Epicenter | Mt. Pleasant, MI | 2018
Community stakeholder meetings helped launch Epicenter in 2018, sparked by the news of Catalyst Midland and Route Bay City.
The invitation to expand into Mt. Pleasant resulted from the same IMG presentation that sparked Catalyst Midland and Route Bay City. After sharing IMG’s style with a roundtable of Community Foundation CEOs at the invitation of the Community Foundation for St. Clair County (A Keel partner), the Mt Pleasant Area Community Foundation invited IMG to present to a series of community stakeholder meetings, resulting in the launch of Epicenter in 2018.
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