Greetings and welcome to Friday - and a damp, unlucky Friday the 13th! Avoid those black cats and ladders! Here's our staff update for the week: Blue Economy:: This Wednesday, Mark Farley, Sarah and myself sat down with a team from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a structured interview [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday - it's a toasty one out there today! Thanks so much to everyone who could make our Board of Directors meeting yesterday! We had a great, deep discussion on many aspects of the Community and Economic Development Grant Program. I've got some work to do [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and... welcome to October (with or without the full force of the US government) on Sunday! If you haven't yet had a chance to do our short ROI impact survey, you are in luck - this week was so busy that we won't get to [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and... (wait for it)... welcome to Fall!! First off, a not-so-gentle nag to take our Rural Opportunity Initiative impact survey (maybe five minutes) - it'll really help us narrow down our project list as we work to refine our "Launch Phase" application in the coming [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! It'll be hot inland so I bet we'll have a foggy weekend! **NOTE** We have an important survey for you to take: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N7DHDMT (link is also in the ROI update below) Here's our staff update for the week: Blue Economy:: This week, Mark Farley and [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Thanks so much to all who could attend yesterday afternoon's Board of Directors meeting. I know quite a few board members were in far-flung places (for both work and pleasure), but we had a small but mighty group and some wonderful discussion. It also looks [...]