Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like we may be into some pleasant weather – are your grills ready?

 

From April 13 through 15th, Paul will be attending the Nonprofit Leaders Conference in Ashland – his attendance is paid for by Business Oregon’s Rural Opportunity Initiative program. Mid-week, Leslie will be trekking to both Portland and Salem to advocate for our rural communities. Next Wednesday, Paul, Sarah and Stacie will be heading to Lebanon for a BioTech Showcase event (https://www.raincatalysts.org/biotech-showcase) – this is one of the first events that is coming out of the Cascades West Innovation Hub. Paul will be delivering the opening remarks.

 

Also, next week EDALC’s Spring newsletter will go out – Stacie’s been doing the lion’s share of that work. Reach out to Stacie if there’s anything you want to add (by Monday, please).

 

Here’s our weekly team update:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support
      • ART Toledo – Sarah met with Lisa from the city of Toledo to get started planning ART Toledo’s summer events for this year.
      • CCFW – Sarah attended the CCFW quarterly board meeting on Tuesday.
  • City of Newport – Sarah worked on putting together some data points on Oregon Prospector listings and EDALC’s projects and events that were in Newport to provide to the City of Newport about the organization’s impact.
      • Yachats – Paul worked with Bobbi Price to lock down the “budget scenario” for the budgeting game EDALC is creating for the April 23rd event. The team continued to add budget “cards” to the spreadsheet – the goal is to create 50 budget scenario cards that the players can use to make budget priority decisions.
      • Newport Chamber – Stacie, Sarah, and Paul attended the Newport Chamber Lunch at Local Ocean on Wednesday.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • NOAA Young Fishermen’s Career Development Grant – Paul met several times with Rural Prosperity Partners and other partners (OCCC, OSU/Sea Grant, Tillamook Coast Visitors Association) to work through the logistics of submitting a collaborative grant application (due at the end of April).
  • O2IH Website – Stacie worked on the Kumu resource map this week. Sarah and Stacie met with Shawn today to go over resource page content updates and training plans. We are still on track to wrap up this project (Component A – a minimally viable oregon blue economy website) at the end of April. Component B timing is TBD. 
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Paul completed work on a draft operational and governance model report for the CWIH – Stacie and Sarah helped edit, arrange and polish this document before it was sent off to the other core CWIH partners.
      • ROI Video Project – Paul and Sarah met with Adolfo of TZOM Films (https://www.tzomfilms.com/) to discuss the upcoming ROI video project (EDALC was awarded a grant in late February for this work). The team needs to work through some questions from TZOM to help distill an overall structure for the video, which will most likely be shot in May.
  • YEP – Sarah created an eventbrite for the Youth Entrepreneurship Program pitch event happening on May 7th and will be working on more marketing early next week.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Enterprise Zone – Paul had the required annual meeting with CJ Hurtt at the county assessors office to discuss active and potential exemptions. Paul also updated CJ on the efforts to create a new “Lincoln County Resort Enterprise Zone” and introduced him to the cPACE incentive program.
      • Lincoln County Economic Report Update – Paul and Sarah met with Shannon Davis and Hans Radke of The Research Group to walk through the 80% complete initial draft of the updated report – they all shared ideas for improvement and areas for more clarity and deeper dive – all in all, it’s excellent work and should be wrapping up in May.
  • Community Connecting
  • Rural Community Builders Collective (RCBC) Meeting – Leslie doesn’t think this cohort could have packed more inspirational, forward-thinking, Rural Community Building Approach-selling stories and solutions into a 90 (ok, maybe 110) minute meeting. Pairing emergent brainstorming on what future RCBC legislation/policy advocacy and action can look like (for the benefit of all serving and living in Rural Oregon) with stories of success in rural youth, family, and educational programs throughout the Collective’s network made a huge impact on our members and RCBC newcomers, Tim Inman, Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at TFFF, and Janet Soto Rodriguez, Deputy Director of Foundations for a Better Oregon. Kelley Consulting will assist with the compilation of the success stories shared yesterday into a guide for the public to learn more about how the RCB Approach and our Collaborative impact Rural Oregon in system-shifting and surprisingly cost-efficient ways!
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
        • Stacie posted Friday community roundup and shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels.
        • Team completed newsletter content. Stacie will test and send it early next week.
        • Sarah put together some contact information for businesses in the county that will potentially be impacted by the tariffs for a news story that Business Oregon reached out to EDALC about.
  • Admin
  • Team Meeting – The team held their bi-weekly meeting to discuss upcoming work and priorities – once again, they met at the Allred – what an amazing space!

 

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)