Greetings and welcome to Friday! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== O2IH EDA Build Back Better - First, let's rip off the bandage. Some of you have certainly heard this, but earlier this week, the EDA announced the recipients of the Build Back Better Phase 1 funding and [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a wet weekend - sounds like a great time to make a batch of chili! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== Oregon Business Plan - On Monday, I attended (virtually) the Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit. It was a pretty strong [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! A chilly but gorgeous day out there (what a beautiful drive into the office this morning!). And welcome to December - yowza, where did 2021 go (and perhaps, good riddance)? Thanks to all for a great grant-review Board of Directors meeting yesterday - so nice [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! What a wet day out there - please be careful driving and walking those dogs! Here's our EDALC update for the week: ==== Rural Opportunity Initiative - I put together a press release on our ROI award and shot that off to our regional news [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Thanks to all who attended our November Board meeting yesterday. We had some great dialog about standing up a new tiered investment approach to bringing in private sector financial support for our economic development work. Thanks for all the feedback! Here's our EDALC update for [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! What a wet and rainy week, but it looks like we might have a lovely weekend. Susan and are are semi-settled into our new digs - last night was our first night there. Dog Stella is taking it in stride (with the help of some [...]