Invest in Economic Development

Serving Clark County since 1982, CREDC is the lead economic development organization in Southwest Washington. It has helped to create 10,250 new direct jobs and 9,676 indirect jobs that now generate almost $1 billion of annual payroll in Clark County. CREDC clients have invested in excess of $5 billion in plant and equipment. The average wage of workers at firms assisted by CREDC is 48% higher than the average wage in Clark County.

We are charting a new direction for the future and we need your support. In order to take advantage of emerging opportunities and minimize risks, many of the community’s business and civic leaders see a need to pursue a more aggressive, proactive and strategic approach to ensure a vibrant and growing economy. The initiative proposed in this document represents the Columbia River Economic Development Council’s response to this need and its initial five-year plan to map a new course for economic development in Clark County.

As a CREDC Investor, your organization will:

• Be featured on our web site as a Preferred Provider.
• Receive a monthly management report called The Outlook: A Report to Investors
• Receive a quarterly newsletter called Evergreen Connection: News from Southwest Washington
• Have networking opportunities
• Have direct access to economic development insights with the CREDC President
• Support the growth of economic prosperity and opportunity for all of us in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area

To find out CREDC’s five-year economic development initiative, please read “Forward Thinking, Direct Action, 2008-2012.”

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