Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board [Link]
The majority of our grants are restoration grants. Watershed restoration priorities are outlined in OWEB’s administrative rule. OWEB has also compiled more detailed restoration priorities, using information from watershed assessments, water quality management plans, sub-basin plans and other documents that identify conditions at a watershed scale. The information has been organized to produce data on known factors affecting watershed function.
OWEB Local Innovation Fund [Link]
The purpose of the Local Innovation Fund program was to support creative initiatives that benefit and provide connections between the local watershed, economy, and community. OWEB’s programs generally support the restoration and protection of healthy watersheds through a competitive grant program that funds on-the-ground restoration and protection of habitat, and project technical assistance, education, and monitoring. The Local Innovation Fund expanded that approach. Rather than funding projects solely for their watershed benefit, the Local Innovation Fund sought to fund projects that made explicit connections between environmental restoration activities and pressing social and economic needs, effectively “leveraging” a conservation investment for positive outcomes in the community and economic spheres.
OWEB Special Investment Partnerships (SIP) [Link]
The OWEB Board has targeted long-term, large-scale restoration commitments to address explicit ecological outcomes in specific locations.
SIP efforts are limited to areas of the state where the following criteria can be met:
- Significant ecological benefits – of regional significance and locally supported – can be reasonably achieved from the investment.
- Funding from OWEB is crucial for the effort to succeed by bringing in other funders and maintaining momentum for implementation.
- Strong partnerships are committed to the outcomes and have the relationships necessary to obtain the long-term ecological outcomes.
- The effort is embedded in the economy and is part of the local custom and culture.
- The outcome is significant enough to capture the imagination and raise awareness outside the local community.
- The background work, including planning, partnership building, and funding exploration, has been completed and the partners are capable of raising the level of implementation.
Oregon’s Economic Development Districts: Projects [Link]
We provide valuable assistance, such as packaging proposals and applications, acting as liaisons with funding entities and ensuring grantee compliance with federal and state rules after funds are awarded. We also act as a liaison for investments from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) for job creation and retention. Through various loan funds managed by EDDs and capitalized by EDA, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we have loaned millions to new and existing businesses – helping to create and retain jobs and leverage private sector investments.
Business Oregon [Link]
Business Oregon manages the following financing programs to assist businesses:
- Oregon Business Development Fund
- Oregon Capital Access Program
- Oregon Credit Enhancement Fund
- Oregon Industrial Development Bonds
- Entrepreneurial Development Loan Fund
- Business Retention Program
- Brownfields Redevelopment Fund
- Building Opportunities for Oregon Small Business Today (BOOST) Fund
Columbia-Pacific Economic Development District [Link]
The Columbia Pacific Business Loan Program provides flexible gap financing for expansion of existing businesses, start up of new businesses, creation of employment opportunities and /or saving existing jobs in NW Oregon. Our goals are simple:
- Attract new jobs and investments,
- Diversify the local economy
- Support the creation and expansion of rural and small community businesses
- Provide business opportunities for low income workers and their families
- Support the financial community by providing additional, secondary loan financing for local customers
Local
Tualatin River Watershed Council [Link]
TRWC offers support for watershed issues as well as those applying for grants for many types of projects that will enhance watershed health .