Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to the first day in August (how’d THAT happen?)!

 

This weekend is the 5th annual Art, Oysters & Brews event – Saturday and Sunday from noon-5pm both days (on Toledo’s Main Street). Given some of the staff changeover at the City of Toledo, the EDALC team (especially Sarah!) has been doing the majority of the event planning as well as work at the event this weekend. If you get a chance to come out, please do – the food is great (oysters AND clams this year!), the brew cold and the music hot – plus great activities for kids and, as always, amazing artists showing off their talents. Also, the event winds down with Johnny Wheels and the Swamp Donkeys at 3:30pm on Sunday – they were a finalist in the International Blues Challenge and are a force to be reckoned with (if you know… you know!).

 

Since the whole team is working all weekend, we’re closing the EDALC offices on Monday for some staff R&R and a chance for us to catch our breath.

 

Here’s the team update for this week:

 

    • Partner Support/Community Support 
  • ART Toledo – Sarah and Stacie attended ART Toledo meeting on 7/30 to finalize details and coordinate volunteers. Stacie created the final AOB social media post and signage for Chalk the Block. Sarah managed last-minute vendor sign ups and communications with City staff.
  • CCFW – Sarah had a meeting with Jim and Andrew from CCFW regarding their upcoming fundraising campaign.
      • CWEDD – EDALC was asked to do an information video on the Comprehensive Economic Development Plan update (as well as some content on the EDD) – next week, staff will put together a short proposal for this $5,000 project.
      • Newport – Paul was informed earlier this week (by City Manager Nina Vetter) that Newport was awarded their ICMA Economic Mobility Special Assistant Grant (our team helped with some ideation and reviewed the grant proposal). Over the coming months, we’ll collaborate with the City (and the new hire funded by this award) on this work.
      • Creative Economies Playbook for Lincoln County (funded by Northwest Oregon Works) Stacie researched creative economy friendly municipal ordinances.
  • Blue Economy/O2IH
      • Stacie worked on blog ideas and spent a good amount of time reviewing blue economy resources to ensure equal attention is given to north, central and south coast organizations, innovations etc. She also resolved an issue with the kumu.io resource map.
  • Entrepreneurship
      • Cascades West Innovation Hub – Paul was informed early this week that Business Oregon awarded the Cascades West Innovation Hub $400,000 over two years to do hub work. The grant application was largely based on our contracted work with the COG on the operational structure of the CWIH. EDALC expects to be a key advisory team partner and work as a subcontractor for Lincoln County innovation support.
      • Rural Opportunity Initiative – Paul spent most of the week preparing the final report for EDALC’s last two years in the Rural Opportunity Initiative program, funded through Business Oregon. EDALC was awarded $95,000 for the last biennium. EDALC can participate in one more two year cycle in this program, and the next funding cycle should drop in the next month or so. EDALC is still expecting a final payment, once the final report is approved.
  • Core Economic Development Services
      • Oregon Prospector – Sarah updated Oregon Prospector listings.
  • Community Connecting
  • Take Action Lincoln County Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow Sponsors: Only one week left to become a sponsor! – Take Action Lincoln County has reached $10,010 in donations from 21 Sponsors! Gaining 7 more sponsors over the next week will break all of last year’s records. Since the site has already surpassed the total donation amount record, any amount of donation from a sponsor can help reach this goal! The General Donation option is the simplest way to select any donation amount. Donations will be accepted until noon, Friday, August 8th.
      • Please help the effort by:
  • Liking and sharing today’s CTSI Facebook Post with your networks.
  • Becoming a sponsor today by following the Category Award directions on this page, or through the General Donation page.
  • Sharing the opportunity in your preferred method with individuals, organizations, and businesses in your network! This is an ideal way to show support for and alignment with CTSI’s Cultural Traditions. Again, even small donations can help surpass all previous Take Action Lincoln County sponsorship records.
  • Organizational Management
  • Marketing & Communication
  • Stacie shared relevant partner/regional posts on various social media channels – as well as the usual Friday roundup of central coast goings on.
  • Admin
  • Bank Changes – This week, 1st Security (EDALC’s bank) launched their new online banking portal – not without some hiccups. The ability to pay bills was broken until today and it took all week for their tech folks to figure out how to reconnect our QuickBooks to the bank directly. All looks good now.
  • Grant Planning – Paul met with the team from Rural Prosperity Partners to dial in grant planning over the next few months, both for Blue Economy grants and for EDALC project grants. It looks like RPP will pursue a few interconnected grants to help us go for an EDA Disaster Supplemental Grant, plus a Business Oregon Technical Assistance grant in partnership with the Oregon Coast SSBDC (Greg and Paul have been swapping ideas on this grant program).
  • Funding – Stacie reviewed and provided edits/feedback on Leslie’s 2026 TALC proposal and State of Oregon Regional Resilience Forum application. 
      • Team had its first meeting with all four members since 7/3 (vacations!). 

 

Reminder: EDALC’s first Board of Directors meeting of the fiscal year will be next Thursday, August 7th at 3:30pm, via Zoom. Agenda and calendar invite will be going out next Tuesday. As an FYI, here’s the Zoom link:

 

Topic: August EDALC BoD Meeting

Time: Aug 7, 2025 03:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9178104987?pwd=bVJDN0VlUEM3aG9EaFhJQUZjcDJHUT09&omn=88619637378

 

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)