Programs & Projects
⮑ Convenne → Listen → Plan → Support → Growth → Empower ↩
Most SWA projects follow a development path: SWA and the community identify a need, gap, or opportunity; SWA convenes partners and supports them to plan, build, and carry out solutions; SWA stays involved until the work is operational and can be continued by local or regional partner organizations for the long term. In other cases, SWA works with regional partners to pilot services or solutions locally that can then be extended into our area for the long term.
SWA also refers underserved South Wasco residents to existing services and keeps relationships with regional support services so people get a “warm handoff” when they need one.
Note: The SWA project filter tool is currently Under Construction and will be added soon.
Community Listening and Planning
2021–22: nearly twenty local organizations took part in SWA’s two-year strategic planning process, identifying six shared priorities.
South Wasco Farmers Market (Tygh Valley)
Started with SWA and operated first as a pilot project in The Dalles (2020–21), then moved in 2022 to its permanent home in Tygh Valley.