• Idlewild, Michigan Transformation Initiative
The Idlewild, Michigan Transformation Initiative is a partnership initiative established by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm in 2007 to "create jobs, build a thriving community and ensure a bright future for Idlewild". It is anticipated that the initiative will also prove beneficial to the Lake County region as a whole. The initiative is collaboratively led by the Department of History, Arts and Libraries, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and representatives of Yates Township and Idlewild, Michigan.

• Idlewild Transformation Initiative Update 
Idlewild Transformation Initiative Update

• Transformation Toolbox
Networked resources (i.e., funding and services) that may be available to support the master plan and Partnership implementation.

• Planning Assistance Team
Serves as a sub-committee to the Inter-Agency transforamation Team focused on Idlewild master plan development, offering planning oversight, technical assistance and resources (i.e., funding and services) to Yates Township and/or the Transformation Partnership.

• Inter-Agency Transformation Team
Serves as a forum for state agency discussion, policy implementation and development, collaboration and programming/services synergy.

• Transformation Partnership Facilitators
(State Agency Captain, Local Community Captain, and Agency Co-Leaders) Facilitate Transformation Partnership activities.

• Transformation Partnership
Serves as a forum for "on-the-ground" planning and soliciting transformative projects, formulating requests for resources (i.e., funding and services) from state agencies/departments and other partners, and performance measurement.

• Transformation Committees
Community and Partnershop Representatives. Serves as a forum for highly-focused "on-the-ground" dialogue, needs assessment, and planning as sub-committees to the Transformation Partnership.

• Transformation Partnership Facilitators

• USDA Forest Service