28 July 2015
Finding the Funding… the challenges of a non profit
Key decision makers from three of Oregon’s largest community foundations will be in Florence next month. Their goal is to learn more about the challenges… and opportunities… that exist in rural communities.
Sally Yee is with the Meyer Memorial Trust; Jeff Geiger represents the Oregon Community Foundation; and Louis King is the program coordinator with the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. They want to meet with representatives of local non-profit and charitable groups.
Becky Goehring is helping spread the word about the unique opportunity. She says organizations will have a chance to “gain a better understanding of the grant writing process”.
The meeting will be Wednesday, August 12th from one to four pm at the Florence Events Center.
It’s free, but participants must pre-register. Details are listed below.
An opportunity to meet program officers from three of Oregon’s biggest community foundations is offered Wednesday, August 12 at the Florence Events Center.
Sally Yee, of the Meyer Memorial Trust, Jeff Geiger representing the Oregon Community Foundation and Louis King, program coordinator for Spirit Mountain Community Fund, will be on hand to learn more about the challenges and opportunities that exist in rural communities.
The event is free but participants must pre-register by calling King at 503-879-1462 or emailing to louis.king@thecommunityfund.com Email should include name, organization, telephone and email contact.
The afternoon event begins at 1 p.m. with a Meet the Funder’s Panel. The three program officers will describe their foundation and the work they are doing before opening up a panel discussion with participants. Following that two-hour panel discussion, an hour long grant writing fundamentals session will be held, from 3-4 p.m.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for rural non-profits to meet funders,” said Becky Goehring, who is helping spread the word among non-profits in the Siuslaw Region. “To have the program officers here gives organizations the chance to gain a better understanding of the grant application process, funding priorities and find answers to grant seeking questions.”
The event is a Rural Community Outreach Event for Southwest Lane County. Space is limited to about 45 participants, according to organizers.
Coos County cities considering gas tax
The Cities of Coos Bay and North Bend are teaming up to present a gas tax proposal to voters that will help fund street maintenance and improvements.
The 5-cents-per-gallon tax would generate roughly $500-thousand each year for Coos Bay and about $325-thousand for North Bend.
The Public Works Directors for Coos Bay and North Bend have been working cooperatively on the plan for the past year. City Councils in both towns will have to approve the deal before it can make it to the ballot. If elected officials sign off, voters in Coos County will see it on their ballots in November.
Hatfield Center celebrates half century
It was the summer of 1965 when Oregon State University opened a small research and education facility on the southern edge of Yaquina Bay in Newport. One of the goals was to help the depressed central Oregon coast economy revive.
50-years later the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center stands as one of the most important and unique marine science facilities in the country.
The center will host a celebration of its first half-century on Friday, August 7th.
Center director Bob Cowen says it will be “an opportunity to look at the past and honor the people and events” that have made the facility a “special place”.
Speakers will include former Oregon State University President and former NOAA administrator John Byrne.
OPB consolidating Florence operations at main branch
Oregon Pacific Bank will be wrapping up operation at its Florence Safeway Branch this week. When the branch closes Friday it will be for the final time.
The closure was announced several months ago.
Ellen Huntingdon, Marketing Coordinator for the bank says the main branch on Highway 101 will be open Saturdays for the first time beginning August 1st. Weekday hours will also be extended.
No pre-trial release for Westlake woman
A federal judge in Eugene has ruled a Westlake woman accused of hiring a felon to kill her ex-husband in Utah is too dangerous to be released from jail while awaiting trial in the case.
The Register Guard reports the attorney for 57-year old Pamela Jean Gygi (GEE-gee) asked the judge yesterday to place the woman on house arrest. But the judge said the allegations against Gygi were enough to keep her detained, because she poses a potential danger to her ex-husband.
The woman’s ex-husband had reported to police in June that he had been visited by a man who said he had been hired by Gygi to kill him. The alleged hit man then cooperated with police during their investigation.
Gygi was arrested July 10th; she remains in the Lane County Jail.
DUII focus in western Douglas County
Additional police patrols in the Winchester Bay area begin Wednesday with the goal of reducing the number of drivers under the influence of intoxicants.
Dune Fest 2015 gets underway Thursday on the sand beneath the Umpqua Lighthouse. It will draw tens of thousands of off-road enthusiasts for a variety of activities through Sunday.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Sergeant Dwes Hutson says the agency will be focusing on impaired drivers.
