Greetings and welcome to Friday! Paul has been off this week in El Paso for the ICMA’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity training (with Newport’s Nina Vetter and Allyson West). Sarah will be off on vacation to Arizona next week. Here’s our weekly team update:   Partner Support/Community Support  CWEDD - [...]

Greetings and welcome to a wet Friday and a wet weekend! For history buffs (or wine and whisky buffs), Prohibition was repealed on December 5th, 1933, 92 years ago. Time for a toast?   All in all, we had 27 grant submissions for this year’s Community and Economic Development Grant [...]

Greetings and welcome to Wednesday! And welcome to Thanksgiving Eve!   On Monday at 5pm, we shut down the grant application portal. Nearly 30 grant applications (easily the most ever!) requesting over $500K in funds! The team is currently assembling the grant packets, building the scoring sheet and working to [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday!   With next week being Thanksgiving, we’ll be shooting out a shorter update on Wednesday afternoon.   The Community and Economic Development Grant deadline is 5pm on Monday. As of this afternoon, we’ve got 11 applications submitted with quite a few more coming in before [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Looks like a rainy weekend - time to get that first Fall pot of chili bubbling on the stove!   Like the entire EDALC team, I’m sure you’ve been following the developments relating to a potential ICE detention facility in Newport - from the lease [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Also, welcome to a damp and windy November that seems to grow dark at 2:20pm!   First off, a huge thank you to our Directors and guests who braved the rain and the wind to join our in-person Board of Directors meeting yesterday. Our guests [...]