Category: Announcements
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Call for Presentation Proposals Now Open – Share Your Expertise at re:con 2026!
Re:con 2026 is looking for engaging presenters ready to share their knowledge, experience, and ideas with professionals across the human services and nonprofit sectors. Do you have an innovative approach, a successful program, a leadership strategy, or practical tools that could help others create meaningful change? We want to hear from you! Re:con brings together professionals, educators,…
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Take Advantage of our re:con Early Bird Pricing
Registration is officially open for re:con, and Incompass Michigan members are encouraged to take advantage of exclusive early-bird pricing before the discount ends on August 12. Held November 18–20 at the Grand Traverse Resort, re:con brings together professionals, educators, advocates, and leaders from across Michigan’s human services and nonprofit sectors for three days of learning, collaboration, and inspiration. Attendees will discover innovative ideas, explore emerging…
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2025 Annual Report
Through advocacy, innovation, education and leadership development, Incompass Michigan empowers our members to achieve their mission. Our innovation focus in 2025 included the successful launch of the Center for Social Enterprise Development, providing eight months of intensive training and technical assistance on financing, marketing, business acumen, and legal strategies specific to social enterprises – ensuring…
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Action Alert from Incompass Michigan and MALA:
Contact Your Legislators to Address Direct Care Wage Funding Shortfall The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) recently issued a Memorandum indicating that all qualifying direct care workers (DCWs) should becompensated, prior to overtime consideration, at least $17.13 per hour beginning January 1, 2026. DCWs clearly deserve higher wages. However, the MDHHS memo places the onus of compensation at that wage level on…
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Welcome new associate member, Dani Plan!
Dani Plan is a centralized hub to help consolidate and organize all of the information needed to care for someone with a disability! We ensure seamless transitions and dignity for individuals with a disability and provide peace of mind for the people that care for them. Learn more here: https://daniplan.com/
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Incompass Michigan and MALA Reaffirm Commitment to Collaboration
Incompass Michigan and Michigan Assisted Living Association (MALA) are pleased to reaffirm continuation of their collaborative efforts. For over a decade, collaboration has included working together on key statewide issues with importance to both associations, including: behavioral health system design, funding for behavioral health services, direct care worker wages, and Home and Community Based Services…
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Incompass Michigan Awarded in 2026 MIOSHA Grant
We’re proud to announce that Incompass Michigan has been awarded a 2026 grant from MIOSHA to deliver neurodiversity-conscious workplace safety training across Michigan. This funding will help ensure that workers with intellectual/developmental disabilities, autism, and other neurodivergent conditions receive safety training tailored to their communication and learning needs. You can learn more about the grant…
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2025 Holiday Shopping Guide
Featuring Michigan Based Social Enterprises Social Enterprises serve as pivotal agents of change, adeptly addressing pressing social challenges while simultaneously fostering job creation, spurring economic advancement, and fortifying community resilience. They are revenue-generating businesses with a mission, using their profits and business practices to address a societal need. Social enterprises focus on generating revenue from…
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Member Food Drive Challenge
Incompass Michigan is launching an inaugural Food Drive Challenge for our members to support their local food banks before the Holiday season approaches. Members will have until Friday, December 5 to raise as many non-perishable food items as possible. The member organization that raises the most donations, in pounds, will win a custom trophy and bragging rights until the 2026 Challenge. A list of high demand items can be…
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Center for Social Enterprise Development kicks off first Social Enterprise Collective
New program is helping organizations with social missions find lasting success and connect more Michiganders with employment opportunities Twenty-nine Michigan-based organizations with a social or community-based mission are participating in the first collective of its kind, receiving resources to aid in their growth, thanks to a new program offered jointly by the Small Business Association…