95 applications were submitted for the City of Pendleton’s 50 zero interest solar loans by the May 19 deadline. All applicants will be drawn in lottery fashion Friday, May 21 at 5:00pm at the Pendleton Farmer’s Market, with the first 50 receiving the City’s $9,000 solar loans.

Those not selected in the first 50 will be drawn to determine their number 51-95.  Any applicants in the top 50 who are not able to participate will have their loan offered to the next in line.

Join us for this fun, lottery-style drawing at Solarize Pendleton’s Farmer’s Market booth. If weather does not permit, the lottery will be held at the Pendleton City Hall Community Room, 500 SW Dorion Ave (use the Emigrant Street entrance).

The City of Pendleton and The United Way of Umatilla and Morrow Counties Present A Free Community Workshop underwritten by LiveLight Energy and partners.
Friday, May 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. Pendleton City Hall – Community Room

Community sustainability is just as important as sustainable solar systems.
That’s why LiveLight Energy and its partners are offering this FREE workshop as part of Solarize Pendleton.

Suitability – For Your Business, For Your Nonprofit.

Acquiring funds for supporting a nonprofit, or to maintain your business in these times is not for the passive or the faint-of-heart. This hands-on workshop will teach you successful tools and point you to local resources for your nonprofit or business.  Tactics to apply to leverage your resources (making $1 work like $3) will be outlined.

For volunteers to senior managers, participants in this workshop will leave energized and with specific tools for their business or nonprofit organization.

RSVPs are required and seating is limited.  Reserve your space by contacting Lee Jorgensen at the City of Pendleton, by phone at 541.966.0248 weekdays, or by email at lee.jorgensen@ci.pendleton.or.us.

About the presenter. Mara Woloshin, APR, Fellow,
Mara full-service public relations and marketing communications firm, Woloshin Communications, Inc.is part of the Solarize Pendleton team.  She has been based in Portland, Oregon since 1993. 

Mara has taught at several Oregon universities and conducted hundreds of workshop since 1989. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, The Public Relations Society of America and the American Marketing Association. Through her personalized workshops, she has helped numerous Pacific Northwest businesses and individuals achieve success. As an adjunct professor in the Communications Department of Marylhurst University, Mara designed the university’s first communications curriculum (in 1989). She continues to teach, when time permits in the areas of strategic planning, and public relations at the University of Portland. 

Recent workshops include: A new program for business – Write, right now!, New Fundraising Tips & Tactics, Strategic Planning for the Future, Crisis & Credibility: Media Relations, PresentationsWithout Fear, Finding Funds & Resources
in Today’s Economy, The Power of the Purse: Marketing to Women.  For more workshop information www.woloshin.com.

Get all of your solar questions answered here while supporting your local farmers! Representatives from the City of Pendleton and LiveLight Energy will be available to talk solar with you at our Pendleton farmer’s market booth.

You can register here for a free site assessment and find out more about the City of Pendleton’s zero interest solar loans.

Fridays, May 14, 21, 28: 4pm to dusk on S. Main Street