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EDP Website moved to www.cbchambercoalition.com
Submitted by clelandmarketing on Thu, 2007-06-07 17:12. New | Announcement | Corvallis Chamber | Demographics | Employment | RecruitmentThu, 2007-06-07 17:00
EDP Website moved to www.cbchambercoalition.com
The Corvallis Economic Development Partnership has merged with the Corvallis Area Chamber of Commerce to become the Corvallis-Benton Chamber Coalition. Please see the new website www.cbchambercoalition.com for up to date information on Economic development in Corvalls and Benton County Oregon.
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EVP Strategic Plan - Final Draft
Submitted by Mysty on Fri, 2006-11-10 18:40. New | EVP organizingThe EVP's Economic Strategic Plan is finished.
The plan will be presented to the EVP for consideration on Monday, November 13, 2006. The meeting begins at 5:30 pm and is held at the Corvallis Benton Chamber Coalition office at 420 NW Second Street in Corvallis.
On Monday, November 20, 2006, the EVP Economic Strategic Plan will be presented for consideration to the Corvallis City Council and the Benton County Commission at a joint meeting. The meeting will be held at the downtown firestation in Corvallis. The meeting begins at 5:30. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
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Economic Development through Getting SMART with Energy Efficiency
Submitted by ecenter on Thu, 2006-07-06 21:08. ResourcesAs a business owner, you are always in need of more cash. One way to save cash is to improve your energy efficiency and thereby spend less each month. Savings build up over time. The Corvallis Environmental Center can help you save money for your business.
Since 2001, the Corvallis Environmental Center has supported the highly valued Get SMART! Resource Efficiency Program (Saving Money and Resources Today) which provides free resource conservation assessments and recommendation reports to participants. From July of 2001 to June of 2005, REP staff worked with 42 businesses, agencies and organizations.
For Lease or Sale in Benton County
Submitted by Mysty on Tue, 2006-03-07 21:59. Industrial Land and BuildingsMysty
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EVP Strategic Plan
Submitted by Mysty on Thu, 2005-11-10 13:17. Expansion | AnnouncementTake the Survey
http://www.InsightsNow.com/evp_survey.htm
The EDP is an active member of the Economic Vitality Partnership (EVP). The EVP is a consortium of fourteen economic development, government and social service organizations. working together to keep Benton County a vibrant place to live, work and play.
As part of that charge, the EVP has a goal of creating a unified strategic plan to act as an umbrella for economic development services in Benton County, creating greater collaboration and eliminating redundancy wherever possible. Using the Vision 2020, as a starting place, the EVP is working to devise a plan to attain the attributes provided on the Economic Vitality page. To see the Vision 2020 Statement, click the link:
Entrepreneurship Forum
Submitted by Lynn on Tue, 2005-06-07 16:28. Entreprenuers | Event | LBCCFri, 2005-06-10 08:30
Benton Center Room 244
The Entrepreneurship Forum is an opportunity for people interested in starting or supporting a local business to learn about resources available.
The first meeting scheduled for June 10th is a Discovery Meeting to help people identify and clarify their strengths and interests.
The next meeting on June 17th takes this knowledge to the next step and focuses on people interested in Industry and Innovation businesses. There will be a panel of speakers to share their knowledge and talk about different funding opportunities.
On June 24th the meeting will focus on individuals who are interested in starting a Retail business. A panel of resources will be present to do a Q&A session with participants.
ONAMI
Submitted by Lynn on Wed, 2005-04-27 15:45. Tech-BasedThe Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute
ONAMI is an impressive collaboration between Oregon’s public research universities (Oregon State University, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon). The collaboration also includes the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington and the world-leading “Silicon Forest” high technology industry cluster of Oregon and southwest Washington.
Many collaborative projects and proposals among the three campuses are in progress and returning exceptional results. ONAMI partners are performing leadership research in several aspects of nanosciences, nanostructures, materials characterization, microfluidics, process intensification, and micorfabrication. This research is being applied to both short and long-term commercial opportunities ranging from computers and healthcare to energy systems and environmental remediation.
What makes Corvallis 16th on Harvard's Creativity Index?
Submitted by Mysty on Thu, 2005-04-07 23:25. Entreprenuers | Demographics | Fact Sheet | News | Relocate | Tech-BasedOne of the reasons Corvallis is a hotbed for innovation is because of the creative people who live and work in Corvallis. In addition to our two major sources of innovation, Hewlett Packard and Oregon State University, we have a wealth of small spinoffs, spinups and spinouts that have resulted in very flexible companies that create some of the brightest technology applications being commercialized anywhere.
Harvard's Creativity Index is based on two main criteria, 1) Economic Performance and 2) Innovation Output.
Corvallis Metropolitan Area
Economic Performance Indicators
(from Harvard School of Business)
April 2005 New Business Reception
Submitted by Lynn on Thu, 2005-04-07 21:37. New | EventThu, 2005-04-28 15:00
CH2M Hill Alumni Center Guistina Living Room
All new businesses in Benton County are invited to join Mysty Rusk from the Corvallis-Benton Economic Development Partnership at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Fourteen local agencies will be present describing resources and opportunities for improving and expanding your new business. For more information call Lynn Roylance at 757-1507.
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PTAC - Access to Federal Procurement for small businesses
Submitted by sechrest on Sat, 2005-03-19 20:27. ResourcesAt the NASA Business Opportunities conference, there were hundreds of companies gathered to learn how to do business with NASA. One of the presentations was from the Federal Technology Center. (www.theFTC.org) They are a non-profit which provides small businesses help in working with federal procurement in California. They are an organization called a PTAC - Procurement Technical Assistance Center. These are federally funded non-profits focused on supporting local businesses.
In Oregon, the PTAC is GCAP - http://www.gcap.org/
Contact the GCAP office closest to you: Willamette GCAP