 Years Ago:
25 Years Ago:
5 Years Ago: Governor Jennifer Granholm visited NMC’s Energy Demonstration Center (see photo).
From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library
The FLU is here. The first cases of Influenza A diagnosed one week ago at Munson Medical Center. Influenza vaccine is still available at Health Services for $15. Be smart and avoid the flu during final exams. Get vaccinated!
Steve Balance, longtime NMC Faculty Member, has been honored by having a number of his photographs published in the magazine Diffusion, Unconventional Photography (Annual Volume IV, 2012).
Steve was awarded Honorable Mention for his work titled Selena, a photopolymer gravure print from an original Polaroid transfer.
He is a retired faculty member and presently teaches courses in digital photography, art appreciation and 2-D design here at NMC, while maintaining his photography studio in Traverse City.
Through the generous support of people like you, the Annual Campaign has become one of the leading sources of funding for NMC scholarships. Last year, faculty and staff contributions raised more than $34,000 which helped provide scholarships to more than 500 students and helped meet the need of student programs and services campus wide.
Each scholarship awarded provides another opportunity for a student to grow their dream. Every scholarship recipient’s financial burden is eased because you care enough to give. Your gifts to the Annual Campaign make it possible for more graduation gowns to be worn, more degrees to be obtained, and more lives to be changed through the power of achieving higher education.
You can give online at nmc.edu/give today or you can enroll in payroll deduction and have your monthly gift automatically deducted from your paycheck. Simply fill out the payroll deduction form you received and return it to the Foundation.
Please consider a gift and help today’s learners grow into tomorrow’s givers.
NMC’s Lean Champion training program is featured in the Grand Traverse Insider.
Be a HERO ~ Make an Impact ~ Live United
We are at 46% of our $5,000 goal for the 2012 United Way Campaign! Thanks to some generous employees, we have raised $2,292 so far! Please consider a gift today.
Remember – you can donate to the NMC Annual Campaign through United Way by simply designating your gift to NMC on the United Way donation form.
Kudos to the Dental Assisting Class and Staff for collecting over 900 items for our BUS 231 class project, Food for Thought.
We hope you enjoy your Spaghetti Jim’s and we thank you for your help!
Kudos to Phil McCuien, for going above and beyond to help the BUS 231 class with our project! It was a freezing cold day and you did everything you could to help us with our trailer! Thank you for being so helpful and for going the extra mile!
Kudos to Sue DeCamillis, MaryAnn Linsell, Jeff Straw and Tom Willson for coming to help the BUS 231 class unload two trailers of food donated to our food drive. It would have taken us all day had you not taken the time from your busy schedules to help. The students were excited to see you there! Thank you for being such awesome people to work with!