Row River Valley Community Partnership

Lane County
Request: $50,000

We are requesting $50,000 to help neighbors prepare together before the next emergency. Of that amount, $30,000 will support the five Neighborhood Teams now getting started in the Row River Valley, including local coordination, team-leader support, meetings, communication, training and practical preparedness materials. The remaining $20,000 will help the Cottage Grove Community Preparedness Initiative (CGCPI) recruit and prepare volunteers, offer public training and education, and hold a community preparedness forum. RRVCP will also provide CGCPI with advice, limited fiscal sponsorship, fund administration and agreed volunteer support. This allows Row River to share what we have learned while bringing additional CERT, CPR, AED, first-aid and HEARTSafe experience back to our valley.

If only part of the request is funded, our first priority is the coordination needed to keep five Row River Neighborhood Teams developing. Mailed information would continue reaching valley households, but fewer funds would mean less staff time for meetings, team-leader support and follow-up, fewer training opportunities and materials, and slower team development.

We would continue helping CGCPI. Its first priorities would be volunteer recruitment and preparation, public communications and training. Logo and website development, additional outreach and the preparedness forum could be scaled or delayed. The Woodard Family Foundation already supports CGCPI’s part-time coordinator, so ODFN funds would address separate technical, communications, team-building and program needs. A scaled version remains possible, but progress in both communities would be slower.