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2026 Michigan’s Creative Coast Sponsorships

Michigan’s Creative Coast is a talent attraction initiative that highlights the Grand Traverse Region as an exceptional place to live, explore, and fulfill your career. Our mission is to advance the economic vitality of the Grand Traverse Region by elevating its innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem; attracting new people, new ideas, and new businesses; and placing our region on the map as an attractive career destination.

Michigan’s Creative Coast inspires professionals from across the country and beyond to make the move to northern Michigan and places the Grand Traverse Region on the map as a recognizable career and lifestyle destination.

Contact Abby Baudry to secure your company’s Michigan’s Creative Coast sponsorship…

The Michigan’s Creative Coast Job Board is a high-quality and curated showcase of key employers and family-sustaining job opportunities available in the Grand Traverse region. Curation of the job board is defined around pay rate parameters to ensure alignment with Traverse Connect’s mission which is to encourage the growth of family-sustaining careers in the Grand Traverse Region. The Job Board is consistently the second-most visited page behind the Michigan’s Creative Coast home page.  

Presenting Sponsor will receive: 

  • Recognition as Presenting Sponsor of the Michigan’s Creative Coast Job Board with placement of Sponsor’s logo (with hyperlink*) on the Job Board webpage. 
  • Sponsor logo added to every Michigan’s Creative Coast newsletter job board roundup (1500+ subscribers, sent once/month). 
  • Regular recognition in Traverse Connect weekly newsletter (6,000+ subscribers), when the Michigan’s Creative Coast job board is featured, at least once per month. 
  • Recognition and promotion in Michigan’s Creative Coast social media outlets (Instagram, Facebook), as well as mentions on Traverse Connect social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn). 

*Note that we ask Sponsor to provide us with a unique tracking URL which we may use to link back to the sponsor’s website. This will ensure the Sponsor can track and record the number of views and hits their website is receiving as a result of Sponsorship of Michigan’s Creative Coast. 

The Housing & Real Estate webpage is nested under the ‘Living Here’ section of michiganscreativecoast.com. It can be accessed via the homepage ‘Make Your Life Here’ button or via the website hamburger menu. The intent is to inform newcomers of the variety of options available to them depending on their lifestyle need upon relocating to the area and to provide resources for home buyers and renters such as real estate agencies and rental home providers.  

Housing & Real Estate Page Sponsor will receive:  

  • Recognition as Housing & Real Estate Page Sponsor via addition of Sponsor’s logo (with hyperlink)*, bio and about information, headshot and imagery, video content (optional) to webpage.   
  • Special recognition on Michigan’s Creative Coast social media outlets (Instagram, Facebook) via:  
    • Two (2) unique shoutout post featuring sponsor two times per year. 
    • Special mention as a sponsor via four (4) Housing & Real Estate webpage highlight posts per year.   
  • Two (2) features in Michigan’s Creative Coast newsletter (1500+ subscribers, including newcomers and people interested in relocating to the Grand Traverse region) per year.

*Note that we ask Sponsor to provide us with a unique tracking URL which we may use to link back to the sponsor’s website. This will ensure the Sponsor can track and record the number of views and hits their website is receiving as a result of Sponsorship of Michigan’s Creative Coast.