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ACTIVATE Magazine

A magazine created to share stories, educate readers, and share opportunities to start and grow your business.

ACTIVATE MAGAZINE

A magazine created to share stories, educate readers, and share opportunities to start and grow your business.

Read Our Latest Issue

Our latest issue of ACTIVATE Magazine is focused on one key idea: fueling transformation.

This issue dives into one of our key financing tools – the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program – and how it’s helping transform communities across ND that need it most. From insights from our team, local lenders, businesses, and communities leaders that have utilized the program, to expert interviews, real life stories, and everything in between, you’ll get a good idea of the power of this program and how it helps communities and businesses throughout ND and beyond.

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ACTIVATE Magazine Articles

Red Door Pediatric Therapy

Red Door Pediatric Therapy

Featured in  Heather Arnt and Kelli Ellenbaum had been joking about starting their own private practice since they met as freshman at the University...

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Green Flag

Green Flag

Featured in “A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” – Shawn Hitchcock Ania Bartkowiak’s journey began...

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