Happy Friday! A little shorter update this week, since Paul, Sarah and Leslie were at the OCVA People’s Coast Summit.

 

Speaking of that event, we hope you’ve been checking out our various social media feeds for updates (Stacie did yeoman’s work on our feeds during the event) – it truly was an (unexpected) “EDALC in the spotlight” couple of days. Some of the EDALCish highlights:

 

  • Paul presented a great opening keynote talk (and facilitated a panel discussion), using his Deck of Lenses thinking tool to look at the coastal tourism industry
  • Northwest Oregon Works presented a “big check” to OCVA for year-two of their seafood butchery program in Oregon high schools – a program that EDALC funded for the year-one pilot
  • During the two-standing-ovation evening keynote on “Indigenous Perspectives on Tourism,” EDALC was highlighted as an example of the right way for an organization to collaborate with a tribal entity, putting relationship building first (from Lisa Norton of CTSI)
  • In Wednesday’s “Leveraging Arts and Culture for Community and Economic Growth” keynote, Mayor Rod Cross was one of the three speakers, and he made the EDALC team stand up as he told the attendees how essential EDALC has been in the success of the ART Toledo initiative

 

It was a great boost to the entire team to be recognized for our good work coast-wide!

 

Upcoming: Paul will be out of the office next Friday and the following Monday – he’ll be traveling to Seattle for the Game Designers Workshop conference at the (in)famous Edgewater Inn (the first in-person GDW since the pandemic). At the conference, Paul will be presenting on his latest work to use game design principles to enhance organizational and governmental strategic planning.

 

Here’s our update for the week:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • Cascades West COG – Today, EDALC was supposed to hear back on our proposal for CWEDD Innovation Hub work – an email did come in stating that it would be early next week before a final answer, but things do look good for our bid.
  • CWEDD Regional Meeting – Sarah put together a punchbowl invite for the CWEDD regional meeting in Corvallis at the end of the month. 
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Oregon Maritime Energy LLC – Midweek, OME received confirmation of their Phase One STTR grant submission: Your proposal entitled, “C59-13a In Silico Technology for Improved Data Analytics and Multi-omics Integration in Bioprocessing Systems,” has been received by the DOE Office of Science. This is part of the green methanol work funded by EDALC’s Blue Economy CDS grant.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • FailFest – This week, the team locked down the full complement of five presenters for the October 24th event. EDALC’s own Jason Holland will be stepping into the role of emcee! Leslie is in possession of the very fun centerpieces.
  • Broadband
      • BEAD – The whole state is eagerly awaiting the delayed opening of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment pre-qualification portal (still no hard date published). If you remember, this infrastructure program must address an entire school district as the region covered in an application. For Lincoln County, that means coordinating multiple ISPs and having some pan-county governmental overarching applicant. Paul reached out to both LCSD and Lincoln County to see if they would want to meet to discuss what pre-qualification and an application might look like. CTSI’s Lisa Norton  also met with the EDALC team to discuss their support for any county-wide application.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and checked old ones to make sure they were still active. 
  • Community Connecting
    • Café Resource at the Oregon Coast Aquarium – To say this event was a success may be an understatement… Last Sunday evening, this collaborative effort connected almost 400 people in one of the most inspirational and wonder-filled venues in Lincoln County! 

The check-in table gathered sign-ins from 198 community members, who brought along an estimated 100 children. 22 organizations were represented at resource tables, bringing over 50 bilingual representatives to share information and resources with community members. 

A giant thank you goes out to the Oregon Coast Aquarium Team who made this all possible: CEO (and EDALC Board President) Carrie Lewis; Director of Education, Kerry Carlin-Morgan, Ph.D; Catering and Events Manager, Lisa White; Director of Marketing and Visitor Services, Jeremy Burke; and all the other Staff and Volunteers who were astounding in their support and accommodations on Sunday. 

  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Stacie completed 75% of the Q3 media report, posted relevant partner content to social media, hyped the team’s attendance at the OCVA conference, promoted Fail Fest, completed Friday community roundup, and completed branding updates for the website.
        • Sarah and Stacie began working on their sections of the Fall 2024 newsletter.
  • Admin
      • Team Meeting – For this week’s bi-weekly meeting, the team met at the Nye Beach Tap House and focused on work and events within the upcoming two weeks.

 

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, and don’t be stingy with your ideas – we love hearing from you! Also, it’s nearly time for the Fall EDALC Newsletter to hit the digital airwaves – if there’s something you want us to include, let the team know by the end of the day 10/16.

 

Cheers,

 

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