Greetings and welcome to the first Friday in December! Can you believe it?!? And snowy in places – crazy!
Here’s our EDALC update for the week:
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Blue Economy/O2IH::
This week, Sarah and I met with Matt Batchelor, OCCC’s new career connected learning specialist. We learned a bit more about what he’ll be doing coordinating CTE offerings at both LCSD and OCCC. We also discussed our upcoming DACUM process and the research that we want to do to help determine needed Blue career pathway certifications and micro credentials. – Paul
On Monday, I created a list of additional Blue Economy assets from my larger list for the Eastern Research Group to possibly include in their upcoming Blue economy study. I read the Oregon Emerging Industries RFP White Paper, Oregon’s Blue Economy: Ocean Resources Sectors. – Sarah
Communication/Marketing::
In a few weeks, we’ll be sending out our holiday EDALC newsletter. Please let us know if there is anything you’d like us to include. – Paul
On Monday, I posted the informational video about the Community and Economic Development Grant on the EDALC Facebook page. – Sarah
I created and scheduled a MailChimp newsletter about the Community and Economic Development Grant application deadline and workshop video that will go out next Monday. – Sarah
On Friday, I created and began to edit a holiday Mailchimp newsletter. – Sarah
Community Connecting::
I’m nearly at the halfway point of my pilot position, and I am so grateful for all it has already allowed me to join. Here are just few collaboration highlights from November, and the first two days of December, 2022. As always, I’ve included links for folks who would like to dive deeper into these efforts. – Leslie
Here is the link to Leslie’s full report and a recap of her November work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-_3vspzCmUFHNvEyOPE-fYUBLfgCs2s2gIP_dk9Skg/edit?usp=sharing
Community and Economic Development Grant::
On Tuesday afternoon, all EDALC staff (along with Commissioner Jacobson) helped to facilitate a virtual grant workshop via Zoom. We had 22 signups and it was a full and information-rich hour – we got some great comments back. We also posted a video of the workshop online. If folks couldn’t make the live workshop, they can watch the video and answer a few questions (to assure they watched it) to get partial credit on their applications. – Paul
On Monday, I created the agenda and prepared what I was going to say for the grant workshop. I added some additional resources to the “Grant Resources” page on the EDALC website and participated in the grant workshop on Tuesday. On Thursday, I added the recording of the grant workshop to the “Grant Resources” page. – Sarah
FYI, both Sarah and Leslie were AWESOME during Tuesday’s workshop! – Paul 🙂
Creative Economies::
I spent some time researching and trying to implement an old-school listserv on our Bluehost hosting account – which could be a great too for ART Toledo, our O2IH work and growing our entrepreneurial community. I wasn’t 100% successful, so I’ll need to do some more tests next week or look at other options. Our team has started using Slack for remote working days… perhaps that or Discord could be a tool as well. – Paul
This week for the ART Toledo website, I added the new Phantom Gallery application and Art Vendor Guidelines, I updated some features on the website to make links more readable, and I added all the new profiles for this upcoming round of Phantom Gallery artists. – Sarah
I posted a promotional post for the new phantom gallery artist on our Facebook page on Friday. – Sarah
Organizational Development::
I spent a good chunk of yesterday, before I did our monthly financial reports, tweaking the account categories on QuickBooks. I think I’ve got it so that our reports now more clearly show our operational budget, income and expenses and make the Blue economy congressional directed spending grant less of a distraction in those reports. I shot them off to Michael for his feedback as well. – Paul
I cleaned up and finished the minutes from November’s Board meeting on Thursday and Friday. – Sarah
Our Communities::
Yachats – On Wednesday, I trekked down to Yachats to spend a very productive three-hour meeting with Bobbi Price, the new Executive Director of the Yachats Chamber of Commerce. We came up with some great ways that we can collaborate in the months ahead that align very well with both our organizational goals. – Paul
Project Work::
I updated the “opportunities for entrepreneurs” slider on the EDALC website on Tuesday and Thursday. – Sarah
I added to the Average Rent for Commercial Buildings in Lincoln County spreadsheet on Wednesday and Friday. – Sarah
I updated Oregon Prospector listings on Friday. – Sarah
Holiday Staff Time Off::
Leslie will be off on a Caribbean cruise from 12/3 through 12/12. Sun and fun!
Sarah will be off to Italy and Switzerland from 12/25 through 1/10. Tasty Italian food and the Alps in wintertime!
I’ll be hanging local for the holidays, but will be taking a few chunks of days off – we’ll get those nailed down early next week (Susan and I are exploring taking the train to Seattle for a few days!).
FYI – there is no EDALC BoD meeting in December.
As a reminder – your Board of Directors resource page is here:
Thanks for ALL that you are doing out there! Please reach out to me if you need anything at all. Have a wonderful weekend!
Cheers,
-Paul 🙂