Greetings and welcome to a sunny, gorgeous November Friday! 

 

First off, a huge thank you to the Directors who could make it to yesterday’s Board meeting – and also a huge thank you goes out to Jim Rennard (Pioneer Cooperative) and Lisa Norton (CTSI) for sharing news of their incoming broadband infrastructure awards – so amazing to see that level of funding coming into Lincoln County!

 

Here’s the EDALC team update for the week:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • OCCC – This week, Paul attended the Oregon Community College Association annual conference (held this year at Salishan). He learned about many different aspects of community college governance, community engagement and industry relations. He also got to spend some quality networking time with incoming OCCC president Marshal Roache.
      • CWEDD – Paul worked with the CWEDD staff this week to nail down next week’s full board meeting – to be held in Lincoln County at the Central Coast Food Web. EDALC also received word that the COG finalized and signed their contract with Business Oregon for the next phase of the Cascades West Innovation Hub – EDALC will be under contract to develop the operating framework and governance model for the hub.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
  • Stacie managed inquiries and submissions re: O2IH website RFP.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Fail Fest – Sarah finished editing and uploaded the Fail Fest video onto the EDALC youtube page. If you are interested please check out the video here: https://youtu.be/q9pgkFq0Yyg?feature=shared
      • ROI – Paul completed the required interim report for EDALC’s ROI grant and submitted it to Business Oregon.
      • YEP & Beyond – Paul and Greg met on Wednesday to talk about year two of the YEP (Youth Entrepreneurship Program), the final pitch event and the SBDC helping EDALC put together a “grown up” pitch event in Lincoln County.
  • Core Economic Development Services
  • ComEcDev Grant Program – Paul and Sarah facilitated the grant workshop on Monday. Afterwards, Sarah edited and uploaded the recording onto the EDALC youtube page and updated the grant resources webpage. Paul also worked with Ken Lipp at the county to get a stand-along grant page rolling.
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings and checked old ones to make sure they were still active.
  • Lincoln County Economic Summit & YEP – Sarah began some initial economic summit and youth entrepreneurship program planning and reached out to the potential locations for both events. 
  • Community Connecting
  • Juntos en Colaboración Core Team Monthly Meeting – This month’s meeting started by sharing how everyone was doing and how they’re taking care of themselves after the election results. Then everyone shared the efforts they’re most proud of over the past year, what efforts they want to work on in the years ahead, and how folks can help those efforts. For anyone following these Juntos en Colaboración updates, it’s probably not a surprise that the community wants both the Café Resources and the Tacíta de Cafés to continue, so the next phases include finding community partners willing to contribute in-kind (venues, food, kids activities), and funders to keep the successful gatherings going in the years ahead. If your organization is interested in learning more or joining the growing Café Resource partner list, please let Leslie know!
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Stacie shared the EDALC brand guidelines and Q3 media report in the 11/7 board meeting, worked on website updates, created posts for SEDCOR webinar,  shared relevant partner posts in fb/ig stories on Friday as usual, and scheduled Veterans Day posts.
  • Project Work
        • Economic Vitality Report Card – Sarah put together the economic vitality report card and county profile update into a document that will be ready with some additional graphic design work. 
        • Stacie updated projects in Monday.com and worked on a new Events board for the summit.
  • Admin
      • Paul spent quite a few hours in QuickBooks (EDALC’s accountant did not deliver the timely support we were expecting) to get the Blue Economy CDS monies to report properly in EDALC’s balance sheet – and he did manage to get it to work.
      • The team convened in the office for our biweekly team meeting. There’s a LOT of interesting project work on the horizon!

 

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!

 

Cheers,

 

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