Greetings and welcome to yet another damp Friday! It was a busy week at the EDALC offices with Summit wrap up, getting the 2025 CTSI Pow-Wow sponsorships on the Take Action Lincoln County website and working on the final report for our Ford Family Foundation grant (that provides funds for Leslie’s Community Connector salary and work). And perhaps one too many Cascades West Innovation Hub meetings!

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
      • COG Loan Review – Paul reviewed a new loan packet for a startup business to sell custom-made rodeo apparel online.
      • CWEDD – The quarterly CWEDD Board meeting will be in Lincoln County on June 12th (they moved the Lincoln County date from November to June so the weather might be better). The team brainstormed ideas and settled on the Aquarium “shark tank” conference room, and got that locked in. We LOVE showing off Lincoln County’s awesome assets!
      • Yachats – Paul met with City Manager Bobbi Price at Yachats City Hall this week to review the final design of the municipal budget game we are creating. Paul also finished up his programming tests – he’ll work this weekend to code a close-to-complete prototype of the web-based game. The EDALC team will be working with Yachats City staff to deliver a community engagement budget experience on Wednesday, April 23rd.
  • Take Action Lincoln County – Paul, Leslie and Stacie built this year’s donation portal (read: online store). After receiving feedback from CTSI the site will be live and Tribal members will have early access to sponsor dance awards for the month of April. The opportunity will be shared with the general public beginning mid-May.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • O2IH Website – Stacie and Sarah drafted content for the O2IH website and met with Shawn today to review his updates and next steps. We expect to wrap the project up by the end of April.
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Paul, Sarah, and Stacie had a check-in with Susan Patterson on Monday, and met with the full subcontractor team today to discuss the Innovation Hub portion of the Willamette Valley Biotech Showcase in Lebanon on April 16th. 
      • Rural Opportunity Initiative – Paul had the quarterly check-in with Brian Plinski, director of the Rural Opportunity Initiative program for Business Oregon. They discussed progress, available consulting hours and BizOR/ROI anticipated funding for the next biennium. Brian told Paul: “We even had a slide in our presentation to the legislature dedicated to getting Paul more money!”
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Economic Summit Follow-Up – Sarah finished up the thank you cards, the team all signed them and got them sent out. She also edited and exported all the pillars of the economy videos so the organizations that participated can use them for their own marketing and outreach.
  • Oregon Prospector – Sarah added lots of new listings onto Oregon Prospector and checked old ones, we’re now up to 76 listings!
  • Community Connecting
  • Feedback Requested – Unless you act very soon, it will be too late to add your feedback to The Ford Family Foundation’s Grant Report which is almost complete. However, your feedback on the Community Connector’s impact on your work will also be extremely helpful for upcoming funding requests, Community Connector Priority Planning, and to future Ripple Effect Mapping projects. Please add your feedback to be included here: https://tinyurl.com/CCfeedbackEDALC2025  
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication Stacie posted Friday community roundup and shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels.
  • Admin
  • Fund Development – Paul continued to set up funder meetings (and had one this week with Yachats as a potential new funder).
  • Team Meeting – The team checked out the wonderful Allred lobby bar for our meeting this week. The views are great (so are their deviled egg flights and pork dumplings)!
        • The team also began brainstorming the anticipated annual meeting of EDALC and YBEF and sent out some initial location queries.

 

Reminder: the April EDALC Board of Directors meeting will be on Thursday, April 3rd, via Zoom. This meeting will be a shortened meeting, starting at 4:15pm (the plan is to still go until 5pm). Oregon Public Broadcasting’s new statewide director will be in Lincoln County that day and will be holding a listening session from 2-4pm, and I know several Directors will be attending – hence the later start time. 

 

If you are going to be at the OPB event, we’ve reserved MSB 204 in the Gladys Valley building – the conference room on the second floor next to Bob’s office – to gather for the Zoom meeting. As a reminder – here’s the Zoom link:

 

Topic: EDALC April BoD meeting (short)

Time: Apr 3, 2025 04:15 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=83501908604

 

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, and don’t be stingy with your ideas – we love hearing from you!

 

Cheers,

 

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