Greetings and welcome to a sunny, chilly Friday!

 

This week was the final class of the Small Business Management course for Nonprofits. The topic was an overview of legal issues nonprofits need to be familiar with. Hats off to our SBDC for putting together such an excellent course with so many talented and qualified instructors (Paul says “Five stars – would recommend!”). Paul learned a lot, but also came away feeling like EDALC is doing a lot of things right.

 

Remember that next Tuesday is our Cascades West Innovation Hub event: Fueling Growth: How Lincoln County Service Providers Can Support Innovation. If your schedule allows, please join us! As a tasty treat reminder –  Sarah will be making breakfast charcuterie! Here’s a link to the free registration:

 

https://bit.ly/LincolnCountyFuelingGrowth

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • CCFW – Sarah had a meeting with Jim King at CCFW about developing an implementation plan for their new strategic plan and met with someone interested in joining the CCFW board.
      • Port of Newport – Leslie and Paul met with Paula and some of her port team on Tuesday. Paul and Paula discussed potential competing EDA grant applications which they sorted out, and Leslie presented a well-researched slide deck of potential future “higher and best” uses for the Rogue buildings. There will be a follow up meeting soon adding CCFW and the Newport Chamber to the discussions.
  • Economic Mobility
      • Cohort Call – This week, all of the ICMA’s Economic Mobility and Opportunity cohorts (14 communities from Newport to Vermont) met online to reconnect, meet the new EMO practitioners and discuss training opportunities over the rest of the year (including a full cohort gathering in Washington, DC in August). Paul, Allyson and Nina attended, representing Newport.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Stacie continued to market next Tuesday’s event, and coordinated with OCCC on venue details. Paul sent direct invites to all Lincoln County Chamber directors and finished up the discussion questions and sent them off to the panelists.
  • Broadband
      • BAT – This week was the monthly Broadband Action Team meeting. So far, the NTIA has approved 26 state’s BEAD proposals. Their deadline for completing the BEAD proposals was December 22nd, but like many federal deadlines these days, it seems like it was a guideline, not a rule. There is also a potential congressional challenge to the entire BEAD program – it seems that congress must authorize any substantive rules changes made by the NTIA. It looks like the NTIA is just moving ahead without approval – we’ll keep you posted on this as it develops.
  • Core Economic Development Services
  • 2026 Lincoln County Economic Report Update – Sarah created a draft webpage for the updated Lincoln County Economic Report, which will be widely shared after the Economic Summit.
      • 2026 Lincoln County Economic Summit – Sarah worked on summit speaker invites and coordination, the eventbrite email campaign, venue coordination, and updated the EDALC website. Stacie finalized the sponsorship package formatting and sponsor invitation email, facilitated contract changes with the event photographer, created social media graphics, and posted the registration announcement to all platforms. If you’d like to attend the event, please reserve your tickets using the link here: tinyurl.com/2026LCSummit Be sure to use promo code EDALCBoard to get your tickets for free!
      • Community and Economic Development Grant Program – The Board recommendations will be going before the Board of Commissioners at their February 4th meeting. Paul organized the recommendations into a spiffy single page document that will be included in the packet for the meeting.
      • EDA Disaster Supplemental Grant – Paul met with the Rural Prosperity Partners team to review the narrative and draft budget. Paul added some budget details and got those off to RPP’s grant writer today.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and added new ones.
  • Community Connecting
  • Take Action Lincoln County (TALC) 2026 Communications & Planning – This week’s emails with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians’ (CTSI) Cultural Education Manager, AJ Warren, rekindled this year’s planning process. Leslie learned that CTSI will split the TALC project costs this year, as EDALC had proposed in a project contract last year (woo hoo!). Stacie and Leslie have started communicating about the start-up meeting, Monday.com 2026 plan updates, and other steps for this year’s online Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow Dance Award Sponsorships on TALC. 
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
        • Sarah did some research and testing on how to utilize the new mics EDALC got for their DJI cameras.
        • Stacie managed social media and ran out of time to work on the newsletter given the short week
  • Project Work
        • Stacie updated project boards as needed.
  • Admins
      • Stacie attended Leadership Lincoln at Chinook Winds on Wednesday.

 

Reminder: EDALC’s February Board of Directors meeting will be Thursday, February 5th at 3:30pm, via Zoom. Here is the Zoom link:

 

Topic: February EDALC BoD Meeting

Time: Feb 5, 2025 03:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=89714415175

 

Meeting ID: 917 810 4987

Passcode: 0NyksK

 

That’s it for this week – thanks for ALL that you are doing out there. Keep us posted if you have anything you want us to share – we love hearing from you! Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Cheers,

 

-The EDALC Team (Paul, Sarah, Leslie and Stacie)