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]]> This paper is presented to the La Pine Senior Center and the city of La Pine by the University of Oregon’s spring 2018 Nonprofit Management Consultancy capstone course. A team of three graduate students spent a ten-week term interviewing stakeholders, researching the organization and the market, performing an analysis, and ultimately providing recommendations to increase efficiency and sustainability of the La Pine Senior Center.
The La Pine Senior Center is in a time of transition. With a new Center Director and restructuring of the Board of Directors, it has the opportunity to create a new membership structure, and consider new revenue opportunities.
This report contains an overview of the organization, the project scope, research methods, an analysis of the organization’s current position, and recommendations.
Through interviews with Senior Center and city of La Pine stakeholders, understanding the mission, purpose, and activities of the organization, and through research and analysis, the team narrowed down key areas to focus on:
• Board Governance Efficiency
• Creation of Membership and Partnership Levels
• Revenue Generation Opportunities.
This report including the supporting documents and appendices are intended as a guide for the La Pine Senior Center Board of Directors and Center Director and to benefit its members.

]]> The overall goal of this course was to enhance the attractiveness of La Pine for its citizens, visitors, and businesses. This goal was broken into three primary projects focusing on Urban Renewal, industry viability, and workforce evaluation. The overall objective for the first project was to provide best practices for Urban Renewal processes in the short and long term. Short term recommendations include implementing a twelve-step Storefront Loan Program process and a two-phase minor enhancement project. Long term recommendations focus on implementing four best practices for large scale property transformation as well as creating a public art fund. Applying these recommendations to La Pine’s Urban Renewal plans can provide guidance and sustainability for future downtown development.
The overall objective of the second project was to provide detailed industry benchmarking and rank the attractiveness of each industrial sector within La Pine. The teams recommend pursuing moderate- to high-potential industries including Wood Products Manufacturing, Food Processing, and Outdoor Gear and Apparel Manufacturing. The objective of the third project was to conduct a workforce asset analysis and recommend a ranking of industries where La Pine should focus its workforce development efforts. Based on their industry workforce assessment, the team recommends pursuing Specialty Foods Processing, Cross-Laminated Timber, and Cabinet Manufacturing. Both the second and third projects propose that La Pine pursue viable industries in alignment with the city’s workforce goals to ensure sustainable economic development.

]]> The Newberry Country Trail is a newly established tourist attraction in Central Oregon.
The trail begins and ends in La Pine, Oregon, and is 153 miles long. Because the trail
has not officially been introduced to the public, potential visitors are unaware of all it has
to offer. The City of La Pine hopes to make new audiences such as Oregon college
students and young families aware of this source of year-round adventure. The trail
highlights Central Oregon’s natural beauty and offers a wide variety of outdoor activities.
Its most popular attractions are biking, hiking, swimming, snowmobiling and skiing.
While it has been marketed as a family-friendly location, La Pine would like the see the
Newberry Country Trail visited by more college-aged adventurers as well. Along the trail
are popular Oregon landmarks such as Crescent Lake, Christmas Valley, Paulina Lake
and Fort Rock.
The Newberry Country Trail project has received grant money from Travel Oregon to
help increase tourism. The project is a part of the Travel Oregon Rural Tourism Studio.
With the help of Travel Oregon, La Pine will be able to interact with its new target
audiences in strategic ways. Since the trail offers outdoor activities for all skill levels,
people from all backgrounds can enjoy what the trail has to offer.
Some of the sites on the Newberry Country Trail, and even La Pine itself, can still be
considered hidden gems, unknown even to native Oregonians. Establishing a social
media presence, updating visual aesthetics for the trail, connecting with travel
influencers and collaborating with breweries and brands are viable opportunities
available to La Pine to create awareness for the Newberry Country Trail.
The beauty surrounding La Pine creates a natural opportunity for promotional
photography. High-quality, professional photos can be used on all channels, including
social media and the Newberry Country Trail website.
This strategic plan will allow La Pine and the Newberry Country Trail to promote the
hidden gems that are waiting to be explored to a more targeted audience than before.
Implementing the following strategies and tactics will lead La Pine to an established
online presence and, with time, an increase in tourism to the Newberry Country Trail.
This plan also sets a timeline for La Pine to establish the strategies and provided tactics
for success.
Some examples of success that we’ve found to be useful through our best practices
research are the Boise Trails website, social media practices utilized by Hydro Flask
and the Bend Ale Trail map.

]]> The City of La Pine partnered with the University of Oregon’s Architecture and Environmental Science Departments through the Sustainable City Year Program to develop implementation strategies for passive heating and environmentally conscious design. The City asked students to focus on ideas for a City Center, Balcony Sunspaces and a Community Greenhouse. Seven student teams explored the potential for each project type. Two or more groups were assigned to each project type to generate different design options.
The City Center designs were created by two teams; Team One: Jared Dukes, Zoe Walker-Aparicio and Austin Daich; and Team Two: Courtney Cisler, Khiseth Abramvicka and James Li.
The Community Greenhouse designs were generated by two teams; Team One: Gabe Haug, Zach Bradby, Kyomi Tamura and Kai Miyajima; and Team Two: Renee Dobre, Champe Holbeck and Ryan Mark.
The Balcony Sunspace was the only project with three groups, as the teams were groups of two. Spencer Boragine and Josh Rosenthal worked on a shaded version of this project, as did Achyuthan Ramaswamy and Matt Olney. Pippa Bailey and Rowan Atherley designed ideas for an unshaded version of the project.
All seven teams created site analysis documents, discovered optimal glass tilts, thermal goals, designed the building and movable insulation and calculated the thermal mass and glass sizing requirements. This report explains the specific passive heating strategies for each unique project and how they can be applied to other structures in La Pine.

]]> Nestled along U.S. Highway 97 in Central Oregon lies the city of La Pine. With a population of around 2,000, La Pine is a smaller city in Oregon. It is also one of the state’s newest cities: La Pine was incorporated in 2006 as a part of Deschutes County. La Pine is an emerging city that is experiencing population and economic growth. Since 2000, the average income has jumped nearly 30 percent, from $29,859 to $38,308; though it is still lower than the state median of $59,532. In juxtaposition to the city’s relative youth, the population itself trends in the older direction. The average age of the La Pine population is 42.6 years old, compared to 39.2 years old for the state of Oregon.
For such a small city, La Pine residents have a number of choices when it comes to local media outlets, including a local paper (the Newberry Eagle), two radio stations (KNCP 107.3 and KLBR 88.1), and a local television channel (KTVZ Channel 21). Residents also have access to a wide variety of national and internet-based outlets, including CNN, NPR, Fox News, and others.
With hopes to better understand the community’s information needs, the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) J463 Engaged Journalism class conducted an information needs assessment.
Our objectives were to find out what media is consumed in La Pine, and how it’s consumed; which outlets are doing well with the community and why; and finally, how the media can better serve the needs of La Pine.
We began with a visit to La Pine, where we surveyed residents and introduced our project. Shortly thereafter, an online survey was made available to any residents interested in participating. Our final step was a second visit to La Pine, where we hosted a workshop in order to find out what media outlets can do to gain the trust of the people of La Pine. In total, we surveyed over 70 residents, both in person and via an online survey.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Year Program Contact Info
Megan Banks
Sustainable City Year Program Manager
mbanks@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-6395

University Faculty Contact
Andrew DeVigal
Journalism

adevigal@uoregon.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Cory Misley

City Manager

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